philip-griffiths

If you are operating points by hand, do I assume correctly that you are not powering the crossing separately, and are relying therefore upon the switch blades providing the power supply to the crossing?   Or is there a separate relay which you are firing at the same time as moving the point blades? 

Regards

On 08/03/2024 at 12:05, JZ said:

Put the original photo through a colourization app and straightened it.

 

My father says that the premises which is labelled Smiths used to be a Vauxhall dealership in his youth.

Graham. You mention the Faller road system. Where exactly does it run? I can see the one vehicle under the viaduct at the northern end.  Can vehicles get right down the layout?

regards. 

Some of those pictures taken from the Bargoed side show my maternal and paternal grandparents homes. I spent many a day on Bedwelty Road and playing around the second station. What you referred to as the original station was the second, but it was shut and they re opened the second. 
 

the bus had a Swiss gearbox on it, with a cog which stopped the bus running backwards when it was going up the hill. Ironically I never saw a bus service on this route in the 70s when growing up. The bus went down the valley to Pengam and crossed over there…..
 

If you are going to the show, don’t overlook Gordon Hunt’s Donaghadee model and he will be supported by the gang from the Ulster MRC. 

I would post a taster, but they appear upside down on this. 

15 hours ago, Chamby said:

That would be a doddle with a dcc point control setup.  Just needs two wires up to the panel from the layout, and mimic units for the lighting.

Graham doesn’t use DCC,  but a CBUS system of detectors, CANINP and mimic outputs would do the job with two wires…..

2 hours ago, lezz01 said:

There is a Haynes manual for the Lancaster...just saying!

Regards Lez. 

No Haynes manual, but my grandfather WAS the manual. He was RAF ground crew and then towards the end of war taught (was a craft teacher prewar) the new recruits at St Athan how to repair the aircraft. He could walk around at a display and tell you all sorts of stories, and how bits worked. 
 

On one occasion he was fixing a Lancaster engine when a 109 came low strafing the airfield.  He survived by climbing up between the cowling and the engine block. When asked by his CO how he had survived he asked my grandfather to show him. He couldn’t get back in the gap. Just shows what adrenaline does for you. 

On 16/01/2024 at 22:47, LNER4479 said:

I hope you’ve got a lot of time on your hand. I did that Lancaster jigsaw a couple r years ago. Really enjoyable, BUT, probably the most difficult one I’ve ever done. It was the only jigsaw I completed from the middle out…l

 

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On 13/01/2024 at 23:04, Michael Edge said:

It hasn’t been on the website, mainly because they sell out as soon as we get them. Currently out of stock but more on order.

Would love one please Michael.  No. 79 was the first outside cylinder loco on the northern part of the Sirhowy branch from all records I can find.  It ran a number of trials looking at platform clearances. Then post war a number of the class were stationed at Abergavenny/Tredegar.

regards

22 hours ago, Blandford1969 said:

Hi Keith, 

Thanks I will dig it out along with the drawings I prepared and re upload

@Michael Edge I cannot see the Stanier 2-6-2t on your listing of locomotives. I remember you mentioning this May become a kit. Did it happen?  If so, did I miss it?

many thanks. 

5 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Super Ds - Class G2 - were 7F. Apologies if that is to the chagrin of LNWR enthusiasts!

Conspiracy by derby men to make their locomotives come across as more powerful than they really were…….  🤣 

Interest insight about the main line and keeping the slow traffic off it, thanks very much.  Of course you could have a set of locomotives, carriages and wagons to back date Shap to LNWR days…, would make an interesting change..  But I think you’ve got your hands full modelling the 1950s…

The lack of 9Fs suggests enough 8Fs of the 2-8-0 and Super D variety?  Had a look at shed allocations and Carlisle seemed light of Super Ds, but there were some at Preston.  You must have something LNWR on the layout…. :-)

regards

Hello Keegs. 
 

Your signalling is getting there with Mike and Miss Prism’s help.  There are some good resources in signalling, books by Bob Essery are very useful especially on typical passenger and freight workings. I know you stand upside down, but may be worth considering seeing if you can source them down under. 😀

you’d need some ground signals. I’d use them out of the yard at the catch point and from the down platform line for a reserve into the loop, the up line or into the lay-by. 
 

anither ground signal for working from the up to the down and even a ground signal from the loop to the down as the signal in Miss Prism’s diagram (the 3 post bracket) would really be for a movement from the loop to the down and then past the down starter. If shunting with in the station precinct you would not be pulling off the bracket signal as that will only be released with the down starter. 
 

(Ducks from the fags ends that Miss Prsim will throw towards me as I apply LNWR practice to a GWR situation… ) 

regards. 

5 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said:

A note for anyone tempted to model Hirwaun Station. You might want a sharp cut-off scenic break at one end of the station. Otherwise you have an elephant in the corner. Otherwise known as the Gloucester Railway Wagon Works. I've no idea why it's there and not back at home in Gloucester.

 

Have you seen pictures of the wagon works? It was busy.  Something called a coalfield. 
 

3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

I'm going to get a right slapping over that spelling mistake, and I was there last month as well

did you sample the Whisky?  It’s needed to cope with the roadworks for the A465….

10 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

It's probably Hirwain on the old VoN line facing towards Gelli Tarw Junction. 6416 is just departing for Merthyr.

 

(There was an auto train service between Merthyr and Hirwain, on which 6416 had been pictured elsewhere).

 

 

Hirwaun is the correct spelling and yes, this is looking down the valley towards the triple junction with the line to Merthyr, the line to Quaker's Yard, and the Cwmaman mineral branch.   Like someone commented earlier on, you have the junction 'off scene'....

BTW, @Miss Prism I agree, Pontralis come to mind, and perfect for those Kings and Castles....  

regards

3 minutes ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

 

So it's not only "This Morning" that's lost Holly this year 😢

Groan…..

MRJ lost Holly some time ago……. 

If you look back through previous editions you’ll find the Christmas edition would be decked with holly etc.  

42 minutes ago, Cwmtwrch said:

By the summer of 1965 Canton and Landore between them had more than 150 class 37 allocated.

Yes but the warship was a type 4 loco. The 37s, type 3. The Warships were designed to replace the Kings and Castles. 37s were designed to replace the workings undertaken by the 56xxs etc. 

On 28/11/2023 at 06:18, Miss Prism said:

More modern bashings at Llantrisant

Thanks “Miss Prism”.  Was not aware of that website. Hope you are well. 

@Accurascale Fran.  Great, but give us a chance to pay for our WR 37s first please.......   :-(.  I can just imagine SWMBO's reaction...

how about a 64 without top feed.... :-).  

or that Stanier 2-6-2T we talked about at the Bangor show...  

regards Philip

- now trying to work out how to squeeze more money out of the bank.

I’d also speak to @Carlislecitadel2

LMS Wagons Volume 2 - Essery OPC.  

https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780860932550/an-illustrated-history-of-lms-london-midland-and-scottish/used?gclid=CjwKCAiA0syqBhBxEiwAeNx9Nw141ijX9IdLGAO-v7Ux0FUfEPcLSbYre7iTfP8frWUSEekaz0RnSBoCRSsQAvD_BwE

is your source for these.  There are guys who are drawing these up for 3-d printing.  

9 hours ago, hmrspaul said:

BR specified that the bauxite in their freight stock red should be "Larne quality". I've no idea what this meant but it doesn't appear in the published lists of how to produce LMS bauxite.

Bauxite was mined from the escarpment above Carnlough on the Co. Antrim coast. It was shipped to Larne for processing and turning into aluminium. 
 

As the LMS had a presence at Larne, this could have been their source of material, and hence the term. 

regards

Enjoying seeing the postings of the workings.  I went looking for the overall plan this week to refamiliarise myself with your proposal Graham,  but I think it got lost in the Great Outage. 
 

if you have reposted it since 1/01/20, please could you remind me which page I’ll find it on, or could you repost it again please. Thanks.