millerhillboy

Great great picture of 76050, just not long finished converted a Farish 4MT to the very same 76050, including Hawick buffer beam ( a ###### in N gauge ! ) and to see her working through my namesake location is a an absolutely stonking picture for me.

Add me to the above mentioned slabbering pack of WR fans. Really liking your running lists, very similar to my own. A nice mix of steam and diesel, best of both worlds. PS Nice user name too!!

Yes think I've got it figured out. Yeah someone up near the embankment at the back of Asda now. Is that embankment in the background the line that eventually used to connect in at Monktonhall junction after running parallel with the ECML for a bit?

Great picture, and such a great livery for the claytons, never saw one in the flesh myself but that looks superb. I'm from that area, cycled round that area more times than I can remember but its still very difficult to pinpoint exact pieces of track in the niddrie/newcraighall area. Thanks for alerting us to that picture though, super stuff.

No you are bang on, Brunstane station is about right.up to date view but from other direction and including the replaced bridge as discussed above. Note also the remnants of the bridge abutments of the avoiding lines.

Lovely, and surprisingly recognisable despite the passage of time. Well the horizon is still remarkably recognisable, but with a new housing estate on the right of the loco now that bits different. That overbridge is still there in some guise as well I believe.

Phil What sort of state of repair is the structure in? Its a fine looking bridge for sure but I wonder what state of repair its in. I presume irrespective of condition it will have to be brought up to good repair, which I assume is what this work might be or is it perhaps just them having a closer look at what's there. Either way good news I suppose.

Lovely stuff, conjures up memories of flashing past HA or ED on the 47/7 service trying to scribble down as many numbers as possible

Thanks 'Chard, just the ticket I needed and even more so being GYSP. Sure I've got that publication somewhere. Thanks for your efforts.

Bang goes the savings tin, in fact it goes right out the window with this announcement.

You could try N-Brass for 2mm lamp irons to give the front ends more of the details you require. Certainly looks better than the standard Farish front end which looks weird with the big deep window cavitys.

Good stuff, I've always been a bit cagey with attempting to recreate hardstanding in N, I've had a few attempts but nothing has quite looked right. This definitely has the makings of looking 'right' for sure. With weathering and blending I think it's going to look spot on. I've seen quite a lot of poorly executed concrete representations to be honest, no criticism as I know its difficult but I'd rather do it right myself. How did you get the top of the filler flat, just scraping an edger along the rail top and then running wagons up and down (and cleaning wheels). Also what filler did you use?

Very interested to see how your hardstanding pans out, did you do the whole area with filler - even in between the tracks? And did you just run the flangeways in with wagon wheels whilst the filler was still drying? Good stuff and please post the finished hardstanding if you can, it'd be great to see it finished.

Absolutely different class, I guess this must have taken you a good few hours, but I can assure it was worth it. Its so interesting to see unique non-RTR buildings in N, I love layouts where buildings are all uniquely made.

You've done well, I wondered if they might have constructed. I've tried a few times to make steps using that technique but never found they had the strength. I keep meaning to take the train from Tampere down to Helsinki for a day trip, can't be too much british N gauge modellers in Finland at any one time!!

Hi Simon Great work and always nice to see folks doing interesting stuff in N gauge. Can I ask how you made or where you sourced the steps for the O1, I'm looking for something similar for some 2-6-4 4MTs, your look good. keep up the good work, all the best regards Craig ps Where about in Finland do you live, I spend time in Tampere regularly with work.

Really really nice stuff.... Some of those pictures have a real feel of an East Lothian village to them somewhere on the ECML. Also absolutely loving the Edinburgh based traction as well, something I'm trying to recreate myself in N gauge. Keep posting your pictures as they are truly great to see.

Was that in the day when silver roof generally meant a SF loco? Other than some of the 47/7s which had it when in large logo livery I always associated silver roofs with Stratford. I remember in the mid 80s on the ECML just outside Edinburgh we always used to wait for a nightly freightliner service, possibly originating at Craigentinny, which occasionally turned up a silver roofed effort which I seem to recall always were SF locos, often accompanied by the sparrow shed logo.

Enjoyed seeing that one 'Chard. Nice bit of steaming sulzer action .

Another great addition to an already superb line-up of Edinburgh themed locos.

Excellent work. If that's you just dabbling in N then you've clearly got the hang of it sharpish.

Just trying to imagine the racket that would have been heard during the first photo, with the sound reverberating around the trees. As the caption states 'accelerating' as well so would have been a nice old din!! Nice to see a 37 picture as well , as much as I know photographic of such beasts are few and far between.

Oh there are saloon bars for sure in the very near vicinity. Whether you'd want to go in them is another matter altogether ;-)

Definite brucie bonus points for that.... Here's another big beastie at Leith Central.. Leith Central