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    Kirkby Luneside

    in Settle & Carlisle LAYOUTS

    Posted · Edited by boogaloo

    Hi Geoff,

     

    copyright issues but....

     

     

    5149 eases past Helwith signal box on a very wintry March 12, 1969. The locomotive was at this time allocated to Leeds Holbeck (55A), so trips over the Settle & Carlisle would be nothing unusual. The final four Class 24's had been delivered from Derby to Gateshead early in 1961. All four moved to Leeds in the summer of 1968, then all went on to Eastfield in October 1971.

     

    http://www.derbysulzers.com/5149helwith.jpg

     

    5149 again, this time at Horton-in-Ribblesdale, involved in a shunting operation. The sidings here served the large quarry near Horton. The signal box closed on May 1st 1984. After transfer to Eastfield 5149 remained in service for one year, before catching fire on a train bound for Killoch colliery. Quickly moved to Glasgow Works the locomotive was broken up during April 1973, never receiving its TOPS number.

     

    http://www.derbysulzers.com/5149horton.jpg

     

     

     

    HTH

     

    Boogy (still banging the drums)

    DENT STATION with CHESTERGATE

    in Settle & Carlisle LAYOUTS

    Posted

    Jason,

    Be nice if you had time to do a 'blow by blow' account of that work - it looks like a good kit from the pics. on their web site and I'd particularly like to see the finished article when you've worked your magic on it!

    Kind regards,

    Jock.

     

    I seem to remember Jason used this thread as a starting point for his conversions, have a gander at the duck http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/19802-detailing-a-Hornby-black-5/?hl=brassmasters

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    DENT STATION with CHESTERGATE

    in Settle & Carlisle LAYOUTS

    Posted · Edited by boogaloo

     

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    The lead flashing around the chimney stacks are self-adhesive labels printed grey and cut as required

     

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    One side almost complete

     

     

     

    Hi Mike, 

     

    love the layout, but one thing, wouldn't the lead flashing be placed over the tiles to keep the rain out rather than under? I'm not criticising, just trying to be helpful. Keep up the fabulous work.

     

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    Boogy

     

    Edit due to bad english.

    Bacup - Mills in the hills

    in Layout topics

    Posted

    Just had a quick and probably pathetic thought re numbering wagons. AFAIK you can buy blank transfer sheets that you are able to print what you want on, but the vast majority of colour printers do not come with white ink.

     

    So why not paint white on the wagon side where the numbers are going and just print the black rectangle 'background' of the numbers leaving the chosen numbers blank on the transfer so the white shows through.

     

    Probably been thought of before by several people and dismissed, but it would allow you to use one custom transfer per number rather than placing individual digits.

     

    Boogy

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    Kirkby Luneside (Original): End of the line....

    in Settle & Carlisle LAYOUTS

    Posted

    Hi Jeff, I've read all 100 pages as the thread has developed and deviated and this is my whole second post. :scared:

     

    I really like your tunnel mouth but for me (and probably only me) the arch doesn't quite look right. Looking closely at a picture of the actual tunnel mouth you are representing, the arch stones actually 'key' in with the rest of the wall rather than being on a curve on the outside. I've tried (very poorly) to illustrate what I mean below. I think trying to replicate this would turn your great model into a marvellous one but I of course leave it completely up to you.

     

    post-5373-0-67143700-1356001687_thumb.png

     

    ps. You did say you were open to suggestions :blind:

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    Kirkby Luneside (Original): End of the line....

    in Settle & Carlisle LAYOUTS

    Posted

    Hi Jeff,

     

    I'm glad you like my comment. I've always been a fan of the one-liner/micro joke.

     

    I very rarely post as I am unfortunately only an armchair modeller these days. The last layout I had was over 25 years ago when I was about 14. I've always been interested in railways both 12" to the foot and smaller scales.

     

    I generally tend to post if I can add something to the topic whether someone has asked for advice or opinion etc. My experiences are generally inferior to those of posting members in both modelling and prototype knowledge.

     

    I think you have an excellent layout and it does help I lean towards LMR as my preferred region. I've always been interested in the S&C and watching you build those curved viaducts got me hooked. I've always been a fan of a decent viaduct

     

    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/25859-your-favourite-uk-railway-structure/page__st__50&do=findComment&comment=265250

     

    Keep up the good work. I'll be lurking with interest, but then again now I've taken the plunge I may be bantering a bit more. Seeing as you managed to get me to break radio silence with your liking of the joke, I'll leave you with another.

     

     

    Cigarettes are like Weasels, perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and set fire to it.

     

    Boogy

     

    (I'll get my coat)

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    registration plates we have seen

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted · Edited by boogaloo

    The plate that sticks in my mind that I have seen on several makes of car over the past few years in Manchester is

     

    AVE 1T

     

    but my all time personal favourite used to be about the Blackpool area in the 1980's and, I'm only guessing it used to belong to an Irish man, was

     

    POT 80.

     

    Absolute class in my book and way before the DVLA decided to cash in on the trend

     

    Boogy

    Was we brung up proper?

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

    1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !

     

     

    First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...

     

    They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

     

    We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitch hiking.

     

    As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

    We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

     

    Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

    Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death!

     

    We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

     

    We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

     

    We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

     

    WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

     

    We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

     

    We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

     

    We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,

    no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms.....

     

    WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

    We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

     

    Only girls had pierced ears!

     

    We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

    You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...

     

    We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,

    We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

     

    Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet because we didn’t need to keep up with the Jones’s!

    Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on

    MERIT

     

    Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren’t concentrating .

     

    We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R’s education.

     

    The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

     

    They actually sided with the law!

     

    Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'

    We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !

    And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

     

     

    You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

    And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

     

    PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore

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    Railway Quiz

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    Firswood, Chorlton and St Werburgh's Road.

     

    The three new stops on the Manchester Metrolink extension (running on the old CLC line) from Trafford Bar towards East Didsbury.

     

    Right, I better think of a question,

     

    What was the nickname of the LYR 0-8-2T shunters used in the Liverpool area?

    Football Focus

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    Well done Barca!

     

    I don't think I've seen a match in recent years where Man Utd have been so completely outclassed by someone. Fabulous skill, fabulous goals and a fabulous game. Also be fair the one chance that Utd did make thay scored.

     

    Don't know whether I'm gracious (re post above) but the better team most definitely won!

     

    Boogy

    Song Title Game

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted · Edited by boogaloo

    Come Play With Me - The Wedding Present

     

    Boogy

     

    edit: re post #6936 - Yes, I got mixed up while searching for new title (as I have decided to constrain myself to one band only), this post doesn't fit the rules and I apologise for not realising and editing sooner. It hasn't affected the game at least but seeing as I'm here again,

     

    My main gripe of this game is the frequent re-use of the same songs by the same artists. Why can't people check first?

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