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Well pleased with my 2, one chocolate/cream and one crimson. Ordered Sunday afternoon and arrived Tuesday morning. Both run extremely well without any running in needed. Noted the missing brown paint on the central doors, not a problem to add with some decal film and a bit of colour matching. 

Simon

On 02/02/2024 at 21:03, Tricky said:

Here’s a question - poss a silly one but as I don’t know the answer for sure: does anyone know what would the S Healing & Sons wagons have conveyed? Coal, sacks and a sheet, barrels? Any ideas…?! 

I’ve been following your thread and enjoying your journey. A long time ago the club I was a member of built a layout with the Tewksbury shed area modelled reasonable accurately, one of the thing I did was to put together some wagons, and seeing your reference to S Healing & Son it’s one of those i did. The photo shows it and some of the others, a bit of modellers license used but do look convincing.

Simon

Good Bye,

Simon

Good bye

Simon

Good bye

Simon

I think we are all becoming feed up with these multiple adds all the time, it's definitely not enjoyable anymore.

As this is more about the money now, do I want to stay, probably not.

Simon

I've been doing a service on the Schaublin lathe which was long over due, also took the opportunity to make some imperial collets as sourcing these F12 ones is quite expensive.

Simon

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It's been a while but I've been thinking about how to manufacture the clack valves. Other than the hand wheels which took the longest to make everything else was straight forward.

Next on the list is the injectors.

Simon

1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:

 

Yes it is but I'm struggling to understand what problem this is a solution to.

This is the link to our build which should give the a better understanding of the reason we went for this design, we've not done much for a while but hopefully will see some some done in the future.

Simon

This is our  take on the fiddle yard, this is for 16mm scale.

Simon

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Bit of a plug for our open day and Model Railway Exhibition on 1st August at the Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway in Kent, see link for details and booking for tickets.

Bredgar WEB site

Simon

Sunday 1st August at the Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway will be our next open day which will also feature a Model Railway Exhibition.

Please see WEB site for details and tickets.

Bredgar WEB site

Simon

12 hours ago, Brassey said:

The usual reason for removable brake gear is to be able to drop the wheelsets out. Is this the case?

That's correct which is useful when painting the more complex kits, also if any problems crop up with motors, pickups or anything else inside the frames. My photo shows the Nelson build which was complex with inside valve gear also fitted.

Simon

My removable brake gear from a recent build, small hex bolts hold all in place using the holes in the top of the shoes.

Simon

14 minutes ago, LDM34046 said:

Yes! I used to visit Bredgar a lot as a kid but haven’t visited in recent years.

 

Do you work there? I’m a commercial photographer by trade so waiting for a good event to come along to and shoot. It’s a stunning railway in a great location.

Yes I volunteer at the railway, keep an eye on the WEB site. We have the classic car event tomorrow but with limited rides because of restrictions, but hopeful that our model railway show in August will have less restrictions.

Simon

52 minutes ago, LDM34046 said:

Having lived nearby and visit Medway and Dartford on a near daily basis I’m really excited to see this layout develop.

 

Have you visited the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway in Medway? That’s a great little railway with a unique industrial setting!

Yes have visited the S&KLR it certainly an interesting area. I spend a lot of time at the Bredgar railway just up the road, have you visited us.

Thanks for the comments its starting to come to life.

Simon

Things are progressing well with the gantry crane, RC gear fitted, primmer applied and the control cabin constructed.

Also built another two cranes, these being 2 axis versions. With these I built all the beams as nothing available in the sizes I needed.

With these I'm using a different control system which is wired, one of the group suggested using an Arduino and Joy stick, which has provided excellent control, it is also fitted to it is a servo output which will control a plate to remove alignment issues.

Simon

Youtube Videos 

Gantry Crane

2 Axis Crane

My setup to control two motors on a Gantry Crane with a servo to move a small plate.

Simon

Our loco Lady Joan at Bredgar is basically original,I could photograph anything you need.

Simon

7 hours ago, Mark L Horstead said:

"As you can see..."

 

I wish that I could.

 

I've printed that photograph, full-sized, and can decipher some abbreviations like H(ither) G(ree)n Dep(arture) - or Dep(ot)?, D(ow)n S(i)d(i)ngs, Stew(art) L(a)n(e), etcetera, but...

 

I have no idea what the notations in the first column are, much of the second column baffles me, and the third and fourth appear to be times - arrival in the third and departure in the fourth? What is the significance of the // between what I take to be hour and minutes, and why does that only appear in some?

 

It's probably all obvious to many/most here, but I've waited and waited to see if anybody else asks before I out myself as the dummy and nobody has.

Mark

The first column, PB73 is prepare from birth, RW73 is relieve and work, both ED's . FS is freight shunt. RA is relieved at, in this case Lewisham.

Second column, NX New Cross, Plum Plumstead, BA Bricklayers Arms.

Last two columns, // shows light loco, and F after shows freight.

Hope this is enlightening.

Simon

Mark, this is the turn which dates from 1980.

We used platform 4 to make up the departing train if the platform wasn't used to birth a juicer.

As the headhunt was on a curve we used whistles to control movements, as you can see we didn't have long to shunt so it was very straightforward.

Simon 

46 minutes ago, Mark L Horstead said:

I thank you for joining in.

 

I've been trying to work out the shunting moves, for whichever way I end up depicting the yard.

 

I see the train arriving and being dropped by the locomotive, which would then cross over just east of the High Street/Southend Road bridge (the crossover no longer exists), run back and take the line to New Beckenham, cross back over just northwest of the signal box (whose windows did not see quite enough use, it would seem), then collect the hoppers, then pull them back towards New Beckenham on the down line.

 

Am I close?

 

Where would the hoppers be dropped?

 

How are they pushed into the yard? I can see no easy route. Eastward towards the northern-most passenger track (Platform 4?), then westward along the lengthy siding (head shunt?) parallel to the New Beckenham route, then back into the yard? It's not easy working through this on a too-small screen...

 

That seems to explain why the train departed back to Bricklayers Arms via New Beckenham.

 

How long did this take? Would regular trains be held back to permit this, or could the moves be squeezed into the normal schedule?

 

And when was the signal box closed and demolished?

I'll dig out my old books that contain our turns, hopefully it's got the Beck Jun job.

Simon

4 hours ago, SED Freightman said:

Do you have a date for that little mishap, looks as though the loco has split the points.

The date would have been the early 80's, it was the signalman's error as he had thrown the point when we was halfway over it, it wasn't tracked so he didn't know we was on it, although he could of just look out of the box.

Simon

We had a spot of trouble while shunting the coal yard with the train from the brick. Other than us off the road every thing else carried on with lots of laughs from the other drivers.

My photo.

Simon

4 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Class designation was a thing gained after the event. The true signifier is the order number for Derby-built machines or the letter designation for trade-built machines, when anyone remembered. In this case there's only the Neilson-built ones to consider, which did slip through the letter net, being described as "like O.232". (The Dubs-built members of the 1282 Class were letter E.)

 

Beware GAs. What date is @ACFIELD interested in? These engines went through several rebuildings: 18" diameter cylinders in the 1890s, their original P boilers replaced by B boilers in the twenty years to grouping, then Belpaire G6 boilers for most in early LMS days. As built, most had splashers with a flat-topped section in the middle, the full sweeping reverse curve coming possibly at re-cylindering for most, though I gather from @Crimson Rambler that this may have come in with the Neilson batch, being due to their chief draughtsman Edward Snowball. 

 

To establish the configuration of a particular engine at a given date, you'll need to consult S. Summerson, Midland Railway Locomotives Vol. 3 (Irwell Press, 2002). Then you'll need drawings...

 

This apparently homogeneous group of locomotives turns out to be a minefield.

Your obviously more knowledgeable in these matters, and better placed to advise Acfield with these locos.

So I'll withdraw the offer of the Derby drawings.

Simon