Mrkirtley800

Very nice too Chris No, I have been thinking about abandoning this thread and starting another one. Many of the pics were taken to illustrate a particular point and which I did not save, so are lost. The remainder I really don’t want to spend time on, so perhaps, start again.

And the colour of the engines too. eh ……Paul Derek

If you have a source of Johnson 3’4”. chimneys in 4mm, will you please let me know. All the ones I have found so far have not been the lovely graceful ones that were fitted in Johnson’s time. The only exception was the cast white metal ones by K’s, which came with their ‘single’ kit. I bought a fair few of these before the K’ s stopped making them, but have now run out. Good luck with the ‘700’. I have two Kirtley goods, one a K’s kit bought for me in 1966, the other a Jidenco offering, which required quite a bit of scratch building. Derek

Really super modelling, a real inspiration. Derek

Absolutely stunning. Derek

My best wishes and good luck for Thursday Derek

Lovely inspirational modelling of a very ordinary scene. So easy to get a scene like this wrong, but you have really produced the ‘goods’!! I love it. Derek

After a quiet period, the local passenger working is due. The passengers are waiting on the departure platform, looking expectantly towards Kirkby Heights bridge for the tell tale plume of smoke. Deeley 0-6-4T simmers on the up line. Later in in the day, the local stopping goods from Grassington has arrived and the engine is sorting out wagons which arrived yesterday for the main line goods to Hunslet yard, Leeds.

Hello Andy, All my pics have vanished, is there any chance of recovery? otherwise my thread,Midland Railway in EM gauge can be scrapped. Derek

Thank you Andy. Derek

Hello Al, Really sorry to hear of your health problems, but glad to know they are being attended to. Wishing you all the best for the future. Derek

Hello Andy, My apologies for the lack of a reply to your message. My ipad is still having problems with a blank strip along the top of the page. I only saw your message when I used a laptop yesterday. Unfortunately my cranky knees have stopped my frequent use of the laptop, so the reason for my delay in replying to you. The blank strip along the top of the page covers my name as well, so cannot use that to get into my messages. regards Derek

unseemly practices?? I have been a member of the EMGS for donkeys years and never knew about this sort of going’s on. Have I been missing something? How disappointing. I think I should ask for my subs to be refunded. Good luck with the show Al. This is one I never used to miss, that is until my joints gave up on me. Derek

Andy, I have the same problem. I have put it to you under a different heading, so you might get it twice. Derek

North bound express with Johnson Compound, passing under Kirkby Heights bridge

Putting the world to rights while crossing Kirkby Heights bridge

I think I am a longer in the tooth than most modellers contributing to RMW.. I joined the EM gauge society in 1966, and the S4 society in the mid seventies, so Ihave a foot in both camps. However my layout is to EM gauge and works. I do make my own locos and of the 27 Midland and North Eastern, 12 are scratch built, and some of the kit built ones sport scratch built frames, or chassis as some call it. All my tank locos are compensated as are some of the tender engines, and the latter have pick ups on loco and tender, so building working engines to 18.83mm gauge does not present any visible problems. If I were starting again, it would be EM, since it satisfies me. When I used to go to shows I saw some superb layouts in both EM and S4. I also saw some dreadful ones. So EM, S4, whatever floats your boat, and how comfortable you are modelling in either. The thing is do it. Derek

I get all my info from the Essery/Jenkinson books, and the useful photos. I am sure Stephen could advise you on a number. Derek

During the exhibiting of Kirkby Malham mk1, we were at one show where a guy claimed to know the station at KM very well. My fellow operator and I were a bit nonplussed, but pleased he thought he had recognised the station. Derek

Point taken, Stephen. I have to admit to my shame, that numbers of engines passed me by. Yes I will use appropriate numbers when I can find them. I was never a train spotter. All my friends had their books of ‘cops’. It left me cold but I would go with them to places but Iwas more interested in the operation and shunting going on, and would sit and watch it for hours while they drooled over getting a particular engine. Derek

My first proper EM layout was a 75% copy of Grassington. I knew the station when in its original track layout. My friends and I camped nearby for years in our teens. It was my ambition to build a layout of Grassington, and in 1965 moved to a house were I could put a floor in the loft and build my dream. But it was still quite a distance from Kirkby Malham. Derek

Stephen, yes I realise my locomotive allocation might be a bit wayward, the 0-4-4WT was mainly London based although there is a photo of one on a train in Derbyshire. Kirkby Malham is (or was when I used to pass through) a beautiful village, but did not have a railway. So why not stretch imagination and use any locomotive that appeals. The 0-4-4 WT is a particular favourite, being built way back in 1966, as was my Kirtley goods (the crimson one). The information available then was pretty limited, so if we built an out of the way engine, we may not get it right, and that is the case in a few of my efforts at that time. Derek

Hello Dave, my son bought me a Mercian Models kit in 7 mm for my birthday, some years ago. He asked me to build it and make it go but it was for his son, who was six months old at the time. It was nice to build, and in the kit were included parts to build either open or closed cab. I built the open cab version, and finished it in plain black, and to 0 gauge fine scale standards. It was compensated and runs very well with its Mashima motor and gearbox. Being a fully paid up Yorkshireman, I couldn’t waste the additional parts, so a part kit, part scratchbuild appeared with full cab, compensation and big Mashima and gearbox. I finished it in crimson lake, which puts it running prior to 1911? Here are a couple of pics. One shows the open cab version behind. I note they are gathering dust. Derek