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  1. This is the model kit displayed at Pontefract on the trade stand"NER DAYS". I am advised that this business is being run down for retirement some kits will soon be short of castings etc. the modeller will then have to source bearings, castings, buffers etc. etc. However the proprietor will not be disposing of the etches and states they will always try to help the modeller.
  2. Thank you for Interesting informative postings. Did you post a brick tutorial anywhere?
  3. Hi Andy Following your postings regarding goods branch, shunting and card system have you seen member northollands "Along the Chapeltown Loop" Brian
  4. @northolland Thanks for another really interesting account. I have enquired and researched some of the traffic flows I observed in the 1950s.(my post 62). Suggestions are that the Co-op milk may have originally come from Doncaster area, but supplies may also have been from Shropshire or Cheshire travelling over Woodhead and return empties via Sheffield. The oil trains for Ecclesfield were from Shell refinery’s and in the 50’s & 60’s would probably have been from Heysham via Skipton see http://www.derbysulzers.com/68.html. July 1968. 06.40 Heysham - Ecclesfield oil tanks. Outside your time period The BR Eastern Region Working Timetable of Conditional Train Services 6 Oct. 1975 to 2 May 1976 Shows YJ16 Weekdays train 6E57 as COY (Company Train) timed at 22.15 ex. Stanlow to Ecclesfield does not run Monday or Sat. and as conditional could be cancelled at short notice on the days it was booked to run. Dunford West 01 38, Barnsley Jn. dep.01 51. Sheffield No.3 02X11.GL Woodburn Jn. 02 14. Attercliffe Lane 02 16. Shepcote Lane 02 20. Tinsley Yard arr.02 25 Tinsley Yard Express Freight dep. 06.11as 06Z42 Brightside Jn. 06.19 to Ecclesfield. In the same timetable there was a train 6J36 timed ex Teesport 03 05 to Ecclesfield except Sat. this train ran via York, Burton Salmon 05 11, Altofts Junct.05 21, Cudworth Stn.05 39, Wath Road Jn. 05 51 to Tinsley Yard see http://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-diesels/8099801906/ English Electric type 3 (Class 37) 6795 (later 37095) heads 6J37 15 13 Teesport Refinery to Ecclesfield Oil Terminal.
  5. @Fat Controller Sorry I should have specified they were not the type you have shown they were BR standard vans or possibly ventilated vans. I think they would have been a company train. Cadburys was mentioned by someone at the time but I have never investigated.
  6. @northolland Thank you for the latest account of your layout working I find it absolutely fascinating. I note in one of your earlier posts that you collect snippets of information about the line. Way back in 1949 as an 11year old ( is it really 64 years ago) I was introduced by a friend to the delights of standing on the canal bank (towpath) at Stairfoot at 6.15pm. waiting for a named locomotive on an express train coming from Sheffield. The position was carefully chosen to get the view of the train for the longest possible time and to be able to read its number and name before it disappeared over the high viaduct and headed for Ardsley Tunnel. Of course British Railways did not always work to our plan and groans emanated from the little group when a Black 5 appeared instead of a Jubilee. but of course there was not a great variation of named locos allocated to the train anyway. There was a working in the opposite direction at around 3.15 in the afternoon. It was referred to as The Thames Clyde. so you can have a named train that did use the branch. In the later 1950s there was a 9F with a long train of vans about 8.00pm. on the same stretch of line from Cudworth through Ardsley Tunnel to Monkspring heading for Sheffield. There was also the oil train on the section from Barnsley to Monkspring going to Ecclesfield Oil Siding. The Barnsley to Sheffield steam operated Push-Pull sometimes had one or two milk tanks from the Co-op Dairy at Summer Lane tagged onto the back coach. I left Stairfoot in 1960.
  7. @northolland A “thank you” is due to you for posting an enjoyable description of your layout. Many thanks for your detailed explanation of how you use RR&Co. I now have a better understanding of the capabilities. offering an interesting approach to operation. Also for your appreciation of the track plan I produced and supplying the information that enabled me to update to a more accurate version.
  8. I have edited my plan in post 29 with information supplied by northolland in post 30
  9. @northolland I note you are going to prepare answers to questions about RR&co. When In Post29 I asked for a description of how you use RR&Co. I didn’t appreciate how complex the reply might be. All I know about RR&Co. is that it is a computer program to control a model railway layout. Questions I have concern the arrival of a mineral train from Monkspring into the up slow where it is then reversed into Astley Down Sidings Arrival 1. Are all these movements under computer control? Does RR&Co. control the movements of the engine to the turntable? Having arrived in No.1. Does the computer transfer control for the layout operator to carry out shunting moves or does the operator have to intervene by throwing or pressing a switch? Shunting completed and train ready to depart Post 10 says push button 19 will make train depart. I assume this departure depends on shunting being finished in time to use a pre-programmed slot in the programme. If that is the case what happens if shunting moves take too long and the train is not ready. Sorry if these questions interrupt your postings. If it will make more sense to answer later please do so I will be following all your posts with interest.
  10. For anyone looking for prototype information some books referring to the area have been mentioned in previous posts but an article that specifically covers the Chapeltown Branch and the Chapeltown Branch Extension Railway is in the magazine "RAILWAY ARCHIVE" issue No.4 the information takes up 41pages of 96 in this magazine and is titled "The Civil Engineering of the Chapeltown Branch” by Bob Essery. It should be emphasised that this is a photographic collection showing the bridges (over 60 photos) on the route from Wincobank Junction to Barnsley during or shortly after construction. Trains do not feature in these pictures. The album from which the photos were copied is apparently inscribed with the owners name and the date 1898. As a consequence Monkspring Junction and the line to Cudworth do not exist as that section was not built until 1899. In addition to the photographs there is a portion of the 1923 Ord.Sur. Map covering Wincobank Junction the start of the branch. A double page spread from the “Midland Railway Distance Diagram”dated 1919 Rotherham District shows all the railways in the area from Cudworth in the North to Dore & Totley, and Killamarsh in the South. With a West to East spread from just short of Penistone to Mexborough.a double track route is shown as a single black line so there is no detail. Stations are shown as a black rectangle, Colliery branches are shown and towns are named and represented by an open+ to signify cross roads. A further map extract from the OS 1905 series shows The Thorncliffe High Level Branch to the Newton Chambers Industrial Complex. Another extract from the Midland Railway Distance Diagrams of 1916 covers the Barnsley, Cudworth, Wombwell area. This publication has I believe been out of print for some time. An internet search will bring up the publishers page were a photo of the cover can be seen. Although this is of an engine in a different article it will help to identify the magazine. The original published price was £7.50
  11. @Northolland I have been a lurker on RMweb for a few months and seen some wonderful modelling however it is your very interesting layout and operational description that has prompted me to sign up. Your photographic description of a day in the life of your layout intrigued me as to how the various locations fitted together so I downloaded SCARM the layout modelling software to try and put the parts together. After a bit of practice with the program I seem to have got the hang of it and a careful study of the photos enabled me to produce a track plan that fits a room 3.65m x 3.0m (12feet x 10feet) there may be inaccuracies in the length of sidings and the angle across the room is slightly out but I think I have got the arrangement right. I hope it meets with your approval. I look forward to further photos and hope for a description of how you use RR&Co. EDIT 15/07/2013 Plan updated with information supplied by northolland in post30
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