Leon

Pass along Rover Way and the steel works daily. This is spot on..... I don't have the room for a mother layout but would be interested in the South Wales loco's and rolling stock if you ever decided to sell them also. all the best with the house move, Cardiff ?

No work on the layout for the past few weeks, not really been in the mood to be honest and I feel sometimes there is no point forcing yourself if you don't really feel like working on it. Had a great hour playing. Canton's trainload coal Class 37 arrives with empty HAA wagons. Its seen passing the loading site then backing its train back onto the loading pad.

Bit of progress but no photos sorry. Fitted the buffers to the class 56, didn't realise all four missing ! luckery I found them. Checked all locos and all have buffers present. Started to continue work on the 08 i have, 2 in the fleet, 1 is an 09 in Railfreight Grey for mainline trip workings. the other is a Hornby Mainline livery that I have re sprayed into BR blue, missing 1 window so sourcing a replacement. I have found the transfers for the numbers in white and also some white BR arrows for the bodyside. Now it's a matter of searching through the images for a suitable South Wales, Margam area loco.

I started a thread on Inver in Cardiff Docks, Im sure i put up a load of pictures of the tank farm if you search it...Prototype Discussions I think....

Lol, Trust you Dan to notice that ! To be honest, a lot of the fleet are missing the buffers....lol Soon I will turn my attention to the locos and rolling stock. Still lots to do but thank you for the comment.

All shut down for the evening, Just a single class 56 on shed taking on fuel.

Bit of action from tonight. Claas 60 passes the washery with a short steel train. Whilst 37898 Trainload Coal waits to be loaded. I often wondered how the MEA/tipper wagons got unloaded at Onllwyn Washery, then recently i saw an excavator used to unload, great. A use for the two i have..... The loaded MEA's are tripped in from the left fiddle yard of the layout by the 08/09 from a "nearby colliery". The coal is then unloaded, washed and blended etc. I have 3 CR signals tall lighting towers to add to the washery, once repaired... Very much still a work in progress.

A short clip of the former loading pad at Tower Colliery, South Wales.

Great. Thank you very much.

Apologies, I wasn't signing in with display name, i was using the old login name labrinth.. All signed in ok now thanks Rich after reading the article.. With regards to the pictures I was only able to upload to as it maxed the 10mb, was it always 10mb ? Maybe as the pics was taken on the drone they are about 5mb each. Yes, unfortunatly not as much at the loading point as I had hoped. Pools of water and tyres.... Pretty easy to model...

Went looking for some inspiration today, Tower loading point (disused) Part 2

Went looking for some inspiration today, Tower loading point (disused) Not sure on this new update, have to reset password every time I want to sign in and won't upload pictures too well.

Had a bit of a play this evening. 37406 departs the stable point to collect its train. 56040 Oystermouth works some local Speedlink coal service.

Thanks Steve, They above are in my plans, I need to tone down the grass or add Autumn colours. Got a box of bits to detail the whole layout once i finish spray painting, Puddle, Will look into that. I bought a kit years ago from Geoscenes, Its really fine dust for coal yards, I will add more. Most of the photos i have as you say have the track work buried.. Many thanks for taking the time to reply...

A few hours spent working on the Coal Washery, no list today so not as productive... The loading pad has been painted. Its surprising how much the Coal Washery becomes reduced in size as you detail and add. Looked pretty big on a bare board, now it looks like a small Coal Concentration Depot... I can't put my finger on it but to me it doest yet scream Welsh Valleys Coal.... More looking at Flickr for ideas is needed I think. Any suggestions on what to add or remove are very welcome guys... 3 Trainload Coal branded MEA's can be seen loaded alongside the pad. "Cwmbargoed DP" stables on the cripple siding whilst waiting for its train to be formed. The 37/8 is not the right body, I need to remove a side window to look like a heavyweight. Its a renumbered 37/2. Note the Ball and Sone skip in the background, wow that company gets everywhere ! I was going to add a weigh bridge in front of the yard office, but then realised not much room are a need for lorries to be weighed there, I think that area of the site will be for repairs and an engineers area. The road that goes off under the road is to more "pretend" Coal face.

Carried on working on the Coal Washery site for an hour or so. Then got distracted, Trainload Coal 37/8 from Canton arrives with empty HAA wagons for loading.

Thank you Johnster for the info, I had not thought of that. The name came to me the other day whilst driving to Pen Y Fan. I will get back on Google Earth to see if I can find a name I like within the coalfield area. I guess Onllwyn was just on the edge of the boundary ?

Lastly, a few of Petroleum Class 60 arriving with Household coal from the pit for washing/blending. Im thinking "Cefn-Coed-Y-Cymmer" as a name for the washery ??? Looking at the back scene you really have to think about what angle to photograph to get the most from it.

Some progress on the Coal washery. The area to the right go the rake of HAA's will be the concrete loading pad, this is in the process of being built. Class 60 on route learning brings a short rake of HEA's from the pit to the washery.. Lighting gantry placement also in progress.

Just some quick, rough photos of this evenings progress. We got the signals wired up and run on sensors so no need to ever touch them as they will be controlled by the moment of the points. Still lots of work and improvements to do, each photo you post highlights an error or something missed...lol

Hi. A few hours last night. Started to lay a base layer down for the Coal Loading Facility. Still a lot to do before we can add the grass and weeds etc. I’m not going to over do the Coal dust (although it currently looks that way) and will base the scenary on Coed Bach and Gwendreath. These locations seem pretty green still coal dust kept to a minimum.

Looking amazing as ever... Ballast envy !

Very neat modelling.

Had a productive 2 hours on the layout this evening. Made a list of jobs, that way i just get straight on with them and seem to get more done. Job 1 - Wire up the lights in the depot area and test the yard floodlights for the coal site. Job 2 - Grass along the branch line past the coal site and to the fiddle yard. Job 3 - Drill holes for signals, 7 in total and position ready for Thursday. Job 4 - Make a start on the Coal loading point, Some ballast and coal dust has been laid around the two tracks. Next jobs- Lay a weigh bridge in the coal site and continue to surface the area. Build concrete loading pad. JUST NOTICED THE TWO BACKSCENES DONT NOW MATCH, WILL NEED TO CHANGE THAT.

Forgot I had this loco once, wish I still had it now for my speedlink coal. IS THAT A BANKSY UNDER THE BRIDGE ?