Worsdell forever

I believe that the J38/39 classes were a direct development of the J26/27 and that Gresley did not like them being known as 'improved J27s' when drawn up at Darlington.

The D1676 van body went together well and can be seen during handrail fitting. After the van had stood for a few days, well ok over a week, I noticed that the end vents had bowed in. This was rectified by fitting small lengths of 40thou plastic strip under them.

A brace of LMS vans... These two vans are Cambrian kits. The first is an ex MR D.664. The kit features a 'one piece underframe' but is otherwise pretty straight forward. The second is a D.1664 kit (the LMS version of the MR D.664) but modified to a D.1676 ventilated van. The ends have been modified by removing the X bracing and adding ventilator hoods from 20 and 10thou plasticard, based on photos of two of these wagons on pages 37 &38 of Geoff Kent's '4mm wagon' part 2. Correct RCH pattern ribbed buffers (ABS I think) were also fitted. The ends as they come. Ends modified Roof ventilators, spare from a Chivers LNER Pigeon van, were fitted. Dimensions were taken from a drawing in Bob Essery's 'Official drawings of LMS wagons vol 2'

Brrrrrrr! about -2 on the Yorkshire coast, but got warmed up spreading salt on the drive at work!

The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming. Sea Sick Steve - Doghouse Music.

Something a little different - a Quoits pitch for Greyscroft Mine... As My layout is set in the Ceveland area of the North Riding of Yorkshire I thought it would be nice to have a Quoits pitch next to the pub (well just over the road) as is the tradition in these parts. Find out more about Quoits HERE, scoll down to 'The Northern Game'. The base of the model was made from a piece of 2mm card with the 3' square 'boxes' , made from plasticard planking. Track pins were pushed through from below in the centre of the boxes 11 yards apart, these will be the 'Hobs'. The boxes were filled level with filler and painted to represent clay. The Hobs were then cut off to about 1mm above the clay. Back boards were also made from plasticard planking. The rest of the base was then covered with Woodland scenics ground foam scatter to represent mown grass. Covers are used to protect the clay when not in use, usually a wood frame with a 'Tin sheet' top. I made mine from a plasticard frame with SE finecast corrugated sheet for the top. Quoits are 5 1/2" internal diameter and weigh 5 1/2 lb, made from forged steel and I believe still made locally. Mine are from etched washers filed down a little and punched with a home made punch to create the correct dish - 'Hill' and 'Hole'. To be continued...

Index to WF's Workbench - this will be added to/updated as and when I get a chance/remember! E1 conversion from Mainline J72 (2015) J24 1860 - Arthur Kimber kit (2015) NER P7 Hopper, CD. (2015) (and here, lettered) 1001 class 1093 scratchbuild (2015) S1 Ironstone hopper (2016) NER Class 398 scratchbuild (2019) NER Class 44, conversion from Mainline J72 (2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To get thing started on here a couple of photos of J26 65763 that was built on the old forum. ( Link to old forum ) It's pretty much finished but needs weathering but I need a good airbrush before that will happen. Since the last post on the old forum I have glazed the cab spectacles and side windows, added coal and fire irons to the tender and fitted a crew. It also ran without fault on Greyscroft Mine at Shipley. And the tender, didn't realise how dusty it was until I looked at the photos.

That's just an A4 on the road surly! I had a problem about 5/6 years ago when I was ready to paint my Tyneside electric stock in wartime/post war blue & grey. Most sources state blue and grey (well I knew this) but a couple said Marlborough Blue and Quaker Grey, Marlborough blue is turquoise and no one seemed to know what Quaker grey was. Then I came across a colour shot of an A4 in central station with an electric train in the background, the colours couldn't be relied on but it was definitely the same colour as the A4. This was what I decided on, Garter blue and light cream upper with Dark grey roof. I have since been told that this is correct.

Sorry Rammy (and others) the plan,like the second photo, doesn't want to show it's self.

Hi Rammy, I'll put a plan on.

WagRep (Teesside) Ltd. N Gauge ??“ Privatisation. This is my first attempt at both N gauge and modern traction. The main reason for building the layout was that a large retailer was selling Dapol Freightliner 66's for ??39, which turned out to be an expensive loco as it ran well and I decided I needed somewhere to run it. I also wanted to see if it was possible to have a reliable shunting layout in N, something that I haven't seen since the late Andy Calvet's 'Nether Stowey', I ran that for an afternoon and it ran just as well as the best 4mm layouts. The layout is based on an article in the February 2008 Railway Modeller, entitled 'moderN micro' by Paul A Lunn where he describes a small freight railhead and loco repair works. I've altered the track plan a little, added a loop and doubled the length by adding a yard at one end, so not exactly as Paul intended, but I'm sure he would recognize it if he saw it. I have used only RTR loco??™s and stock from Farish and Dapol weathered and fitted with DG couplings. Track is Peco code 55, buildings are either scatchbuilt or American kits. Portacabins are from Knightwing, containers are Farish and Dapol and the road vehicles are Herpa and Wiking. The backscene is made up from photographs taken around the railway on Teesside. Control is DCC, originally I used a Bachmann Dynamis but it proved so unreliable that I bought a cheap basic Bachmann DCC controller and this works perfectly. Mr.S.Corn fitted most of the chips including the 08 which was a bit tricky and the Dapol 66 which was not designed for DCC. WagRep is featured in the August 2009 Railway Modeller.

To get things started I thought I would give you a guided tour around My layouts. Fellburn 00 This was my first exhibition layout, started around 2000. It made it's first outing in it's completed form in May 2004 at Bridlington. It apeared in the September 2004 British Railway Modelling and has been to around 15 exhibitions since then, from Kidderminster in the south to Glasgow in the north. The setting is industrial Tyneside in 1947, with blue and cream electric stock (regularly mistaken for DMU's at exhibitions) and plenty of Worsdell locos trundling about. Up starter signals at the west end of the island platform. Station building spanning the tracks. An electric train for the coast crosses the viaduct over the Fellburn waggonway. A G5 heading for the coast waits as J21 5076 heads west with fish vans. After the fish train has gone G5 7304 can continue on it's way to the Northumbrian coast.