SteveTheSteam

Yes it's slow - and there are 2 red banner messages at the top of the page announcing there are 'issues'.

1 hour ago, BroadLeaves said:

I think the "giant staple" is this:

It doesn't look like its signal cable.

Perhaps a small branch (piece of shrubbery) blown on to the permanent way during recent storms?

17 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Agreed, please post some more pictures to keep us inspired.

 

I've never seen your version of this shot for example!

 

I'm sorry to say I don't think this shot can be replicated - The engine shed has two doors! 

Apart from that LM has this beat with horse drawn wagon and a dodgy salesman with bicycle.

Very nicely weathered

5 hours ago, Neal Ball said:

Congratulations on 500 pages of inspiration Kevin. Here’s to the next 500…. 

501 now, just 499 to go.

Gotta get the post count up - the only thing that does move fast in LM.

On 03/01/2022 at 07:33, KNP said:

Funny how you look at pictures.

Originally I was going to discard this one as I had missed part of the front of the loco, then I thought if I crop it a bit it looks intentional

 

 

Then I cropped it some more

 

 

 

And I think I have got away with it.....!

Do I notice a bit of 'lamp leaning' on the front too?

I think the fireman has imbibed a little too much festive cheer these past few days.

On 04/12/2021 at 07:27, KNP said:

Right chaps.....

We need to work out how to get this crate off the lorry, I'm hoping it has our Christmas decorations in it.....

 

From this angle it looks like the shrubbery has grown onto the back of the lorry - it's been there that long!

Sorry for interrupting the tie-bar modelling and potato watching storylines...

On 16/11/2021 at 20:56, Neal Ball said:

No 18 was the first GWR railcar fitted with drawgear and as a result was regularly used on the Lambourne branch and seen hauling loads.

 

I seem to recall the roof had different exhaust cowlings as well. At the time it looked different from the ones before.

 

The Dapol models are the early numbered variety…. Although these tended to be unique Railcars… with those of 19 onwards being of the more “razor edge” design, made in model form by Lima / Hornby and now by Heljan.

You know what this means - time to get another Railcar! 

22 hours ago, KNP said:

Tender inside frame with water scoop built and out for a test run!!!!

 

 

 

The porter looks most impressed at your handiwork - as am I

2 hours ago, KNP said:

Reading the book will get a load off your mind and be very up lifting.

It ticks all the boxes and it delivers a fine story full of useful contents and inspiration.

Crate Expectations is in all good bookshops and will be delivered direct to your door in a crate…….thereby lies the follow up story of the unwritten version that was never published.

 

 

It might 'tick' all the boxes - but can it help 'unload' or even 'open' one 

29 minutes ago, Gopher said:

Did anyone else have a mis-spent youth and experiment with weed killer (sodium chlorate I think) and sugar to make an explosive ?

 

One of my child hood mates was a bit of a maniac with this stuff.  We used to put it into sealed tobacco tins or copper pipe (with one end hammered down, and a stone in the other).  Light a short fuse and run like hell.  The copper pipe was a basically a cannon. If it did not blow up the stone was propelled at some velocity. 

 

I lost touch with him years ago - I hope he is still in one piece.  Another kid in the village where I grew up, destroyed an old World War 2 air raid shelter with a similar but much larger concoction.  He ended up in the Royal Navy. 

 

I hope there are not similar characters in LM.  Much too picturesque to be blown up. 

  

I think LM is quite safe:

1. WW2 hasn't happened yet so no air raid shelters.

2. PC Plod is talking to the shop owners to find out if sugar has been sold to the local kids.

3. There's no buses on/under bridges the gunpowder vans might pass under/over

The main thing that jumps out at me from the old S-on-S pics and the real LM pics - is that S-on-S has two fitted loco shed doors! 

19 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

 

Either a Witherspoon's or Indian restaurant...

I was thinking a Ship Chandler, being it's next to the harbour.

But it will interesting to hear what KNP has in mind - unless there's enough local trade to support two pubs...

So what's going to happen to "The Station" public house once the 'Unicorn' opens for business?

20 hours ago, checkrail said:

Bit risky of the LMS letting one of their vans go to  LM.  Look what happened to the last one.

Who nicked the wheels and left it on blocks by the goods shed?. Perhaps LM's venerable PC should stop chatting to the shopkeeper and go find the culprits!

6 hours ago, KNP said:

Just a view....nothing much happening other than sheep munching on the grass...

 

I'm looking for the fox but I don't see it.....

50 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said:

Aha! Is the old door going to be taken away and repaired, or a new one delivered?

 

If you start a story then you have to be prepared to continue it ad. inf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

If it's a new one then could that large crate on the lorry (at the Dairy) have any connection?

1. The reason everyone is still conversing is they weren't expecting it there - wrong delivery address?...

2. If it is a new door then it's been delivered in kit form....

Did you deliberately line up the telegraph pole with the chimney? 

A masterly touch 

Pictures are OK this end too.

The attention to detail on those two shops is amazing. Taking that much trouble for something at the front of/in a prominent position on a layout I can understand, but for buildings 'tucked away at the back' (and sideways) it's even more admirable... Jolly good show!

On 30/05/2020 at 16:29, Karhedron said:

 

Agreed, RC Riley's article "Home on the milk" in 1959 notes that churn traffic was still going into London from some WR creameries although the amount was in decline. The last reference to churn traffic I have found so far is 1961. The final cut-off date would probably have been the implementation of the "Western Agreement" between BRB and MMB in December 1963. This concentrated milk traffic into London on the  GWML and SWML routes and I would hypthesise that they decided to just run tanker trains from that point onwards as well. Siphons disappear from milk trains after this point.

KNP, do you have a Siphon in your growing (and excellently weathered) collection of rolling stock?

Regarding the crate on the lorry, could it contain milk churns, and the collective wisdom of the assembled crowd be debating whether it's worth unloading?

5 hours ago, KNP said:

Aye, aye what's going on here then.

 

Been a while since one of these has been used on a passenger service.

Must be issues with the normal loco.

 

Seeing the empty Dairy siding, brings a question to my mind - 

Would Siphon G's (or similar) still be used for deliveries of milk churns in this time frame?

Rgds

Steve J

18 hours ago, KNP said:

 

HMS Hood, least she should manage the tidal waters OK but how far up the river she could get is  anyone's guess.....

Least there would be no bridges in the way.

no RN required - not when you have the Squadron Leader from the EAF flying in support - that's the Encombe Air Force - not to be trifled with...

19 hours ago, woodenhead said:

This cameo is absolutely fantastic, so many little details.

Yes, but...

Because the detail is so good I look at all the little details which brings me to the Harbour Master building roof - and the missing guttering! - so it's not just cameras that go off.

Empty coal wagons delivered to the yard by 8701 - am I missing something? (or just the wagons) 

I've been looking for period pictures of ship fenders, rope or otherwise, but not found anything suitable yet... my search-fu is failing me.