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hi Jaz The platform edges are ratio! It was a bit risky putting up that fisheye close up of the station. The lamps are a bit bright ! One thing I should reveal is that I like my models to look like models. And try to create a picture with atmosphere more than anything else. that's why there are more pics of passengers waiting for trains and empty scenes than there are trains. My favorite train of the lot is the LNER twin set in the picture on the banner. Why I hear you ask. It has that austere look about it which you see in many wartime photos of kids being sent to the countryside for the duration! Pure atmosphere!!!!!!!

Hi Craig. Thanks for your kind comments. The music is what we sometimes blare out on a nice day with the windows open. It just seemed fitting to use as that's what was playing when we were working on the green houses and trees on the extension board! Watching the trains go by is my specialty, Can stack em in the fiddle yard and just watch them trundle past all evening some days. It's good to have a layout on which you can run just about anything, shunt realistically and just watch the trains stretch their legs.

Yes I purchased a cheapo tripod from Walmart to get better railway pictures. The camera is a Fuji point and shoot 10.0 mega pixel with 15xoptical zoom fancy lens job. Now I have the tripod I use the custom shooting mode more often than not. All pictures get opened with paint to crop and resize and we have Picasa for further tinkering! The custom shooting mode has a short delay!!

Thought I'd just throw up a couple of pics before hitting the sack. They're seconds I'm afraid things like funny angles and horrid back drops but they kind of give an insight into that little piece of Somerset in my attic. Toy trains in the roof space to be precise.

Sorry if I missed something (Following too many threads!) but why are you lifting the rails? My second point(no pun intended) regards facing points. I don't get what all the fuss is about not including facing points on layouts. After all they're just models , no ones going to die if a model comes off the rails. Both prototypes that you and I are building have facing points and no doubt the prototype had facing point locks to protect them. On Goathland there is a diamond reversing into the goods sidings from the down line but that's not because facing points were avoided it's because access was needed from the down line. Access from the up line would have been pointless!

For some reason the red levers look a little pink in this picture. All levers correspond to the list Andrew kindly posted. Except 38 which was a ground frame release for sidings not yet laid in my period so it has been left white. View from the front. Some very clear glazing will be needed. A cruel shot of Dapol signalman Eric Brook. More on Eric here The macro makes it look a little messy. But from a distance of say 2 foot the messy isn't discernible. It'll look cracking with the light on inside at dusk!!! Next time I'll but a kit for 20 quid and pay 9 quid postal and wait 3 weeks. Then curse while I melt it all or stick my fingers together and get lead poisoning in the process.

a. Agarve! Wasn't he that Argentine midfielder who made Gazza cry? b. Algarve....The beautiful sunny south western tip of Europe c. Agave nectar, is an alternative to sugar a bit lower on the glycemic index! d. Argav' lives in Bootle! Chance to double ya money! Do you wanna call a friend Are going to play it safe. or.....

Are that'll be the Algarve Al !! Love the icon. Remember the fast show. Mark Williams did that "You ain't seen me..... Right" shifty geezer sketch. Well one night I was on my way down the pub in Brighton with my mate Colin and we saw Mark walking in the other direction across the road. My friend shouts out OI! Mr. Weasley (Mark!) looks round, as you do. Then my mate Col says "You ain't seen me.........Right" How cools that!

Nice lime drops too! Love the way you have done the sand on that beach, just like the coast over here!

great beach scenes Jaz. Kal. When my 128 arrived there were loose bits, it's a gem and a very nice runner. Love your choise of livery!

Nice one Jaz! Fire away!

So are you still going to make the Goathland police house out of it? I don't think mine ever got made up into anything. All the contents was robbed for other projects!

Decaf coffee with a shot of scotch, drizzel of agave and wippy. Mrs. S. has mouse poo on hers. (chocolate sprinkles)

Just one more picture.

Having worked out what’s what with the lever frame for Queensbury East Box a rethink had me starting from scratch. Faced with making 40, levers a different approach was needed. First I made one of these. While that was cooling I nipped out to my woodwork shop and ripped a new frame from a scrap of Alder and sanded it with very fine paper. This time the levers were marked out on a piece of .020” O-scale freight car siding. .010”x.040” strip was glued 1.5mm from bottom back & front. .010”x.020” 9mm was affixed back and front from bottom. When dry a length 12mm was cut from the sheet and the tops were chopped with a fine blade then each lever chopped off in the groove with the Stanley knife. The plates on the front were also cut from the siding a little thick but all the same size. The assembly picture speaks for itself and shows how much better they look than my first attempt. The picture shows the complete assembly with two sets of levers on to correspond with clear signals for a Keighley-Bradford though working to correspond with the continuous loop on my layout plan and a Halifax-Keighley train. It's 01:30 so I'm off to bed.

Love that Crompton. I only ever saw one at Brighton in corporate blue. I have seen them at Newhaven, Hastings and Redhill! Did you know Dapol have announced 73s EDs for this year? (I have an old Lima one in EMU green. It looks great with green Bachy mk.1s.) :secret:

Have found this great image of Queensbury East junction with N1 class pulling a pair of Thompson 52' coaches on Bradford-Halifax service. Proof that the signal box was painted prior to the cessation of passenger services. It also shows I have missed off 1 row of panes in the door end window. Will look into changing that. Other details are the old station masters house and the catch point notice. also worthy of note is the distance to Queensbury! http://www.flickriver.com/photos/thanoz/2343392837/#large

There are rules????

About time for another Goathland pic. Here's N2 4744 reversing into the station sidings. She is an old Airfix/Mainline slogger repainted with a brush. Her condensing equipment has been removed and brake rodding added from beading wire. There's a Dapol crew and slim style Hornby coupling replacements. Signal is from the LNER kit by Ratio.

There's nothing wrong with good old Peco code 100! It's a good reliable system for a start. There is a great range of turnouts and accessories and when painted and ballasted nicely can look really old fashioned which creates the all-of-a-piece scene. I for one certainly would never find the time to build my own track. Other things are more important to me than scale trackwork. Super elevation is one, many a good layout picture can be let down because the trains are not leaning! regards Shaun

Need to check in here more often Al. There's just bucket a truck load of atmosphere! That box brownie shot is now adorning my desk top!

Have just checked the Peco site for double slips. The SL90 looks finer than the one I have. Also noticed that there wasn't an SLE-90. No electrofrog in code 100, that must have been the reason I opted for the code75 SLE-190. Hate dead frogs!!!!!!

Picture 4 is starting to look more like the real thing than the real thing dt! Nice work.

Here are the bits that I could never have worked out. 16.There is not a facing point lock but the bar is pulled with the point! 1,33,38. Release to ground frame. Didn't know there were ground frames! Two of these would explain the brick huts in the pictures! 38 will be spare for my period along with 27,34 &39.

Most locos stall on the example I have or worse derail! It might be the older version as it has pressed nickel switch blades that look very Double-O! I'm so happy with the Code 75 one , that the decision has been made to switch. Having said that there's all those Shinohara turnouts I brought but at 70 pence each I'm sure they'll fit in in the hidden sidings!