Tim V

Mark

Couldn't find how to post an image here, so I've put it in my gallery at

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/50571-pannier-at-didcot/

may be useful.

You are misreading the instructions for lamping, the code you quote is for a train on the main line at the junction about to go down the branch! You should be looking at a J or K code once on the branch.

I've got a picture somewhere of the sandbox arrangements, I'll look it out if it's any use.

Hmmm, so you're thinking of modelling rotten keys?

The answer to that one is, no , gangers would not let a key get into that state on the main line. Don't forget, you are looking at a siding, and oak keys are pretty scarce these days, I don't know if Didcot has the machine to make them. Try and get hold of "Track Topics" the GWR book, it'll tell you about the mechanisation at the track factory.

Are you really sure you want to model to the degree of detail you are proposing? If so, 4mm would be way to small, consider going to G1, cobwebs become nearly visible. as a gauge, fine for individual models, but for capturing a slice of the railway - maybe not.

I think you've suggested that one before, so what's stopping you?  Ready for the AGM?

Thanks for the link to the Albion Yard blog - some interesting reading there.

As the Captain says, I did indeed do 8744, a Westbury engine, with riveted tanks. Quite crudely done it was, i used a suitable gear wheel with 5 thou plastic. Cut off the pipework, before putting back on with styrene rod. well worth it, makes a very different loco.

I don't know whether 7714 on the Severn Valley still has riveted tanks - it certainly did when I saw it once, but they were missing when I saw it again. Worth a look for the experience.  

Superb work as always captain!

That improved height looks like it might give a decent head of water into a tank.

Roll on June - it is going?

Should be simple enough to put a mechanical lock between the FPLs and their relevant levers. As they will be alongside each other, just put a bar across from the FPL. Then you have to reverse the FPL before reversing the point. 

GW practice is that FPL normally are out.

I have to ask Andrew, how was an operator able to drive off the end of the layout? Wasn't there a stop block?

Historic weather conditions are available, what date were you interested in?

It strikes me that there isn't much head of water on that tank Captain. It's barely above that 08. You may need to raise the tank. It's not unknown for RTP buildings to be undersized.

Other than that, as usual, your modelling is superb!

It's a nice thought Mikkel, but the NRM's record with layouts isn't good. Take Heckmondwyke for example.

Thanks for the support Chappses, and possibly it was a very early outing when the Captain was pushed (willingly I thought) onto the lever frame. I tried to catch him out by sending through two codes at once on the different bells, but being the pro he is, wasn't caught out.

It is when you meet professional railwaymen you realise that the layout just might be clicking the buttons.  I've met quite a few over the years. At York, the chap in the audience by the box said "you don't precede train on line/line clear with call attention. Ah I said it wasn't done like that on the Western - passing a copy of the 1936 signalling appendix to him. Ah he said - satisfied!

The goods sheds at Midsomer Norton and Pensford were built in stone, while the station buildings were brick. I have some pictures of Norton shed if you want a different challenge.

There comes a time when accuracy from the camera at 2cm becomes irrelevant. The aim of a TOU is to work reliably. Try to think outside the box. Certainly I saw a number of ideas in the track book, also there are any number of ideas in back-number magazines.

Try and think bigger would be my advice.

Your jerky table sounds more like stickiness in the movement, rather than the drive. You need to sort that out before considering motorising. The movement on the table needs to be absolutely smooth.

Motorising brings attendant problems with alignment, that manual operation avoids.

So the shed will be finished for S4N....

Dave

Consult the June '68 Railway Modeller, there's a drawing of the Gara Bridge platform store which is I think the same as the goods shed at Fencote.

If the church tower is making a shadow on the backscene, why not put the tower against the backscene, or so close it doesn't throw a shadow?

Yes, cassettes are a pain!

Thanks for the kind words Andrew.

That is a large project you've committed yourself to. Have you looked at how many trains you will need to correctly represent the workings? In other words, the pretty bit is the easy bit (just got to build it), but how big do the two fiddle yards have to be?

Looks good, I partly built one on the old forum, you've inspired me to dig it out after the weekend and have a look at finishing it.

Good for another 50 years!

Some panniers did have red numberplates, the preserved plate from one on my layout is shown in red. Maybe I'll get round to repainting mine.

I have never noticed that river in Clevedon before, just checked on Old Maps and sure enough there it is.

Thanks Andrew, for bringing the place alive.

I thought you would have finished by now....

Wow, really coming together Dave.