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One of the finest model railways ever.
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I would suggest that to produce a free-lance layout that is convincing is far harder than to follow a prototype. For example, if you model the Bishop's Castle or the Maryport and Carlisle, you have a pattern before you, and all (all!) you need to do to make it convincing is to bring the model as close to the template as you can. Others, with a good knowledge of the prototype, will say 'Wow, what a good model of the Bishop's Castle/Maryport and Carlisle/Whatever.' Whereas for a truly free-lance layout the pattern is in your head, where no one else can see it. Unless you know a great deal about the technical and historical aspects of railways and are an exceptional modeller as well, you have a real task on your hands to create a convincing layout. There is a dangerous risk of just creating a melange of models you happen to like. Not that there's anything wrong with that, if that's what floats your boat.
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Very impressive project, and it demonstrates that you don't need a vast amount of space to enjoy 7mm scale modelling. (Though it helps. And being very rich helps too.)
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Poggy1165 replied to New Haven Neil's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Thanks for this Philip. Ross Pochin - now there was a modeller! I remember staring for long periods at his locos on display at the Manchester Show, awestruck by their quality. -
I would submit that railway modelling is as much an investment as a hobby, given that most items (if kept in good order) can be sold on, and some may even have added value - for example a well-made kit. You will certainly get something for an old model railway. See how much you get for a used season ticket book for football, for example. I gave up football a long while back because even then the admission prices were getting stupid - for the price of a ticket to watch a Premier League club you can easily buy an O Gauge wagon kit. (An O gauge loco kit if you attend away matches at the other end of the country.) That's how I justify it (to myself) and I reckon the pleasure of building it will last more than 90 minutes, while unless I chuck it in the dustbin it will still be in use (or saleable) long after the match would be forgotten. Railway modelling is a bargain!
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Some photos I have just turned up of Reddish Depot circa 1981. Though not of any great quality, I thought they might be of interest to someone. My copyright, but feel free to make copies if desired for personal use.
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One important and rather obvious reason for banking, as opposed to double heading, goods trains up inclines is that it added protection from runaways in the days of loose coupling. Of course really impressive railways did both with the same train when the gradient was steep enough.
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Not sure. Only seen it once - it looked like a 'small press' or self-published job. I was intrigued, but resisted the temptation. (Edit) Found it! Whether it's speaks with authority I cannot say - the author rings no bells with me, but then I rarely tread in Midland pastures.
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There is a (newish) book out with a title something like 'In Defence of the Midland 4Fs'. It should make interesting reading.
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Sometimes I really puzzle myself. Have an ABC gearbox and motor sitting in the kit box for when I build the Q4. Now just found another one, for which I have no explanation.
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Sometimes I really puzzle myself. Have an ABC gearbox and motor sitting in the kit box for when I build the Q4. Now just found another one, for which I have no explanation.
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Sometimes I really puzzle myself. Have an ABC gearbox and motor sitting in the kit box for when I build the Q4. Now just found another one, for which I have no explanation. It appears that at some point I just randomly bought a motor/gearbox for no obvious reason. Must be losing it!
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Sometimes I really puzzle myself. Have an ABC gearbox and motor sitting in the kit box for when I build the Q4. Now just found another one, for which I have no explanation. It appears that at some point I just randomly bought a motor/gearbox for no obvious reason. Must be losing it!
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Poggy1165 replied to New Haven Neil's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Thanks to Bluebottle for reminding me of the name. Bramblewick is one of the few layouts I could genuinely watch for hours. An absolute masterpiece of railway modelling, and even if nothing else was at York, it would be worth making the journey to see it. -
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Poggy1165 replied to New Haven Neil's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Buckingham (natch!), Berrow, Charford, Craig and Mertonford, Marthwaite, Presson, Portreath. In later years, Whetstone, that wonderful P4 layout based on Robin Hood's Bay whose official name I have temporarily forgotten, Runswick Bay. There are others too, I hope their creators will forgive my increasingly feeble memory. -
One of the (many) things I disliked about school was the ludicrous clothes one had to wear. I think they somehow confused forced compliance with good discipline. Thankfully, the cap thing only applied in the first year - theoretically you were supposed to lift it if you met a teacher in the street, all very well if you knew all the teachers' faces. Usually avoided by ducking down back alleys. We narrowly escaped having tassels on the caps. The head thought it a good idea, but the deputy (who was a noted ironist) suggested that straw boaters might be better in summer. At which point the whole thing was dropped. I think those guys were still living in the 1920s, and thought they were running a public school! Blazer colours could be very bright. Again, I narrowly escaped a particularly vivid shade of light green, thankfully dropped in favour of black as I arrived at the place.
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Just posted off an order for a loco kit - my first for approx 6 years. This one will be built by me and I am both excited and apprehensive.
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Just posted off an order for a loco kit - my first for approx 6 years. This one will be built by me and I am both excited and apprehensive. Long time since I last built an engine!
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Given that World War 2 was going on was anyone (apart from enthusiasts) really worried about one piece of machinery being rebuilt instead of another? I can't imagine so. If it was really such a big deal, they could always have shifted the nameplates to another engine, Bristol Castle style. Perhaps Mr Thompson just wanted his fancy new creation to have the name Great Northern because he wanted to honour the memory of the GNR. Does it have to be a case of spitting on HNG's grave?
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I think it's also true that footplatemen often (not invariably) had a preference for their 'own' locos, and a degree of distaste for anything 'foreign', even if it was newer and better than what they already had. They could be just as biased as mere enthusiasts. In life generally there is a strong constituency that likes what it is used to and deplores change. (As anyone who has ever had to manage change will be aware.)
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While I agree with everything Tony has written here, I should also like to point out that GC engines didn't have to be that hot to match those of its competitors. The only outfit clearly ahead of the pack was the GWR, and that was an ally of the GC, not a rival. (Well, I suppose there was competition for the lucrative Chester-Wrexham traffic, but that was about it.)
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I would imagine the average small coal merchant much preferred a 10 ton wagon (or better still an 8 ton one) to a 20 ton jobbie. After all, he had to unload it, sharpish, and he might have nowhere to put the coal but the back of his lorry. The GCR was another railway that tried to 'encourage' the use of larger goods vehicles, but by and large the punters weren't having it. So the big coal wagons (20 ton and upwards) ended up being used for loco coal. I don't think the big 15 ton vans were a massive success either - most were eventually converted into fish trucks.
