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11 hours ago, Scottish-Exile said:

Personal favourite was the two Neuburg layouts depicting 1913 & 2013. What a wonderful clever and novel idea. Normally I only give a cursory glance to 'overseas' layouts as not really my thing, but these two were excellent.

Well worth trying to catch Jim Finlayson talking through all the differences and how  and why he saw them happening  over the hundred years between 1913 and 2013.

I recall an article in Railway Modeller from the 1970's that featured a layout based on the first days of the S& D with scratchbuilt rolling stock.   What stuck in my mind was the builders comment that he had not weathered anything because of course it was all brand new which seems a great excuse if you don't want to weather your  Hornby Locomotion and stock.

The completed Underhill kit for inspiration.

Quite an interesting video from the NRM on Imperial No 1 which may be of interest - https://youtu.be/aym2V73J-mE?si=F5CTJG2e2c3Crg3u

5 hours ago, slow8dirty said:

@grow45I suspect you found the answer, but for anyone else, for the LK-203 station kit, the drainpipes are also from wood, not plastic. Items 51&52 on sheet 2 I think.

Yes. I had thought they were plastic mouldings rather than part of the laser cut parts but realised after I had posted they were the laser cut parts.

Thanks

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Now showing as in stock at Rails of Sheffield https://railsofsheffield.com/products/peco-lk-203-west-highland-railway-station-building

Apparently one of a limited edition of 25 by Signalmeister Modellbahn this HOm Spatz is not as as detailed as a Bemo equivalent  model would be  but it runs well and fills a gap in my SBB Brunig/Zentralbahn collection.  Acquired at an auction a few months ago.

Since moving to Kinross I have taken an interest in the now long gone ex North British Railway station of Kinross Junction - which was about 500 metres from my new house.  I found this photo of the platform building which appears to have poster boards for the Glasgow and South Western Railway and the Great Central Railway on the end of it.  I had always assumed that these sorts of boards would only be used for the owning companies advertising but was that not the case?  Maybe they were rented out to other companies as a source of revenue or perhaps some sort of reciprocal advertising arrangement.  Any ideas?

Thanks

Not sure where you might be based in NZ but Ironhorse Hobbies in Christchurch had a reasonable selection of British 4mm (mostly Hornby) and 7mm (mostly Peco) items when I was there about three years ago.  I also seem to recall some American stuff but as it was not really one of my interests, I did not particularly pay much attention.

Great photos. Do you mind if I ask when this was? You make a couple of references to "today" and I wondered if it was just last week. We were there last week and it amused me to think that we might have been on some of the trains you photographed including the Glacier Express.

Andrew

Just found another photo

4 hours ago, roundhouse said:

Thankyou for posting those photos. I have not seen them before and didfnt realise that the track curved away on to a viaduct.

 

Yes I would be intyeredted in seeing your track plan.

 

Regards

 

Ian

 

 

I have sent you a message with the article.

The viaduct still exists.  It is a pretty substantial structure so it was probably easier to just leave it rather than demolish it when the line was closed. This is it about ten years ago. ten years ago  

I have had a long standing interest in Lochearnhead and produced a Plan of the Month based on it for the May 2011 Railway Modeller.  I can send you a pdf copy if it is of  interest,  One of the things I found fascinating about it is that because it closed so early there are hardly any photographs of it in use.  Most of the ones I have are actually publicity postcards from the  railway and a few are shared below.

I enjoyed seeing  Loch Doune at Cupar yesterday.  It certainly showed what is possible in a small space.   

On 23/06/2022 at 11:22, ianmacc said:

Nope not talking about grumpy females!

 

I have always been interested in historical model shop paraphernalia as social and folk history of our hobby. I encounter receipts bags etc in job lots and in fact gave away a few scarce ones to a fellow user on here.

 

Show us your old bags! No not Nora Batty….

 

I posted pics of some 1960s Beatties bags etc in another thread so my first offering is this one from north of the wall… 

Hard to tell apart from  from their current bag but that one must be at least thirty years old if it has the Rose Street shop on it.

As promised similar photos of Glen Douglas - with the GNoSR Gordon Highlander in the background of the last one

2 hours ago, pH said:

1966 hi-vis? Semmits!

Interesting that in the first picture the only person wearing a hat is the one not doing anything-presumably the gaffer. 

I posted some photos of the Jones Goods being moved to Glasgow Museum of Transport in 1966 in the thread on the Rapido model - 

At the same time the other preserved Scottish Locos were being moved from Govan Goods Yard and  here are some photos of Caley 123 and the G&SWR tank loco taken at the same time.  There are also some of Glen Douglas which I will add if I can find them.

1 hour ago, Rammstein2609 said:

 Next on my list is Crianlarich as I would quite like to make a layout based on there.  I've already made a start on the engine shed by counting bricks from photos I've taken and I managed to physically measure up all the other buildings so have plans for these too.

 

 

Railway Modeller for September 2014 has a set of drawings for the engine shed which may save you some brick counting.

19 minutes ago, Keith Addenbrooke said:

 

 

 

 

I wouldn’t normally show a photo of a box, but I felt the original shop label on the box for #81 was worth sharing,  seeing as I bought it second hand in the UK - it’s clearly well-travelled.  It’s an older model, but it’s run really well on test:

 

 

 

Bought my first Swiss HOm  model from Hochstrasser in Lucerne in 1982.  Hard to realise that was forty years ago.

Thanks for all the comments, insight, photos etc.  An intriguing topic.

1 hour ago, Nearholmer said:

I think that in the US it emerged from the building of “Christmas villages”, lots of model houses in a snow-scene, which seems in turn to have come from Germany. Once toy trains became common, railways got added to the villages, and the whole business of electric toy trains and electric lights on Christmas trees took off earlier in the US than elsewhere, resulting in a pretty solid tradition having been established maybe as early as 1900, certainly by the 1910s.

 

If you Google old photos, you will see that before TV took off, Americans spent a lot of time building some mega village/railway/Christmas tree mash-ups. And, a few still do!

 

This American website seems to have it all described well https://www.familychristmasonline.com/decorating/christmasvillages/history/christmas_villages.htm

 

If you want a gigantic fest of this sort of stuff (and, TBH, I dont recommend it), try the US magazine Classic Toy Trains, which turns over its December edition every year to it, accompanied by the most schmaltzy nostalgia imaginable. They've even done special bookazine devoted to the subject.

 

Here is a chap in 1935, trying to work out how he is going to explain this to his wife when she returns (if he hasnt burnt the house down first).

 

 

Fascinating and seems to help explain it as well as the Christmas model villages that  seem to appear in September at Garden Centres. Thanks

Can anybody  shed any light on why a train round a Christmas tree is seen as an essential part of  Christmas - even in mainstream media.  Question prompted by its appearance on the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special which my wife is watching.

Could it be because the train set with a circle of track is a natural Christmas gift and it just became a thing to put it round the tree or is there maybe some other connection between a Christmas Tree and a train set.

Thanks