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Axlebox
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ooooh VR railways, along the same lines (ha) as our gaming friends...you can interact with your mates running trains along 'real' railways using either real time or quick time...you'll have to sign up to a monthly subscription with routes and locos being added every few weeks...my money is on the Settle to Carlisle as the first line with a Peak and a Jubilee as the first offerings...
...and if you don't want to run trains, then sit back in the armchair of Ais Gill box and watch as the trains rattle past your windows, alternatively, get involved, learn your bell codes and get the kettle on as rule 55 applies and the fireman off the Anhydrite train you've had in the up loop for half an hour is about to knock on your door...
However if this isn't Hornby's announcement then someone will pick this up (there are an awful lot of really good VR stuff out there, just ask Google).
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PS 'quick time' is probably copyright somewhere apologies if it is, baggsy if it isn't.
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33 minutes ago, roomey said:
I posted the article up and I have not got a clue while it was removed, I only put it up to help anyone who fancied having a ago at doing a conversion,
shame looks like I’m another rm web bad boyoff I go to pastures new
That's my kind of conversion...perhaps we might get an explanation of why it was removed?
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3 hours ago, eastglosmog said:
Trouble is, the OP specified a 1970s or thereabouts quarry, and Pickering Quarry was long closed by then (OK, strictly dormant, as I believe it reopened in the mid 1980s). The railway also closed in 1965.
The time frame also complicates use of the Severn and Wye as a prototype, it being shut by 1970.
So I read....what we need is some 'stretchy' time!
Fast forward to 3.50 in this film for a view of the next quarry along the line from Pickering...this is 1965 and it just cries out to be modelled...
http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/film/pick-pickering
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2 hours ago, 2mm Andy said:
Axlebox of this parish has an interesting project underway which is based on Raisby quarry;
Andy
It depends how small a quarry you're looking for...I really like the potential in this quarry...
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW005709
(Its Britain from Above, to zoom in you have to join & sign in - but as its free then no problem!)
You can make out a small gate behind the brake van which leads to a pair of rails stretching across the meadow and under a loading chute...and possibly even into what looks like a crushing shed beyond...
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12 hours ago, NHY 581 said:
The Sheep Chronicles:the final frontier. These are the adventures of Norman Lockhart. His continuing mission: to photograph strange old branch lines, to seek out new cafes and traditional British breakfasts, to boldly go where no man has gone before.......
This is also Uncle Percy's raison d'être, I well remember his guided tour of the lamp posts of South Shields via the Council Estate with its very own disused level crossing which ended in fancy cakes (breakfast was available) at the Vintage Powder Room and Tea Shop in Whitley Bay...now that's the sort of place only a bold man would go alone...nice cake though...
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On 22/11/2019 at 21:20, sjp23480 said:
My local Lidl (Ashford Kent) has 2x the Hornby rambler set reduced from £79.99 to £49.99. Includes a 0-4-0 loco, two wagons, oval of track and a controller. Pretty good value Christmas present for someone?
I could have sworn the 3 sets they had in the new Gosforth Lidl in Newcastle were £24.99...
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4 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:
Aye but I like four 2 watt (continuous not peak) speakers. I shall now retire and sulk in my isobaric chamber.
Hmmmm "Let it breathe". So your announcing a cheese wagon (Thou shalt not violate the brie) this weekend? Or could it be a kettle to pull all those luverly Conflat L's
Conflat L's, what a wizard idea...would love to see how the boys handle those chains...that's a design challenge and a half...
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9 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:
Have you been burgled?
Mike.
Hes had that class 50 for about 9 days...
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Meanwhile, the loco shed mock up came together over the weekend...
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5 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:
You're not a proper railway modeller, your shelves are far too neat and tidy, you'll be easily able to find things!
Mike.
...that's the downside to living with a librarian...I had to say no when she tried to file everything in Dewey Decimal order. If its any conciliation, the work bench is a car crash (although not in the same league as Uncle Poursea's car crash of a bench)
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7 hours ago, Worsdell forever said:
...very appropriate, my Great Grandfather drove a '398' out of Shildon shed...not so sure about the electric though (even if they were based in Shildon)...according to my dad, who said he remembered them, they used to sit and make a fizzing sound from the pantograph...it would be nice to make a NER cameo with either the dockside pair or a couple of the Newport-Shildon locomotives...now where's my copy of 'The Electric Railway that never was' by RAS Hennessey...I've got plenty of cardboard spare.
Also, thank you to everyone who stopped by at the Newcastle show this afternoon (The Garmondsway mock up was there as part of a demonstration entitled 'fun with a glue gun'), your kind words, thoughts and prayers are much appreciated, as was the meteorological advice 'get home son, before it starts to rain'...sound advice that.
Also, also thanks to Paul Gallon for stopping by with his '398' and some stock.
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5 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:
Just imagine a delivery of a wet blanket in a big soggy cardboard box from Amazon on a wet day and you'll be about there.
Harsh...didn't stop you from laying some track on it and running a class 37 up and down for 20 minutes!
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On 07/11/2019 at 14:04, johndon said:
Look forward to seeing it - you got anywhere with the turnouts yet?
Hi John
I've concentrated on the buildings and how they fit into the scenery...just about sorted now and ready to start the thing for real!
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On 29/10/2019 at 12:40, Worsdell forever said:
Newcastle show, 9th & 10th November.
I'll be there with 'The Depots, Rosedale East.
Details here.
http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/events/19435-NewcastleandDistrictModelRailwaySocietyExhibition
I'll be there on Sunday doing a demo on how not to make a full sized cardboard mock up of your next railway...hopefully it will have stopped raining by then, so I stand a fair chance of getting it into the building without it going soggy!
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1 hour ago, RBAGE said:
The Eden. I used to get the Eden every Tuesday from Central Drive to Spenny to pick up the family allowance for me muther.
Very nice route from West Auckland to Spennymoor avoiding any main roads. Shildon, Eldon, Coundon Grange, Coundon, Leeholme, Kirk Merrington, Middlestone Moor and Spenny.
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1 hour ago, RBAGE said:
Or the G and B
Or the Eden
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1 minute ago, RBAGE said:
Happy Days.
What time does it pick up from the Lynne Road?
To quote misquote Moore Marriott..."next bus has gone"
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1 hour ago, RBAGE said:
Nice one.
No Shaw's bus from Byers Green then?
...its been high jacked
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1 hour ago, Porcy Mane said:
Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conlat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L, Conflat L,
Its funny you should mention Conflat Ls Poursea, I was in the pub the other night talking to this rather attractive nurse when the subject of Conflat Ls came up, and how nobody since Tri-ang had been brave enough to make a model of them (apols to Mr B Bedford)...and she says "there's one of them things at the bottom of my street", of course I didn't believe a word, how many nurses do you meet in pubs know what a Conflat L is? Any way, it turns out YES there really is one at the end of her street and yes her friend sitting opposite really does own an Austerity tank engine (full size)...the moral of this story is, I should go to the pub more often.
(none of this is made up)
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18 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:
Warley announcement?
"If you thought the Deltic was a big announcement, this one's bigger".
That'll be a Conflat L then!
Or an O gauge Deltic.
P
PS. Deltic is just one letter away from Celtic
Its a secret project the lads have been working on for months, code name 'dolomite'...not sure if this is connected, but I heard a rumor from a woman at work whose mum lives in Norfolk and she heard that 2 Irish sounding lads were seen traipsing over fields with cameras and stuff somewhere near here...
(some of this is made up)
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15 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:
Wow this announcement is just what I've been waiting for. It got me so worked up I muckied my undercrackers.
I'll now be able to complete my dream layout, The Shatburn Hill Night Soil Railway. (Track
papplan attached)I hope you plan to bring out an appropriate generic loco to haul tour wagons. An Andrew Puckett 0-4-0 perhaps?
If you have no details of the Shatburn Hill Shat carrying wagon livery fear not. They were painted one shade of khaki all over.
Ps your first EPs look crap but I understand they will improve over time. Don't take this the wrong way but they also look a little over-scale.
Looks like a model I'll have difficulty letting pass.
Pps. For those that are unfamiliar with Shatburn, it's just over the fields from Bogburn.
P
Did you notice the discharge facility handily positioned opposite the allotment gardens, we're talking internal user wagons aren't we?
Also, mine's a pint in the Blackbird Inn from where I can sit and watch the worlds business pass by the window (firmly closed).
If only you'd dreamt this one up for the Cameo competition Uncle P.
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3 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:
Pedant mode on:
GCR. Tis actually St Pancras. (Pancras Road). https://goo.gl/maps/h1mKJr2zYzWHmPfh7
Pedant mode OFF.
...anywhere near here...
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17 minutes ago, Porcy Mane said:
Apparently the park is halfway between Aberdeen Uni and their main student halls of residence, now if only we knew a student at Aberdeen Uni...
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Hornby 2020 range "reveal date" = 6th Jan
in Hornby
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Uncle P, the world of work does still (at the time of writing) allow you a lunch break!