Jake The Rat

Most likely true, I guess. This CR 6-wheel fish van model was made by Edward Heaps, so I assume it's accurate.

This was fun reading, at least the part I understood. Other parts I didn't quite get because either I lack background information about railway in the Victorian age, or because it's written in some idiom or slang in phonetic script, or both. 'Plumpwell-on-Tyme' & 'Muddleby Junction' might serve as names for future layouts or stations...

I like Blues, but I wouldn't claim it's particularly uplifting.

I can understand that, but I think it's just a matter of taste. As much as I like the GER & most of the other pre-1923 railway companies, i.m.h.o. the peak of steam was reached in the 30ies with Gresley's & Stanier's magnificent pacifics. I remember this thread was renamed from 'Annie's Virtual Pre-Grouping Layouts & Workbench' to 'Annie's Virtual Pre-Grouping, Grouping and BR Layouts & Workbench' some time ago, & you didn't reject it, did you? Also, you refurbished the Precursor Tank & the Coal Tank in both LNWR & LMS livery; the latter is seen here on my most recent project, a still nameless small 00 model railway layout set in the 30ies, based on an American N scale trackplan I found on the net. & then there were contributions by you like this one... The internet forgets nothing...

Isn't that the same, a GER Y14 & an LNER J15? Not sure though what BR called these locos, but I guess, they kept the LNER classification, didn't they?

It has been done: The Medal-winning Forest of Boland Railway http://www.countrysidemodels.co.uk/gallery_boland/fobmain.htm

Sure. I've sent you a PM...

I had to look up 'coarse file', but then I had a good laugh. (To me, usually a 'file' is either a lump of data on a computer or a row of 8 squares on a chessboard, & I had totally forgotten that it can also be a tool called Feile in German. )

I have both of them & could help out.

Maybe you're right, at least I don't doubt it. But isn't it almost heresy to use a term like 'modern approach' in this thread ?

Relaxing? Not at 120mph...

Speaking of railway music...

Fascinating thread, thanks for the link. I will have to dig through all of the 348 pages.

I have downloaded the Ashington layout & I like it a lot. The author wrote The branch line to Ashington is the major part of this layout, but there are also a few miles of main line with a station named Castleton. So there is some space for these magnificent Kings & Castles & Manors... Are you working on 'Ashington' in TS12 or TANE or TS19? & are you going to upload it to DLS? & now for something completely different. Some time ago I wrote that one day I might start a real model railway, & and this summer I have done so. Sorry, it's not British, it's American, more precisely Baltimore & Ohio in H0 scale. It's not very large, but at least it has 2 circuits for 2 continously running trains & a 3rd one with an Inglenook & a few more sidings. Right now all I have are 4 inexpensive small B&O locos, a dozen boxcars & other goods wagons from various railway companies & 3 heavy 6-axle Pullman cars, & I guess I will have to buy at least a Pacific to haul them.

Wonderful. Reminds me of the Jan Reiners railway. (Official name: Kleinbahn Bremen–Tarmstedt; Kleinbahn = small railway, Bremen = half-million city in the northwest of Germany where I was born & have been living all my life, Tarmstedt = small town 25 km northeast of Bremen). It operated almost at the same time as the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway (1900-1954), but there were 2 important differences: it was 1-meter narrow gauge, & sadly it was never resurrected. Loco no.1 is on static display just 1 km from my house & has been overhauled & repainted last year.

Nimzovichian wisdom. Chess grandmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935) claimed that a threat is stronger than its execution.

Is it 'Iford Manor' or 'Ilford Manor'? The picture clearly shows 'Ilford', but you twice spelt it 'Iford', & so does Accurascale: I couldn't find a picture of the real loco. This webpage has almost all 'Manors', except, of course, "7824 Ilford Manor". https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/collett-manor-class.998683/ So I'm a little confused. (Which is my normal state of mind anyway, especially when I'm concerned with British railway. )

... most likely not named after a plane, unlike this 'Tornado'.

This seems to be quite a common name: one member of Rory Gallagher's band was named Rod de'Ath.

Will it work in TS12? I would love to see it on 'Rhye-on-Sea'. Exactly the one you see in my screenshots.

Rhye-on-Sea at night, continued... Crossing the bridge on the northern rim of the layout... ...approaching Bree Station... ...stopping at platform 1... (In the foreground you see an R24 with a 2-coaches push-pull train; loco made by gotty, coaches by Annie. The 'Claud Hamilton' model was made by Edward Heaps, by the way.) ...entering the southern tunnel... ... leaving it again... ...& back at Rhye-on-Sea Station. I'm planning to run 2 express trains, 3 local trains & 4 or 5 goods trains. A lot remains to be done before I will dare to show this in broad daylight...

This thread seems to be heavily infected with the Great Eastern mutation of the Trainz virus, & now I have caught it, too. After a few month of aimlessly toying around well-planned layout development with Canadian, US-American & German railway I thought it was time to come back to Britain & finally resurrect 'Rhye on Sea', which I had abandoned after the ACSlib disaster. It used to be an LNWR/L&YR layout located somewhere near Blackpool, but it might be in Norfolk just as well & run GER trains. So Rhye is now no longer on the Irish Sea but on the North Sea. (Watching Caley Jim's beautiful video I get the feeling that some day I might move it back to the Irish Sea, a little further up north in Caledonian territory.) This layout is far from finished & I don't have a complete schedule yet, but I can set the junctions & take a lap on autopilot; preferably by night, so you won't notice all those ugly details that I still have to change. Here we go... A Claud Hamilton with a rake of 8 coaches at Rhye on Sea platform 1... ...approaching the northern tunnel... ...at the MPD... ...passing Rivendell, the small town in the southeastern corner... (An express train like this doesn't stop at a such tiny station.) ... crossing the viaduct... ... around the bend near the old castle in the northeastern corner. To be continued...

I'm still here, & I won't go away. The only reason why I haven't posted in a while is that I have been doing mostly American trainz stuff, which doesn't belong here. That doesn't mean I have lost interest in British railway, far from that. I discovered that not only in England but also in the USA there was a Great Northern Railway, which ran from Chicago to Seattle. So the strange idea of a combined British-American virtual model railway layout named 'The Double Great Northern Railway' came to my insane mind: double track, left track English GNR, right track American GN. A Gresley H4... ...would run alongside a Baldwin H-4. That would be truly in the spirit of Annie's 1st commandment 'Do silly things!', & if it ever materializes, I will post some pictures.

The small ship in the background will pass the bridge easily, but the large one in the foreground won't, I'm afraid; & if, there would be only millimetres left on each side. But that's just a minor detail, all in all the layout looks great. Myself, I don't have anything to report here at the moment, because what I've been doing in the last few weeks is an American 'Lionel Lines' toy railway, which has nothing to do with this thread except for the rails & the fact that Annie's 'Bedwood' inspired me to name the forestry 'Badwood'.

Not only gets it lost in the background, it also takes lots of time to put it there; time I'd prefer to spend on something else. Of course there are not only trains , rails, buildings & trees in my layouts (at least there are also cars & cats & sometimes even humans ) , but I would never put so much effort into the details to achieve something comparable to the picture above.