Oldddudders

This individual has come under my notice before - he seems to have trouble with his categories. Why else would you advertise this under Bachmann? And is it really worth this much to any person, livid or deaf?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hornby-CLASS-31-D5512-BR-GREEN-BODYSHELL-BOX-B-N-/110615560805?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item19c1338265

Of London termini, Fenchurch Street, Broad Street, Cannon Street, Waterloo - & no doubt others - all have their platforms above street level, while Liverpool Street and Euston, among others, have them below street level. If Aldersgate (as per its namesake) has platforms below street level, then a first floor ticket office makes a great deal of sense. Of the four stations I listed at the start, Fen St and Cannon have their ticket offices at street level, while Waterloo and Broad St have/had theirs at platform level. There is a prototype to suit whatever you decide, surely!

North Wales Models

 

Reasonably priced and quick delivery - just a happy customer etc etc.

Yes, spot on. Had a parcel from them today. Kadee #18s plus some ballast & bits, quite a boxful, arrived in France in just over a week for a measly £4.92 postage. Some other ebay sellers should look closely at their postal charges. Not my first order from them, won't be my last.

Looking in the Irwell Press history of the line, there is very little evidence of other locos in the late years of the route - certainly post-WW2. M7s were apparently used on the Bude branch, and the E1Rs on the Torrington line, but these and the BR standard tanks didn't often get very far towards Padstow. 2manyspams of this parish made a major contribution to the writing of the second edition of the Irwell book. His (partly-owned, as he readily points out) layout Treneglos has an authentic stud consisting of the types you mention, Bulleids in original condition, Ns and T9s. Were there some other rare beasties known to have worked the line regularly he would know.

Your diffidence is not justified - these are fine pics of convincing models and scenes. You have an eye for detail not present on every layout, and are happy to acknowledge others' influences when appropriate - vide Ben Alder's fish vans. Some of your pics have a yellow cast to them - but that is trivial, you can fix it in a few keystrokes, and it's the only negative thing I can find. Keep doin' what you're doin'!

Ah - google tells me this: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780711035294/Each-a-Glimpse...

I have the original somewhere. I'm really glad that the new edition is being "reoriginated" - what the heck does that mean?

Similarly, this item http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/R4299D-SR-Maunsell-Composite-Coach-5150-Weathered-/250721306662?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3a60278826 has a bizarre overall weathering - including the windows! Surely no-one thinks the windows are left that dirty? In a previous life I was involved with carriage cleaning, and even if nothing else could be done because the washer was frozen or zapped (polite version), the windows were the least you could do!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/0n30-DIESEL-SWITCHER-LOCO-NARROW-GAUGE-8-Wheel-drive_W0QQitemZ370452309670QQcategoryZ485QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D4762061538896643311

Would seem to require a particular sort of purchaser?

Interesting, because I'd come across the word on a sign by a stream in the middle of Port Isaac village - about 100 yards from the beach, so a natural channel, surely. Quite prepared to believe it had once been the downstream side of a mill, though.

Olddudders - new avatar image I see, have you had a hair cut?!

Gah! You're the fourth to comment! Yes, surgery conducted in my usual salon in the Midlands on my first visit to Blighty since May 2008, and it really didn't hurt. I actually had quite a pony-tail after all that time. As I've explained elsewhere, all down to Deb now being a bit more mobile indoors, able to look after herself to the extent of simple meals. Thus was I able to drop in to Port Isaac for a couple of pints in the Golden Lion - and see the Treneglos signpost on the way back!

Was having a cuppa there one night when a call came in re a break in progress. The rascal went out the back near to where we were and he decided the best course of action was to jump in the leat and go that way.

 

Being the junior of the team I am'instructed' to go in after him and a wet foot chase ensues.

 

We didnt go far as the concrete bottom suddenly got about 5' deep and under our rascal goes!

 

We had to get a van for him as we couldnt risk getting our Traffic car seats wet could we! (and that was a Modeo ST200 2.5 v6).

 

Luckily he saw the funny side and laughed all the way to St Austell nick!

You got a result! Getting wet matters half as much when you end up "having a good day at the office" I'm sure! By the way "leat" is a very Cornish word, probably being ditch or drain in other parts of the country, I think.

Another vote for the hydraulics here. Whatever the reality of their performance and availability, they had rather more charisma than the diesel-electrics, that's certain. As a 12-year old, standing on Plymouth North Road platform, the place awash with Warships - "Hey there's Zulu, the last one built!" - they captured my imagination rather more than Deltics at KX, or EE Type 4s at Euston. Impressions from an impressionable age!

Just to clear up something regarding the lorry deliberately parked on the level crossing. Who is responsible for dealing with this, is this an offence for the local constabulary or BTP? Or does BTP only cover Network Rail property?

I believe that TOCs have to sign up to financial support of BTP, but cannot imagine the private railways coming in for that requirement. Hopefully that sort of (non-safety) regulation of the private lines will not come in my lifetime!

In this case the lorry driver was apparently making a point about an alleged unpaid bill, while the WHR & local police have declined to take the matter further, despite it affecting the WHR schedule on the day. We may draw our own conclusions on that.

A newspaper report is here http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news//tm_headline=man-parks-lorry-across-track-to-hold-up-welsh-highland-railway-launch&method=full&objectid=27577323&siteid=55578-name_page.html

Yes, and has been for some time, I'm afraid. When I bought a secondhand TD150 in 1980-ish the Rega RB100 was the business. SME still make very nice arms (in Steyning, but very close), but they're a bit too serious for me!

I think the speakers that I bought in those days came from the same neck of the woods - Bowers & Wilkins DM1s, which arrived with Bruer & Kjael (?) traces to show the actual response of the units in question. I was terribly impressed! A mate bought a Revox A77, although "only" the 7.5 IPS version, and we thought that was the mutt's. Nearly 20 years later I finally bought a decent cassette deck - Nakamichi CR-3E - but really have never had decent hi-fi since that '60s set up, which had the original Cambridge Audio P40 amp.

At this moment Miles Davis "Amandla". Over the last few days a bit of a fest of Bill Evans, probably most influential of the post-war jazz pianists, but dead 30 years ago, of an unintentional overdose, natch.

ortofon kontrapunkt 'a' to "no idea at the moment". Gyrodeck, old Origin Live arm (their original non-rega arm - maybe it's called 'silver' ).

So I take it that the SME 3009 arm (Made in Shoreham?)and Shure V15/2 cartridge that I aspired to add to my Thorens TD150 in 1969, but could never afford, is now old hat? Shame.

It would be quite naive to imagine that those of us who don't live in the communities in question have understood all the issues that concern them. We think more visitors, meaning more jobs, meaning more general wealth. There will be plenty of people who have moved to North Wales to get away from crowds and bustle, let alone noisy trains, as well as the indigenous Welsh who will only see house prices rising further beyond their reach. Few developments and change suit everyone.

I am making progress with the end wall of the station which is following the design in the second of the pictures above. I will post when I have something reasonable but I just realised that I have no idea what colours the doors and windows of the booking office, waiting rooms etc are painted!

 

Would anyone know what these colours would be in Liverpool Street station around 1955?

 

Andrew

This site http://www.stationcolours.info/ generally gives some idea, and if you follow the LNER page you may be the wiser, but it is very generic, and it is eminently possible that this stronghold of the GE retained a different scheme into BR days. [i love the suggestion that Cambridge station could not be expected to receive Oxford Blue!]

Well some folk have been to Treneglos station....

Can't claim that, but did see the sign for Treneglos the other week, as a lady whisked me back from Port Isaac!

PS there are a lot of premier league players on this site eg http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/topic/12234-diesels-in-the-duchy-aka-st-blazey-dcc-em/ being just one that leaves me in awe of their modelling skills!

Comparisons are famously odious, and quite unnecessary on RMWeb, but what you have shown us so far defo puts you in the Premier League. Apart from anything else, you have thought big - but then proved amply skilled to make it into 3D. As trisonic says, a less-than-common prototype helps no end, too! This is not copy-cat modelling.

Remains one to watch, and closely.

You have undoubtedly put the grand into grandeur. Stunning stuff.

Baggie, you will be pleased to hear that the real reason I have not made much progress on the depot is due to me building the other boards for the yards at Toton. Also I have moved into an industrial unit to fit it all in……..I will make a start on the other boards to accommodate Ratcliffe Power Station and Trent Junction at the weekend but to be honest I think that will have to be it.

That's what I like to see - a clear vision allowing for future expansion! With scale-length Red Hill Tunnels, of course, not to mention those little bridges on the 4-track over the Trent Navigation. [i once hired a narrowboat that had previously got caught in the weir there!].

Seriously - not my era, not my theme, not my location, but what you are doing is exacting, quality modelling at its finest. If you can only keep Mrs G onside, this is going to be brilliant!

More stunning progress on a theme to die for - and in N! Phew! Love the vignette under the bridge, and the coach even seems to have a Brighton registration? Is it a Bedford Duple? Slightly late in period, perhaps, as the chassis was built from 1939 - but you've already scratchbuilt trains, so allowing a year or two on the road vehicles is hardly a compromise worth carping about. I can't help feeling the 1930s gutter detritus would be different from the 1970s - certainly no drinks cans, and bottles were glass, but you got money back on them, so who was gonna leave them in the gutter? N gauge newspapers would be a bit of a challenge to most of us, too.

I remain dazzled by the challenge you have set yourself, and most impressed by your responses in the model itself!

Simply visionary in approach. This is already cracking stuff, and promises to set new standards for overall feel - and in N, too. First rate!

I built this one to run on my Whiteoak Light Railway using the Bachmann railtruck chassis and the Boulder Valley Models body kit.

Looks lovely, and betrays very little of its RGS #1 origins. While Boulder Valley are very clearly US in outlook, some of their products do lend themselves to European use. NG was a fairly independent area of railway construction, and procurement of locos and stock was similarly original. The County Donegal railcars also bear some close scrutiny for those with the skills - or a liking for Alphagraphix!