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Well, after many happy years working in a spacious loft, the consequences of old age has forced me to downsize to a small bungalow. I want to continue in 7mm scale, and look at modelling 1900s Britain and Europe, 1950s America, and exercises in whimsy.
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They do some very nice stuff, but all 4mm. scale. I meantersay….
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SWEDISH RAILWAY SETTING. I have to thank @Schooner of this parish, for alerting me to this shot. Just occasionally you get a totally formed picture that you can damn near do a complete model from, and I think this is one. A railway pier linking into a ferry service in 1880, in this case somewhere up the Gulf of Bothnia, that leg of the Baltic up between Sweden and Finland. A setting a bit like Tollesbury Pier in Essex, or Bantry Pier in County Cork. Statens Järnvägar, Swedish State Railways, had a very good selection of Beyer Peacock locomotives in their fleet, and if you fancy doing some browsing, you’ll find quite an attractive system.
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Some time back, I put in a link to a Gn15 Emett line “Tippy Ashwood”. Just been watching his latest video, showing ideas and gear for battery operated loco. High tech for me, but it’s worth a look for keeping up to date with what’s around, and I note the Hornby 0-4-0 chassis can benefit with slower speed running, something well worth considering:
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Best not go there, Saint! (We’ll say dirt)
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Theres these two camellias in pots either side of the front door step. What possesses such a delicate, tender flower to start blossoming in February, I’ve no idea, every evening we’re watching the weather forecast for overnight frost, and take them in the house, otherwise that lovely bloom will be turned to brown mush. This last week, they’ve stayed out all the time. Back in November, I was putting together some strips of 10mm foamboard to make up a fiddle yard base, and was very disappointed to find the glue didn’t “take”, just staying wet and messy 24 hours later. It seems you have to store the stuff at over +5 C, so it’s lived with me on top of the chest in the bedroom for the last few months. Now it’s warming up, so mix a dollop with about three parts water and a few drops of washing up liquid, and go round the “Western Fringe” line ballast with an eye dropper. It’s now set rock hard. Then dig out the foamboard, and try again… Result! That’s set nicely, so push on with the Washbourne fiddle yards. So now we can definitely say its warming up, and we can celebrate Spring with Hilda.
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Cuckmere Haven - a very small slice of southern electric.
Northroader replied to Nearholmer's topic in Layout topics
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Paddington Station 1840
Northroader commented on MikeOxon's blog entry in MikeOxon's Broad Gauge Blog
What we now call Taplow was originally the Western terminus for Maidenhead, before the bridge over the Thames was completed. The goods shed is contemporary with the one at Paddington, sharing the same design, but the Paddington one is larger. The Taplow shed lasted until quite recently, but then demolished, which was a real pity. -
Cuckmere Haven - a very small slice of southern electric.
Northroader replied to Nearholmer's topic in Layout topics
There’s an 0 gauge line, Blackney, set in the Forest of Dean, terminus to fiddle yard set up, with a kickback siding into the fiddle, where he’s recently made the fiddle yard a scenic section. Works quite well, IMHO. -
Cuckmere Haven - a very small slice of southern electric.
Northroader replied to Nearholmer's topic in Layout topics
There’s no whitewash patches round the 13amp sockets to tell which one’s tripped, either? -
Annie, when they first tried digging the Channel Tunnel in Victorian times, they found a coal seam, so this led to the development of coal mines in East Kent, and so it is possible to find NCB sidings on the Southern, if only limited. From a rail fan / modeller point of view, this led to the East Kent Railway, a Colonel Stephen’s job. So to Wingham Canterbury Road, my kind of station. http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/wingham_canterbury_road/
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On the subject of iron bodied GWR wagons, there’s 31076, the number falling between blocks of the various 3 plank builds listed above. It’s pictured at Newquay Harbour, loaded with coal, presumably imported by sea from South Wales. Would it be one of the mentioned jobs, or just absorbed from the Cornwall Minerals Railway? The wagon next to it still has dumb buffers… then there’s the spring shoes, either they’re a very good fit, or there’s extensions down from the solebars? Flitched?
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Midland Railway Company
Northroader replied to technohand's topic in Pre-Grouping - Modelling & Prototype
May I add that the article and drawing I was on about was in Railway Modeller No. 69. -
Midland Railway Company
Northroader replied to technohand's topic in Pre-Grouping - Modelling & Prototype
Can’t find the reference now, I’m afraid, but way back, 1950s 60s sort of era, there was an article done in the Railway Modeller by Norman Eagles, (who created the “Sherwood Section”) He had gone to Burton shed and been given access to measure up one of these engines, and did a drawing for it. Sorry I’ve slung my clipping for this in a clearout a few months ago, just have the model left: -
It looks as if the upper body panels are stepped out above the wheels. This one looks as if it’s designed with rail transport in mind? Presumably those are securing chains hanging down, there are no placard boards above the roof to take down, and the front pole for the horse harness pushes back under the vehicle, rather than detaches. Suppose it’s painted chocolate? Pity the sign writing front or back doesn’t show.
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Northroader started following Bath Queen Square
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I think that you should be able to look at a layout with no trains being present, and get an impression of where it’s meant to be, so that scenery can give a geographical impression, and the buildings and infrastructure such as signals give a much firmer idea of the company involved. If you look at a bare board populated by D299 wagons, you’re left asking “where’s this?”