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    Freight, departmentals and specials in Sussex

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

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    Quite a day. After having the rear pads and discs changed on the car yesterday, complicated by a stuck brake caliper that also needed replacing, today we had a puncture about a mile after leaving home 😵‍💫. Fitter arrived just in time, and made it to Eastbourne station just as 37418 and Caroline were pulling in. Grab shots through the fence, straightened and slightly cropped but otherwise untouched.

     

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    Snippings from the past...

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by dseagull

    One of my more eccentric habits is to catch up on the day's news from over 100 years ago. Way back in 2014, the Daily Telegraph started sharing their archived edition - Sundays, aside from a few in the very early part of World War One, are missing (they didn't exist), and the actual dedicated website seems to have vanished too, but the files are still active if you search for them on Google - for example February 19, 1914; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02821/Telegraph1914_1902_2821342a.pdf

     

    Edit; missed a sentence!

     

    This was done to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WW1, and goes up until December 31st 1918.

     

    Anyway, today in 1914 there was a fairly interesting piece on Frederick Restall, who was evidently a very popular man.

    Note the (very) thinly veiled dig at the Great Eastern for appointing the first non-British General Manager towards the end!

     

    I'm hoping that as this is now 110 years old it is considered out of copyright, but if it isn't and needs to be removed, apologies!

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    The Art Of Railway Modelling by James Hilton

    in Books

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    Have now had a chance to have a proper read - inspiring stuff with some stunning photography as previously mentioned, and as close as I've seen to a 'coffee table' book for model railways.

     

    There are some great ideas, but also much to ponder, showing that the whys and the feelings that something invokes are just as, if not more, important than the 'how tos'.

     

    You have a lovely style @James Hilton , and with this and the Small Layout Design Handbook on my shelf, I look forward to a third joining them...(?)

     

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    MRJ 300

    in Other Magazines

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    Late to the party (was expecting to be able to pick up whilst away with work earlier in the month, but didn't manage it), but what an excellent issue. Geoff Kent's new layout looks as if it will be exquisite.

    Freight, departmentals and specials in Sussex

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by dseagull

    Advanced notice for Friday for those of us in the East

     

    Rail Record reports 1Q77 - a rare daylight hours (the Sussex parts anyway!) test train from Tonbridge Yard to Woking CHS; Full gen - https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U27506&d=2023-12-22 

     

    Obviously things can change before Friday, so don't bank on it until you see it!

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    A rural Sussex BLT

    in Layout & Track Design

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    12 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

    Finally, isn’t the plan the wrong way round? Shouldn’t the line northwards be at the left, and southwards at the right if we are looking eastwards into riding ground?

     

    Yes, undoubtedly the wrong way round. Practicality again I'm afraid - If the layout 'runs' the other way, the end curves would have to be across the shed door, which is possible with a lifting section but less than ideal.

     

    No goods shed planned, although it was included on early plans it was more of a placeholder to ensure I had left enough space in the yard for goods loading.

     

     

    A rural Sussex BLT

    in Layout & Track Design

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    1 hour ago, DLT said:

    Adding narrow gauge I see.  Its a slippery slope, ng can take you over!!!

    So I hear...!

     

    20 minutes ago, phil_sutters said:

    I think that the red wins

    Must have been the reason why I'd always imagined it there! Certainly makes sense in that it flows nicely from the preferred of my two Alfriston locations, and also would allow the narrow gauge to follow the bottom of the valley, running, with some inevitable deviation in places, pretty much alongside the river.

     

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    A rural Sussex BLT

    in Layout & Track Design

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    Somewhere into the teens now!

     

    I've kept the 'goods yard' to a single siding, although the curve into it can be changed to another set of points, giving a second siding that ends by the cattle pens, but I've been down that road before and it quickly begins to look overcrowded.

     

    I don't know if the shingle line needs an engine shed, but if it did it would probably make more sense for it to be this end of the line than the other.

     

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    A rural Sussex BLT

    in Layout & Track Design

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    @Nearholmer Yep, same kind of thoughts as I had. In real life, the station would be behind the Plough & Harrow, but to add interest and save having to model the backs of buildings and nothing else, liberties have been taken with the road.

     

    A quick screen grab;

     

    Red circle is where I've always seen the station in my minds eye.

    Blue is an alternative that , if I pull the station inland a little, would potentially allow the shingle branch to go off the same way the standard gauge comes in, with a sharp curve

    Yellow is a more inland route that perhaps flows better from the previous station at Alfriston (see below)

     

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    Another screen grab

     

    The three colours are as previously. The two black dots are locations where I'd planned the Alfriston station;

     

    The first is just before the present day 'The Willows' car park. It is currently, and probably always has been, low lying fields between North Street and the river.

    The other is on the other side of the river, more or less opposite the church. The track plan for this would be pure Rice, his plan for 'Clun' from 'Finescale in Small Spaces'. I'd love to build it one day as it offers pretty much everything I'd like from this kind of layout. There is not the space at present to do it justice, however!

     

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