Melly

Now... if you were selling a £175 sound loco would you mount it on a fence post to photo it! Not me - knowing my luck I'd knock it off and break it. Doh!!

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item1c256cb44d

Well......it was just a matter of time I guess. My 31110 has finally gone droopy at one end indicating Mazak failure; luckily caught early with no damage to body. Chassis back to Hornby then!

Ahh - just browsing Railheads photo's and was reminded of the UKF Fertiliser trains!!

47628,Hereford,20-4-1985 by railhereford, on Flickr

Ah another great picture - 40046 used to be based in the sidings at Moreton-on-Lugg (the old logistics Depot) for training purposes for the secret Hfd regiment. In the background is the shunter on the head-shunt for the sidings.

37431+40046,Hereford,16-7-1986 by railhereford, on Flickr

It's amazing what you find a http://www.flickr.co...N07/4633003867/ and http://www.flickr.co...N07/4633436308/ had completely forgotten about the old railway bridge until I saw that last photo!!

Jonas that is correct - the line swings through a tight curve to the left (with a check rail on the left side), straightens out under the road bridge and then turns right again toward the entry to the Bulmer’s complex. I seem to remember that there was a triangle of track left (installed) next to the Bulmer’s complex circa early 80's in order to let the Steam engines turn around; King George VI and Princess Elizabeth were often out on the Marches Line. Seem to remember Clan-Line being around as well. My Dad has a few books on the railways around Had; I'll have a look and see what plans etc I can find!

I've draw on the Google Map of Hfd showing where I remember the lines went. The blue line was the branch with the red where the dual sidings for the Power station fuel lines were; this was also the entry to the Bulmer’s Steam centre. The green line shows roughly where the steam centre tracks were and the pink the turning triangle that was laid outside the steam centre.

Postscript - on the old fotopic site was a guy modelling Hfd in N gauge - had made the most fantastic replica of the impressive station building. Never saw the layout represented in any other form though.

Best of luck

Melly

Hi Jonas - as a Hfd lad born and now left it was good to read your thread about the old 'stomping ground'. Indeed it was an interesting place, well in the early 80's when I was interested in the railways and collecting numbers.

We were driven to school each day (77-80) along the Burcott Road (under the narrowest bridge in christendom!) and remember there being activity at Colas and getting stuck (quite often) behind BDA's being propelled into Painter Bros. There was often steel deliveries into the yard that was tripped around to Wiggins by the local BR arctic (A yellow Bedford with a longer the normal trailer).

Brian, I didn't know about the bitumen - I'm assuming that would use TTA or similar. Do you think this too was part of the speedlink network, or was it served by a block train?

I remember there being a double headed south-bound class 25 bitumen working each evening circa 1830. This used to stop and collect wagons from the Bars Court sidings and then head off. http://www.flickr.co...ds1/2325173588/ http://www.flickr.co...ds1/2324359175/

Blimey!!

25235_25213,Hereford,15-6-1984 by railhereford, on Flickr

- i have this picture - probably know who took it !!! Same with the circa 1800 parcels working, single 25, collect 2XGUV from the Bars Court Sidings and then head off south again.

25268,Hereford,24-12-1984 by railhereford, on Flickr

A few on the Bulmer’s branch

08932,Hereford,4-3-1988 by railhereford, on Flickr

08932,Hereford,4-3-1988 2 by railhereford, on Flickr

The branch leaves the sidings just in front of the 40!!

40122,37308,Hereford,8-7-1985 by railhereford, on Flickr

Notice that the signal box has been demolished.

As well as revenue earning traffic there was a lot of stuff to be found for engineering and PW work as required and the yard was used in the late 80's early 90's for storing surplus wagons

I've been searching for ages for pictures and details of the small PW C&W repair depot (ahem shed!) that was situated just to the north of the College Road bridge near the timber yard on Burcott Road. I remember seeing a wagon on jacks there once, on the small concreted section, having an axle change. Would love to model it as a small cameo. Please - if anyone has any pictures please let me know.

Moving on - I remember watching a Class 47 reversing a long train of 100ton tanks up the Branch to the Power Station at Bulmer’s (as Swindon 123 mentions). Buy was there a lot of flange squealing around that 'checked rail' curve! Other memories include the Class 33 Crewe Cardiff / Cardiff Crewe trains. The circa 2115 north-bound postal; Class 47 hauled (usually returning a non CF or BR machine up north) a TPO with a BSK and BCK (?)

Favourite working was the Mossend - Severn Tunnel Junction Speedlink that was sometimes Class 40 hauled plus numerous north and south bound steel trains - BBA / BAA wagons. The 2 London trains were Class 50 (occasionally Class 47) hauled. The first at 2000 hrs would run around in the platform and then reverse down to the carriage sidings. The second 2100 hrs would run round and stable in Platform 2 overnight.

Normally we would wait for the Pengam - Crewe freightliner (Class 56 hauled) go north at 2145 before heading off home. Always Class 37's stabled during the week and weekends. Unfortunately I sent all my good photo's off to Rail Express many years ago and they haven't returned them :-(.

A good photo here:

47286,Hereford yard,11-4-1988 by railhereford, on Flickr

and here

47150,Hereford Railyard,16-8-1988 by railhereford, on Flickr

And there are lots of good shots in his album: http://www.flickr.co...s/railhereford/

An interesting rail town - might be worth getting to the library for an old map / plan of the track layout

Edited to show embeded picture after approval by picture owner!

Excellent stuff - really enjoyed your 210 DEMU stuff on your Workbench thread. Look forward to seeing more of this layout.

After seeing the list of new Hornby products for 2011 I am wondering if BR Blue Grid 082 is going to have the orange cantrail stripe as seen here in February 1988:

If not Alex - you can always do it with transfers knowing how we all love this irksome task so much .

Melly (busy adding cantrail transfers to 37185 Buccaneer!)

Best wishes Alex, have really enjoyed the updates this year, looking forward to seeing further developments in 2011. Railfreight rules KO.......

£1500 for a circa 4ft by 4 ft railway!! And you are supposed to want to buy based on 3 poxy cropped photo's!

OO Layout

That's a cracking wagon - is it based on the cambrian salmon?

This evening I put the test pieces up against the side of the shed to see how it looked and have to say that I am very pleased with the result. Just how I had hoped it would look turn out which is very good.

 

A couple of photos, the quality is not great as they were taken with my phone. Couldn’t find the compact camera!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That works! Very much got the Toton feel about it.

Yes I believe it did. I had one of the 'Launch Models'; they were the first 500 imported (so i was told) and came with headlamp washers, sunroof and electric windows. Sunburst red on the W plate. I'll check my photo's when I get home as I think the black window surround on the rear 3/4 window extended down toward a point. Loved that car - even after the timing belt went and cylinders and valves had a coming together Don't forget the compulsory 'racing stripes' at the recess 1/3 of the way up and the crease on the bodyside at 2/3 up .

The real thing as once owned by me - mind you the insurance at 19 was £45 per month 3rd party

Did the base models have a black stripe along the bottom of the body too? This is on the XR3is as I added it to mine

Yes I believe it did. I had one of the 'Launch Models'; they were the first 500 imported (so i was told) and came with headlamp washers, sunroof and electric windows. Sunburst red on the W plate. I'll check my photo's when I get home as I think the black window surround on the rear 3/4 window extended down toward a point. Loved that car - even after the timing belt went and cylinders and valves had a coming together Don't forget the compulsory 'racing stripes' at the recess 1/3 of the way up and the crease on the bodyside at 2/3 up .

A fantastic piece of work and very realistic - top work. Shame about the 'banana' Mk3's though , maybe I'll just keep the Lima ones afterall

08 leaving the shed

Sleeper from footpath

Dave - stunning in all aspects; a credit to you and an inspiration to us all. Loved the deltic clip - especially the ultra realistic flickering light under the rufueling canopy .

Looking forward to seeing more!