lmsforever

Agree with you but I can rember the government of the day    pushed the decion to open into the dustbin  many many people protested about the decision but were ignored  as is the norm today.I can see rail investment halting after the next election as rail will be forgotten as other projects take over with billions wasted and no value to the people poloticians have shown with HS2 that they are not to be trusted,

Like the story line and the layout looks really good shall followmthis.

This section is looking really good sorry to see the problem but the answer seems to be a good way of curing it ,I had a problem with pony trucks becoming derailed as they turned towards platform.Found that I had not pinned the track and the whole section had moved but have now sorted out it and am happy again. It happens like that an d is a pain but at least it makes you look harder at the layout . I enjoy looking at your layout as this a part of the world that is so beautiful and amazing , my own layout is set north of the border in the south and I feel as though I go abroad everytime I unlock my shed !

I like the way you are doing the scenery the whole layout looks really good  and is  developing well and must be very satisfying to complete more please.

7 hours ago, KNP said:

And now we are completely around the bend and on the final run in to the station....

 

  

About time is the go slow finnished now?

Several of the cats I have had used to enjoy helping me with my layouts a couple liked when I ran trains would sit alongside and tap them but not knock them off ,a niegbours cat joins me in my shed and sits on the door mat whilst I am in there. 

Good to see this layout back    always enjoyed reading the updates and  the laughs  plus seeing the shots of trains running  glad  that its in for a refresh  as they say ,bring it on !

Glad the first section is coming together well but the arguments around the last section  are worrying it seems that the relevant people in charge are unable to make a decisi on  this is a bad time for the project.  Its a real shame that the DFT  did not pursue the project twenty years ago but hindsight is a wonderful thing  as costs obviously would have been lower and there was a need then for the line. I hope that the Aylesbury extension is built but I am not filled with hope. There seems to be a view within Daft that its not a project they should promote ,typical where Aylesbury is concerned . Over the years a bypass has put on hold and other nescary works have been pushed back ,if the line to MK is opened and promoted in an energtic way passengers would be forthcoming .But with the attitude of Daft we are going to be waiting for a long time  and I have a feeling that they are not really interested in a scheme that could take many cars off the road and also add many more journey options for the people of Aylesbury ,but dont hold your breath !!!

Take care of yourself its good to see you back posting  like the last set of photos  thanks.

Thanks for getting the lifeboat station in the photos this is our two hundred year of service to the people of the British Isles  ,the buffer stop is interesting.

Ridiculous names the money should have been spent on actual services not  this rubbish.

Glad your back the latest buildings look good best way do a couple of small projects  and take your time , the band will be a good thing for you go out and rock em  !

Thats good news Chiltern provide an excellent service and this rolling stock will increase the quality all good news .

I meant to add the following when I started this thread ,the flat I lived in in Newbury Park Essex for a few  years backed onto the remains of the GER branch which went to Ilford after coming from Epping .Further up the road a friends garden shed backed over where Central Line tubes went into the tunnell , it was a long way down and we dropped conkers on them we were very young!  Incedently durring the second world war several times German figters and bombers followed the railway firing as they passed aiming to  drop bombs on Plessey ,s works where many new weapons came from my dad worked in a special weapons dept and was a fireman at night.Newbury Park station was a very advanced building it was a very large arch construction and was a wind tunnel  plus a funnel for rain.I had my first train ride on the Central line to Stratford  very exciting.

 .Labour will not spend a penny on transport they never do dont expect anything to come forward all thier money will go on social problems it always does

I was thinking about how I started watching railways and how many of you started ,I started watching Goodmayes yard on the GE mainline .My father took me on a Sunday mornings and he explained what was happening plus where the trains were going to. Later on I started going to Liverpool St watching from the water point as I could see all the station  throat.Then I went to the GN line to the north bel ow Alexander Palace on a cross line footbridge .There it was A4,s A1,s A2,sA3,s etc  happy days all this started me on a lifetime of railway enthusiasm a still happy to watch trains go by.nd I am

Politicians  god help us all that politicians seem to do is compound the mess that they make when they gain power ,having lived through every government since 1945 I have to say they all have been useless.   None have left anything that can be called worth while and what has been done to our railways makes you really wonder if they have known just what a disaster they have caused. The railways should have been left to railwaymen to run and work out how to make them be a success then maybe the future would look good . Just look at the rubbish  passenger stock that has appeared all designed initially by the DFT with strange ideas that do not reflect what is needed . Well that is my view of what is happening and I hope that eventually we get a railway that works and not like now one that stutters along.

All the people rejoicing the truncation of the line will probably in thirty years on be demanding  that a new rail   is needed  or they will be complaining about new roads being suggested  you can never satisfy the general public.  Years back people complained  about the first railways nothing changes people will continue to be a problem as long as they exist , I bet there will be columns like this in fifty years time. As is said up north   there,s nowt so queer as folk !

On 13/09/2020 at 19:12, montyburns56 said:

Aylesbury 20053 June 87

 

 

That was a very good day interesting stock and the railman were very friendly

6 hours ago, DaveF said:

Another trip to Switzerland today.  I have captioned tham as near Steinerberg, it is actually a short distance to the south of Arth Goldau at the start of the Gotthard line on its way towards Erstfeld.  It is just a pleasant walk from Arth Goldau station.

 

The first two photos a train climbing on the 1 in 20 gradient on the Südostbahn line to Rapperswil and the east.

 

Photos 3 to 5 show Gotthard line trains

 

The sixth photo is on the Südostbahn near its junction with the SBB again just south of Arth Goldau.  I walked across the crossing to get to the location for the first set of photos.

 

 

near Steinerberg SOB BDe4/4 Arth Goldau to Einsiedeln 10th Aug 88 C10624

 

 

near Steinerberg SOB BDe4/4 Arth Goldau to Einsiedeln 10th Aug 88 C10625

 

 

near Steinerberg Re6/6 11624 southbound frieght 10th Aug 88 C10629

 

 

near Steinerberg Ae6/6 11411 northbound freight 10th Aug 88 C10626

 

 

near Steinerberg Re6/6 11620 northbound Schnellzug 10th Aug 88 C10632  Italian coaches

 

 

near Steinerberg SOB Re4/4iii 42   Konstanz to ArthGoldau 10th Aug 88 C10635

 

David

You cant help notiing  the lack of weeds and overgrown bushes in all of your photos taken in Switzerland  it all looks very beautiful  thanks.  Chris

Glad I dont go to Glasgow for the model show did it every for about fifteen years first with Virgin  then with the current operators  the best journeys were with Virgin and those with its succesor reasonable.The staff at Virgin were brilliant the staff who followed did thier best with a not very good product  ,the food in first class with Virgin was excellent and when they had gone it was down to the minimum standard and also at the end of my journeys only served from Prestoneynes .I think that the offerring now is a very poor quality only one train via Milton Keyneis glad I travelled when Virgin were around.

On 16/01/2024 at 15:44, kipford said:

Brighton is still alive, kicking and still very much on the exhibition circuit. It just needs maintenance, so there is very little to post about. It will have done 35 exhibitions by the time we go to Railex in May. New people to this thread will notice that most of the photo's are missing still. At present I do not have the inclination to go through every page and reinstate them. Instead I have up loaded a presentation on Brighton I gave to the Fareham and District Society of Model Engineers. It covers the build and includes all the fabulous photo's Andy York took for the BRM article in 2016. 

 

Fareham Talk 2022.pdf 28.12 MB · 47 downloads

Good news about Railex see there  hrisC

Those two blokes at the end of the platform seem to be talking and doing nothing is the station master aware and if he is I can see them being fired!

2 hours ago, woodenhead said:

So you never played on bomb sites, ventured into old buildings to see what was there, swung from a rope tied to a tree branch, had a look over the other sides of fences (especially if you had an interest in trains), climbed up wooden advertising structures to look down on the people in the street below.

 

Children have always taken risks, it comes with the inquisitive nature of growing up and it's how you find yourself.

Yes of course I did and we enjoyed ourselves  dont remember any bad accidents   but now its different situation  people do not heed safety warnings and if they do themselves damage its off to lawyers  to make money.

Accidents are awful and steps to stop them happening has to be taken  but to many people today do not take any interest   in it they consider it a nuisance ,this starts at school and goes through to old age . When I was growing up in the forties and fifties you took notice of safety and how it affected you and it stayed with you for life. We might be old fogies but we are here !!!!!!!!!!