Phil Bullock

whoop whoop alert!!! Bus on bridge overload 😀

The point about the railway boundary is well made …. Walking routes, signal wires etc. In fact it’s a step further… 3 zones …. On a 60s railway ballast with neat shoulders, ash outside that , a strip wide enough for signal wires, point rodding and walking routes, and then grass to the boundary fence. Not unknown for signalling infrastructure to stray in to the grass! I am another one for cork underlay and loose ballast. Here’s the start of the process on the new layout… Use N gauge ballast in 4mm and be careful around the points! I did originally add an ash outer strip but have then painted over with black acrylic to give a clear boundary between ash and ballast. The whole thing needs weathering now. Ballast and ash were dampened with a light spray of Daily Shower Cleaner spray before Ballast Bond glue was applied.. On this section the railway boundary is at the top of the embankment. HTH Phil

That’s good to hear …. The issue was well understood then. At the end of steam a damaged cylinder would have meant a one way ticket to the scrapple…. Look at what the movement can do now, Bradley Manor a prime example.

Oh dear that’s a shame…. But best not to speculate, could be anything from relatively trivial to very serious.

Mine will be running on the new layout… just not under their own power! 10.55 in on the following video … Mainline Warships on Abbotswood Junction

Or you can use the BR database web site… If loco details are your interest the 24s working on the Southern acquired extra lamp brackets on their nose ends.

26s yes but not so solid with 27s where 45 of 69 locos spent 1/3 of their life off the SCR… a few for 3 years at Thornaby before joining their class members on the LMR until the end of the 60s by which time they were all in Scotland.

Class 26s from the Great Northern lines moved up to Scotland in the early 60s Along with the despised NBL type 2s … Class 21 … from Great Northern and Great Eastern Lines. Class 27s from the (North) Eastern region moved to the Midlands in the mid 60s and went north to Scotland in the late 60s along with all the Midlands allocated Class 27s. Scottish class 20s and 25s came south in exchange. IIRC in the late 60s Scotland had a batch of 15 Class 37s in the D684x - D685x series plus a few other random ones. Often to be found on oil trains working off Grangemouth . Didnt the SR locos come off at York? And not previously mentioned but Class 50s also appeared late 60s as far north as Perth but blue of course! HTH Phil

Hunslet Class 05 were common in Scotland. Heljan produced a model , a few still around

Sheds are Gloucester Barnwood … ex Midland, derelict and empty… then Gloucester Horton Road, then Bristol Barrow Road and finally Bath Hope that helps Phil

Been ballasting too and we have our first building! All looks a bit too stark, weathering needed to blend things in a bit!

Yes was great to meet up … have been meaning to come to SWAG for years, have a bit more time now I am retired. We may visit the West Country at some time … all options are open! Cheers Phil

@SM42 Here you go Andy … just dropped in! SVR diesel gala full timetable Phil

There’s a very nice video here covering Brum to Bristol and Bath … Norton and Abbotswood appear about 18.30 BNS to Bristol and Bath video Meanwhile on the layout static grass is growing… Phil

Out on the River Usk near Sennybridge yesterday … some spectacular invertebrates about. Isoperla Grammatica … Yellow Sally stone fly Spinner of Ecdyonurus Venosus … Mayfly family, False March Brown. Wonderful to see….

Your best bet is to keep an eye on the SVR forum or Facebook page … SVR forum Or the Unofficial SVR group on Facebook . Given that there is a continuous stream of motive power being announced it’s probably still work in progress…

A drott was a typical load…. Drott loader

Highley original photos! Unfortunately the engine house was closed by the time we got there Sunday …

That will be CV 63 as per all loksound chips

But that would presumably be ok if the accuramanor driver has his hand on it…

Thanks Mike that’s how I envisaged… been to Severn Valley today, hoped to get a photo but yours certainly does the job…

So are we trying to mollify the RAIB/ORR with sliding door stick at the diesel gala … a Castle HST is coming I see 😉

I am told it will be here in the next month or so. Hope they have sorted the lamp irons out….

Thanks that’s very useful

Ah thank you! So there would be a slide for each signal wire that can only move to clear when the FPL is fully home? I did then wonder, as the FPL would be in the same home position for both routes, how the appropriate signal would be unlocked but of course that would be done by the interlocking on the frame in the box.