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Behind the scenes over my inactivity more progress has been made. A while ago I visited the Rail Motor Society at Paterson on their open day, which gave me an opportunity to see a 600 Class for myself. These photos are now outdated, but I thought it might be worth posting.
Note this discolouration around the windows of some of the images.
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Couple of questions for the knowledgable on the E&G "126" if I may.
1) Were the exhaust arrangements on the E&G DMBS/DMS(i) the same as on the Ayrshire units (ie shrouded, similar shape etc)?
2) Has anyone seen a photo of 79088 in green livery in AYRSHIRE service circa or post 1970? (The well known one online around this time was at Waverley on an E&G working)?
Thanks all.
Not sure if this is specifically what you're after but I found this:
http://railcar.co.uk/images/uploads/126/1600/class-126-dmu-1490586996-1600.jpg
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Clearly I've missed A LOT here. Nice work!
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Looking good Clive! Loving the bus sitting on the bridge too, and the turntable.
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With the base coats dry time to get out my "teaking" kit; Liquin Original, Vandyke Brown oil paint and a flat brush. I normally use Burnt Umber oil paint but wanted something slightly darker:
After mixing the Liquin and oil paint on an old tile it was applied roughly all over the coach body:
Next the vertical panels were grained by running the brush up them trying to avoid getting a build up of paint at the panel edges:
Finally the horizontal panels were treated as were the roof edges resulting in:
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Unfortunately the lighting does not do it justice but I am happy with that. Now put to one side for at least 24hrs.
Well looking at the photos it looks great. I bet they look much better in person!
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Looks like the layout's coming along quickly! I'm liking what I am seeing so far...
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A nice morning, dry and even quite warm, but golf course closed owing to flooding. Shopping now, and then more time with the railway. Here is a portrait of the clean Immingham B1 waiting to make its way to London. We shall analyse the formation of the train after I have been to get my avocados. And some other stuff as well.
There's something about this photo that I think makes it look pretty realistic, but I can't quite put my finger on it...
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As promised couple of photos from the late night session from last night.
As I said, we smashed out 11 point motors from about 12:00pm to 1:00pm and then from about 5:00pm-8:30 I beleive, absolutly killed it.
Only 3 more left to do which I will do tonight and then its cleaning, adding the stock back and a few days of running to make sure everything runs smoothly.
Had the sister hard at work in the evening adding in some track pins!
Myself hard at work for once getting the switches in.
29942738_953738008135665_2090331829_o.jpgA massive thankyou to my best mate, Mitch, who has helped me so much in the last few months, would not have been able to get where I am now without him.
Looks like everyone's hard at it!
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Looking good! I look forward to seeing the end result.
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Little Glossy has gained some front end details, the single top lamp puts the model firmly into the first batch of twenty, the second batch of twenty lacked this feature, having two sidelights instead. What you see is actually the second attempt, for the first go I fitted top lamps like on an earlier Derby Class 116, but they just looked rather under-nourished. The top lamps and shrouds on these Class 100s, were getting on for twice the size. The 2-digit headcode looks straightforward enough, but the dimensions are critical, human eyes are good at spotting things out of true or proportion, i'm fairly happy with the results, but there's still room for a bit of fine-tuning. The roof shell vents are now fitted, using Comet BR/LMS type. It's time for door furniture and roof tank pipes next, can't decide whether to paint this blue or green, a second unit based on the second batch might be the answer? BK
20180331_204713.jpg20180331_204731.jpgI feel like this should have a small yellow warning panel, whether it's blue or green. Do what you want, it's your model after all.
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Right. For all those that are interested on actual dates to the KLR:
The Kelsby Light Railway - A History in Brief
1898 - The KLR act is passed
1901 - Bulldog and its sister locomotive Pointer are commissioned by David, 2nd. Baronet Bradleigh
1903 - The KLR is opened by David Bradleigh to a rather rocky start.1905 - The GER attempts to buy out the KLR. They back off after David Bradleigh whines about it in the House of Lords
1913 - David Bradleigh dies at his desk, his sickly son Thomas becomes 3rd. Baronet Bradleigh and CEO of the KLR
1919 - Peter is purchased from the WNR, becoming the line's third locomotive.
1921 - The Grouping happens. The new LNER begins a long legal battle with the Bradleigh family in an attempt to buy the KLR.
1924 - The Bradleigh family strikes up a deal with the LNER, giving the Bradleighs effective control over the railway but the LNER has the final say on the purchase of new stock and such. Seemingly out of spite they begin to dump outdated, worn-out or damaged locomotives and stock into their hands, probably thinking it'd run the Bradleighs into the ground so they could buy the railway out from under them.
1932 - Thomas Bradleigh dies. His son Edward becomes 4th. Baronet Bradleigh and CEO of the KLR, which catches the ire of many as he is only 22 at the time. However, he soon proves himself an intelligent owner and a shrewd businessman.
1935 - The LNER dumps a worn-out B12 onto the KLR rails. It is named Wild Rover, but due to a clerical error it runs under its original GER number of 1571.
1940 - Elmtree Heath's original station is destroyed by a German bomb that was presumably intended to hit Elmtree Airfield. Pointer, which was picking up water while pulling a post train through the station at the time, is also destroyed in the explosion. Its nameplates are hung in Kelsby sheds and its number is given to Wild Rover, beginning two long-standing traditions among the KLR staff of keeping and displaying the nameplates of scrapped locomotives and reusing the numbers of said locomotives to keep the books linear.
1942 - Wild Rover collides with a Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T that is on trials at Berkham station. The accident requires Wild Rover to be rebuilt due to the damage, resulting in its conversion from 4-6-0 to an 0-6-0 - amusingly, using the boiler of the Hudswell Clarke to replace the unsalvageable original.
1942 - The James Donaldson scandal, where CME James Donaldson is arrested and charged with stealing locomotives from other companies over the course of about 10 years. All the stolen locomotives are returned, with the exception of a single GWR 4800 class tank engine which remains on the KLR with permission, taking on the name Wanderer and the number 6.
1946 - Elmtree Heath's new station is opened. Some ruins of the original are still visible in the grounds as the new building is notably smaller and more understated than David Bradleigh's original Neo-Gothic monstrosity.
1947 - The locomotives that would become known as Mastodon and Geoffrey Lake arrive for trials on the KLR. Edward Bradleigh's daughter Emily convinces her father to purchase the two locomotives.
1948 - Nationalisation happens. The KLR comes under partial ownership of BR.
1952 - Telham Fen becomes an RSPB reserve. Telham Fen station is abandoned.
1961 - At the KLR's 60th Anniversary celebrations, Edward Bradleigh announces, much to the chagrin of the higher ups at BR, that the KLR would, in the face of increasing diesel usage on the main line, not stop building steam locomotives and continue running an almost exclusively steam service.
1966 - The Challenge. In response to the above and after much back and forth arguing, BR flex their muscles and send a Class 04 shunting diesel to the KLR on trials, implying that it could outperform any locomotive the KLR owned without them even having to bother comparing. Edward Bradleigh used the opportunity to turn it into a media circus by taking it into a direct challenge and inviting every news outlet he could find to spectate. He then pitched the 04 against Bulldog. The press has a field day as the 51-year-old tank engine runs rings around the brand new diesel which is twice its size. BR, preoccupied with more important matters, never attempts anything like this again. The Class 04, however, remains on the KLR, eventually ending up being used as the works shunter at the KLR workshops in Berkham and the KLR's only non-steam locomotive in their entire history.
1966 - BR decide to shut down the KLR as part of the Beeching Axe; however, they back off due to massive public outcry and Edward Bradleigh, taking the example of his father and grandfather to heart, getting his buddies in the House of Lords involved.
1967 - Due to the KLR running out of funds, Edward Bradleigh decides to close Telham Town station as, considering its grand construction, its upkeep costs too much.
1970 - English Heritage becomes involved with the funding and upkeep of the railway, a partnership that continues into the present day.
1973 - In an interesting case of things coming full circle, Emily Bradleigh, who had been so influential to the railway since the 40s, becomes CME of the KLR.
1975 - Edward Bradleigh steps down as CEO of the KLR. His son, Edward Bradleigh Jr., takes over.
1979 - Edward Bradleigh Sr. dies suddenly from a stroke and Edward Jr. becomes 5th Baronet Bradleigh. Edward Bradleigh Sr.'s death is mourned throughout East Anglia's railway community.
1982 - A statue of Edward Bradleigh Sr. is installed on the platform of Kelsby station, sitting in his favourite spot on the platform in his favourite bench where he would often sit and watch the trains roll in and out of the station.
1996 - Emily Bradleigh retires as CME of the KLR, ending the railways most prolific period in terms of design work.
2000 - Restoration work begins on Telham Town station, with plans to reopen the last section of the line in the near future.
2014 - Emily Bradleigh dies.
2016 - Edward Bradleigh Jr. dies, and his son Jacob Bradleigh becomes the 6th Baronet and CEO of the KLR.
Present day - Period modelled.
And that, in a nutshell, is the history of the KLR as a whole.Most interesting to read, I'll say.
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Nice rendering of the RM car body
dose sketch-up, make it easy to reproduce the tumble home for the lower car sides ??
Will be interesting to see these done
Are you going to 3D print this one or build in Styrene, with the Sketch up rendering you could possibly get Laser cut in styrene done.
Not really, but once I figured it all out I was very happy as I'd been trying to do this for a very long time. I've been putting more details such as the roof vents and other side details so I hope to post more tomorrow. I don't think I could make this to HO scale but it would make an alright O model. If all goes well I also hope to make the DEB sets, 620/720 and 660/760 Railmotors as well. I hope to try and 3D print it but the laser cutting option sounds interesting too, and I'll have a look into that!
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If you think that 6 wheel tender's going to look big on RedGemAlchemist's 4-4-0, check this loco out!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Railways_C_class
It's tender is HUGE!
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Did they put the sign up before the road flooded?
They predicted the future...
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That is a very special loco. It used to belong to Dave Shakespeare, and ran on Tetley's Mills. The weathering was his work.
Nice! I remember reading about Tetley's Mills amongst my collection of Model Rail magazines and there was was always something I'd come back to for inspiration.
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Easter, eh! Yellow warning for snow on Sunday, and a wind that cuts you in two. I predict a lot of railway time the next four days. This morning starts bright, but apparently it won't last. It is a nice day at PN back in our time warp, but the Shedmaster at New England seems to be struggling again.
K3s were very rare south of New England by this time, but this one has been pressed into service to take more coal to London. As yet though it gets no further than signals on the Up slow. In the rather out of focus background can be seen what looks like a 9F on the Down main, and a closer look confirms that.
Not far from being new, this one, but its a Doncaster engine, and external neglect is already apparent. It is on its way home with a KX Goods-York Class C. Persimmon is still waiting time.
I'm liking that dirty 9F there in the last photo!
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I don't know if either of these have been posted here before, but here they are!
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Hi Chris,
Please excuse me filling you notifications tab with 'FPH 603 rated your post Like' and 'Craftsmanship/Clever'. I thought I'd have another read through of the thread whilst I have nothing better to do.
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It's a Dapol 7mm 5-plank wagon
Jinty
Well it's a good one I'll say!
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More progress as the 600 Class FPH takes shape.
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Road looks open to me...so long as you're in a boat.
That depends how deep the water is!
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What scale is this?
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Not to mention the title is too long!
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I have a collection of Australian Outline Lima stuff, all restored to working order, including:
- A NSWGR 44 Class No. 4469 in 'Tuscan Red' (actually brown)
- A NSWGR 42 Class No. 4201 in Indian Red
- An 'XPT' in original Candy colours (with HST tooling) - unfortunately one of the coaches is missing a bogie!
- Various Lima wagons - I probably have 10 of these
I also have some old Hornby Railways stuff including:
- An LNER D49 No. 222 'The Berkley' - I love the sprung tender coupling! I don't know why it isn't used in current RTR models.
- An LNER A4 No. 4902 'Seagull'
- I also own a couple of Hornby NSWR coaches which came out of a set of five including a locomotive.
- A Hornby Breakdown Crane in BR Red
Red's Fumbling Bench
in Modifying & Detailing RTR stock
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Well I've missed a lot!