Penrhos1920

What printer have you bought?

8 hours ago, 88C said:

I’m not an expert on 3D printing but I would suggest going for the better version and you will be able to print more of the rolling stock that you are going to need.

 

 I am still old school and work in brass and plastic, currently building a Barry brake van that I have had for years. I have seen your Shapeways shop with them listed.

 

Look forward to further progress.

 

Brian

Brian if I could buy a few brass Barry brake van kits I would.  I’ve built one and would build a few more if I could get my hands on them, but last time I asked Redcraft or not planning to sell any more.  

Bacck to the layout and there is a little progress.  Chris has printed the first 7 'bricks' that form the sleepers of the Rhymney track on the first baseboard. 

They are much better than the ones my son printed.  Chris has one of the printers that Martin recommends and has used the printer settings that Martin has optimised.  My son has a different printer and hasn't been able to optimise the settings.  About half an hours work tidying up the clips and removing a bit of the timber flanges and they all join toegther nicely.

So now I have to get on printing the railchairs.  To do that I need to buy a resin printer.  I can't decide between buying the one Martin recommends (Geeetech Alkaid at £91 in P&P) or whether to push the boat out a little to say £150 and buy something with a better resolution that will print tank loco bodies nicely.

On 02/06/2022 at 16:59, Penrhos1920 said:

First a view from the middle of board 17 looking under the Blackbrook Rd bridge which crosses board 18. It shows the AD tracks on the left and Rhymney tracks through the middle.  In the background is the Rhymney Penrhos North signal box and the tracks spliting to Rhymney on the left and Caerphilly on the right.

 

 

 

 

Same road bridge but viewed from the other end of the junctions.  Looks like someone has filled the space with Rapido test prints.

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/181073-usatc-s160-in-oo/page/2/

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

I could be tempted by one of these beasts from Rapido, anyone else up for a S160.

 

I need 100 of them to model Penrhos in 1944.  I think it’ll be cheaper to stick to modelling 1920

I wish I knew that it was only 2 wires.  It’s so much easier than 1,000,000,000 wires.

On 17/04/2024 at 12:44, Skinnylinny said:

I too collected mine from Harburn. With the beautiful sunshine in Edinburgh yesterday, I couldn't resist a quick snapshot while waiting for a tram... 

 

I love that shade of blue.  If only more PO wagons were that colour rather than black or grey.

On 17/04/2024 at 07:42, Andy Keane said:

Does anyone have a photo of an E19 to confirm the drawing that shows the narrow window on the the 5th compartment from the left hand end?

https://gwrcoaches.org.uk/LowRoofs.shtml#E19

It leads to a very shallow seat in that compartment.

Sorry that’s a scanning error.  Most of the Jack Slinn drawings had to be scanned in 2 or 3 sections and then stitched together.  If you look at the compartment widths you’ll see it’s the same as the adjacent compartments.  Most Dean era coaches had the same width windows regardless of compartment width or class.  The exceptions are some Metro coaches, saloons and some corridor coaches.

17 hours ago, br2975 said:

Both the Cl.231 and Cl.756 units are articulated within the set, and have a central power car, as shown in the images here, taken at Llanishen, in northern Cardiff,  on the Rhymney route.

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Does that make them 3½  and 4½ coach units respectively?

On 16/04/2024 at 19:45, drduncan said:

I'm going to start a Dean low roofed brake tricomposite appreciation thread...just sayin'

😁

D

Please can U12, U17, U22, U25 & U26 join in?  U27 & U29 are very dissappointed that they are excluded.

On 14/04/2024 at 01:08, Schooner said:

Two interesting photos, if one is interested in raising the profile of a certain class of tank engine...

 

😇

Since you're all talking about the van at the backI'll chip in with my tuppence.  It has flat sides with no tumblehome and is possibly taller than the E40s in front of it.  So I'd say it wasn't built by the GWR.  It could be something they bought before 1870 or absorbed.

Why is the train there?  Did Helston have a second platform at some time?

What interests me is whatever is hiding behind the loco's chimney.  It that an eliptical roof?

6 hours ago, Andy Keane said:

As I potter on and wait for the new Rapido B set E140 coaches to arrive I have been wondering about what bogie coaches would have been used before the E140s got to Helston. I have a couple of photos of B-set like coaches at Helston and it would be good to know what diagrams they were. I think the first photo is E40. The second is rather like E19 but Russell's drawing of this does not show the bulge for brake handle next to the "slip" window on the end (I now see that the drawing of E19 on https://gwrcoaches.org.uk/LowRoofs.shtml#E19 does show the bulge so assume that must be what it is). Does anyone know better or have access to coach allocations for Helston in the Edwardian period?

E19 and E40 look about Wright. You’ll be very lucky to find any coach workings that early for Helston. You might consider a four coach set such as  T36 S9 U4 T47 or T49

On 06/04/2024 at 18:33, gwrrob said:

A heads up from the Kernow newsletter to say that both bogies are available as separate items now.

 

https://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/p/89421/K9009-Kernow-Models-GWR-Steam-Railmotor-Fishbelly-Bogie

 

 

Is the price £7.99 per bogie or per pair?  I think it’s the former but I want to check before ordering as I don’t want to purchase twice as many as I need.!

Over the past week or so it has become almost impossible to view RMweb on my old iPad.  The hamburger menu no longer works at all. And photos aren’t being displayed.  What is the  minimum iOS required to view RMWeb?

On 25/03/2024 at 16:46, Skinnylinny said:

. They've enough to deal with now that I'm getting back into organ practice too (well, as best I can with a MIDI keyboard, and an old church organ pedalboard that I've managed to acquire and am planning to MIDI-ify...) but at least that I can do on headphones!

Hauptwerk or Grandorgue?

13 hours ago, Lacathedrale said:

"Can ya guess what it is, yet?"

 

Well it isn’t LBSCR, LC&DR or SER.  

5 hours ago, Nile said:

 

An alternative is available from Pre-Grouping Railways:

https://pregroupingrailways.com/product-category/flippem-automatic-coupling-system/

 

Unfortunately there’s no photos showing what the coupling looks like or how it works on that pages

On 19/03/2024 at 11:55, Coppercap said:

It's hardly a 'variation' - I don't think anything you can see is common to the Kernow version. It would need to be a completely new model, and most unlikey to appear. These weren't very long lived when compared to the one we now have, limiting their appeal. Also, the fact that there isn't a 12" to the foot model to measure (only drawings, and photos) would make it even more unlikely.

 Alternately you could keep the power unit bogie and put the rest on eBay. I’m sure somebody would like to buy the body and convert it into an auto coach. 

On 16/03/2024 at 16:19, Guardian said:

Dear All,

 

As I recently aquired set 3 (choc/cream twin cities crest) of the Toplight City coaches, I am curious about the proper traction of such set prior to the introduction of GWR 61XX class in 1931.

 

Was it simply the preceding sub-classes, I.e. classes 5101 and 3100/5100? Or (also) something completely different?

 

Thank you.

 

Best,

Mark 

Where the city trains hauled by Metropolitan electrics after the metropolitan was electrified around 1908?

1 hour ago, RapidoCorbs said:

V17s being V16s fitted with screw couplings for working in France/Belgium. Although the couplings are not modelled, the van is painted as a V17 - converted back to V16 or X6 (later Y4) post-war.

 Didn’t they have the buffers packed out a couple of inches because the screw couplings are longer?   Other wagons that were fitted with screw couplings during the first world war for working in France definitely did. 

This North’s Navigation  has been modelled with the number in the centre at the top, whereas the photos have it on the bottom right plank.  Also remember that some wagons have Cardiff rather than Bridgend.

17 minutes ago, Guardian said:

Dear All,

 

As I recently aquired set 3 (choc/cream twin cities crest) of the Toplight City coaches, I am curious about the proper traction of such set prior to the introduction of GWR 61XX class in 1931.

 

Was it simply the preceding sub-classes, I.e. classes 5101 and 3100/5100? Or (also) something completely different?

 

Thank you.

 

Best,

Mark 

Metro tanks, eg 458 or County tanks

 In in the 1920s what traffic flowed eastbound through the Rhondda tunnel? Was it just empty wagons or was there any anthracite? 

 Was there an RCH book that gave approved routes for mineral and goods? 

KT7/157  there’s no photographs. It is about the 20 ton wagons hired from the GWR. 

KT6/115

Gloucester wagons all red, white letters with black shading

184 Bridgend 6 planks 

1647, 1931, 2197 Bridgend 7 planks

1055, 1145 Cardiff 7 planks.    all of these are from orders where the other numbers weren’t recorded. 

In 1922 numbers 3300 to 3399 bought from Cambrian wagon works.   Numbers 3000 to 3599 also came from Cambrian in 1924. 

KT12/3 is a copy of a postcard of the colliery.   Although wagons are visible no numbers are visible.