Cowley 47521

1 hour ago, montyburns56 said:

What film is this?

 

 

The Good, the bad and the ugly?

I don’t think I’ve seen these featured before?
Donaghadee, County Down.

The tracks have been filled in obviously, but you can see the outline of a set of points further along the quayside as well (taken in May this year).

On 17/06/2023 at 18:38, woodenhead said:

Could that be me?

 

It kinda looks like my dad next along.

 

Nah can't be...can it?

We were there as well and that’s not my dad so at least we’ve narrowed the field down. 😉

5 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

Glogue 1962 by katerfelto

 

 

That’s just wonderful.

1 hour ago, MarshLane said:

Just checking Duncan is this Sutton Coldfield in the UK or down under .. you appear to have gone Australian on us!!!  Looking forward to hearing what you've bene up to - tied up for the 17th/18th so can't make the exhibition, but hope you all have a great time.

Rich

I’ve also got the upside down issue so (and hopefully Duncan won’t mind) I’ve taken the liberty of turning them over as they look rather good:

The 58 under the lights in the shed looks amazing.

1 hour ago, Chris M said:

Go for it! There’s always room for another sea wall. I’ve often thought that little cove just west of Dawlish would make a great model. It is quite a short section of line between tunnels so is perfect for a model. 
 

Looking forward to meeting up again at the Warley NEC show in November. I’ve seen the provisional layout plan and we are not next to each other but I think we are blocks that are next to each other. In the meantime the next edition of a certain magazine published on June 8th will be a nice event for me. It might be out of order to mention the magazine name here but it is the one that Mr Nevard takes photos for. I’ve seen some of Chris’ photos of DW and was gobsmacked by them (in a good way).

Ah good news. I’ll definitely get a copy Chris.

Looking forward to Warley I must say, I’ve never been before either so that’s a real bonus. 👍

Great to read a thread about the railway Chris. Even though I’ve seen it in the flesh plenty of times having the photos in front of you gives an opportunity to study the buildings and scenery a little better without having to step out of the way because of the amount of people admiring it!

A few days ago I sketched out a couple of plans for a future Moors View replacement and one of my ideas was for a shortened section of the sea wall leaving Teignmouth. I was quite pleased with it but when I sent to Paul he just said “Nah. No point, Chris has done that area in N gauge too well already.” 😄

Nick

The sticker on the back of my daughters car:

What else could David have been with a surname like that..?

On 14/05/2023 at 11:01, ruggedpeak said:

Unknown 33 at Meldon Quarry Dartmoor stored with 45060 Sherwood Forester and the Polar Express, 16/02/2017.

 

 

 

That would be 33035 I believe. 👍

55 minutes ago, kevinlms said:

Is the system using voice recognition?

Yeah I think it must be! 😄

I only noticed this last night when I was doing my paperwork. I was buying paint a couple of days ago and when the chap asked me if I wanted to put a job reference on the invoice I hesitated before saying ‘Tina’…

13 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

As I mentioned way back up thread, my current, small garden line is on a raised retaining wall around a planting area, and is made from a combination of concrete blocks (hidden areas) and engineering brick (visible areas). 
 

That had stood solid for over ten years now, the “secret” being proper foundations, as in a foot plus square in section concrete, on rammed broken stone. It’s a ridiculously sold construction for the purpose TBH, but it does look neat thanks to very good work by the bricklayer (not me), who followed the sinuous shape that I’d defined beautifully.

 

Reclaimed brick also looks nice, in a different way. I built a low retaining wall to create a level planting area, and an “island” to accommodate a terminus on my first garden line. All the brick fr those was obtains on dg walks, which sometimes meant carrying heavy lads back! The bricks were all old, some very, found in woods, hedgerows, and alongside a former railway line (that was the best source), and many of them had the names of long-defunct brickworks pressed into them. It was quite an interesting project.

 

Something good about engineering brick and concrete is that they don’t mind soil being against them, so on a flat site you can create embankments that won’t slump by building what amounts to a low wall, then piling soil on either side, which. Think looks very good.

 

 

That really helpful Nearholmer thanks for that.

 I work through a builder (I’m his painter) so I’m hopeful that I should be able to pick up a few leftover bits and bobs from the various jobs we’ve currently got on the go. I think probably stockpiling materials for the time being is the best course of action because I really want to do a decent job with this and not regret any decisions made at the planning stage later on…

Hello again everyone.

Having taken onboard the advice given on here and also having subsequently had a complete rethink, I’m not somewhat nearer or more thought out plan.

The initial idea of where to build it was a little bit too compromised and also too complicated for what I actually wanted to achieve. So I’ve moved my attention to different area of the garden, one that isn’t really used very much and that’s at the top corner of the garden underneath the oak tree that’s on the boundary with our neighbours garden:

The current plan that I’m bit by bit firming up is to have a similar arrangement to the plan above, but once the groundwork is done I should have a circular area nearly 10 metres across as well as a decent sized terminus which will be in an extension on the side of the shed to the right in the photo below, which is 14 feet long:

My neighbour who has a digger and a dumper truck was over the other night and we’ve gone over the plans and pencilled in making a start towards the end of June. He’s got a huge heap of soil in his field that needs moving so we’re going to bring quite a lot of that into mine and dig the higher parts out (as well as a pond) to try get things a little lower and flatter for what needs to be done.

We’ll also dig out the footings once everything is compacted.

I’ve also been toying with the idea of making the raised track bed out of reclaimed bricks as I think I could probably get them for free. I was wondering if anyone else had used brick in this kind of scenario before?

Nick

1 hour ago, montyburns56 said:

Kensington Olympia 1983

 

 

Nope, not travelling in that thanks.

Yep I’d definitely get one. 👍

On 29/04/2023 at 18:16, griffgriff said:

Fish

I saw some ointment for an outbreak of fish in a supermarket in Porto last week:

6 hours ago, John Besley said:

 

I know this is further up the line but here are Hinton Manor and Hagley Hall hammering up to Whiteball on a rake of GWR coaching stock on the easter Monday 1985... those where the days

 

 

 

 Great stuff, thanks for posting these John.

On 18/04/2023 at 16:20, Rivercider said:

For anyone interested in moving to Moretonhampstead properties in the Hingston View development,

which is on the site of Moretonhampstead station, are now going on the market. The former goods shed

is being converted into three homes - they are not affordable housing, Bradleys Estate Agents have the details

 

cheers

I was there yesterday helping a friend move in. 😉

1 hour ago, GordonC said:

 

the filename has 45141 in it 😉

Ah thanks for that. 

14 hours ago, bootneckbob said:

One today from taken from platform 3

That looks like quite a late Peak working into Exeter. I can’t quite make the number out on my phone, any idea which one it is (maybe 45128 with the Tinsley snail)?