Ruston

Some of the pallets are made from plywood and some are cast whitemetal from Skytrex. The setts were tediously scribed into DAS clay and individually painted. I think they could do with some matt varnish to take the shine off them.

Now who could that be with a Bentley like that?

I've painted and added a few more people to the railway The despatch foreman checks off the loads that need to be on the next train. The wagon checker reading The Daily Mirror. Old Joe, of the transport department, stands atop the coal pile ready to help coaling a locomotive.

I've only just found this nice little layout. As others have said, it does capture the atmosphere of an ironstone line. Not that I am old enough to have seen any working but I've seen enough colour photos and Ivo Peters film.

To add to the tank fleet I bought a second hand, but unbuilt, Slater's tank wagon for just £25. I already have three such wagons so I decided to make this one slightly different. The difference is that I'm having a wooden-framed version. The cradles are from the Slater's kit but the axle guards, springs, buffer bodies, coupling hooks and wheels are all from my spares/junk box. I bought the wood strip at a local model shop that has since closed down and so as I can't buy any more ATM I've substituted plastic in some parts. So I was left with a complete frame, brakes and running gear from the kit and so I have had a go at bodging together an insulated and steam-heated type tank, the basis of which is a tube that contanined silicon sealant. The beauty of building an insulated tank is that you don't need to form domes for the ends. This brass and whitemetal tank is a Meteor Models 14-ton RCH tank that I've also been building. I've also been adding to some of my existing tanks. This Slater's tank has acquired owner's name boards. This sort of thing appears to have been more unusual than having the name painted on the tank itself but they did exist. The insulated and heated tank as of now. It still needs a fast traffic star and some weathering. I'm not entirely happy with it. The pipework is a bit rough and ready, the logo is crap and the scoring of the card wrapper that is supposed to represent the joins in the panels on the sheet metalwork is too pronounced. That's down to the card wanting to bend at the score because I didn't glue it to the pipe all round. Instead I just glued it at the joint at the bottom. This was fine and the wrapper would have stayed round if I hadn't scored it. Lessons learnt. The Meteor tank with no modifications except for an attempt at representing the welds at the section joints on the tank. I've seen other people's completed models from this kit and they don't look right with a smooth and completely seam-free barrel so I've made my welded seams from masking tape. It may be a bit overscale but it looks better to have something there than a smooth barrel IMHO. The logo and Bury Thorn & Sons lettering was made on the PC and printed onto the last bit of Crafty Computer Paper that I had. The fast traffic star and no light etc. lettering are cut from the sheet that comes with the kit. And the wooden-framed tank? It's been put aside for now until I am in the mood for tackling the fiddly bits.

I agree with Pugsley. I'll be watching this with interest. From what we've seen so far I'm guessing that the travelling thing will be pulled by cables and fixed motors rather than be powered itself?

Hi, That is correct. There is no cork or anything like that. The track is stuck straight onto the painted plywood surface. The ballast is a mixture of crushed coal/ash/clinker from a former NCB line. I put lumps of it into a pestle and mortar and smahed it up and sieved it. It is held in place with Klear and diluted wood glue. I don't see any advantage in using underlay when the ballast sets hard and transmits noise to the baseboard anyway. It's not as if the trains are thundering around at speed in any case.

Here are a few more that I snapped in the past week, including a very uncommon BR meat van. Meat van at the side of the Halifax Road, near Penistone, Sth. Yorks. Ex-LMS(?) van in a field in Tideswell, Peak District. I'm not sure if I've posted this one before. If I have it was a poor photo so I stopped to take this one, near Mirfield, today. Ex LMS? The corrugated end has been cut and made into hinged doors. The 10" 0" wheelbase and XP markings are still visible but there was no running number at the other end.

If you want a model of that particular loco you could replace the Ixion one with an Agenoria kit?

Here are a few pics of some of the locos with the finishing touches of works and name plates. You can't really tell in these pics but the works plates are legible. They are all from http://www.narrowplanet.co.uk/ with whom I have no connection, other than as a satisfied customer.

No, I don't have an Ixion Hudswell but I have two of their Manning Wardles and I'll definitely buy one of their Fowlers when it becomes available. I've thought about buying a Hudswell but every time I've been to a show with a wad of cash in my wallet to spend on a new engine it's been drawn to another kit. I quite enjoy building the kits.

Hi Tim, I used a fold-up etched gearbox and 46:1 gear set from Roxey with a small Mashima can motor, although I don't know which model. This is fitted to the front axle, which is connected to the rear axle by means of Delrin chain and sprockets. Here are some more things I added to the railway when I made the video. Mr. Bury's secretary taking a tea break. She's brought a rug to sit on so she doesn't get her dress dirty. The figure is from Omen and the rug is made from kitchen towel, painted with enamel and lines drawn on in pen. I bought the figure ready painted but I did paint the cat myself - the difference shows! The sentinel. Of course the Sentinel is new but I've also added BURY THORN & SONS LTD to the chimney, using Slaters plastic letters. Here I have added the dog (who is seeking out rats that the useless moggy has missed) and, in the background, I have opened up the grounded MOGO and put some oil drums inside as if it is used as an oil store for the locomotives.

With special thanks to PGH for discovering a copy of the letter from Sentinel to Bury's among his collection .

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/45248-judith-edge-kits/?p=857839

Today in East Yorkshire. Weeton - two ex-GWR vans with an ex-SR one in the middle. A1033, Keyingham, opposite the petrol station - ex-GWR van.

In the hills above Sowerby Bridge are this Vanwide... and another bog standard, burnt out, 12t vent.

I'm not aware of the NCB having any Unimogs, at least I've never read about them, or seen any pictures of them. I would suspect not though. I would imagine the one in the pictures was coupled to the wagons with some kind of solid drawbar set up.

Yesterday. BR 12 tonner, near the junction of the A68/B6296 near Tow Law, County Durham Another near the junction of the B6296/B6297 LMS? van at the side of the B6275, south of Piercebridge

I kept looking but couldn't find the pic but it's turned up. The reason I couldn't find it is because it was a print, not a slide. D'oh! The wagons and the Unimog road-railer And the Strachan & Henshaw road-railer at the same site.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RAILWAY-CARRIAGE-SHEPHERDS-HUT-FOR-RESTORATION-WOULD-MAKE-GARDEN-ROOM-OFFICE-/181088416160?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a29b5f1a0

Funny you should mention those as I was thinking of brake sticks the other day. I suppose they're easy enough to make once you know the dimensions, but shunter's poles are something I can't get my head around making. It's that funny hook on the end that starts off hollow and the diameter of the shaft but tapers to a curly point. I can't think how to make that bit. Anyone got the dimensions of both, or a way of making a shunting pole?

Well, Debs, it was all downhill for Bury's after that. Now the site is flattened and new houses are being built there. Today I was passing the site of Bury's works and went to see if anything was left. I got talking to this old boy who's house overlooked the site and he told me that he had some old silent cine film in a drawer somewhere. Apparently he was trying out colour film for the first time. He also gave me a few colour slides from the 1960s too. I videoed this straight from his original film so I'm afraid there's a lot of noise from the old projector...

Thanks, chaps. On the workbench (dining room table!) ATM is a Slaters Palvan that is awaiting a missing part, which I shall be collecting from Slaters tomorrow at Kettering. Next on the table should be a Peckett X2 kit ,that I shall also be collecting tomorrow, from Trevor of Mercian Models.

Here's a little video of the Sentinel. Details of the build can be found in my blog thing.

Yesterday - BD container in a field next to the A168, near Thirsk. Today - Ex-LMS van, near Upper Denby, West Yorks. Ex-BR van, near Birdsedge, West Yorks. Further along the same road was this ex-LNER design van. And just around the corner, a standard BR 12t. van