millerhillboy

Tantalising picture of the class 27 in the vicinity. Question is can anyone go the full hog and give us a full blown WR instance?

N-Brass lamp irons just require bending (magnifying glass required) and securing, no drilling required. Buffer gunk is just matt black paint applied randomly which just ended up in quite a nice effect luckily.

I think I drilled an A3 footplate or two and decided it wasn't for me!! I was just using drill after drill (if you know of any stronger drills then please let me know :-) ). The N-Brass lamp irons are pretty cheap too and you get loads on a sprue. I need to go through my stock and do them to all actually, they do look OK, certainly better than nothing. The pipes are possibly Farish, maybe Dapol (sorry not a good answer) . You used to be able to buy pipe/snowplough kits from Dapols website, don't know if you still can. I just collect pipes from the little bags as and when they come in now, so I've just got a pipe scrapbox now that I just lift things out of as and when required. They are handy for diesels too, here's one I did earlier (true Blue Peter style) using Dapol ploughs off their hymek plus a selection of pipes from both Farish and Dapol. PS don't ask what headcode 1B29 is? Its wrong and needs changing

Simon Just catching up with your workbench and I notice you are playing with staples for lamp irons. I used to play about with drilling the footplates but found I just went through drills like crazy (how you managed to do those boilerside handrails with one drill is beyond me!!). Anyway, I've started to prefer using the N-Brass lamp irons these days, much less hassle and I think they do look OK.

Another old Farish model that really didn't have much going for it in its normal guise but I hope I've made her a bit more interesting if nothing less. She's meant to be an Eastfield straggler thats ended up east, I wanted a loco with a tablet catcher recess although I don't know if that loco specifically had one, I know other ED class 25s did so that's good enough for me. Ploughs again I'm not sure about but I figured she might have ......

Given that my layout is set just south of Edinburgh I've allowed myself one of these, not strictly correct for deepest darkest borders railways but she's strayed in. However with the imminent arrival in N gauge of dapols class 26 then that will solve that particular problem. So let me see, that's new 47 and a Dapol 26 needed. Ouch, where's that pennies jar. PS please don't ask what 1B29 is, its clearly wrong and needs sorting.

Secondly and inspired by this photograph for some reason D5066 in action I present the N gauge equivalent. Not as you might expect the new Graham Farish class 24 but this is a brass kit running on a farish chassis.

Can I join the shout for more pictures, so 'Leith' are these pictures that I'd love to see more.

I worked for many years in Salamander Place and then Commercial street for many more. Done quite a lot of lunchtime exploring in this area and this layout simply 'screams' north Edinburgh, it really does.

Me really likey like. Super work, just a nice level of workstaining, suits them perfectly. I've got an N gauge A1Peppercorn in the pipeline, current away at the paintshop, really looking forward to getting her back after you mentioned 60161 etc. and seeing 60152 above. However for quite strong reasons she's assuming a Holbeck identity, but I'll be playing the 'its my layout' card on that one!! Pictures when she arrives.

Dave Are you going to be doing the bogie narrowing job on the GF peak? Always a nice improvement if you can be bothered with it. I've got a peak sitting in exactly the same boat, i.e needing a WR identity, so I'll erm just be copying you;-)

mmmm A3s and A4s. Lovely lovely lovely.

Absolutely astonishingly good. That chassis is just so good.

With the advent of new Graham Farish mk1s I'm keen to adopt a new rake, some of the above postings give me a good idea and actually confirm some of the likely stock used in a mk1 rake. However, I'm certainly not a coaching guru and need as much advice as possible. So unfortunately I am restricted to rakes of probably 6 carriages due to (who said N gauge was great for long trains!! ) space and storage siding restrictions. So question is what services would have constituted 6 carriages or 7 at an absolute push. General context of the question is north end of the line, mid to late 60s.

Right I do seem to be hogging this thread and no doubt you are getting bored of clunky looking crude N gauge models Final one for just now, and no WR thread would be correct without an example, St Margarets V2 60824. Standard Farish model, not a bad model other than the horrendous boiler skirt area which is criminally bad (hopefully Farish will re-release this model with a tender drive at some point). She was dropped a mm or two by Dr Al of this parish to give her a better stance, a most effective modification when seen side by side. I couldn't accept seeing a clean V2 so she is suitably grotted up.

Dalry's 45483, not a WR exclusive loco but being from Dalry I'd expect her down there upon occassion and I think there is some photograhpic or documentary evidence to that effect. Anyway, given the layout depicts a ficitonal location very much at the north end of the line then strays from the Edinburgh area are expected and allowed ;-) This was a original Farish black 5 but running on a duchess chassis giving a more accurate size of wheelset although I believe the linkage is a bit off. Farish have since replaced this model with a superb tender drive version which is a 100 times better. Still I'll not part with this old dame as a lot of effort went into her. Particular effort was made to move away from the dreadful coal mouldings in original farish models and I was quite chuffed at the outcome for a first attempt. Crushed real coal being used, seems to give the right amount of 'shine' of the coal load

A Hawick stalwart I believe but another must have was 80113 for me I started the process of superdetailing her but the complicated pipework along the side proved a step too far at the moment and cab and footplate steps fouled the running qualities so they are missed as well I think the driver might be just overscale but I like the 'mood' it gives to these locos, I always associate them with crew hanging out of them for some reason. She's awaiting dirt, no way she's getting to operate in that condition :-) She too had an attempted buffer beam marking applied, extremely borderline but under microscope it does always say 'Hawick'.

With 2mm B1's being on the agenda I've got to jump at that chance A recent purchase, originally the hugely inappropriate 61251 Oliver Bury , has underwent an identity change and is now operating as the wholly more appropriate 61244 Strang Steel. This particular conversion had the added complexity that I also wanted to replicate the front buffer beam markings for such a loco based on a picture from t'web (the excellent BarkingBill from memory). A onerous task in 2mm and requiring custom decals from the excellent Cambridge Custom Transfers. Legibility is borderline for both the B1 and St Margarets text but I wanted something rather than nothing there, the front smokebox number was still to be applied at this stage. Sadly smokebox shedplates, to the best of my knowledge, are beyond 2mm decals at the moment

With '41, and '52 getting some coverage above it'd be rude not to include the last of the St Margaret trio Considering Farish only do a corridor version of the high sided tender it was quite an undertaking to modify and detail a suitable tender for Spearmint. I hope it was worthwhile.

Just the job , that trout is superb and 76050 is a nice choice. I've got both in 2mm form awaiting finishing (or was it 76049 I chose), more on that later (maybe much mater at current rates of progress). I too prefer the near death, overhead yellow stripe phase of Waverley Route pacifics as well, I'm sure I'm in the minority. Actually if I recall it was your good self who applied the stripe to my 60052 as per..... Sadly the old Farish A3s don't have the accuracy or even close of her bigger gauged equivalents but it'd be sacrilege not have 41,52 & 100 for a late WR based layout IMHO.

Good to see you back posting, glad the layout survived the trip home. Look forward to seeing some of your progress pictures again soon.

Certainly looks like something worth waiting for, will be popping back in to check regularly.

That'll be worth seeing.. The sad thing for me is that I go past Haymarket on the train every day now, and sadly there is nothing worth looking at. I sometimes don't even look up. 25yrs too late for me....

Full size haymarket depot?

Remember as a young lad going to Waverley to 'get numbers' and seeing up against the buffers probably not long after naming 47712 Lady Diana Spencer resplendent in 'very' silver roof. It appears she was named in '81 so I'd be 8-9 years old. I can still remember the 'bling' of the silver roof and the effect it had on me. For some reason silver roofs always held a big attraction as they usually represented pretty rare locos from Stratford, quite unusual up north but occasional performers on freightliners out of Craigentinny. Of course growing up in the Edinburgh area I'd go on to see 712 and all her sister 'shove duffs' many many times over, to the point of hardly raising an eye in favour of the other many loco hauled services of that era in and out of Waverley. Great stuff with 47711, really bringing back memories.170s just don't have the same effect!!