Ross74H

Been a while but as this is one of my favourite railways (and the prototype I’ve based my own fictional light railway on) how are things going with the layout?

How long do the two leftover brake sections scale out to roughly?

Very very clever! Tempted to get a couple more myself and copy your idea, maybe use the leftover brake sections to make a short full brake as well.

That’s a very smart little conversion, looks highly plausible to me. Not sure how much a real-world bogie coach would have got given all the equipment that would potentially have to go on the underframe as well. I’ve got some 3D printed Dean bogies under my Triang clerestory brake that would work with a very short bogie coach so that might be a way to go with the saloon. Its that saloon that made me consider adding an extra door to one (or possibly even both) ends of my saloon conversion. I’ve even considered if it’s worth going to all the faff of cutting out the blanked out panels between each compartment to make a shorter 4-wheeler as well but I think that would be more effort than it’s worth.

I do have a pair of these GER 0-6-0Ts which are from CDC Models (3D printed bodyshell on a Dapol/Hornby terrier chassis). Thinking that saying the line has been extended to another village but the line has had to bypass the original terminus to get there so this station is only accessible off a spur that connects to the new mainline via a traingular junction and therefore all trains back into the station (in the style of the Ashover Light Railway) might be the easiest way to deal with the small space.

Thanks guys, that’s given me some good ideas so far, the motorised coach might be worth investigating, maybe use a motor bogie from one of the newer DMU models but with different sideframes. Im sticking to as few points as possible so no run-round is doable, I suppose I could even do a Ashover style station and say there’s a triangle off scene and the train turns round and backs into the station.

Wondering what the shortest bogie coach I could get away with is, thinking even with the extra door section added the saloon might be too short? This is what I’m trying to emulate

Its meant to be a light railway so mostly mixed traffic with 4/6-wheel or small bogie coaches and smaller locomotives - I have a pair of GE E18 tanks and an Adams Radial as motive power. Yes it’s going to have a little fiddle stick added to the end of it when I’m using it, the plan is to eventually have a couple of them so I can have one either side of the TV on the shelves

Didn’t realise the track cleaner used a different chassis to the normal ones, will have to have a search for them. i was thinking about maybe attempting a clerestory roof on them but not sure how common or otherwise that would have been for four-wheelers, and some GE style gas lamp tops (do I need to add vents as well?). But yes, definitely want to lower the body to make them look older and smaller. I got the idea for the saloon variant off a FB group I’m part of, still considering if I cut up another bodyshell to give me a set of double- doors at one end in the same style as the saloon on the K&ESR. Yes, I knew about them 🤣, one of the other two is getting chopped about and turned into a brake coach so I’ve actually got the duckets saved in my Shapeways cart atm.

Hi guys, I’m modifiying some of the generic Hornby 4-wheelers for my light railway to represent stock that my they supposedly brought second (or third) hand from one of the bigger companies. Im trying to get them to look a bit older but not entirely sure how and I’ve part-converted one into a first-class/saloon type. I also want to run them as a close-coupled rake as if they were ex-suburban coaches. Any advice or suggestions as to what I can do to them to get the look I’m after?

So, I thought I would ask the brain trust here for help as I’m useless at designing track plans! I want to build a little terminus type layout for my light railway but I’ve only got a space of about 3ft x 15-18” to do it in for 4mm scale, ideally I’d like to be able to use the Hornby J15 or Adams Radial on the layout but if they’re going to be too big I can use my two GER E18s as motive power. Is anyone able to give me some help/advice with a design?

I’ve got two of the E22 tanks, lovely looking little things, only issue I’ve got is that the front couplings seem to be quite heavily recessed once the Hornby (ex-Dapol) Terrier chassis is underneath the bodyshell, might just be that I’ve fitted them round the wrong way. just working on some Hornby 4-wheeler conversions to go behind them for my light railway, and waiting on the Metropolitan coaches so I can get a brake coach as well.

So I found this on one of my other websites, it’s a design intended to use two shelves the same length as my smaller ones but only 12” not 24”, what do we think of it? https://www.flickr.com/photos/150402106@N07/39335004261/in/photostream

The smaller shelves were actually intended to go together, I got them from a friend at my old railway club who was emigrating, he had a small 0n30 layout built on them so they could always be recombined into one unit (or I could cut them down to 1ft wide and four “units” long)

I’m coming to you guys and gals for some help. I have got a couple of shelves (one 4ft long and one 2ft 9” long, both 1ft wide) that I want to build layouts on. However I am useless at track planning, I always end up trying to ram too much track in so it ends up a confusing unrealistic mess and I end up giving up before I’ve fixed any track down. Is anyone good at designing layouts ? i was thinking the bigger shelf would end up as part of an eventual much larger 5.5mm scale layout (using 16.5mm gauge track to represent 3ft) and the smaller shelf (or more accurately shelves as I have two the same size) could be used for a 4mm layout inspired by the W&U but I’ve no idea where to start! I’d want something with some “play” value to keep me amused as I get bored quite easily. Any help would be much appreciated!