Mr.S.corn78

Can't believe thats 6 years ago!! That has to have been the best day out ever.

I've been told it tastes very nice, but as I don't drink I couldnt possibly comment

Well we've (not) made it to the first over night stop. Well we did several hours ago and have been working through the beer store..... We may make it tomorrow or we may not.................

Lots, even more so when one of the team who has a big flightcase tech production box with all the spres and repairs parts in that weights a lot and we can't lift it that high.

SShhhh, Its ok we don't use Hertz any more so they won't notice when we paint the side of the van with tin of humbrol 22

So the journey (not) to the deep south has begun for Charwelton. As in preivous years we will make a stop off at a secrect location in the north west that contains a nice real ale store!! As you can see in the photos we are (not) hard at work loading the van in the only place in Darlington thats had rain today See you all on Sunday, If we can get across the border!!

Don't be feeding it or we will never get it out of there

Sorry Andy, Thought you may have been busy keeping the 1:1 stuff running and didn't want to distrub you

Will do Andy and it would be a pleasure (not) to come done with Charwelton into the 80's.........will (not) get the van booked later tonight

Might just have to hop in the car and make the long and winding trip along to help with set up.

A recent re-spray thats been on the bench, being turn in to a Southern Railroad loco.

Final part of the C2X. Chassis seen here after finishing test running And seen here after final assembley

Hi Richard, It may well be as this was just an out of the box build as the custimer just wanted a model of the loco thta he rembered seeing most of the time where he lived.

The body and tender fell together without too many issues apart from the usual flash on the moldings. The chassis was built pretty much OTB using the DJH motor and gearbox with a little bit of modifcation to enable tension lock couplings to be added at the end.

Hello everyone, So its been a few years since i posted anything in here, not sure where the time has gone but in the current sitiuation thats across the world I thought it was about time I started posting again. So whats been happening, lots is the easiest answer and I will cover the details in future posts. The plan is to bring you all up todate (well those that want to know and read ) by posting up the latest items that im working/worked on and mix in some of the items ive done over the past few years that you havent seen unless you follow me on the various social media channels that i post too. So first up and something that was recently completed is the DJH LBSCR/SR/BR class C2X 0-6-0

Hi Andy, Its not me and ive messaged John

Great work as always Capitain. I know you have probably already mentioned it but I couldn't find it so thought I would ask, How long is the senic section of the layout please? Thanks Simon

I can see this getting tit for tact so this will be my final post on the matter. Did I say it was you??? No as you have previously stated that you are a member. Please read what I’ve posted. As I said before the matter was CLOSED after the info came from Peco to the message via Facebook. If that person hadn’t posted the issue here you wouldn’t have been any wiser about it and to be honest after the matter was closed there it shouldn’t have been reopened. Sorry if this doesn’t sit right but having worked for multi national companies if a matter has been dealt with it is closed and not reopened else where because the answer wasn’t what the person wanted to hear. Thanks and happy modelling

The real issue was after being told there wasn’t an issue with the track that a NON EM member (use to be one but isn’t anymore) decided to carry the matter on further in a public place. Could the reply have been a shorter one, possibly but did I feel it needed to be said/posted.......yes. If people wanted to know more about the track then they could have looked at the website where most of the info has been posted. If I had wanted to know if there was an issue I personally would have contacted the EMGS direct to enquire about any possible issue but perhaps that’s me.

Good morning all, I'm sorry if this repy upsets a few, well to be honest I'm not and it may also result in in me getting banned of here but its time to reply. I'm getting realy F$%^d off by peoples attitude towards the track. If your that unhappy with it then please fund your own and lets see how you get on. A couple of people who have commented have a vested intrest in what I can only see as an attempt to rubbish the product but more on that later. So as for the track and the main question. THERE IS NO ISSUE!!!!!!!!! The track is with the tolrances set out by us and Peco. several diffrent locos, 30 plus wagons have been run up and down a few lenghts and they all run well and there dont get stuck or hit any tight spots along the lenght So I supose I had better reply to each of the comments that have been posted, First up yes the socitey recived a message for Sandy (Penlan) on the facebook page to which I replied. After the message came through I had 5 catrons of track that had been delivered. Each carton had 5 boxs of track with 22 lenghts in it. this meant I had the following selection of track to check 22 lenghts x 5 boxes = 110 lenghts per carton 110 lenghts x 5 catrons = 550 lenghts. With me so far??, so I selected a random box from each carton = 5 boxes and then selected a random lenght from each box. This as im sure you will agree, would proivde the most random selection of track i could check. So using the roller gauges I had and a set of Vernier calipers (more on these too later) and a EM mint gauge I set about testing the track. I found that all the lenghts where in the tolances set out. I then contcated Peco who then tested a smaple of track they had recently made and found it too match the ones i had. I then conveyed this to Sandy who then informed me that he had cut the webbing away between the sleepers as he models pre-grouping and the spacing was wrong for his chosen era. I then finshed the converation saying that the track is aimed at those modellers who want to try EM but don't know how to build track not sesoned EM modellers. That is where the converstion stopped as i didnt feel that the converstion could have carried on, what else could be said. So next thing i know is when im on holiday i get a notication on this thread that sandy has posted up about the track and that it is under gauge. So you can imagine my suprise and you can also imagine my language that followed. I chose not to reply then as the reply would have just been a blank one after the profanity filter had removed all the words i would have typed. I have still been angry about it since as a few people who mentioned it at expoEM Autumn to me, sorry if you got both barrels. It was mentioend that the socitey has a duty under the sales of goods act, yes it dose but like eveything else if you have modifyed the track then that technically voids the warranty. I mean, would you buy a Bachmann engine for example start changing it then send it back to them asying its not working??? no I didnt thinks so, so why would you expect the socitey to do the same??????? So on to the Verniers, heres a question for you all, when you close the jaws that measure the outside of items to zero them, talking about digital ones. You just press the button on the front and its done, Yes?? So how do you zero the internal ones???? as far as im aware you can't (stand to be corrected if im wrong) and you assume that they are at Zero but it doesn't take much have a slight bend or nick in the end to alter the measurement surface. Looking forward to hearing how you all set the interal jaws to zero. There was a theroy that we had that due to the finescale nature of the track that the pressure from cutting the webing with the track upside down may have distirde the hold of the rail in the chairs. I did try it on a small section of track and it did alter it but not by as much as we thought. So on to gauges, yes you would assume (again) that the gauges that you buy would be correct for EM but this may not be the case. I have a brass EM roller gauge that I bought from a repuatable track compnay and during the testing of the lenghts above I found that it wouldn't sit down on the EM track or C&L track gain showing the track was tight. I thought that it might be a bit of track that may have been distorted, so I placed it on my EM layout to check and its was out there. Intresting so i got the calipers out and checked the measurments and found it to be out by 0.2 mm. So it might be worth checking any gauges that you buy to see if they are correct. The points have been checked using gauges that have been checked against the EM track standards and any tight spots mentioned to the Techical team at Peco to resolve. The two Pre-production ones that where at Railwells back in August where checked by others as well and connected to a bit section of plain track and then a wagon roller through them and the wagons ran fine and everyone who saw them was inpressed. To be honest at this point I'm not sure what else to write on the matter, other than to add that I am now no longer the trade officer of the EM Society and if you have any grevances with what has been wrritten above then please direct them at me and not the socitey as the words above are my own and no one elses. Thanks

WHAT!! you don't!!

Hi Martyn, Nice to be able to put a name to a face even if its only on a photo. I was the one taking the photo at the time. Gald you stayed and watched the trains go by. If you are at another show when we are exhibiting, please say hello as it would be nice to meet. Thanks Simon

At least there is a few of you who can understand that. Anyway we are taking this show topic off topic, so if there are any further questions then please post in the track thread. Thank you

Hi all, So the dust has settled after our recent trip to Derby where we had a great time at (to be fair we always do!!) dispite the layout having a few gremlins on the Saturday morning but we found a solution and after that we played trains for the rest of the weekend. Didn't get much chance to take photos but here a few of the ones we did get; We would like to thanks Paul and Alex for the loan of a couple of peices of stock for the wekend which cuased quite a stir with the viewing public. Our next exhibiton on the Charwelton into the 80's tour is Wigan in October 2020. Yes it may be over a year away but we have a list of work to be done to add to the experiance for the public and also for us. We will be updating you all on here and on our social media pages as well. Thanks

Hi, Many thanks for your kind comments about the layout, the work we have done and of course for taking the time to stand in front of the layout at Derby. Everytime we looked up from the operating well there was a sea of faces watching trains go by. If you have a copy of the DVD that came with the mag its got some video footage on there as well to just add to it all. Thanks Simon