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I can accept the option of running London to the northwest freights via the peak if the option was available to keep traffic off of the much higher speed WCML. Ill buy that. Would a British Steel Sheerness to Shotton covered coils be do-able do you think?

Cav

Could work as a train, production at Shotton ceased in the 80s but if you over look that then a train on that run could be feasible. Haulage would probably be a pair of 37s or a 56.

I get your thinking about the steel city, but from Sheffield I would think anything going west towards Manchester would go over the hope valley and anything off towards Cardiff would go via Derby and Birmingham. What I really need is something going southeast to northwest or vice versa!

 

Cav

In the North West Shotton was the main Metals hub which it still has traffic too from Cardiff in Telescopics. You could have a flow from London which is deemed too much of a slow one for the WCML. Not a lot of Metals traffic in the South East compared to the Northern WCML and South Wales which is were much of it ran.

OO or N mate?

 

Ok so a bit of a dig out if anyone can help. I bought these wagons as they are spanking new and got em for a steal. 10 wagon rake of VTG telescopic hoods. Around plenty of years before the layouts timescale so runnable no worries. What I need is someone to make up suggest a possible working for a rake of these through Millers Dale in 1987. I like them way too much not to use so thinking caps on please chaps!

 

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Cav

Am sure you could get away with them coming from the Sheffield area or going to... A lot of stuff in that region conveying Metal products. Suspect they could go to somewhere like Cardiff?

Blur sang about Park life - well, this is Pondlife! I had some interesting lily pads and reeds on a frond from Scalelink, and it seemed a shame to waste them. I had a little project under the layout that was aching for a little diarama, so I've built in a little nature reserve!

 

I used P of P to build up the bank area, leaving a recess behind for the ponds. I thern painted the area and added the Clear glass resin. The reeds and lily pads were added whilst the resin was tacky, and some "fishing" was required for frets which began to sink!

 

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Love the pond, and the 47/3!

Where have you got your depot staff from? My layout is set in similar era but I only seem able to find figures with hard hats on which I feel is to modern for the era I model just before the railway went H and S mad.

Think the layout is great by the way and hope to see it for real some time soon!

Like the weathering on those 'bullets'. Make sure you give those 37s some stick!!

Thats exactly my plan Daniel. I would be routing all of the london to manchester hst services through there and also the cross country loco hauled services going west. Trains to Buxton will be local Derby to Buxton DMUs and the Millers Dale to Buxton shuttle for connection changes from the main line services.

Cav

Scope for a nice mixture of 1st gen units? 104s were regulars off Buxton.

Evening,

 

Here's the pics of some new arrivals that i picked up at Ally Pally yesterday(the 47 and the thumper) and i also came across a box in the attic with had some HEA's that i've been looking for

 

Cheers

 

Arnie

Can almost hear 227 about to erupt on that Coal job, used to be regulars on HEAs when 'Network Coal' services ran.

If it was P4....definitely! Some of the drivers must have enjoyed themselves propelling over the points, slips and super elevation...... They certainly made those coaches sway around. As for braking to a stop, good job the guards had a sense of humour!

Crewe blokes no doubt, somebody I am sure has quoted it went out of the Up bay at Rhyl once. Another Coast oddity was the Derby Llandudno service which was a pair of 20s....

Well you are ten years younger than me Mark.

Llanbourne has been without a 37/4 for way too long so I am looking forward to putting it to good use. I am quite tempted to do another actually, but I really have enough locos already.

 

Cheers Peter.

Can never have too many 37s....! Am going to do all the Canton 6 bar 428 for Halebank as per 1991.

The Canton ones used to work a Cardiff-Rhyl train in the 80s so good for your layout