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    Tucking Mill

    in 2mm Finescale

    Posted

    Hi David, there was indeed quite a number of 2 mm modellers at Ally Pally, made for a really enjoyable weekend - a real yak fest as you call them:-))

     

    The grounded coach body is part of the group that Matthew Wald made for CF so I'm not sure of its origins although it looked very much at home on TM. If it is one of Denys's mouldings I shall try and track one down. For anyone who knows the Titfield Thunderbolt it would also pass muster as Dan's coach - just need a well wagon for it to sit on!

     

    Jerry

     

     

    Jerry,

     

    Oh no! I once had five or six sets of Denys's GNR 4-wheel coach mouldings in a gloat box and would have happily given you some, but I passed them on three or four years ago at a 2mm meet. Now I'm racking my brains to remember who had them from me...  :scratchhead:

    Mmm, I think it may have been me. Looked in the gloat box and found 2 x Brake 3rds and 1 x 5 compartment third. Descriptions written on the bag in Mr Copleston's fair hand! Would you like them, Jerry? Otherwise they can go on slumbering in my gloat box . . .

     

    David

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    Tucking Mill

    in 2mm Finescale

    Posted

    "The grounded coach body in the final shot was plonked there by Tim Watson and actually belongs on Copenhagen Fields - it does look rather good there and yes I did give it back before heading for home!"

     

    Looks like one of Denys Brownlee's Great Northern coach mouldings given a new incarnation in the manner of many old coaches. I think I have some of those mouldings in one of my (many) gloat boxes!

     

    I believe that there was quite a little 2mm community at Ally Pally. I was 300 miles further north enjoying the presentations at the Cumbrian Railways Association spring meeting where I was fortunate to see some beautifully modelled 7mm Maryport & Carlisle wagons. I never knew that one small railway could have so many varieties of chauldron wagon! An interesting railway the M & C and would well deserve the Black Dwarf/Lightmoor treatment.

     

    David

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    Whats on your 2mm Work bench

    in 2mm Finescale

    Posted · Edited by DavidLong

    Not on the workbench (which got rather muddy on Boxing Day) as such, but a new design I thought I might as well work on until the kitchen (workshop) is useable again.

     

    attachicon.gifL & Y 0-8-0 GA 2016 feb 04.docx

     

    attachicon.gifL & Y 0-8-0 GA 2016 feb 04.doc

     

    Not sure if this has worked as intended. I seem to have done something wrong with the files!

     

    I think that a certain Nick Mitchell may be rather interested in this one . . .

     

    David

     

    Nig H

    Whats on your 2mm Work bench

    in 2mm Finescale

    Posted · Edited by DavidLong

    The holes have been drilled in the livestock landing and the pens fitted in place.  There will be a sleeper fence between the landing and the road in the foreground and across the road, behind a wall and on the backscene, will be the market.

     

    attachicon.gif3 cattle pens #2.jpg

     

    Only two foreign cattle trucks available at present, but 2 CR 1870 ones are under constructions while the paint on the pens dries.

     

    Jim

    By foreign, Mr Watt, I assume that you are referring to 'Down South' or worse, those unspeakable people from the Sou'West.

    Actually I haven't a clue where they might originate from as I get a little vague when it comes to cattle trucks as the transport of meat on the hoof was a rapidly diminishing source of traffic in the days of the nationalised railway. Would you care to enlighten me and broaden my knowledge?

    Hope to see you on Friday at the SECC.

     

    David

     

    PS Nice work on the pens. Bit different from the usual sort.

    Black Country Blues

    in Layout topics

    Posted

    Bit of a quiet year as there is some work to be done on the layout over the next 11 months.

     

    Just the one outing with BCB to Wigan in October, although as a group you'll find us out with various other layouts throughout the year.

     

    Currently reviewing a number of invites for 2017, all of which appear to be in the South.

     

    Thanks, Mark that's excellent. I'll look forward to seeing BCB at Wigan in October.

     

    David

    PECO Announces Bullhead Track for OO

    in Peco

    Posted · Edited by DavidLong

    How did Peco roll out their previous new ranges (Code 75 00 and Code 55 N)? Was it suddenly possible to buy plain track and a full range of pointwork or was the introduction staged? The answer might point to what's likely to happen this time.

    I think that 00 gauge Peco Streamline track was announced at the March 1960 Toy Fair. I don't have that edition of the Railway Modeller but there is an advertisement in the April 1960 edition but none in earlier issues. The points are in the Toy Fair report of the March 1961 issue of Railway Modeller. It says "we understand that production of this exciting item will now be commencing almost immediately, but supplies cannot be expected in the shops for some little time".

    In summary there was a year between track and points.

     

    David

    2mm Coal Tank test build

    in 2mm Finescale

    Posted

    From about 1928 a number of the locos were fitted with vacuum controlled regulator gear for motor trains. There is an excellent photograph of the equipment, fitted on the right hand side of the smokebox, on page 110 in 'Bashers, Gadgets and Mourners'. Whilst there are some diagrams of how the system works the book doesn't seem to have any drawings of the gear. Prior to this it seems that they had rod operated control gear.

    However, as part of a short series on LMS auto trains, Railway Modeller for August 1964 has dimensioned drawings, produced by Bill Ibbot of the LMS Society, of the vacuum equipment. The article by Bob Essery concerns the building of a model of 7700 from the K's kit that was available at the time.

     

    David

    Northern Franchise the winner is?

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    I do hope that there may be consideration given to providing corridor connections on the ends of units. In the Hynes concept of 'Driver Controlled Operation' the driver will be responsible for opening and closing doors while the conductor is focused on the interior to provide assistance to passengers and for purposes of revenue protection. To do this efficiently the conductor needs access to the whole train. Currently there is a problem with 14x and 14x/15x combos where this is not possible. If the CAF units are delivered as four or five car units then it may be possible to get away with no connections as eight/ten car trains are unlikely in the North in the immediate future. Indeed without SDO many stations would be unable to cope with anything longer than five cars.

    I confess to finding the specification of trains without end corridor connections a little baffling. In terms of flexibility (e.g. splitting and joining), being able to spread passenger load and giving conductors full access it would seem to have many advantages. They could also be a benefit in any future cascades to lines where longer units can be accommodated.

     

    David

    Whats on your 2mm Work bench

    in 2mm Finescale

    Posted

    queensquare, on 21 Jan 2016 - 16:35, said:

    Every Christmas/new year I promise myself I will finish off some of the projects I have on the go and this year I did a batch of wagons. To be honest, some were started fresh, but a number had been started over the last year or so. Anyway, I have attempted to impose some self discipline and get them done, and here they are - the majority still need weathering and couplings. The former will take an hour or so for the lot, the latter a bit longer!

     

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    Jerry

     

    Wagons! Lots of them! Excellent!

     

    Nothing more to say really except first-class work.

     

    David

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    Tucking Mill

    in 2mm Finescale

    Posted · Edited by DavidLong

    I think they could well be Falcon. I have a few others including, from memory, a LSWR horse box and a LNWR chemical wagon of some sort - maybe I'll do those next Christmas.

     

    Looking forward to seeing yourself and Maurice at StAlbans and swapping kitten stories!

     

    Jerry

    Nice work, Jerry. Indeed Jidenco via David Lidgate to BH Enterprises. I think that I have some of these in my groaning wagon gloat box. You can get a lot of 2mm stuff in a 24 litre Really Useful Box . . .

    Amongst other Jidenco offerings I have as many kits for LMS cement hoppers as the LMS actually built.

    http://www.falconbrassworks.com/details.php?code=WK213

    I even started a thread about them hereabouts but I still haven't built them!

     

    Looking forward to Saturday 16th at St Albans- could turn into a bit of a yakkfest though!

     

    David

     

    PS the LNWR wagon is a Chemical Pan Truck but no-one knows what a chemical pan actually is.

    http://www.falconbrassworks.com/details.php?code=WK207

    Andy Hanson has even built one. The truck that is, not the pan. If you see what I mean . . .

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    North Cornwall Railway

    in Southern Railway Group

    Posted

    I have quite a few books on the Withered Arm but was wondering if anyone recommends any of the following:

     

    The Withered Arm: The Southern West of Exeter (Railway World Special) Paperback – 22 Sep 1988 by P. W. B. Semmens (Author), Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN-10: 0711018065

     

    The Steaming Sixties: Days That Were - The Withered Arm in Cornwall No. 4 Hardcover – Sep 2009 by Peter Coster, Irwell Press (Sept. 2009), ISBN-10: 1906919097

     

    Southern West of Salisbury Hardcover – 12 Nov 1984 by Terry Gough, Littlehampton Book Services Ltd; ISBN-10: 0860933415

     

    Southern Holiday Lines in North Cornwall and West Devon Paperback – 30 Oct 1995 by Alan Bennett, Runpast Publishing, ISBN-10: 1870754352 

     

    Steam Colour Portfolio, Vol. 1: Southern & Western Lines Hardcover – Aug 2004 by Keith R. Pirt, Book Law Publications, ISBN-10: 1901945367

     

    The Atlantic Coast Express: The Bude Branch 1995 by David J. Wroe, Waterfront Publications; ASIN: B003TMM4F0

     

    Portrait of the Atlantic Coast Express Hardcover – 27 Mar 1997 by S. Austin Ian Allan Publishing; ISBN-10: 0711024723

     

    The Southern Railway's Withered Arm (View from the Past) Hardcover – 26 Nov 1998 by Stephen Austin, Ian Allan Publishing; ISBN-10: 071102622X

     

    An Illustrated History of the Atlantic Coast Express (Illustrated Histories) – 6 May 2010 by John Scott-Morgan, Oxford Publishing Co; ISBN-10: 0860936341

    A slim classic (76 pages) is 'The Withered Arm -Reminiscences of the Southern lines west of Exeter' by T.W.E. Roche. This is a contemporary account of the lines by Roche who knew them from the period between the wars to the closures of the mid-1960s. The book was first published in 1967 but was reprinted a number of times up to 2002. Roche himself died in 1972.

    Although out of print it can be found from a number of sources such as:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Withered-Arm-Reminiscences-Southern/dp/B0018BDEO4

    I have the 2002 edition which is the one with the yellow cover. Not expensive and well worth it.

     

    David

    Etched loco chassis

    in 2mm Finescale

    Posted

    Chris Higgs, on 17 Dec 2015 - 17:28, said:

    Well, I could put the cosmetic chassis to match the Farish body for sale on Shapeways straight away. I cannot imagine there are too many people that want them though.

     

     

    Chris

     

    Oh I don't know, I'd give one a try. I've got a couple of those bodies from Rails. Got the chassis, got the wheels, got the motor, got the gears . . .

     

    David

    Any Question Answered

    in 2mm Finescale

    Posted

    There's a comment on the etch drawing that says that the brackets are not for use with the Farish body. I had assumed that there was a possibility of a short across the metal footplate but Chris has given the real reason in his note above.

     

    David

    Northern Franchise the winner is?

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    When Serco-Abellio took over Northern, it was a "no-growth" franchise. I believe in their period, ridership has gone up from 60 million trips to 100 million! No wonder we need MORE stock.

     

    Cheers,

    Mick

    A lot of ill-informed comment in other media and 'vox-pop' interviews about being glad to see the back of Northern. I don't think that a large proportion of the population appreciates what an excellent job they have done under very unpromising circumstances. The franchise was let on a 'no growth' basis and they have had to beg, borrow and steal to support, as Mick has said, a 60% growth in ridership. Personally I would hope that Arriva could keep Alex Hynes on as MD. Seems like a good man.

    Still find that Northern livery reminds me of the same colours used by the Co-op funeral service!

     

    David

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