Billy Flathead

Hi folks. Not had time to do much recently, had a few jobs to do on the car before it goes back on the road for the summer. Did get to York last week though and picked up these two characters to finish of the 4F. Also been working on the station approach and the fencing beside it. Cheers David

Just an update on yesterdays pictures, finished it off and weather proofed it. I've got all the wood for the first outside track bed so maybe in the next few months I might have through running.

Hi folks. Did a few jobs in the garden this afternoon and when I finished the sun was still shining, so I prised a few boards off the side of the shed and the result is shown below. I will make a wooden bung with a handle to fill the hole and a little canopy to keep the rain off. Cheers David

Hi Brian Not seen that picture of New Oaks Jcn before, only the one in Barnsley Cudworth Royston, the great thing about that site is all the unpublished photos that will be put up. Worsbrough Dale box is brick with a concrete roof, below it is a photo of the old wooden box. I sometimes walked home from school that way in the late seventies but can't remember it. The goods yard would have been controlled by Glasshouse or Worsbrough Bridge, but there were some sidings down onto the canal bank which could have come under Worsbrough Dale. Hi Peter I've seen bridges like that at shows and I might put a period lorry and Tracky bus on there to hide the end of the road, so would need the width . Cheers David

Hi Brian. Not seen that facebook page before, thanks for pointing it out and you're right there are some gems, especially those of Royston and Barnsley sheds. There are pictures of 69320 and 42762 I haven't seen before. Did you see the picture of Worsbrough Dale signal box, modern looking but demolished long before the others as far as I know. Only seen it once before at a slide show. The mill is just an idea at the moment, some thing like the one on Peel Street where the job centre is now. I used to work in it years ago, very creepy locking up at night, the sort of place where shadows move out of the corner of your eye. Cheers David

Not had time to do much until yesterday. I finished off the other bridge girder and made some more fencing at work. Yesterday I put in the road and pavements, these are mounting board with stone flags and cobbles scribed with the back of a scalpel blade and painted with acrylics. When dry talc was rubbed in to tone the colours down. I've been thinking about some sort of factory building to go to the right of the bridge behind the station. Barnsley was a linen town, so a stone built mill would predate the railway. The mill yard boundary wall could form the railway boundary. The later station approach would cut through part of the yard so it could have something like concrete panel fencing going off at a different angle towards the back scene. Cheers David

Just a quick update. I've put a bit of colour an the grass, this was a try out as this bit will be mostly out of sight. Only another acre to go! I will take some plastic to work to chop up for more fence panels. Bottom picture is a new addition to the fleet. I've had it about twenty years but its been in a box with three buffers missing and no brake levers. It's got a new Rumney Models etched chassis and had a repaint.

Hi Brian I've only got no4 and no7. No4 has a chapter on the Wincobank to Barnsley branch, no7 has nothing of railway interest except one photo of the book stand at courthouse. Fat Controller mentioned Palvans in your thread, theres a picture in no4 of a Palvan being loaded at the Izal factory. It shows a worker pumping up inflatable cushions inside to protect the fragile load. Maybe glass companies could have used this. Hi Engineshed. Thanks for the offer but a C13 or B7 will be a long time in the future and I collect too many parts I never get round to using. Made a bit of progress on the layout. Made a bit of fencing at work and planted some plumbers hemp behind it, I will trim it back and colour it this weekend. The bridge girder is a bit of a cheat, its only detailed on one side. Cheers David.

Hi Brian. B7s would have gone through Penistone regularly so that's local enough for me. Have you got Aspects of Barnsley vol. 4. There is a picture of a yellow wooden coke wagon lettered Barrow. On the opposite page is a picture of new red Barrow wooden underframe tank wagon in 1919, which would make a lovely model though from a different time period. Hi Clive. The track layout is roughly Pickburn with a few extra sidings. On the real thing single turnouts and a single slip were used but I had to compress it to keep it inside the shed. It is nice to see wagons rattle across it though. Cheers David

Hi Brian. Nu Cast did a kit for the C13 but they fetch good money on ebay and there is a ready to run model by OO works, again quite expensive. Might have to have a go myself. Those Shenston Road coke hoppers look really good, I've tried bidding on some of those 3H kits but always been out bid. I've read that about the yellow hoppers too but don't know where, maybe it went to Barrow in Furness. Barrow pit had yellow coal wagons and a coke train to Barrow in Furness is mentioned in Barnsley Cudworth & Royston by David Green and Peter Rose. Missed one off my list, an ex GC B7. Never seen a picture of one in Barnsley though. Hi kipford. I've tried my best, but I can't get into either corner, so this taken at arms length behind my head. I don't have much light either. Cheers David

Hi Brian. The garrett is the DJH kit, I bought it about thirty years ago from Beatties in Sheffield because DJH said it was a limited edition. As for other locos, a crab would be nice, it would have to be 42762, a C13 67434 and a WD 280. If I did another N5 it would be 67325 with full lining. But what I would really like is an up to date, affordable kit for a coke hopper Cheers David

Thanks Jason. Love your terrace houses, wouldn't have the patience for so many though. I am thinking of a row of backs with outside privys behind the goods yard, it gets planned as I go along so time will tell. Thanks Martin. Drab ordinariness is just what I am aiming for, steel minerals, old wooden wagons, empties in full ones out, push pull locals. For a bit of flash though a Mexborough B1 or a director would be nice. There were some out of the ordinary things in Barnsley though, see below, I have not got the hang of mixing text and photos yet. Track is 00, steel rail C&L chairs glued to plywood sleepers, you can see the shiny bit where the cosmetic fish plate has fallen off. Thanks Bri. So far I have ben able to keep it all local, O4 and N5 are Barnsley, 1P 4F and 8F are Royston and I would love one of the Royston 2Fs. Thanks Coachman. Yes I saw it on his web site, it does look lovely. I would need more practice first, maybe one for the future. The driving trailer is the first coach I have built. I have an underframe for a composite to go with it and an old Kemilway Gresley steel all third in the drawer. Cheers David

Thanks Dave, Brian and Martin for your kind comments. I will post updates if there is any progress. I am trying to finish the bridge and fill in some contours near it with styrofoam blocks at moment. here's a few more photos.

Hi folks Being new to this kind of thing I thought I would start with a brief description of the layout so far. In my imagination it is the Hull and Barnsleys last push to actually reach Barnsley so it has some features from other parts of the H+B whilst using local locos and stock. I have an 8x6 shed so to make best use of space, track runs from one corner to the opposite corner. At the right hand side a colliery line branches off, both lines go through holes in the sky to a detachable shelf outside the shed, running onto a cassette. The other end finishes at the shed wall, but will eventually go out and along the garden fence for about 30 feet. Hopefully this summer will see some progress in this department. Don't count on it though, I've been at it for ten years and progress is glacial. Here are a few photos. The bridge is half of the double span at Bullcroft junction and the station building is Pickburn

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