Clagmeister

How are the sea trials coming along? Did Cochrane Shipbuilders of Selby get it right?

I rang Chris Green again this afternoon, stating there was a wealth of support for bringing back the shunter. He said "no chance, your lucky you still have any freight at all". Thats that then. Anyway, Once Hebridean Isles completes its sea trials it will be on station at Caolisport shortly after that, may be 2 or 3 weeks. Caolisport as the name suggests is a port I thought I'd better show you developments. The breakwater is in made from pink granite, sure the boulders are too big, I'll have to see on this. Jetty is in with deatiling and weathering etc to do. Linkspan is in, not really happy with it but my scratch building isn't that good so it will have to do. Car waiting area almost done, just need to do pavements etc. As longs as it looks ok, alongside the ferry i will be happy. The gaps between the boards wasn't there until I put a fair few stone of railway ballast on them Hopefully Heb will hide that! I need lots of port clutter now. Any help with this would be really appreciated. Some pics for you. cheerio Claggy

Sorry missed those. Duh! Thats better, I'm there now rather than just trains on a railway. A bit more hectic than Caolisport I rekon. Can you imagine the amount of spare men sitting around, either in the pub or in the Llanbourne card school. Claggy

Nice! Wheres that peak going? And the 47 on what I presume is a speedlink where is that off to? Any chance we could see you operating cards or whatever you use?, I'm always interested to see how other people do it. Claggy

Peter, That sounds great, the sort of thing I could get lost in for some considerable time. What form is it in? I wonder where I'd get a copy from now? Railwayana place I suppose. Yes a 20 would be nice, and the area manager did suggets having a class 20 when the 08 was taken away December 1985 but Chris Green refused point blank stating "the sleeper engine sits there all day doing nothing it can be your shunter". cheerio Claggy

Thanks Peter and thanks Gary again, great stuff. I have been working on my loco diagrams at the moment. I need 8 37/4s but only have 6 at the moment, although number 7 is on its way. Does anybody know how Eastfield named their loco diagrams in the late 80'? It would be nice to know. Passenger Diagrams Diagram 1 0700 Caolisport-Glasgow Queen St Fuel 1220 Glasgow Queen St-Caolisport 1740 Caolisport-Glasgow Queen St to ED Diagram 2 0803 Glasgow Queen St-Caolisport 1220 Caolisport-Glasgow Queen St 1745 Glasgow Queen St-Cambletown to dia 3 Diagram 3 0515 Cambletown-Caolisport 0850 Caolisport-Cambletown 1045 Cambletown-Caolisport 1255 Caolisport-Cambletown 1600 Cambletown-Caolisport 1800 Caolisport-Cambletown 2030 Cambletown-Caolisport to Dia 1 Diagram 4 0455 Glasgow Queen St-Caolisport Sleeper Caolisport spare/shunt loco 2015 Caolisport-Glasgow Queen St sleeper to ED Leaving me with 2 locos to cover the Mossend-Caolisport and return speedlink and the Ineos Baxter COY overnight return. So 6 not enough really if I want to see them in a prototypical way. In comments or thoughts greatly recieved. Anway cheerio Claggy

Gary, Thanks for that. I might have known you would know. Would Glenuig have had its own thru coach? After 89 then it seemed like the FW sleeper was reduced to 1or 2 MK3 Sleepers, 1or 2 1st Class air con Mk2s, and a full brake. Not much of a load. Why the first class air con Mk2s? Surely some standard seating should have to be provided too? Thinking of possibly putting a motor rail ramp in. Havn't seen many pics of motor rail vans at FW although I know they did run, what years did they try that? I assume that was an early 90's thing because the only pics I have seen include 403 in green with the wrong name and Intercity Livery coaches. Thanks again chaps Claggy

Help please! As this place is the answer to any question you could ask. When did the day coaches added to the London-Fort William sleeper at Glasgow stop. Can't find any good pics from 1989/1990. I suspect it was when the train started getting split at Edinburgh but I'm not sure. If you look at Yellowvanmans pics above the extra coaches are the MK1s next to the engine. I wonder what date that is? Thanks in advance. My 20 sided dice thru up a problem for me today. 37409 has failed on its way in with the 1220 from Glasgow Queen St at Inverary. Its going to cause me problems but I'm sure its sortable. On a scenic note I have had a spare piece of land next to the throat of the station and can't decide what to do with it. Church, Kyle style gas holder, school, playground, really don't know. Any interesting ideas out there? cheerio Claggy

That pic of 'OUR 12A PET' waiting the RA is absolutely brill. Claggy

Great pics yellow van man. Look how FW has changed near the station. Thanks Clifford, if you do see some 1986-1989 WTT that would be great, full price etc etc. Superb stuff. That 37/6 sound in 37410 does sound a bit clattery doesn't it. Not sure I should post this, men in white coats will be around shortly. Oh well here it is. Links.xls That took some working out I can tell I'd personally really like the Inverary job in the morning, the am or pm shunts or Lochgilphead/Cambletown trip jobs. Easy life! Claggy

37410 leaving Caolisport on the sleeper tonight. Sounds come from a 37/6 recorded on an RHTT set in Aspatria cutting on the West Cumbrian Line

37410 leaving on the sleeper tonight.

Hi Andrew, Yes all the 37's are DCC sound fitted with recordings from various DRS workings. Here is a link to the only sound clip I've done so far. The sounds are produced by a friend on the railway who has access to the locos with me. The sound in 37407 comes from me with 37423 on the workington shuttles. Not many recordings around of a 37/4 with ETS switched on. 37407 squeals around the curve at Camusfearna before powering off towards Druimdrishaig. That OTA looks great! I'm going to cheat though and wait for the Hornby ones. Thanks for you comments. cheerio Claggy

I suppose you'd have to get the first one off Perth in the morning to Queen St. Should be able to get there to catch the 0803 to Caolisport arriving at 1050. (thats a Glasgow Queen St Top Link turn). Bit of time to kill before the next ferry departure with the Heb on the 1500 sailing to Port Ellen. Mind you 2 or 3 good pubs in Caolisport and a 37/4 or 2 to look at on the point. You'd then have 45 mins on Islay before returning and landing back at Caolisport at 1945. Finally catching the sleeper back to Queen St at 2015. That would get you into Queen St at 0005 not sure of onward connection back to Perth at that time of night. Sounds like a long day. Claggy

Great thanks, Seperate Sunday one it is then. Sounds right now you say. Thats why I hadn't seen a SUX before. Do you actually have a 1986 Timetable? Where would I get one of those, none of my DRS mates are any help. Claggy

I thought I'd just show you the Caolisport-Cambletown-Glasgow-London timetable from June 1986 I'd like to get it looking like the real thing if anyone had any ideas. Also if you see any glaring holes or non railway style working please feel free to suggest improvements/corrections. Not sure if anyone is inerested though. Caolisport times.doc Claggy

Thats it for 37114, it has gone back to IS.(friends railway 10 miles away called Kind of Lochish ) Apparantly though 37401 in original Mainline Red stripe livery could be winging its way to Caolisport in the next few weeks.( I know its not Nov 1988 by the way). Arhhh PCM, 33's and 47's. Westbury, Weymouth, Bristol man per chance? I signed 33's with DRS a few years ago before we stupidly sold them to WCRC. Great little machines. I have to make do with 37409 and 37423 now cheerio Claggy

I swear this is the last post for a while. You would have had to be quick to catch 37114 on the 1755 pax to Glasgow. Seen here leaving Caolisport with the train whilst 37404 waits to come off the stabling point to work the SLK on the right in the yard that 37114 should have worked. And as stated in the previous post before shunting its sleeper stock 37410 collected the errant 425 from the headshunt in the station and is captured dragging it away in this shot. cheerio Claggy

Breaking news! 37425 did arrive at Caolisport on the 1215 from Glasgow Queen St delayed with traction motor problems. It was decided to step up 37114 from its SLK duty, and move 37404 from tomorrow mornings SLK duty to tonights. This still leaves 37410 for tonights sleeper. Concrete Bob arrives at Caolisport in disgrace, later removed by 37410 to the stabling point. 37114, 37404 and 37410 await their next duties at a busy Caolisport stabling point. Some operational changes meant 37114 left the point shortly after this picture was taken. cheerio AGAIN Claggy

Its all down to the roll of a dice. Unless the Caolisport chaps could do a swap. Its presently sitting on the stabling point waiting to work its final SLK back to Mossend. If one of the 37/4's were to go kerblamo then it may possibly end up on the sleeper or on the Cambletwon branch passenger. Now the dice is a 20 sided one that a friend that used to do roll play games gave me. Each of the numbers corresponds to some sort of operational problem. It gets rolled every 8 hours to see what it throughs up. I'll let you know. Number 13 is " Loco for 1720 Glasgow failed on arrival at CT" One of the signalmen at Inverary has said that 425 sounded poorly on its way in from Glasgow. Now PCM those pics are great! Thinks thats Mossend in the last one. They were the days. Very dull on our 66's up there now. Although they are good for sleeping on when we spend 6 hours at Mossend over night. Never did go bashing in the late 80's. I was only 13 in 1988. Used to spend a lot of Holiday time sat on the hill above Tom Na Faigh depot though with my sandwiches. That is where Caolsiport comes from really. Claggy

Superb! Amazing what a bit of space around the railway can do. Now then, explain the operation of this layout to me. How interesting it looks to operate. cheerio Claggy

Please do. I'm as you may have guessed a bit of a tractor nut.

Sorry me again. My take on the real picture from page 1 of this thread. This pic should have been in with the last 2. Archie McClucky and his Bedford TK prepare to collect another load of slurry for Teallachs Paperboard from the silver bullets dumped on the old yard. The wagons arrive on Monday and depart on Thursday, it takes Archie all of that time to get them emptied. cheerio Claggy

Hi, Trains meet at Achahoish Junction. 37114 returns early from Cambletown with 1 van in tow and has to wait as 37425 arrives from Glasgow and has the road into Caolisport. cheerio Claggy

Thanks Rich. There will be no ying er dee ying at Caolisport. If a decent 156 ever comes out when I get to 1989(still Feb 1986 at the mo) I may switch to them. It would stop all this running round nonsense. cheerio Claggy