Fishplate

3 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

That is a very small turntable, and the whole siding looks difficult to shunt, unless the loco uses the shed to reverse.

Noted the previous edition of the map the siding finished at the turntable and there wasn't track beyond it (to the right in the photo) .

There is a similar turntable shown on an odd siding on the Princetown Branch on the 1905 map at Yelverton https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/252099/67272/12/100604.

Just a very wild guess as I know nothing about pre-Grouping GWR operations. . . .Could they have turned guards brakes on the branch?  Would seem an odd practice though?

Would it be wrong to ask if this is

a) a possible entry for the Railway Modeller articles on 'A Prototype For Anything' 

or 

b)  a Stuka pilots eye view.

Asking for a friend. . . . . . 

5 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said:

Would it be too much work to raise the trackwork by 5mm? That would give the opportunity for a little more relief to be introduced to the scenic area.

 

Just wonderin'.

Hiho. . . . May I suggest checking the 5mm lift would still let your tallest wagon get into the shed ?

Don't want to solve one problem by creating another 

John

11 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

It is a 20-25 liters per minute output. 

You'll be needing quite a few of those small humbrol paint pots then. . . . . . .. . . . 

Very nice @KNP. I also REALLY like the texture and colour on the vertical timbers to the front of the loco.

John

14 hours ago, Flying Fox 34F said:

Edinburgh is a long way at 30mph!

Not as long as moving your fiancee from her family home in Fort William to our new house in East Kent* in 1983. Sans Cat who miaowed as far as Glasgow. My mini clubman estate blew up on the M6 in Birmingham and back fired behind a police car all the way through the Dartford Tunnel . Very echo-y.

That's when you realise what 'miles per hour' means as you crawl down a map of GB. 

ps Still very happily married. Mini went though. Part exchanged for a Talbot Avenger estate. . . .

4 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

19 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

the central ('undertaker's') lane

Are there many of those still around

We had a suicide lane on the Thanet Way between the end of the M2 and Margate/ Ramsgate. Many accidents and many times astonished at the idiots in the central lane. Now dual carriageway.

There must be an entry in The Darwin Awards somewhere https://darwinawards.com for driver behaviour on those roads. . . .

* Kent Bus company, just to keep 'on topic'. 

13 hours ago, westerhamstation said:

This might be of interest. All the best Adrian. Lets all go down the strand have a banana.

https://www.strandpool.info/history

Hi Adrian @westerhamstation. I lived in North Kent for many years and never knew about this ! Maybe it was run down/ closed at the time ?

The things you find out about on RMWeb. . . . Thanks for sharing. Will read with interest.

John

On 02/04/2021 at 17:38, Gopher said:

Dewchurch may soon get dismantled. 

On 02/04/2021 at 17:38, Gopher said:

I may still chicken out (I've been resisting taking this step for at least two years

Sad to read about that in early April. Are you still resisting? But noted a lot of the subsequent photos are entitled "from the archive". So does that mean work on the room has started and a new Dewchurch will rise?

43 minutes ago, Johndc120 said:

thanks to @Fishplate for pointing out the error in my ways!!

Happy to help. I 've had lots of inspiration and positive contributions from so many people on RMWeb. So just a little bit of giving back / passing on info. 

Latest developments looking really good.

John

9 hours ago, Fishplate said:

Discuss

Well, that suggestion seemed to work quite well . . . . 

Very nice Chris @chuffinghell.

Looking forward to the inevitable debate on which way round it needs to go next to a siding. . . . Tall side? Or open side?

Discuss, show your working out and add your reasons. Rule1 may not be applicable. . . . .

29 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

snot green

Wouldn't this be a brilliant name for a new layout ?????

On a more serious on-topic note, the shed is looking good. I agree it would be unlikely to be in Rly Co colours.

John

Hi @Johndc120 This is looking really good. A positive contribution I would like to make is that I believe the trackside gates open towards the wagon. This is to avoid the cattle/ sheep escaping down the edge of the dock.  Currently you have them drawn opening away from the wagon.

Leastways, that is the way I modelled them on my Mk1 layout cattle dock which can be seen on the first post on Page 1 of the link below.

FYI ~ I noticed after posting that picture that the gate nearest the camera had been hung with the hinge side on the opening end,  

Look forward to following progress 

1 hour ago, Gedward said:

Looks pretty damn good to me.

Agreed @Gedward. Hope I can get to your standard in due course Kevin @KNP 

1 hour ago, mullie said:

I'm not getting involved in a discussion about brass playing - you know  - the ones who play at the start of the piece, the end, then spend the rest of the time at the bar. 

The trombone section of the brass band I played in helped out the local orchestra. After the usual several hundred bars rest the composer couldn't be bothered to fill in for brass, he then requested all three trombones to play double forte (Jolly loud for the uninitiated).

Being upstanding citizens we duly obliged.  Conductor stops orchestra and asks the trombones what we thought we were doing. Pointing out the obvious I just said 'playing double forte, as requested'.  Conductor gestures across at the twenty or so violins and asks me what they are supposed to do when faced with three trombones playing double forte.

My response of 'scrape harder? ' was (apparently) not the correct one. . . . . 

For those that requested some trombone playing, a little bit of Romeo & Juliet .  . . . . . . Enjoy 

(ps we also do fried breakfasts whilst waiting for the bar to open):

25 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

I have found that you can learn a lot from military modelling over the years.

Dive bombing buses on bridges being one . . . . . . ?

On 12/06/2021 at 17:13, Oldddudders said:

French ones are both pricey and unreliable. No longer permissible. 

 Mr Macron needs to have a word. . . . . . !

Really inspiring work. 

Hi @Rich Papper

Have read through your topic over the last week or so, drawn in by the Southern location of Catford. Really like the plan and the way you are developing it. Your experiences with 'Thing 1' and 'Thing 2' have made me laugh out loud on several occasions and share with my wife.

I also shared the picture of your wife holding a tape measure over the block work at Bath. Strangely, my wife has had similar experiences *.

I also have a slowly developing layout and recognise the timescales you have been working through, not assisted by a house move at the end of last year.

 The video rides showing the developing scene are also very informative. There are very prototypical arrangements emerging.

I will be following with interest in the future

John

*Or should that be 'my wife has had similar strange experiences'? 

4 minutes ago, SteveyDee68 said:

and even as a spotty youth if it had been suggested that I treat my (expensive) instrument in that fashion, I would have told them where to stick their F plug!*

Agreed. 

4 minutes ago, SteveyDee68 said:

As to the video you posted of trombone suicide - there are examples out there of how horribly wrong that can go ...

Also agreed. But I deliberately didn't choose one of those. Didn't want to frighten the local sheep . 

Similarly things can go very wrong playing trombone anywhere near Jeremy Clarkson . . . . . .

8 minutes ago, SteveyDee68 said:

I SHOULD NOT HIJACK THIS THREAD AGAIN ...

Agreed.  Maybe set up a shunting puzzle Trombones and Trains thread  ????? Wagon positions limited to seven, of course. ....  ... ... 

Thank you very much  Kevin. I love the evolution.

Maybe in the future you'll have to have an archeological dig scene showing one of your old foundations. Or one that you never knew of  . . . . . . 

John 

Superb

23 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said:

I'm more concerned how the one armed trombonist second left in the photo manages anything other than "closed" position?!

Being a proper trombone player  his "spare" hand can be seen just  by the leg of the music stand. Clearly relaxing after operating the water key. I suspect he's just about to embark on a quick solo session of trombone suicide which the valve trombone and sousaphone player wouldn't be aware of. . . . .  . . neither being proper instruments 

Progressing very nicely indeed.

I do like the staggered buffer stops. It is an interesting period feature for those of us who 'do' PWay, but something that is avoided where possible on the modern railway.

Not sure about GWR practice, but  I've noticed the lights on your buffer stop beams. I think they are very rare on sidings in steam days. Probably because they all had to be manually lit (and filled up) paraffin lamps.

Might be an interesting to wander through some appropriate time period pictures to see if you keep as is, modify or apply Rool 1 .

The link below is a good source if you've not discovered it before. The few that I skipped through in sidings were lamp free:  https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/?route=product%2Fsearch&search=buffer+stop

Hope the above is of interest / help.

Looking forward to seeing more.

John