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Ah that makes sense thanks 😊

Does anyone know why the radiator appears to be half obscured at the bottom? I am guessing to stop timber dust settling in there but would like to know for sure, if anyone can shed any light? Thanks Tim

Incredible stuff, the bogie/frame weathering is superb

Looks great! The sugar beat load came out really well, I am following with interest. I’m still planning my layout in a similar concept to this so lots of food for thought 👍

Depending on how Bearman does there will be even more worried drivers than when Lawson landed! Lawson’s Landing sounds like an On30 micro layout 🤣

Thanks all, I think I am back to largely box vans. My layout is era 4 with a 48DS (lined green) for motive power, so I could maybe get away with a coal wagon for a boiler house? I am planning to do some shunting (inglenook style) so would like some variety if possible. But of course rule 1 does apply :) @sirbud thanks for the video, I am planning a covered unloading platform which I believe they had Thanks Tim

Hi all hopefully this is the right place for this, I am planning a layout depicting a biscuit factory in the early BR period. I don’t have much rolling stock and I am making deliberate appropriate purchases. With this in mind, would a factory get their milk in a 6 wheel tanker or in churns in an open wagon etc? I am not sure a biscuit factory would have a method of extracting the milk from the 6 wheeled tanker but I am happy to be enlightened Thanks in advance Tim

Thanks all, I think I have enough to make a start now I have a Fleischmann 7000 0-4-0 chassis and an optional pony truck if I go for 0-4-2 which I likely will Thanks again Tim

Hi all, hopefully this is the right place to ask this, I have looked everywhere online for scale drawings of a little 0-4-0 / 0-4-2 Porter for me to scratch build in 009/hon30 this style unfortunately I have drawn a blank, can anyone shed any light on dimensions or a source for a scale drawing anywhere please? Thanks in advance! Tim

That is very interesting thank you, I did manage to get another lined green 48DS but that is a very interesting photo thanks, I think I recognise the clock tower in the background!

Thanks again everyone these responses are really useful. I think I will proceed as planned with the brickworks, but be mindful of what to include. The beauty of it is, as @Nearholmer has said, there was a huge range of works, and so I can create a backstory to suit my layout. I am trying to keep my costs low at the moment too and seeing Cherry Orchard Lane as a real example, its not un-prototypical to have the loco pulling 3 or 4 wagons only. Thanks again Tim

This is what drew me to that site, a nice short, but interesting journey from field to workshop. I need to learn more about what happened at the site too. The brick earth is transported from the field to the tipping shed and then what? I have seen some people model trains if bricks leaving but at Cherry Orchard Lane it seemed as though the brick earth arrived by train but bricks would have left by road? Thanks again Tim

Thanks all some really good informative responses. I think I will proceed with a small brickworks. I am planning a small layout in 0-16.5 as my first foray so it will likely depict the loco bringing the clay/brick earth to the sheds (though I need to figure out what that will look like) and the brick field and excavator will be off scene. I had considered a Fluorspar mine but I have no idea how to model it.

Thats a brilliant prototype I had never known existed! I’m off to investigate Thanks very much 👍 Tim

Thanks both very useful to know, I am planning on it being modern enough to have a steam/electric/diesel powered shovel so should be good for all year round production? @Nearholmer yes please any other information would be greatly appreciated regarding the common practices in brickworks and the use of steam shovels etc. My layout will be ‘inspired by’ rather than a specific prototype, possibly based in North Yorkshire! Thanks Tim

Hi all hope you’re all doing well I am trying my hand at 0-16.5 and have a Ransomes and Rapier 80 kit which I intend to pair with a few V skips and make a small brick works in the mid to late 90s in a very similar vein to this prototype http://www.ingr.co.uk/rly_cherry.html however whilst doing some research I came across multiple references to brickworks being very seasonal. It seems this was certainly the case in the mid Victorian period but does anyone know if brickworks became all year round? ideally I would like to be able to run the layout anywhere between the 50s to the 90s. as the loco is from 1937 and the skips are not timebound I should be able to but I am a bit put off if it would only part of the year etc any info would be greatly appreciated or if someone can suggest another interesting prototype to use the aforementioned stock and loco I’d be happy to consider it - I am currently staring down the barrel of a brickworks in 0-16.5 and another in 009 🤣 Thanks Tim

Thanks, I have seen some very small tubs/skips in the past. Mine are Dundas/Nigel Brooks 3d printed ones (which are superior to the Dundas ones IMO) they’re the Hudson ‘V’ tippers.

Thanks, I am also working on a 00 biscuit factory shelf layout, 3-2-2 shelves inglenook track plan

Thanks again for all the replies, I have decided to go for a 009 brickworks. I already have 009 skips and track and a track plan, which I will at some point get around to making. The track plan will use 5 of the 6 009 turn outs I have and 3 out of the 4 yards of flexi track. so thats an end of it… or is it? I have found out about the John Knowle's Mount Pleasant Pipe-works at Woodville in Derbyshire this firm had its own internal 18” gauge railway, so a potential 09 micro layout with one turnout could be on the horizon! Thanks again Tim

Great thanks 🙏

That is very interesting thanks, must have been a lot of mushrooms!

Apologies for reviving an older thread but does anyone know if the Meridian Ruston Hornsby 27/32HP kit is produced by Mosskito or anyone else? Thanks Tim

Thanks, a distillery railway would definitely be of interest, I will look in to that 👍

Thanks that is really interesting, especially the watercress lines, I had heard of nurseries using lines but not specifically watercress, another one for my research list - beats watching the telly 🙂

Thats really interesting thank you