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What did we get up to when we were 13 I wonder, Larry?

So good luck with your modelling K☼☼l-Dude . Tap up your uncles, as they're generally good to have around if they know you have a hobby interest..

Aren't blogs interesting.

Chis Nevards soap works?

Nice one. One observation though. The year 1949 was not as it is today. Yes, everything looked run down and the country on the verge of bankrupcy, but in actual fact industry was vibrant with full employment and those soot covered factories with windows never repaired after wartime air raids were working flat out to export goods in exchange for much needed money. The air was buzzing with factory noise and activity 5½ days a week, and yet Sundays one could hear a pin drop! Maybe difficult to imagine today.

Glad to see some progress is able to be made though I fully understand why it is slow. Your wiring frightens me to death, but then your opinion of mine in 2009 probably couldn't be printed on here.

The track is looking good too. As your free time is at a premium Dave, have you considered easing things quite a lot by converting back to '00' gauge before your stock position gets too large. We pull each others leg about this and P4 so I hope other P4 modellers on here understand this.

Also glad to see the Bullied thingy has returned daann saaath where it should remain! Its appearance in the West Riding must have worried Delphites, not to mention the local ganger, who were only used to seeing the contents of Lees Shed.

Cheers,

LG

I'm one of those old fashioned types that knows he wants one but his conceance tells him that justifying one in the Manchester area is a tall order...

Hi Dave,

I'm barred due to the heart surgery from doing any lifting, joinery and the like. It's dead frustrating for an active lad (!) but the alyout building will have to wait until I am finally passed 'fit for service' next June.

It often puzzled me why the LMS did not make Moorgate the local station for Uppermill as it is ideally situated for the community, far better than Saddleworth. The trains could have reversed at Greenfield but it would have meant holding up traffic on the mainline, plus it is on a steep incline. Reversal might have had to take place in the safety of the Oldham Branch carriage sidings near Greenfield. Reversal at Moorgate would involve no shunting. Just a couple of crow whistles and off!

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Hi Peter,

Glad you are stll performing miracles with plastikard and paint.....I am rather envious of Delph now. But you'll have to have a word with Dave about his strange behavious concerning SR Pacifics, plus its not good form introducing foreigners to Delph, especially from Waterloo.

Interesting ot read you are building a new layout. Will this be a termus like the previous model? Will it be Lanky?

Cheers,

Larry

PS: I think Vox Mill looks a bit too modern for Delph......

Partly a vision of the future seeing as these locos were not rebuilt at the time of its visit to Delph, aka Holt, and partly a nightmare sorting out the 7 chains curve at Ladcastle after the WC had passed!

Anyway I'm suprised at your leaning towards things Bullied and you born on Goddard Street!

No problems with eastbound services. The train engine could be at the Delph end of an excursion and a LYR 0-6-0 could haul the lot to the end of the branch into Moorgate Halt. Except this halt would be a proper station serving Uppermill. The train would be hauled onto the Down main before setting off eastbound correct line with the LYR loco acting as Banker to Diggle....A definite necessity with a greasy Bullied Pacific!!

Incidentally the only rebuilt WC needed at Greenfield is a decent gents toilet!

On a serious note, the layout is coming along well and is beginning to look the part. Is Gravy busy building a great big mill now....?

Cheers,

Larry

Delph, sorry Holt, is coming along well. I suspect passengers were kept on the platform until the loco had finished running round and had propelled the stock up to the buffers. The L&Y 0-6-0s had to do this when no motor-fitted locos were available. I wish someone had photographed one of the LYR 2-4-2Ts at Delph in 1953.

The LNWR D333 Brake Third coach might not be rare at Delph. I remember climbing up to an end window, assisted by my mates, and looking down on the bunker of a Fowler 2-6-2T on the way out of Delph. For some reason the loco was at the oldham end of the train. In fact I did wonder if the M52 driving trailer had similar windows in the guards end. Such snippets of memory from boyhood are often difficult to reconcile with certain things.

I doubt if a 'West Country' would be allowed over the line, if only for aesthetic reasons...!B)

Hi Dave - The third shot is very close to the view of the real place when passing the station. Peter has made a super job of the station and goods shed, and this must rate as the best recapture of Delph ever.

I always look enviously at your Fowler 3MT....!! I hope to upgrade one of the open saloon driving trailers before Adrian retires as I never did build one the earlier ones for myself.

Seeing as you obviously plan to build the mainroad to Uppermill, don't forget to pick up a North Western Road Car lowbridge half-cab bus. For Manchester Corporation you could always clip the front wings and stick a Leyland PD1 radiator on a Crossley DD42. For Oldham Corporation, there is a tinfront Leyland PD2 with Orion body of 1954, what we called bouncy buses, but you would have to repaint it.

Shame these Blogs get hidden (until they are updated) as I missed all your updates from May. I didn't even know you had run your stock to Amlwch! It will be quite some layout when finished. Shame you didnt opt for '00' as I could have done a bit of through running from Greenfield! Only joking........It is me that should have gone P4.

Larry

The coal drops are looking good Dave.

Larry

I presume the Thompsons had standard LNER buffing gear and clipped round head buffers.

Is it just me or what, but I cannot see the point of showing how smooth DCC locos run on YouTube when the format is inherantly unstable and just makes the locos look as if they are running jerkilly.

I still haven't a layout since cutting the old one up and demolishing the shed, so I have a feeling for what you are saying. In your shoes I would just continue building things for the proposed layout once you have extablished the scale/gauge.

I don't suppose you have offended anyone here, afterall, the notion that Labour has some god-given right to rule Britian is immature in a democracy.

David Johnson (Labour) said it all this morning...."We have left the country in a better state than it was when we took office in 1997".

Oh really?

Tell that to the voters who heard Blair say in 1997 that he would not be touching the economy for the first two years of his regime, in other words, there was now't wrong with the economy. Tell that to those denied a NHS dental service. Tell that to people who have witnessed record levels of immigration into their towns and cities when the people already settled there have not been able to find employment (two and a half million people unemployed now).

Labour has simply done what it did in 1951, 1970 and 1979...... It is leaving workers, not benefit claimants, to pay for their irresponsible ideology.

This is simply a response from someone at the opposite end of the bar and who has also been roped into repay the national debt.

This is where the Dyson comes in....very handy for finding all the bits we drop on the carpet that can then be retreaved from the plastic container.

I too think thre bricks are now on the dark side. The rainfall in that area would keep the exposed brickwork relatively clean so I would remove some of that 'dirt' from the face of those pillars with a kiddies india rubber, then steak columns a little to simulate the effect of water running down from the landing stage. Just an idea Dave and looking good for all that.

Larry

And that's DCC.............? Yikes!

As for myself, the most dreaded words I can hear are "form the tumblehome". Its an art I never mastered,

I used the method in the early 1960s with plastikard. It was the only method i knew when I started building coaches in brass 10 years ago and it works on brass too (up to 12thou thickness).

Believe me you will never look back once you've done a brass coach as it opens so many doors.

Larry

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Well worth the effort I'd say (with relief as I would have felt guilty otherwise!) The pesky Hornby glazing is virtually unremovable because its a far thicker/stronger plastic than the coach sides. To be honest, rather than attempt to create a tumblehome, it is easier and quicker to detach the plastic sides and attach etched brass replacement. There is an Aladins cave of etched sides out there from the likes of Comet, Bedford, MJT, Kemilway etc.

Larry G.

You've answered your own question really. Have you tried modifying the resin buildings from Bachmann and Hornby? Also there are the plaster kits.

Standard 2 looks like DJH.