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  1. Lisa
    Hi
     
    St Helier Weighbridge was the terminus of Jersey Western and Jersey North Western trains in the town. St Helier Snow hill was the terminus of the Jersey Eastern trains and the site is the other side of central area.
     
    This below is a photograph of how the front of the station is today. There have been no substantial structural changes, just the addition of branding, the building is now the entrance to the Liberation Walk outlet shopping centre.
     

     
    This stone build building was completed about two years after the station was opened; there was a wood building on the side, in an area now occupied by the pavement of the Esplanade. This was on the sea shore, before the harbour extension including the Queen Elizabeth Ferry Terminal was build.
     
    The entrance area is still very much as it was when it was a railway station, If you look up you can see the remaining portion of the overall roof. The remainder of which was removed in the early 1920’s and replaced with platform canopies.
     
    Round the corner the station buildings have been replaced with a modern apartment block, but on the ground floor is the Liberation Bus Station, the main transport hub for the island.
     

     
    Lisa
  2. Lisa
    Prototype for Everything Department - Forward
     
    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11591-st-ouen-jnwr-prototype-for-anything-department/
     
    My whole World is a Stage - Back
     
    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11512-st-ouen-jnwr-my-whole-world-is-a-stage/
     
    This weekend I started building the buildings for St Ouen. I was demonstrating at the local show building buildings from scratch, using photographs a source material.
     
    The buildings in the photograph represents a days work, whilst talking to members of the public and explaining the project and the process from an initial thought to a design, then onto baseboard construction.
     

     
    My buildings need more work, include painting, fitting windows, doors, chimneys etc., but they give a more concrete idea of how the layout will look.
     
    I have looked at various ways of supporting a flexible backscene. I feel that the best way forward is to use a single support in the centre of the back threaded into a loop on the back of the backscene.
     
    The sequence of fitting would be fit the backscene at the front, put the support into the loop, and put the fixing screw in. As the screw is tightened, the support moves into the vertical position and tightened the backscene and hopefully corrects the droop.
     
    The problem of the droop is caused, by the tendency of a material, such as card when bend around the base of the layout will attempt to return to the flat state.
     
    Lisa
  3. Lisa
    Hi
     
    I not blogged about St Ouen for sometime, this is because I have felt I was going nowhere with the project. After much thought I now struck off in a different direction with the project.
     
    I have posted in the Boxfiles forum at
    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/39667-the-apa-box/page-4
     
    I have now followed this up, with a new version of the St Ouen project as show below.
     
    This seems to be a much firmer base upon which, quite literally, to move the project forward.
     

     

     

     

     
    The last of the pictures shows the La Rocque layout, minus it's original fiddleyard, used as a scenic module. A sort of Micro APA box arrangement, perhaps MPA!
     
    Lisa
  4. Lisa
    Layout Mock up - Back
     
    To see the animated layout mock up click on the link below.
     
    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11391-st-owen-jnwr-layout-mockup/
     
    Background Design - Forward
     
    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11443-st-ouen-jnwr-how-much-detail-is-required-in-a-photo-background/
     
    Baseboard Design
     
    The baseboard for St Ouen are made from a sandwich of 4mm plywood and 8mm softwood. The photograph below shows the underside of the main board. Removal of material, is usually carried out to make the baseboard lighter, but on such a small baseboard this is not a consideration.
     

     
    Photograph of the underside of the main board.
     
    The space created will be used to accommodate the wiring, including facilitating the attachment of track droppers.
     
    The animation below shows how the layout is packed away into it's carrying case, for transport. The next stage is to complete the building of the baseboard, including the platform extension and the cassette fiddleyard flaps.
     
    The nickname of the layout, down at the club is the 'Raspberry Ripple' because the carrying container originally came filled with Raspberry Ripple ice cream.
     
    Lisa
     

  5. Lisa
    How Much Detail is Required in a Backscene? - Back
     
    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11443-st-ouen-jnwr-how-much-detail-is-required-in-a-photo-background/
     
    My Whole life is a Stage - Forward
     
    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11512-st-ouen-jnwr-my-whole-world-is-a-stage/
     
    All right I admit it, I have made a design mistake! BUT you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. I have now reduced the baseboard width by 9mm so that I can close the travelling box.
     

     
    The baseboard top was cut to the initial design size of the layout. Then the front and back pieces were added the layout was increased in width by 6mm, hence the travelling case would not close. BUT these parts are within the scenic section of the layout, so the reduction of the width of the scenic section is only 3mm.
     
    I can live with this. The finished baseboard will be a snug fit, and hence it will not move in transit. So I am making progress with the project. One can only learn things, by making mistakes!
     

     
    Lisa
  6. Lisa
    Answer when it at St Aubin in Jersey, see the diagram below.
     
    St Aubin Level Crossing
     

     
    Signalling on Jersey railways
     
    The only signals on Jersey railways was the two protecting the Level Crossing at St Aubin on the Jersey Railway and two signals protecting Green Street Level crossing in St Helier on the Jersey Eastern Railway.
     
    The signals at St Aubin were lower quadrant, the one at the end of the platform has mounted on a short wooden post, the one protecting the crossing for trains to St Helier was bolted to the tunnel wall.
     
    All points on Jersey railways were operated by hand levers, which were weighted to prevent them moving whist a trains is passing over the points.
     
    Telegraphic Dispatch
     
    Trains were controlled by Telegraphic Dispatch, the Jersey railways were not sleepy branch line, but operated ½ hourly services, except in the early morning and late evening. The lines were single line, with frequent crossing loops.
     
    The Line Controller, based at St Helier (Weighbridge) station, had a diagram of the line painted onto a blackboard. The position of trains was shown, by recording the Train Reporting Number using chalk.
     

    Train Reporting Numbers
     
    JU15 describes Jersey Railways Up Train number 15
    ND05 describes Jersey North Western Railway Down Train number 05
     
    When a train arrived at a crossing loop the Station Agent would telegraph the line controller. The Line Controller would the move the Train Reporting Number to the loop. He would also record the telegraph message in a ledger. When it was safe for the train to proceed, the Line Controller would send a telegraph message to the station agent.
     
    The Station Agent would then write a driver ticket, hand this to the driver and and when safe, give the drive a hand signal to proceed. He would then send a telegraph message to the Line Controller, who would record the message and update the position of the Train Reporting Number.
     
    The next day the the ledger would be reconciled against the tickets issued to the drivers. From St Helier Driver Tickets could be issued to Millbrook, St Aubin as appropriate, depending on train path availability.
     
    The Jersey North Western Railway, was operated as One Engine in Steam, once the train had left the loop at Pont Marquat and outside the station limits of St Ouen.
     
    To return to the main St Ouen blog, click on the link below.
     
    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11391-st-owen-jnwr-layout-mockup/
     
    Lisa
  7. Lisa
    After building the sequence, the next stage was to build a mock up of the layout to check that it look OK.
     
    Firstly I took the design of the layout, within Templot and added the flap that carries the track for the end of the platform and the coal wharf roads. Then I added a cassette and the cassette support flap to the design.
     

     
    The design for the complete layout
     
    Next I built the mock up of the layout, including the proposed backscene. This was examined in a great deal of detail, and changes were made, until I was satisfied with the result.
     

     
    St Ouen mockup
     
     
    Baseboard Design - Forward
     
    To look at the design of the baseboard, click on the link below.
     
    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11412-st-ouen-jnwr-%E2%80%93-baseboard-design/
     
    Building an Operating Sequence - back
     
    To see how the operating sequence was built, click on the link below.
     
    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11376-st-ouen-jnwr-building-a-sequence/
     
    Lisa
  8. Lisa

    Thankyou Julie

    By Lisa,

    Thank you Julie, for letting me post some of my material on your blog following the problems with loosing my phone, and thus temporally loosing control of my email account.
     

     
    Lisa
  9. Lisa

    The Knob Shop

    By Lisa,

    Hi
     
    No I NOT being rude. The name comes from the fact that they started trading selling door knobs. The shop came to my attention looking for different hinges to hinge, joint between two baseboards. The Knob Shop stocks a huge range of hinges, including ones with large hinge plate dimensions. One that I looked at have a over 7" between the rows of screw holes.
     
    They also stock a large range of door stops, window furniture, including units to hold them open.
     
    I think that they are worth looking at when looking for unusual hardware. Their address is http://www.knobshop.biz/
     
    Lisa
  10. Lisa
    Hi
     
    Thanks to all involved in arranging the Taunton Event. The selection of Layouts was good, Atmosphere excellent.
     
    I always enjoy seeing Bridport Town. The town modelling is well observed, and the owner is an excellent communication skills and out his explanations are pithy and very instructive.
     
    The use of low tech sound effects, such as the wooden locomotive whistle gave the operation just that little something extra.
     
    The contrast between the high tech, with locomotives not properly run in of the Southern layout behind Bridport, and the well executed DC operation of Bridport are very instructive. Proving High Tech is no substitute for good old attention to detail and operator training.
     
    I was very impressed with the Staplegrove Steel Works module and the 2mm finescale demonstration was excellent. The Tree building demonstration and the 3D printing demonstration were very through provoking, for me on tempting me to take new directions in my modelling techniques.
     
    Those who missed the event missed an excellent day out.
     
    Lisa
  11. Lisa
    What is additive Manufacturing?
     
    Traditional manufacturing is done by removing material, whereas additive manufacturing is done by adding material.
     
    What equipment do I need to start?
     
    Normally it is considered that you require a 3D printer, but that is not so. All I have is a collection of thin sheets of plasticard, a comtainer of plastic weld adhesive, a cutting board, a scapel, and a 12" steel rule.
     
    Can I used subtractive processes?
     
    Yes of course you can. Many commercial applications of Additive Manufacturing, need to use subtractive methods, to complete the manufacturing process. An example is where circular holes, to a very small tollence. They print the hole, which is not completly round, then the hole is reamed out to make the hole completely round, and the exact required size.
     
    Do I need to make a whole wagon body in one piece?
     
    No is the answer. If it simplies the manufacturing process. The parts can be joined using a suitable glue, to make the complete model. With some items the making in several pieces simplifis the process and improves the quality of the finished product.
     
    How can I get a large radius, for a carriage roof?
     
    If it is printed, so the roof is the intended shape, then the curve is a series of small steps. There are several options, you could smooth the shape using emery paper. You could add extra layer, using a thin sheet, held in place using a suitable adhesive. There are methods of eating away the surface to get a smooth roof, but the roof needs to be printed slightly thicker to allow for the material being removed.
     
    Or you could print the roof flat, and then using hot water and a wooden mandril and a rubber band to bend the roof into the required radius. You have to bend it into a smaller radius that the required, because the roof will spring out, after the part is removed from the hot water.
     
    What models can be made, using Additive Manufacturing?
     
    The only limit to the process is the imagination of the person. Before using a new technique, you will need to several make practice pieces to learn the best way to get the required result.
     
    Previous blog entry http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/941/entry-11238-additive-manufacturing/
  12. Lisa
    Hi
     
    Why do model railway layouts have black facia panels? Before visiting the RM Modellers day, this is not a question which I would have asked.
     
    BUT following a discussion with the person on the design desk, the above is a question that I am exploring. He pointed out, and thinking about I agree, that when one attempts to take a close up photograph of say a locomotive on one's layout, it is difficult not to have part of the facia panel showing in the photograph.
     
    His solution is to have a sloping facial panel, the facia panels are often structural members, on modern plywood layouts. Hence you cannot do without them! BUT his suggestion was to give the sloping facia panel, a partial scenic treatment. SO that when one took the close up photograph, using the macro facility on your camera, the scenic facia would be not in sharp focus.
     
    Visually this would be similar to taking a photograph of a real train, in a landscape, where the foreground would be slightly out of focus.
     
    What do other's think about this subject?
     
    Lisa
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