Clagmeister

I thought that might be the case. Thank you very much for the reply, muchly appreciated.

Hello there, I am quite a way through the plans of a new N gauge layout which only consists of double track plain line in the viewing area. I hope to use finetrax flexi bullhead on wooden sleepers for that part. I just wanted to check that its compatable with standard peco track which I intend to use on the non scenic storage section. The second question relates around the DN distant signal for Gleneagles in the picture below. How on earth would i go about getting a working version of that? Thank you in advance Claggy

It has been a while. Moving jobs, moving houses and no time for modelling. Catching up with it all now. Nice to see an old favourite of a layout still going strong. I have plans for a sweeping curve on the Perth road in N that are coming together. Nice to catch up :-)

Still looking good.

Fabulous stuff!

Looking forward to seeing this one progress.

Fond memories of this layout. Tis a thing of the past now though but thanks to RMWeb i can look at it occasionally. A house move ment its end and subsequent trials in O gauge came to nothing. Mojo is back now though and the collecting has started for a simple late 50s early 60s Perth mainline representation in N gauge. Think its to be named Blackford-Gleneagles.

Oh my, they are wonderful models. Are they steel bodied like the Bemo ones? Have to say 222 does look better with the expansion link forward than on the new ones.

From the running shed roof

Made a start with detailing, ballasting and planning where the smoke generators and lights will go. Starting to come along a bit now.

Yes a little railway round to Bram Crag would be great. Ian and Dicken were still talking about it last time I saw them.

Thank you. Brilliant.

Hi, Does anyone know of anyone in the UK who does replacement numbers for HO/HOe locos? Or in Germany it doesn't really matter. Or failing that, any ingenious cheats or other ways you can do it? Thanks for anything in advance. Claggy

as good as I remember. hope 422 is better than the real one. Nothing but trouble for me on the Cumbrian Coast jobs. Like seeing 419 on those ballast hoppers at Rannoch, brings back some nice memories for me of working up there with that loco. What a cracking loco it is. Brilliant layout.

Should this be somewhere else as its a British line, but Narrow gauge and using foreign stock?

Should this be in here or in Layout topics. Anyway for now. 4562 recieves attention on the pit road at Galava at the ned of the day.

4562 receives some attention on the pit, prior to being put to bed this evening.

Spent most of the afternoon, cutting, fitting and sticking the concrete hard stand down outside the engineers shop. works fine, quite chuffed with the result.

Most services will be in the hands of these beauties. The Skelwith Bridge board when I do it should look like this with UK buildings and back scene.

Yeah, plus W&LLR did it, but where this differs is its a modern tourist operation with the majority of services in the hands of railcars like Austrian operation.

Thank you. It will be modern times on an old fictional track bed, using imported stock to operate a modern tourist system. Coniston to Rydal and Elterwater opened by the Furness Railway in 1897 as an extension to their standard gauge line. Built to 2ft gauge and used locomotives built by Manning Wardle which were roughly the same as those used on the L&B. There are plans to have old stock and locomotives built in the future so heritage trains can be run.

First movements on the Central Lake District Railway at Galava Works today. Trial fitting and testing 4562 backs a coach towards the engineering shop.

Hi, I'm back and have made a start on a new HOe/009 project. Based upon a fictional modern age project based in the Central Lakes. As a house move is on the cards this will be a modular system with the first board based around the railways operating centre named after the Roman Fort it is situated near on the outskirts of Ambleside. Have made a start marking stuff out and base painting, also before wiring and track laying I needed to put the Harz style inspection pit in. Here it is outside number 1 road of the running shed. If any of you have worked on a heritage line shovelling ash you might have experienced this. You'll notice in this pic that there is guy doing the work whilst another guy tells him how to do it better :-) There is a historic story to it which I'll bore you with later, and i'll do track plans and give you an idea of how its going to be. I hope to do photographs of the route too. Glad to be back although I have been lurking for a while, some great stuff on here as always. Claggy

26 is the actual maximum number of Cat 175-16 fitted 68's. The PU's have to be built by 31st December this year. Nothing else as it stands will fit in a 68. Anything built later would certainly sound duller anyway. 16-26 to be built from Nov 2015 onwards iirc.

Caolisport was mothballed whilst messing about on the railway took priority. Safe to say I have put my obsession with all things 37/4 and Scotland to bed now. Having ballasted the Mallaig road with 419 and worked a charter up there with 409 I'm cleansed. The locos are going in a cabinet and Caolisport has been pulled up. Tentatively starting a Carrick Roads layout using one part of the ashes of Caolisport. Small terminus station called St Just in Roseland as part of a branch to St Mawes. 45XX's, B sets and clay hoods will figure. Liking the changes at Waverley, a 'proper' big shed will look great.