Craig Watson

James and I will be there with West Pickering too. Craig

Just need the Bachmann DBSO and Oxford Mk3's now!

See post #93 just above!

It looks good, all I've done with mine is fit the detail bits, change the driver and fit sound, it seemed to attract a bit of attention at Stafford! Craig

On display at Stafford over the weekend.

Thanks to everyone at Stafford Railway Circle for inviting Bonnybridge down with Allanbridge, we had a great weekend with plenty of interest and lots of good comments about the layout. We were packed and on the road for just before 18:00 and back home for 22:45, heading to the clubrooms tomorrow morning to unpack the van! It was a great show, lots of good quality layouts, was pleased to hear Campbell's Quarry won the best in show, my son and I spent quite a bit of time watching it! Thanks again Craig

Great to hear Terry, the van is loaded up and ready to go first thing in the morning, hopefully we'll avoid the M6 Friday afternoon car park!! See you tomorrow!

The Bonnybridge lads are looking forward to exhibiting Allanbridge at its first exhibition south of the border, hopefully we'll see you there over the weekend. Craig

Brilliant pic, before my time but one small legacy that still partly lives on albeit not at Model Rail Scotland are the "AMRSS standard" layout barriers, at one time a standard set of barrier drawings were produced so that member clubs could make their own with the idea being that multiple clubs could joins them up for bigger shows, I knew nothing of this as my first model rail was in the late 80's at the SECC until we managed to acquire some old ones from another club which we refurbished for our own club's use, eventually making more to the same design, they look just like the ones in the pic! Craig

We're looking forward to attending the show with Allanbridge, now that the show guide has been pretty much put to bed at this end I can get on with some modelling, including the weathering of stock for Allanbridge's appearance at the show. Craig

No problem, for what its worth my post was not based on "stories repeated from other forums", both the drivers I quoted are friends and fellow members of my club, I'm a signalman myself, I wasn't aware 64B was a driver so apologies to him if any offence was caused.

Pretty much what I said in the post you quoted, our modelling group includes a few former E&G drivers who worked them and they said there wasn't much in it sound wise with the compressors and exhausters at the no 1 end and the turbocharger at the no 2, the main reason was the ease of having the changeover switch at the driving end. I've modelled mine as driving from no 2 anyway, just need to change the stock Bachmann driver for a Pete Goss one and wait patiently for the stock to arrive!

I fitted one of these in a vitrains 47 with a TTS decoder last night, a massive difference over the supplied speaker. Craig

Yeah, I asked the question on the SDEG page last week.

Dave, One of the things I've done with mine was change the Bachmann driver to the no 2 end, I'd noticed that most pics of the push pulls showed that the no 1 (roof fans) end was coupled to the stock, we have a few drivers in SDEG so I asked the question and they confirmed that the no 1 end was normally (but occasionally not!) coupled to the stock due to the local/remote changeover switch being situated in the old boiler room at the no 2 end., I just popped the cab interiors out and swapped them around! I've got one of the real yellow stickers that were inside the cab with the push pull speed restriction too, I'll need to dig it out and get a pic! Craig

The Scottish Diesel and Electric Group and Bonnybridge Model Railway Club are pleased to announce the 2018 Bonnybridge Model Railway Exhibition. 14 layouts from our own members, around Scotland and just a wee bit beyond!, full trade support, demonstrations and displays and full cafe facilities. Saturday April 28th 10:00-17:00 Sunday April 29th 10:00-16:00 Bonnybridge Community Education Centre Bridge Street Bonnybridge FK4 1AA £5 Adult £2.50 Child £12 Family (2&2) Layouts Allanbridge - Bonnybridge MRC Dalnottar Riverside - Graeme Moyes Fife Cement - East Neuk MRC Glenfinnan - Bill Wood Hewisbridge - 57 Study Group Kinlochewe - James Reid Laurencekirk - Perth MRC Lostcarne Junction - Pentland MRG Micro Cement - Andy Strathie North Road LMD - Bruce Duncan Perceton - Ayr MRG Rowntrees Sidings - Blyth & Tyne MRG Tamshooglie - Falkirk MRC West Pickering - Craig Watson Demonstrations & Displays Roland Turner Tom Rintoul modelling display Trade Support Douglas Blades Durham Trains of Stanley The Junction Box McLaren Models North Road Trains Scottish Garden Railways Hopefully we'll see you there! Craig

Thanks Chris, I'm pretty pleased with it! Craig

I've actually got some time for modelling now that the guide is pretty much put to bed, so another couple of pics of our exclusive limited edition to whet the appetite, supplied etched nameplates, bogie and bufferbeam details fitted. Craig

Another couple of pics of one of the first production models to whet the appetite, supplied nameplates, bufferbeam and bogie details added.

Arran is correct, a lot of work went into the pre order facility for the 08 with around 1/3 then not fulfilling their order which our team members then spent a few weeks chasing up to see if those people still wanted the models, that put us off doing it again for this one.

Yeah, the ploughs are part of the standard detailing pack, they'll be put to use elsewhere!

Not the greatest of pics but as another one of our organising team vitalspark says above they're here, this particular one will be available for closer inspection at Bonnybridge MRC's "Allanbridge" layout at Stafford in a few weeks time. It's been very nicely done indeed, full detail pack and etched nameplates included! Craig

Not the greatest of pics but they're here and ready for release at the show, this is one of the production run and will be available for closer inspection at the Bonnybridge MRC layout "Allanbridge" at Stafford in a few weeks time. Craig

And they're now part of the West Pickering fleet, both will be getting some weathering too. Really pleased with them. Cheers Craig

We had a great time over the weekend with West Pickering, thought it was a really good show as usual, well done to Stephen and co!