Worsdell forever

We'll be there on Saturday, seen a couple of sheepy layouts but never the Sheep himself!

I had thought about that, it would be possible but I don't think it would have the capacity.

The legs for the layout are the same as for The Depots, at the moment it's exactly the same footprint, 12' x 2'6" although this will of course have a fiddle yard at each end with the possibility of moving these along and adding another 3' board of countryside at each end. There was a bit of an issue with one of the legs, it popped up through the bed of the beck... This was soon sorted. The boards are held together with these spikey captive nuts and M6 bolts that can be whizzed in and out with the drill.

After the style of layout and a rough idea of a track plan had been decided the whole thing was sketched out full size then drawn full size a little more accurately using a couple of carriages and the buildings already completed (weigh office), nearly complete (station building) or a close alternative (signal cabin) to gauge size and position on the layout. Baseboards are fairly standard, 9mm plywood with a semi open construction, the land sloping from the back of the layout to the front with Bilsdale beck running the full length of the layout.

The back story for the line is all decided, it's in a similar style to the Whitby to Loftus line where a small (in this case the third fictitious) local company started to build then ran out of money and the NER finished the build then leased and later bought the line. I think the tunnel would be a bit further up the valley.

The track plan is based on various stations in the area, such as Snainton, Hovingham and Kettleness. Proposed traffic. Despite the lack of Ironstone this far west there was still plenty of traffic to keep the line reasonably busy, a cattle train ran from the Pickering line to Stokesley on market days, through passenger trains from Teesside to Scarborough and a Saturdays only York to Stockton and return, reversing at Helmsley.

Chop Yat (Chop Gate) on the York, Helmsley and Stockton Railway. There were a couple of proposed lines through Bilsdale, linking the west of the Vale of Pickering with the Cleveland district. First the Leeds, North Yorkshire and Durham Railway (LNDR) in 1864 was backed by LNWR to end the monopoly of the NER and to extract Ironstone which it turned out wasn't there, the NER fought this proposal and it never came to anything. The Ingleby, Bilsdale and Helmsley Railway. (IBHR). was proposed 1874 in partnership with NER but again nothing came of it. And then in the late 1870s, in our small scale world at least, there came a proposal from the York, Helmsley and Stokesley Railway. (YHSR), enough financial backing was found and a start was made on the line, ultimately the NER completed the line and it opened in 1882 from Helmsley on the Gilling to Pickering line to the North Yorkshire and Cleveland branch near Great Broughton east of Stokesely. The line left the Gilling and Pickering branch a little west of Helmsley station (creating a through route from Pickering and Scarborough), it wound it's way up Bilsdale following first the river Rye then the Seph and finally Bilsdale beck to the top of the dale with stations at Reivaulx, Hawnby, Chop Yat (Chop Gate) in Bilsdale and after negotiating Clay Bank the line emerged into the vale of Cleveland where the last station was at Great Broughton before it made a junction with the North Yorkshire and Cleveland line east of Stokesley where trains ran into the station and could continue on via Picton to Stockton. Rough sketch of the railways of the North York Moors.

Spot on in black and white, especially the Q6 at the start.

Well, we were coming to see you but now I'm not so sure. 😁

As others have said, no. But there is a C2 open in the next to last siding top right.

Was expecting to see it posed next to the whalebones...

Also rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese etc? or would these be mostly crated and in a passenger guards van?

It is possible to use methfix without meths. lay the transfer face down as usual on a glossy surface, I only use Klear or it's current formula, add water and WUL and leave it until the tissue loosens then gently slide it off with a brush, position the transfer where it's needed and gently dab AROUND it with a cotton bud, dabing on it will lift it, make sure it's in the correct position then leave it, after a few minutes give it a gentle brush over with Klear, if it moves reposition it then leave it alone, maybe giving it another coat later. I find this way so much easier.

Just put some EM ones together last week, early cast crossing ones and later rail fabricated ones and they went together in a few minutes, they do appear to curl a little but once glued down seem to be quite stable.

Never come across that wagon sheet rail, The cages of course are well known though they only lasted a few years.

Driver and co-driver.

Ah, if your device has frozen hold the on/off button an force it to restart, should be fine after that. Happy to help 😁

I thought a Manor was a big house usually in a village, Granges round our way are usually farms, we hang our coats in the Hall, a County is a big area with towns and villages etc in it, a King wears a sparkly hat and a Saint has a glowing hat about 4" above his head. Hope this clears things up. E. N. Cyclopedia.

Arty what's? They're not that bad...

Its a North Eastern class J.

The poster is advertising accompanied children under 14 free!

There was an exhibition for a few years about 12/13 years ago in the (rather optimistically named) Grand Hotel in Bishop Aukland, the show was in the function room next to the bar, and they often put on a small beer festival over that weekend in the yard around the back. This is kind of appropriate here...

It's 1955 and J26 65763 waits at Greyscroft's up home signal with the pick up goods from Loftus.

Used DGs for many years, first remember seeing them on a layout called Eivis (I think) from possibly Barnard Castle? then when I saw the late Andy Calvert making them up while demonstrating at Doncaster (remember the balcony in the old racecourse building?) I ordered some that week and I've been hooked (pun very much intended...) ever since. Normally only have to 'intervene' a handful of times during a weekend of shunting at a show. I build them with a loop at one end and delay latch at the other, I don't need to turn anything.