Paul G

I've been looking at this as a potential to model myself recently. Interested to know if you ever built this? The above info on steel traffic very useful in addition to what I'd already managed to gleen.

I find this site very usefull and enjoy seeing the work of other modelers. Most users are pretty cool. i any walk of life you meet the odd jerk, just ignore them. Why should it stop you doing what you enjoy?

Great collection of photos Jeff, thanks for sharing.

I'm not sure how old I would have been when I first passed this way by train. As already stated I've seen pictures from 82 and probably did pass this on the train a few times. I don't remember it either as I would no doubt have been looking out the other side at the quarry and those huge kilns!

I would be interested to know when the signal box at Melton Ross sidings closed? & when it was demolished/removed? & also the associated crossings and semaphores when were they removed? I have found a number of images online just recently that date from 1982 with all the above still in place, but no information on when this changed.

Been thinking about doing some railway paintings recently. There are some good images of the area here, was wondering if you would object to me using the odd one as a reference picture?

At the time of posting today a second layer of flok has gone on the grass areas. And a start has been made on putting something growing in the fields.

Yesterday the first base layer of green went on, and the thing is starting to look a bit like a landscape now.

Some texture was added to the cess and field areas, which were then painted over with "earth" colour once dry.

The whole thing then got a coat of "earth" colour base coat.

The contours of the landscape gradualy built over the foam with polyfilla over the following week...

Having gotten the ballasting and track weathering done along with cable trunking. I progressed onto carving some foam and glued into place.

Yes DJB whistle comes supplied with some for attaching to the repacement bango fitting to the whistle. Never had problems with the tube it's self but conections made with little tie wraps can come off under pressure if not made tight enough. One has to handel live steam with some respect and care but the presure in a little SM32 boiler isn't that high. A pair of suitable driving gloves can be a good idea anyway if like me you drive manual not RC.

Brilliant, apart from the fantastic models the tramway it's self photographs really well in the landscape. Really nice work.

Great stuff. Love the detail and finish on locos and stock.

I have two Hornby class 31s that I've bought second hand. Not sure how old they are but they were not new. Neither shows signs of chassis rot as yet and I hope it stays that way, they're a rather nice model and I like 31s particularly. Guess it may be luck of the draw which models get this or not?

Really enjoyed some of the pictures in this thread. I have six of these on preorder to go with my Bachmann TTAs. I'm local to the Grimsby area and worked for a while on P way. Lindsey oil refinery and Immingham docks were regular gigs for me. I can even remember some of the insults writen with a finger in the dirt on the tanks. These being exchanged by the guys who worked on wagon maintainance as well as the other graffiti. My layout is not a recreation of anywhere specifically but is very much influenced by my local area, set in the BR blue era of my formative years. I very much look forward to the arrival of my Total TEAs.

Next some Wills bricks and bridge parapet were glued in place and once secure surfaces finished with filler where necessary.

Started today on alterations to the bridge that runs over the mainline and branch near the junction. To begin with I carefully cut away the grass banks either side leaving the road intact.

Today the first bit of foam board went in to start the landscaping in the bare end. Also I dicided today to darken the brick work on a couple of the bridges, as well as making the plate girder sections a lighter grey as can be seen here. I've been looking at this for a while and do think it looks better now.

Now starting on the undeveloped end of the railway. The cable trunking is down and painted so the ballasting can be finished. Have also made and painted a few other trackside items seen here together with the signal box I made last week.

Hello again fffrank, of course more could be given over to the sceanic areas than I have here. The cess is of more prototypical proportions but could certainly be made rather smaller without looking too wrong? The picture below may give an idea of how effective 12' can be viewed from inside/correct side. Such as you stated in your original request it's a good set up just to watch trains go by...

Hi fffrank, your topic caught my interest as your proposed railway has some similaries to my own. My railway is in a loft but the space has to be used for other purposes not exclusively for my railway. I took inspiration from those shelf type railways popular in America, only mine is a landscaped version of. I just wanted a sceanic line for running my collection of BR Blue, and thats all it is. No station, yard, shed or any of the other usual suspects. The two long sides are only 12' the ends 24, but you could just do angled or curved corners. Mostly trees and telegraph poles etc are to the back so less vunerable. The two signals at the near edge are not fixed down so would knock over rather than break. I've used peco points at the crossover so this obviously sets the track spacing. This of course is wider to scale than the prototype, (but what most of us use?) if not using really big radius life like curves. The picture is an overall view which is not it's most flattering aspect, but gives an idea what the aforementioned track spacing is like on 12'.