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On 04/05/2024 at 14:47, Nick Gough said:

Since the goods/loading platform is situated on the lifting flap I have glued it, in position, on the baseboard for finishing off:

 

The two rectangular holes in the background of the second photo mark the positions of the weighbridge and its hut.

 

Since the buffer stop is largely hidden by the platform  I decided to have a go at making this from scratch.

 

First I scanned a scale drawing, then printed four of the front sections onto paper, before pritt sticking these to a small piece of 30 thou plastikard. When dry these were cut out:

I then used needle files to try and make these roughly rail shaped.

 

With a small piece of balsa, for the buffer beam, painted and glued to the end of the siding:

The rails will need some weathering!

Nick,

I have followed your endeavours with the loading bay buffer stop with great interest as I have a similar situation in my bay.

In my case, things are a little simpler as it is not an end loading bay, it is too near the end of the station buildings, but length is at a premium in this siding.

Originally I was thinking of a plain timber fixed to the wall, but I do like your solution! 

Cheers, Paul  

Sorry!!

This year has the makings of an expensive one, the interesting new or reissued models just keep coming.

Which is good news for the health of the hobby as a whole, and shows the doom merchants to be wrong!

Hi Everybody,

Modelling has not got too far this week.

But there were a few items of interest in Bachmann's latest announcements:-

I had been on the lookout for a sound fitted 03 Diesel. Similarly I do like the class 24/25 so the 25s warrant further investigation. Both are a bit of Rule 1 items, but I do like them! So I will have to check out the allocation history of those offered.

Otherwise, the chocolate and cream versions of the three new Mk1s and the Palvan appeal.

On the 12inch to a foot front, a week on Sunday the LBNG Railway are holding their annual Narrow Gauge Model Railway exhibition. While NG models are not a particular interest, I like to support this event. On Bank Holiday Monday the railway is holding its first Diesel Event. So I will walk over and see what is happening. They are tempting us steam buffs with hints of an element of unusual steam!

This year I hope to get to several events reflecting my other steam interests, Traction Engines and Steam Lorries. Covid and date clashes with family events have limited my expeditions to these events for the last few years, but there appears to be several that I can get to this year.

I hope you are all progressing with your modelling, maybe next week I can get back to regular updates and will have some progress on the modelling front to report.

Cheers for now,

Paul

It seems that the only 58xx that might have visited Bradenham was 5818 based at Oxford. I am not sure what Oxford normally used this loco for, perhaps local freights to Abingdon and Witney?

I am thinking that it was also substituted for a panier on the afternoon freight to Thame?

I hadn't realised how early these locos disappeared with only 4 showing in the March1959 locoshed book. 

My research on the class continues! 

1 minute ago, ChrisN said:

 

Paul,

All gone by Nationalisation.  What sheds would they have been in for the GW&GC?

Favourite would be one or two out shed at Aylesbury for the local autos to Princes Risborough and High Wycombe with some trips on to Banbury.

Oxford would also have one or two but their trips on the Thame line would not have taken them beyond Princes Risborough, so no good for me unless they  also ventured to High Wycombe....

Bit of a Rule 1 this one I think.

Maybe I will stick to a 48xx and a 58xx? -Further research on the 58xx, I think!

Good evening one and all,

I have not quite got back to normal on the modelling front so my to do list is still growing!

Meanwhile, it is great news that Dapol are to produce the GWR 0517 and a new version of the 12xx, even though we have to wait until Q4 (at least!) 2025 for them.

I cant justify a 0517 on my layout, with the earliest era modelled being early 1960s.  Mind you, it is tempting to think in terms of portraying an earlier period to allow one. Not sure when the last ones were scrapped, and if they ever ran on the GW&GC. So a new research project beckons! 

Best regards

Paul

IMHO there is little merit in tutting over the details of the various RTR offerings when no-one , as far as I know, produces one in a credible "in use" livery. Pristine cattle wagons on the real railway were very rare, one trip, and they were "weathered" by their occupants!!

This does of course mean that a multitude of sins can be covered up by weathering but not wrong wheelbases or roof profiles! 

On 19/04/2024 at 16:27, Nick Gough said:

Easter weekend we visited our local Heritage line - the Northampton & Lamport:

 

This was the former double tracked line between Northampton and Market Harborough. Most of the route was converted into a public footpath and cycleway - the Brampton Valley Way, but this has left enough room for a single line alongside. So you can follow the railway from end to end:

 

This coincided with the opening of their southern extension and new station at Boughton:

 

Making the railway up to 1 1/2  miles in length.

They have two GWR locos on site, 5967 Bickmarsh Hall and 2884 class 3862, though both are still in the early stages of lengthy restorations.

 

We had our young grandaughter for a couple of days, in the school holidays, last week. So I decided it was an appropriate time to introduce her to the Leighton Buzzard Railway:

 

 

 

Glad you enjoyed your visit to Leighton Buzzard.

Good Evening everyone,

With Easter having come and gone, we are a bit nearer returning to normal, but there are still a number of things to sort before we can move on.

On the plus side, we managed the first day out for ourselves yesterday.  Aylesbury is easy to get to on public transport and one of our favourite towns to visit, so we thought it a good choice for a first trip of the year. We had a good day, there were a few showers, but we managed to avoid them.

However, on the minus side, when we went to our favourite café for morning coffees and slices of their glorious cakes, we found that the lady who had run it for many years had retired before Christmas, and that it had "had a makeover".

The coffee was up to standard but oh dear, the cake! Choice, quality and price had all gone the wrong way, and the new manager's story that there would be a new set made tomorrow didn't help. So next visit we will sample the other non chain establishment.

On the railway front, I have a stack of jobs to attend to, hopefully tomorrow I will get to compile a list!   

Hopefully too, I will get the time to post a regular report in the coming weeks.

Best regards to you all,

Take care,

Paul

On 25/03/2024 at 17:32, WCML100 said:

We are also looking at getting the signal box custom built along with the semaphores required for the layout. These are key points to really setting this location so we are keen to get these as accurate as possible. If any of you know anyone who can help with these please do let us know. 

 

 

Hi There,

Stephen Freeman (who has a topic here on RMWeb), is a specialist in signal construction. He made the GWR signals for my GW&GC layout, and I can highly recommend him.

Don't know about signal boxes, but Stephen may know someone?

Cheers

Paul  

Hi Folks,

Apologies for the "Radio Silence",

Things have been a bit tricky for us in the last couple of weeks and still will be for a while yet, which is why I have not posted recently!

We have been busy supporting my brother in law who although coming up to his 89th birthday, has lived on his own just outside Northampton, with some support from us, his only relatives, and friends local to him.

Unfortunately his health has deteriorated and he has been in and out of hospital and his mobility is now poor. So we have been up there sometimes at short notice to support him. We are currently trying to find him home help that he will accept. Up till now he has resisted such a move, and to be fair, a month ago we did not think it necessary.

Hopefully he will improve in the next couple of weeks and we can find someone as a home help that he can get along with.

So I think it will be after Easter before we are back to normal, and I will  then update you further, and hopefully be in a position to give railway matters some attention.

Best regards

Paul

1 hour ago, amdaley said:

I was reading through this thread today & I was wondering did you ever get sorted with a system ?

Tony.

Hi Tony, for various reasons, mainly outside the railway, that I won't bore you with, this problem has been parked for some time while other matters are resolved. I hope to get back to railway matters after Easter.

Cheers

Paul

Good evening everyone,

I am trying to decide appropriate liveries for Freightliner containers for my GW&GC line model set in 1990-2. Did substantial numbers of the containers carry the original red and grey livery until that period? If not what livery were they in then?

Many thanks

Paul 

6 minutes ago, spamcan61 said:

I would suspect the passcode should be supplied with the loco (as the chip is factory fitted) is there nothing in the loco documentation?

Thanks, I cant find anything.

In the "Bad old Days" each Hornby loco instruction leaflet used to have stamped on the top front, the locos R number followed by the sequential identification number for the individual loco.

Off course, I understand such an approach is far to "low Tech" for the current era, but didn't it make the customers life easy if there was a query?

Never mind, thanks for responding quickly,

Paul 

Hi All,

I have got stuck with getting the HM7000 app to work.

It is installed fine on my I phone. The screen seems to be showing as described in the leaflet supplied with my new Loco with a HM7000 factory fitted chip.

When I run the scan, In the "Ready to Link" box I get one item under "Resettable Devices" with the identification "HM7000_C9F1" and 15 items under "Unfiltered devices" , mostly with the label "Name N?A but including one I can identify as our television!

Concentrating on the "HM7000_C9F1" item under the heading it shows "Reset device>". I f I click on this I get a box which says "Reset Passcode" "To reset this device please enter the reset passcode. This can be found on the device manager screen. If you have lost this please contact Hornby Support". Below this is a box with a flashing curser (For the passcode to be entered?). there are also cancel and ok buttons.

My problems

1) I have no idea which device this is. I have three locos with HM7000 chips in, is it one of those? none are currently on a track or powered. 

2) I have no idea where the Device Manager Screen is or how I access it.

Can someone please help me, preferably in plain English not techispeak!

I have gone through the HM manual all 166 pages of it, but cannot find anything to help!

Many thanks

Paul

Many thanks

Afternoon All,

Greetings from a (once again!) wet and soggy south Bedfordshire.

No venturing to the railway room today, which is a pity as it is the first day since they arrived that I have time free to play with set up and test run my first Hornby 7000 fitted diesels.

Also, my BR liveried Toplights arrived today. Have yet to open and inspect them, but am expecting a real treat!

my first Hornby 7000 fitted diesels to

I have committed to a 3D printed 12 ton Rail mounted Diesel crane. It looks splendid, and hopefully my mate Malcolm can do the works on assembly and weathering.

I am also debating upgrading my Bachmann Classes 31 and 69 orders to SFX specification to give the new DCC uncouplers a go. 

Cheers,

Paul

Afternoon All,

My BR liveried Toplights arrived today. Have yet to open and inspect them, but am expecting a real treat!

Cheers,

Paul

12 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

 

I’d completely forgotten about the Dapol Autocoach (how embarrassing)

That makes two of us!

6 hours ago, chuffinghell said:

 

.................and a 14xx complete with a fully detailed Auto coach, pretty please with bells on

You want the bell to ring??

24 minutes ago, robertcwp said:

No! The 27 Peaks cover the various time periods that my layout can run it, so there are usually at most 7 or 8 out at once. I have never seen all 27 together.

Glad I am not the only one running their layout in multiple eras although my dates ate a little wider spaced being 1962ish, 1992ish, 2006ish, and 2019ish.

I say -ish because I do tend under Rule 1 to allow items I like from a year or two each side of the date. So just this week, after being fairly strict on the 2019 date, I have pre-ordered 69001, which of course is a 2021 product!

Yes, I know the infrastructure and areas outside the railway fence (and the fence itself!) have altered from 1962 until now, but with careful choice of prototype area and a little Rule 1 I think things are manageable!

Nick,

Glad to heart your positive progress report, hope you can soon get back to modelling and the reporting of your structural efforts!

Best regards

Paul

Things are on the up (a little!).

Our decorator finished tonight, a day early, so tomorrow we can get the house back to normal.

As a result of today's Bachmann announcements I have lined my wallet up for a substantial hit later in the year with three sound fitted items.

So there are pre-orders for a Bachmann class 31 (Mainline livery), and an Accurascale 31 (Intercity livery).

These are backed up by taking the plunge on a pre-order for 69001. Yes, I know the 69ers didn't arrive until 2021,and my modern rendering of Bradenham is supposed to be 2019, but I decided that the 2019 dateline could be a little elastic as I thought the 69er sharing the 56 bodyshell would make an interesting comparison with my Cavalex 56.

I will now take a more leisurely look at the Mk1 releases.

Cheers All,

Paul

11 minutes ago, figworthy said:

 

More panniers ?

 

Adrian

Disappointment??

9 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I recommend nipple height. Armpit height is too high to reach across comfortably.

Steps??

Well folks, there is not a lot to report!

I have ordered and received an Accurascale GUV in BR Maroon, and a lovely model it is.

Also arrived is my Cavalex class 56 in Loadhaul livery for the early 2000s running of Bradenham. Again a very good looking model but I have yet to get it running on the layout. No problem with it, just lack of time on my part!

The scenic planning that I mentioned in my last post is going very slowly.

I think it will be another three weeks before I get much done on the modelling front:- This week we have the decorators in and then in two weeks our youngest son and family are visiting.

I hope you are all making better progress with your modelling projects?

Lets hope we all get something we have wished for in the Bachmann announcements this week. 

Cheers for now,

Paul