Boris

Only because he keeps passing telegraph poles

I dunno, I doubt Thomas could make the full 21 inches

In an RMweb exclusive we have a screen grab of the incident in progress.

It probably didn't stop at Swindon mate

A fun summer spent ballasting has finally come to an end and we were able to fault find on the layout last Wednesday. There are still some bald patches to fill in over the next few weeks but overall the ballasting doesn't look too bad, once the ballast has been patched and a few other minor jobs finished we will be adding some tones to the ballast with an airbrush or two. Rodding stools and cranks have been painted, but the whole lot needs rodding, terminating back to the box and I really want to find some decent looking signal wire pulleys. So, first photo is of something in the goods shed, the rails in here will be set into cobbles as per the surviving brick goods shed at Ganton. We also need to get some shading on those walls and floors, block the underside of the floor off and probably add a no smoking sign and a door to the office. Some form of sliding shed door is also needed. Kevs J50 runs past the yard on the shunting line, there is a little ballasting to think about round the base of the dock and then to work out what the goods yard surface will be made of. Behind the goods shed we will have the back of a housing estate made out of some 1940s style prefabs and gardens. The Junkshop dog shunts the yard whilst another J50 arrives in the platform, having 2 J50s on the layout was a total fluke, I needed to get some miles on the dog as its not had any running since overhaul and Kev decided to bring his along not knowing. I know you can see ballast through the missing cab floor of the dog, its still missing a cab, crew and a few other bits. This "action" shot was unintentional, it just happened to be taken with my nasty phone camera, shows an RCT wagon on the dock and part of Kevs suburban set in the background. The RCT wagon is a basic Slaters kit with the MMP interior detailing set, which is fantastic by the way. Unfortunately being tight I only bought the wagon interior set and not the underframe set as well, something I must do for the next project.

According to a guy who lives over the road apparent it is open

Turn your monitor through 180 degrees

The Yorkshire Post has a couple of statements that don't really say much https://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yorkshirepost.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpeople%2Fnorth-yorkshire-moors-railway-collision-passenger-train-and-locomotive-involved-in-accident-at-grosmont-station-3391003&h=AT145Gt861vIeqXQB1yYBo_8ybATArgP7sNhOxaS28bTzTW-4itGtOinEOK15S8eZ5TQC8FCz8oFaRtd8WtQqIw7KGojGbW2Fekc0iNShQWt7t0_KAZgUn1NKVaxPjaMzw

How about a return from Teesside Airport to Dinsdale, a distance of 2,1 miles that would take 7 days to complete and involve going through the station in the wrong direction to Eaglescliffe to catch the one train a week that serves the station? Being me I was never one for rules

I'm not sure the idea has much merit for most main line applications but if it's not obscenely expensive it could be what the preservation sector in the UK needs instead of coal. Definitely a more constructive answer than just saying no!

My guess is that looking at the timbers in the wagon they may have made it hard to put the lamp on the bracket?

They had two of them at one time, one was a compartment type thing where the corridor swapped sides half way down and the other was a mixture of tables and airline seating not lined up with the windows. I haven't actually looked at the crud in the end of the siding at Pickering for a while but they might both still be up there, I don't think they can be moved off site because of all the heritage insulation.

From memory, certainly in North Eastern areas it was the responsibility of the next station in the Up direction. The lamp cases are empty which may mean that they have been prepared and lit and placed on the first suitable train for a member of staff to put in the lamps, or they may have been removed because nobody bothered? It's probably in a dusty sectional appendix somewhere.

My wifes cooking and my arse must account for a large proportion as well

It was quite nice to get Spital Bridge out of the cupboard for the first time in 16 months a few weeks ago and run it, the only minor fault being a loose wire to one of the point motors. This week we got round to starting the job of ballasting, and of course started with the board with no pointwork to worry about to get our hand in. We are using O gauge brown/grey ballast and I have to admit its definitely growing on me, it gives a nice bit of variation in colour and texture. I suspect the ballast will need topping up a little bit as it might have ended up a little bit thin in places and there may be a little bit of cleaning up to do as well, we will also use an airbrush at some point to add a little bit more subtle colour variation. In the meantime I will be working on little scenic jobs for the layout which I will update the thread with.

I finally have a little bit of progress to show on the frames, I don't want to do too much to these really as they aren't too bad, they were taken to the club layout a couple of weeks ago and after some fettling and new pick-ups actually ran quite nicely. Really I have added some brake shoes obtained from ebay and an approximation of brake rigging added and pull rods underneath, they are roughly the right shape and once painted black and running on a layout it will look ok. The last real job is to add sandboxes under the cab which are totally absent on the kit, a set of B16 sand boxes have been obtained from ebay which look reasonably close to those on the J50, or will give me a base to alter so they look decent, And I've just noticed I haven't terminated the brake pull rods on the shaft under the cab yet, that will be done soon. Also Ted the cat approves.

It is a shame, the lining was beautifully done, and by hand not as a transfer, now, was the /4 the one with the hopper bunker? It's definitely not one of those, I think this is supposed to be vac fitted and RH drive looking at the small ejector pipe running down the RH side of the boiler, so that must narrow it down a lot. I confess to knowing absolutely nothing about this class of loco aside from liking the look of it and thinking of it as the LNER equivalent of the Flatiron, there was a plastic floor in the cab which has some fairly grim crew on it, which will be replaced with something a little nicer in the future.

So, leaping madly into another random project this is an LNER J50/51 I acquired locally for a really bargain price. I have no idea what the parentage is, its definitely not CCW, it could well be Ardsley but I'm not putting money on it. The body has spent the night in brake fluid which has loosened all the paint and the superglue so I can strip parts off it and get it cleaned up with wire wool, a knife blade and a scratch brush. In all honesty this has at one time been a beautiful loco because under the really nasty and thick black paint it has been lined LNER green and must have looked fabulous when new, at some point somebody decided to overspray the green black and applied way too much, hiding most of the lovely brass detail on the kit. Thanks to jlt trains I have managed to obtain some replacement parts and other parts that I can make do with next job will be to get the rest of the paint off the underside, resolder all the loose brass bits and then start refitting the errant white metal parts, I then want to add some more nice detail bits like a shunters pole over the front, crew, lamps etc. I really fancy painting it black and doing it up with "BRITISH RAILWAYS" lettering just because most of the ones I see are in LNER black.

Get a grip folks, it's only a bloody train!

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A number of the Facebook groups I am on lately are seeing people setting up crowdfunding pages and asking other people to donate towards the cost of building their layouts. What are members thoughts on this? I personally find it extremely cheeky asking for others to pay for you to indulge your hobby for your own enjoyment. Don't get me wrong I donated to the page to replace the layouts destroyed by those yobs at the exhibition a few years ago, I have no problem but that kind of thing but to me asking people to donate hard earned cash for your indulgence is wrong!

Mine seems to move really well, but I've opened the bearings right out so there's a bit of slop and put a bit of oil in there too, it seems to be ok so far.