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We have just posted a few more photos of the EP samples in our February update:

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/february-2021-update

11 hours ago, CB Rail said:

Hi All,

Reference the second run of these magnificent BBA wagons.

There was some 'chatter' last November about an EWS variant, bauxite version & potentially some more Railfreight wagons

There was also mentioned a possibility of more BLA's.

Was there a definitive list provided by the manufacturer & a timeline on when these are expected?

I would like to get my order in, but not sure what will be available.

Thanks in advance.

Good morning CB Rail, thank you for your post and kind comments about our BBA wagons.

We will be providing an update on our projects this weekend which will also include details of the second run of BBA and BLA wagons.

Hope that helps.

Best Regards

Alex

A quick update. Not a great deal of progress has been made over the past few weeks, not visually anyway. Although behind the scenes work is still ongoing which includes work on the Washer Plant Line and the Load Bank road. A big thank you to Jason Johnson for his help with laser cutting the pieces for these two areas of the layout.

Fairly early this morning a parcel arrived and like a child on Christmas morning I opened it straight away.....I couldn't wait!!

This is what was in the parcel.

Washer Plant Line

Load Bank Road

The Washer Plant Line concrete area will be lowered into the board to allow the rail to sit at the correct height and line up to the track at each end.

Once painted and weathered I think these two areas will add interest and become nice features of the layout.

On 15/07/2020 at 01:21, jools1959 said:

As steel carrying wagons seem to be your bag at the moment, can I make a suggestion of doing a run of SNCF registered IHA bogie covered steel coil wagons?  I think they would make a great addition to go with your BBA wagons and others.  I hope you don’t mind me making the suggestion.

Good morning Jools1959, apologies for the very late reply. We will certainly add the IHA to our list of potential future projects so thank you for your suggestion.

We always appreciate suggestions and ideas.

On 16/07/2020 at 21:38, D9502 said:

Hi Richscylla

 

i don’t do Facebook so a friend tipped me off regarding Waterside Wagons but there’s been no developments regarding the kits(?) and they’ve announced recently they propose another two wagons too. 

 

Jools1959 if I were Cavalex i’d take the bogie and chassis tooling from the BBA and do the BIA/BWA/BXA EWS steel hoods. 

D9502, the BWA and BXA will follow as they are part of the BBA family. Thanks for mentioning these wagons.

On 10/02/2021 at 21:42, 43078shildoncountydurham said:

What about the long welded rail wagons “perch” 

 

Regards

 

Craig

Craig, thanks for your suggestion. The LWRT is on our radar following the extensive research that Cav carried out previously for his N gauge 3D printed Perch.

Thanks again to everyone for their input.

On 03/02/2021 at 18:54, PaulRhB said:

None with just 4-5 wagons then?  

What about this Paul?

 Not a 58 Paul but this might also be an option albeit with canopies.

We wanted to share a photo showing the first completed tests for our weathered TEA/KBA wagons. We think they look very positive indeed.   

Of course these are just samples to test the weathering technique that the factory will apply. The final models will be decorated correctly to match the prototype wagons as well as having differing chip and wear patterns to give a level of individuality to an assembled rake.

2 hours ago, KMS Railtech said:

This post should be deleted…

This never happened. Nope. They ONLY ran in rakes of over 30 :-)

Here is a link for you!

5 minutes ago, PaulRhB said:

None with just 4-5 wagons then?  

What about an 09 instead?

22 hours ago, PaulRhB said:

Well I was just liking the CDA’s but now I’ve gone and bought the EFE original livery 58 in a moment of rose tinted madness to remember sitting on the bank at my uncles farm watching MGR trains! Maybe just a few to make it look good . . . 

Hi Paul, I always thought that 58s looked best in the Original Railfreight livery so fully understand your purchase!

Some links below to Flickr for some prototype inspiration to rekindle your memories!!

I came across these photos the other day whilst browsing Flickr, justification for me purchasing a few HAAs for my layout I think!

2 hours ago, Lyddrail said:

I take it the buffers will be replaced with the correct Oleo type on the finished model?

Cheers.

 

Good evening Paul,

Thank you for pointing that out, we appreciate all feedback.

We are aware that some parts have been incorrectly fitted to the wrong version, such as the CDA buffers being fitted to an HAA.

This will be added to the list for attention ahead of the painted samples.

The HAA will have OLEO type buffers as per the prototype.

We will review the samples and provide our feedback to the factory in due course.

Hope that helps.

If you have any additional comments then please do let us know.

Many thanks

We’re really excited to show off our HAA and CDA EP samples which have arrived for review. There are a final few tweaks to be made, however we’re really happy with how they’re shaping up. 

We can’t wait for the painted samples which are due after The Chinese New Year!

These models are exclusive to Trains4U and KMS Railtech and cannot be ordered through any other retailer.

www.kmsrailtech.co.uk / https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdBrmkLW5ZPk2KV2hm3DaL3dnGr0xuPw9z9szbY86GaxS5fA/viewform

www.trains4u.com / https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhxZiTraMx17iMXCGB0JR2AtIfNL2xKBJoLBOxa02AH95veQ/viewform

Please visit the above websites for further information and details of these triple packs. More details on our HAA project can be found on our website here:

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/4mm-projects/#HAA

On 23/01/2021 at 08:00, Grizz said:

Hey Marco, good to hear from you mate, hope all well. Not sure that I am up to it skills wise. Your one was spot on.
The Bardon wagons used to roll by me at Clapham Jcn and at Channelsea Jcn. I think I’ve got a photo of a Mainline Blue liveried 58 on the Yellow and Green ones at Clapham....somewhere. 

 

Are you working on anything at the moment?
 

I might end up having to have a go at building some as I didn’t get an acknowledgment to submitting the form. 
 

Trying to get some RILS finished at the moment....as well as quarrying slate from the back of our house to clear a path around the back and stop it bridging the DPC. Gunned out about 2 cubic meters so far, still got 3 to go. 
 

Good morning Grizz, thank you for your pre-order.

Did you select "Send me a copy of my responses" on page 6 before submitting the form?

Unfortunately unless this option is selected a confirmation of your pre-order will not be sent.

However, if you send an email to cavalexmodels@gmail.com we can check and confirm that your pre-order has been received.

Hope that helps.

14 hours ago, class60lover said:

Your spoiling me to much with those shots of 3 60s in a line. look amazing,  they all Hornby?

 

for all those locos did they only ever have the one wash bay? 

 

 

Well, I couldn't resist getting out a few 60s...Yes they are all Hornby. Superb models.

I think there is another one, 014 Alexander Flemming, inside the depot.

Also have another couple of Petroleum ones which will be renumbered and most likely sector symbols changed in the future.

Yes I believe that there was only the one Washer Plant for the depot.

2 minutes ago, Crisis Rail said:

 

….….fast forward a decade.

 

Still completely nuts?

Unfortunately the only cure is for me to finish it!!

I do not think that there is any doubt about my nuttiness!!

I just hope that I can finish it during this decade!!

For my own sanity.....

Version 3 which now has the outer border and the drain channel.

I am very happy with this now.

Now to get the concrete pieces sorted and the Washer Plant line ready.

7 hours ago, saxokid said:

Great work here mr G

Thanks Saxokid.

Slow progress at the moment but getting there.

Version 2 of the Washer Plant line.

Overall I am pretty pleased with the scale and size of this version.

Here are a few photos with a loco on the concrete area to give an idea of scale.

Now to sort out the channel in the middle of the line that allows the dirty water to drain away.

Here is a photo of the concrete area at March depot to show what I mean.

A couple of photos showing the Washer Plant line at Toton:

I have been looking at the concrete area of the Washer Plant line.

This is version 1, just getting the rough size of the concrete area and offering it up to the plan.

I have since made a few tweaks and plan to print off version 2 shortly.

On 03/01/2021 at 21:13, Shedmaster said:

Hi Mr G!, 

 

OMG, it just goes on and on and on and on! 

 

I have to say I LOVE those three 'proper' locos sitting out on that thru road, the way you've done this just captures the expanse of the place superbly, Most impressive indeed. Of course, you do know that you're gonna suffer exactly the same issues running the place as we do on the real railway don't you? That is, the loco you want out next, will of course be the one buried in at the back and you'll have to do 'the mother of all shunts' to release it? Good Luck!!! 

 

At Hither Green, a tiny place by comparison, when we had to shunt a load of locos to release one, it would take forever, even with a gang of Drivers working together, climbing up, climbing down, winding parking brakes on and off, great fun on 37's, and most importantly, trying not to lose any of your Drivers keys in the process!!! 

 

A long ceased practise which I of course only heard about, lol's, was to take a handful of locos out past the exit dummy all at the same time, as opposed to requesting the road for each loco individually, the shunter on the ground would just reset the points as you fed each one back into where it had to go. This worked well as long as you all kept close together!!!! I can see you having loads of fun shunting this layout.... 

 

Bloomin' amazing work, well done!!! 

 

Kindest Regards, 

 

Shed. 

Thank you Mr Shedmaster.

Boxenby was devised with those Brush Beasts in mind, they really do look at home sat on shed. Or will do once it isn't just sleepers!!

That sounds like fun!

You will have to visit and show me how it is done with my little locos!

Not much progress this week, more research on the internet.

A couple of different views:

Working on the washer plant line next.....

A quick update.

I have laid the sleepers for the start of the three stabling sidings which sit to the north of the depot adjacent to the washer plant line.

Before I post a few photos I thought it might be good to look back to how it was prior to the Festive period.

Today's photos including a few extra locos on shed:

7 hours ago, class60lover said:

Im sure you have said before but wherever you got your track design from ,  would that have a function to tell you how many sleeper? . 

 

maybe you could run a completion to guess the amount and  whoever is unlucky enough to win gets to do you ballasting    .

 

 

I might count them!!

Only joking, I am not that mad!!!......

Great idea for a competition!

However, I am not sure many people would enter!

Happy New Year!

First update of 2021, a few more sleepers added including the load bank line.

19 hours ago, Tug002 said:

Looks great to me - that's a lot of progress in not a lot of time.

 

Thanks Tug002.

Yes I am really pleased with the progress made over the festive period. I feel that it is really coming alive and providing some much needed motivation.

I am actually very excited about my project!

22 hours ago, Crisis Rail said:

Alex - I was going to give my yearly Boxenby *Bump* a miss for fear of ad nauseam.

 

You beat me to it - no rush and all the best.

 

Ian

Happy New Year Ian!

I bet you couldn't quite believe your eyes when you saw that I had actually done some work on Boxenby!!

Hope you like progress so far.