Dave Searle

This appeared in our garden this morning and hung around for a while:

A Cinnabar moth I believe - not seen one before.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi,

I would like to add our thanks from the Hinksey Team to the Mickleover Group for their friendly hospitality over the weekend and for putting on a great show. The location was spectacular and we spent a lot of time just looking at the wonderful, sympathetically-restored building.

Lots of great layouts and useful traders, with plenty of interest from the public. All-in-all an excellent show.

Many thanks,

Cheers,

Dave
 

Hi,

We're up at the Derby Roundhouse show this weekend. Do drop by.

Cheers,

Dave

Hopefully he will be able get to Lewes in 1886.

Has he got a digital camera? 

Cheers,

Dave

Due to a clash of dates I was not able to get along this year, I had Fisherton Sarum there last year, it as reported is always a good show and this year looks like it was again too, I  dont suppose Grahame you know the dates for next year?

Hi Graham,

Next year it's the 27/28 April weekend.

Cheers,

Dave

A big THANK YOU to all our exhibitors and traders for making it a great show. And also many thanks to all our visitors for coming along and making it all worthwhile 

On to next year's show...

Cheers,

Dave

Ruxley: a large EM gauge layout from Epsom & Ewell Model Railway Club Photos courtesy of Chris Nevard & Model Rail.

Hi,

Ruxley is actually OO (not EM).  The layout was originally built in the 1960s.

Cheers,

Dave

We have now added "Green Scene" to the traders list.  On the stand John Lloyd will be demonstrating the use of static grass etc.

Cheers,

Dave

Dave, if it's not top secret, do you have a list of demonstration stands for this year's show? 

Hi,

I don't think there are any modelling demos.  Under "Demonstrators & Societies" in the brochure we have:

• 2mm Association
• Epsom & Ewell Model Railway Club
• Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust
• South Western Circle

The 2mm Association will be presenting their road-show with various 2mm items on display (including a model of the 2-4-0 locomotive "Epsom") and the we (the Epsom club's "little" people) will be showing progress on our embryonic 2FS LB&SCR "Lewes" layout. Both will be happy to explain how we do things.

The SW Circle usually have a display of models on their stand.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Dave

I completely agree, I've never seen a drawing for the box tank though

Cheers,

Dave

Whoops - overlapped with Mike

Hi,

Unfortunately, All Components are now unable to attend the show. However, there are still lots of other good traders and great layouts to see

Cheers,

Dave

Hi,

We've now added a new layout to the show:

Cheffley, OO, SR set in the late 1930s featuring EMUs on the Waterloo services.  This is a new layout making what we understand will be only its third exhibition appearance.

Cheers,

Dave

 

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Here is a brass sleeper being used for an electrical feed. It has been cut in half with a piercing saw and glued down using cyano. The gap is filled with paper and cyno glue. I've left the little tags on for the fuse wire electrical feeds. The rail will also be soldered to the chairs.

 

 

I like the tip about keeping the tags for electrical feeds.

Cheers,

Dave

We had a long, but good day out at RISEX yesterday.  A very early start to get there to set up at 7:30am, fortunately almost everyone's alarms worked.

A very nice, small, but high-quality show with layouts in a variety of scale and gauges. As Hinksey is not too far away, we had a lot of interesting comments from people who know the prototype location well.

Once again we had a number of young "trainee" operators and we are now thinking of getting some certificates printed for them to take away.  I only managed one photo (which shows a crowd in front of the layout):

A strange electrical issue developed late in the afternoon, possible due to a push-button failure, which we now need to investigate. Hopefully, it will be reproducible (and easily fixed) back in the club room.

Cheers,

Dave

Many thanks to the Risborough Club for inviting us with Hinksey Yard and looking after us yesterday.  We had a great day at a high-quality show.

Cheers,

Dave

Epsom and Ewell Model Railway Club's 2018 Exhibition

Saturday 28th April and Sunday 29th April 2018

at the

North East Surrey College of Technology (NESCOT), Reigate Road, Ewell, Surrey KT17 3DS

Full details on our Website

 
Opening Times
Saturday 28th 10 am - 5:30 pm
Sunday 29th 10 am - 5 pm
 
Admission
Adults £7.00
Accompanied Children (under 16) Free
 
Refreshments available
FREE on-site parking for 500 cars
Level access for the disabled
 
Layouts attending
 
Burdal Colliery, 7mm/ft O, Colliery (28' x 3')

Burnham-on-Sea, 2mm/ft N, S&DJR (10'6" x 2'3")
Cheffley, 4mm/ft OO, SR 1930s (11' x 2')
City Basin Goods, 2mm/ft N, WR (1960s) (8' x 1'6")
Ferring, 4mm/ft P4, LB&SCR (1911) (30' x 2')
Freshwater, 2mm/ft 2FS (9.42mm), SR(IOW) (7' x 1'6")
Furka Oberalp, 3.5mm/ft HOm, Swiss Narrow Gauge (6' x 7')
Hornby Junction, 4mm/ft OO, Children's activity layout using products by Hornby Ltd. (9' x 5')
Keine Name, 3.5mm/ft HOm, Swiss Narrow Gauge (10' x 6')
Kirkmellington, 4mm/ft EM, Scottish Colliery (1970s) (14' x 2')
Modbury, 2mm/ft 2FS (9.42mm), GWR ex-Broad Gauge (10' x 1'6")
Pwllheli, 4mm/ft P4, NW Wales, 2000-2012 (23' x 6')
Scratchy Bottom Halt, 1:22 Gn15 (16.5mm) Emmett fantasy (8' x 7'8")
Stackton, Binge 7mm/ft O, LSWR (1880s) (16' x 2')
Troutons, 4mm/ft OO, West Yorkshire (2000s) (25'4" x 11')
Trowland, 1:64 S, M&GNJR, North Norfolk (1890s) 8' x 1'4")
Wickwar, 2mm/ft N, Gloucestershire (1950s) (17' x 3'6")
 
Searles Railway (7¼in & 5in mixed gauge, Miniature Railway Rides)

 

Traders attending
ACE Products
Addlestone Model Centre
All Components (Unable to attend)
Branchlines
C&L Finescale
Ceynix Miniature Trees
Dart Castings
d.c. Kits
Eileen's Emporium
Freestone Model Accessories
Green Scene (NEW)
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust (Surrey Support Group)
N Brass Locos
Peter Dunk
Plus Daughters
Rail Books
Railwayania/Replica Railways
Roger Carpenter Photos
Roxey Mouldings
South Eastern Finecast
 

Club second-hand stand.

Hi, we're off to the Risborough show this Saturday, if you're there, come and see us.

Cheers,

Dave

I intend to make the locos a bit more detailed than that above, but the extent of detail has yet to be decided: it will be based on what is printable! 

 

It will be some time before I start selling, and as such I have yet to produce a pricing structure. The models will be offered in scales from 7mm to 2mm, including 0, S, 00, H0, TT/3mm, N, 2mmFS. When the 3D Prints arrive, I will be posting photos.

 

I too am interested in Craven-era locos, and they are actually quite high up the list (Though I have yet to identify specific classes) as they are simple in outlines.

I will be interested in early LB&SCR (Craven or Stroudley) locos in 2FS for our Lewes 1886 project.

It will also be interesting to see the level of detail and finish that is possible in the smaller sizes. The detail on Shapeways FXD is very good, but preparation for painting is tricky.

Good luck,

Cheers,

Dave

Hi,

...  The rails are in 15 feet lengths, weighing 76lbs to the yard and are set in heavy chairs . . ." . .  There's more technical specs regarding chairs and both stone blocks and sleepers, although I would imagine that by 1875, the LBSCR would be on 30 foot rails supported on (ten) 9 foot long sleepers, as had become standard on many lines by then.

The specifications for LBSCR lines to be constructed in the 1860's generally quote rail of about 75 lb,18 to 24 feet in length on creosoted red pine sleepers 8 to 9 feet long and 10" by 5" approximately 1 yard apart.

An LBSCR drawing for 1864 shows 75 lb rail in 21 ft lengths on eight 9 ft sleepers. Undated annotations on the drawing suggest a later move to steel rail weighing 78 lbs. A second copy of the drawing, annotated in 1885, has 78 lb steel rails, 30 ft long on twelve 9 ft sleepers.

Specifications for lines to be constructed in the later 1870s/1880s refer to both 21 ft and 30 ft rail lengths.

Hope this is of interest,

Cheers,
 

Dave

Hi,

We're looking forward to bringing Hinksey Yard to the show.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi! I have encountered exactly the same problem and was just about to replace the entire set of points which is now well in place and wired in so it is going to be a completre pain in the neck!

So before I do that my questions are..

Did you try the method suggested? (Which sound promising!)

Did it work?

If it did what 'washer' (or other bit of hardware?) did you use and where can I get one too?

All the very best! Jeremy

 

Hi Jeremy,

Probably not helpful for you, but in the end we decided to move the point motor to the other end of the tie bar (where the hole was still usable). This involved some careful drilling and cutting through the board, but we were lucky there were no obstacles in the way.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi,

There is/was a very nice P4 layout set in West Wittering...

 

http://www.lbscr.com/west-wittering/

 

Am I right in recalling that Keith Smith (one half of the Middleton Press guys) had something to do with this?

That would be my interpretation of West Wittering in the 1880s.  Originally built by members of  the South London Area Group of the Scalefour Society, it passed though other hands and I ended up with it in 2002.  I am not aware of any connection to Keith Smith.

The layout is currently in storage as I am involved in a new 2mmFS layout of Lewes

Cheers,

Dave

Hi,

A big thank you to the Spalding Club from the Hinksey Yard team for making us very welcome and looking after us so well during the weekend. We had an enjoyable time and, from some of the comments we got from visitors, were appreciated. Lots of great layouts there and we had problems decided who to vote for as best layout.

We are a little unusual in that, if we spot a responsible looking young person watching intently or asking sensible questions, then they will often get a chance to drive some trains (with their responsible adult's permission). They are generally very careful and respond well to instructions. One dad even brought his second son back on Sunday to have a go. Hopefully they will go home encouraged and get more into the hobby.

Again, from out perspective, behind a layout, a good, busy and well organised show.  Many thanks.

Cheers,

Dave