Jason T

26 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Given your previous form, first with Bacup, and then The Mill, plus your personal interest in the prototype, this should be spectacular.

That could be my downfall with this one, as I really want to get it right and I am my own worst critic.

There is a cop out for the signal box as Bachmann did the very similar one at Arnside, two miles down the line (and very much still in use) as a RTP building a few years ago, but you already know that I won’t be using it and will build my own.

as can be seen below, Arnside box is larger and has stone steps; Sandside was taller, had wooden steps and Alex smashed it with his digger :D

40 minutes ago, ColinK said:

Very interesting, especially the photos as I go through Sandside regularly driving the bus.  I’ll have to get that book. Good luck with the project.

I’ll try and remember to get you the details when I get home.

It really was, and such a shame it was demolished and replaced first with a garage and then a block of flats which admittedly have stunning views over the Kent Estuary, but the back of them is continuously coated in lime dust from the quarry.

One of my claims to 'fame' is that as a kid, I watched one of my neighbours demolish the signal box (he worked for the quarry).

12 minutes ago, gz3xzf said:

Jason

I saw Bacup pop up in my "following list" and got excited that the layout had been resurrected; I remember you saying you had saved the majority of the buildings and hoped.
Sadly they are only historic photos of this magnificent layout and it is still no more! 😪

 

You could argue that it mimics real life as in the railway is no more but the majority of buildings remain intact!

One thing rejuvenating the thread has done is make me realise just how much I love creating buildings and as such, I bought a few A1 sheets of mounting board on Saturday and started to create a building that I have wanted to model for ever, Sandside Railway Station (demolished in the late 60’s).

 I will probably start a thread for it in the Scenery, Structures and Transport sub-forum but it’s one complex structure and quite unique so is already proving to be one hell of a challenge.

On 14/01/2023 at 10:53, lmsforever said:

Fantastic  wow  and other exclamations  this is some layout thanks for sharing.

Thanks. As can be seen (if anyone has the patience to read through so many pages), it really was a case of learning as I went along :)

On 14/01/2023 at 10:35, 'CHARD said:

I'm ashamed to say that I re-discovered this topic novel just yesterday.  I say rediscovered, because 12 years ago I 'liked' one of the early posts! 

 

Since then I've been going through the build - I'm up to page 6 or so now - but I had to fast-forward to present day because I was terrified the layout may have been cut up or exported! 

 

This is truly fabulous, I've discovered a lot of the real East Lancashire over the past three years and seeing this wonderful scene instantly transports me there. 

 

Right, now for a brew and a barm and back to page 7. 

To be honest, the thread had slipped way down the list of topics until I posted the other day.

Spoiler alert: the layout is no more as I no longer had space for it; interests changed slightly too and the draw of the EMGS 60th anniversary competition to build a full layout in 5’ by 18” was too great (another spoiler: our layout, The Mill - thread is in the Industrial Railways sub-folder - won).

 If you look at The Mill though, you’ll notice that the architectural style doesn’t differ much from Bacup although I’d like to think that I stepped it up a few notches.

The Mill still exists and fingers crossed, I would like to get it back out on the exhibition circuit at some point.

I was just telling people at work that it’s fish & chips night

8 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

And some Bonus ones from my Visit in March 2014.

 

Best day out, playing Trains and ????

 

 

 

 

… pointing at things?

46 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Not for me.

 

Mike.

Wonder why? 
The first image in the thread was always an odd one, don’t think it ever displayed properly 

Thanks Andy, really appreciate it. There’s so many, it appears to have broken 4G :D

10 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said:

That's visible.

So the one with blue things is fine?

Typical…

Does that mean that you can’t see this one Mike, the only one you would approve of? :)

37 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

Just checked out P1 and yes I see the light, I am converted. 😃  👍

Thanks mate, we’re back in the room.  Thread was basically a load of nonsense without photos. Some may argue that a lot of it was nonsense anyway !!

16 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

Nothing jumping out at me pictureswise, might be worth having a chat with @Andy Y

Andy will be drowning in a mix of Hornby froth and Advert spittle at the moment so don’t want to pester him :)

Thanks Andy, but I still have access to all the photos myself, it’s just that there are thousands of them and I haven’t the time nor patience to replace every linked one with an uploaded copy, especially when there’s going to be very little new content in here.

How about now?

Can someone go back a few pages and see if the images have miraculously reappeared?

Sorry to be a pain but I really would like this thread to be a full record of the building of the layout and a record of how it looked. The buildings all still exist and are in storage for future use...

ok, for £5.21 a month, I have now paid up and apparently, photos can be shared. I hope it works:

https://photobucket.com/u/51CharlesStreet/p/f8c62002-0dfd-4012-aa1b-815aaf4d58de

Damn. Wonder if it’s because I hyperlinked to my page after I logged on? Will see what I can do (username to search for, if that works, is 51charlesstreet)

Daft question maybe, but can someone confirm whether they can see the photos in this link? (It's basically all the photos for Bacup and most from The Mill, as well as a few other random ones): https://photobucket.com/u/51CharlesStreet?scrollTo=a7ece594-e092-42e4-9e07-8d9a9ec14b2b

Hi Peter, long time no speak.

Not sure if you remember but I used 3 links on all the stock on Bacup; I used Smiths and really liked them. As others have said, I very quickly gave up with the springs and split pins as they offered no advantage whatsoever, plus it was a damned sight easier to fit them (especially to RTR stock) when you didn't have to carve away so much behind the headstocks.

I got quite adept at coupling and uncoupling but when Jeff (Physicsman) and Andy P came round, they struggled a bit, mainly being able to see what the were doing. I haven't got one to hand right now but my solution was to buy some cheap pen torches and then add brass wire to them to do the uncoupling - illumination made a huge difference!

I just had a look in my Photobucket account (where all the photos for Bacup are still hosted - Photobucket doesn't allow them to be shared unless you pay them £££ unfortunately) and found this, which I screengrabbed.

52 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Good to see this is still getting the TLC it deserves.

Not that much at the moment Ian, but plans are afoot.

I didn't lose interest as such, it's just that life kind of got in the way for a while, I have precious little space in the house and bicycles kind of took over again (been a passionate mountain biker since, well, since they first came out basically).

And then I started a YouTube channel, so at least some 'creativity' was kept alive with editing although to be honest, they're pretty basic. The below is probably the only video that doesn't contain bicycles (so probably bearable for non-mountain bikers :D ).

I was pondering on whether to start a separate channel for railway modelling, sort of do it in the same style as my mountain bike ones (being brutally honest, being a bit controversial, trying to add a bit of humour, not taking the hobby too seriously) but I'm not sure it would go down too well :).

And just to show that the bug hasn’t completely gone, I have been continuing with the building of the 13 ton hopper and a Parkside van, a bit still to do with both (as can be seen)

And more. the photos were ones that Chris and I took for the MRJ article but in the end Karl (Crowther) took a load of far better photos. They were also taken prior to the two Rustons being completed.

The final one obviously shows the sector plate/fiddle yard.