AndyB Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Nick, looking good; particularly the wagons. There's an interesting article in MRJ #288, "Weathering in the smaller scales" which you might find useful. The examples provided by the author are superb. And explained step-by-step. Andy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stivesnick Posted April 18, 2022 Author Share Posted April 18, 2022 Rather than try to reload all the pictures that have been lost as a result of the problems with this site, I have included a selection of the recent photos over the last 6 months to give a taste of the layout progress starting with an overall view. Most photos were on here before, but may be cropped in a different way. There are also a couple on new ones. Regards Nick 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stivesnick Posted August 13, 2022 Author Share Posted August 13, 2022 Porthallow will be making its exhibition debut at the Warrington Model Railway Club show on the 15/16 October 22. Been having a bit of a running session this afternoon to try out a possible timetable sequence and see how the fiddle yard works ( as is often the case, it could have been a bit longer) Been adjusting the Dapol couplers and have managed to reduce the number of unwanted uncouplings during shunting. Some photos from this afternoon enclosed including the first appearance of the milk train. I have assumed that the dairy is along the branch but the train comes to Porthallow to run around and pick up an additional van. Nick 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 Good luck. Looks like you have a good mix to keep people - and yourself - interested. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stivesnick Posted September 4, 2022 Author Share Posted September 4, 2022 The final train formation is now complete, thanks to the arrival this week of another Dapol B set. I have also been working on the layout display that hides the fiddle yard. Letters from Scale Model Scenery and painted using the closest colours my local DIY store had to chocolate and cream. Photos enclosed: Regards Nick 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stivesnick Posted October 13, 2022 Author Share Posted October 13, 2022 All Porthallow will be at the Warrington Model Railway show this weekend. Warrington and Vale Royal College, Winwick Road, WA2 8QA Sat: 10.00 to 17.00, Sun 10.00 to 16.00. Please say hello if you attend and all comments on the layout welome. Nick 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stivesnick Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 Interesting time at the Warrington show this weekend. Lots of other N Gauge layouts there. The layout worked OK. As expected there was a lot of unplanned uncouplings. I brought some Du-luxe materials Liquid Gravity at the show, so hopefully more weight on the wagons will improve things. Other things: The timetable worked OK - but it is fiddly adding and removing the covers to the mineral wagons Need to redo the road crossing as too high for some stock The water tower got damaged when loading the car coming home The Dapol signals didn't move during the show - any thoughts? Thanks to Bob for helping me out during the show. Some show photos enclosed. Some different angles for photos given the extra space. Nick 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stivesnick Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 One question that arose during the show was "what would the railway way be to shunt the goods yard?" In the model timetable the goods train arrives at the platform. Option 1 When the loco runs around, it collects the outgoing wagons from the yard and moves them to the platform. The whole lot then draws out of the station and moves the train to the loop and then drops in incoming wagons into the goods yard sidings. Option 2 The loco runs around, then collects the brake van and moves it to the far end of the loop by the road crossing. Outgoing wagons can be collected and added to the brake van. However there is only room for 3-4 wagons before the train fouls the crossing and the outgoing train needs to be pushed across the crossing. The incoming wagons are then collected and shunted into the sidings. At the show both options were used but is one more railway like than the other? At present there is no shunt limit along the main line, or restrictions on using the ungated road crossing to the docks. Any thoughts on this? Enclosed picture showing the long train when using option 1 and track plan to help explain things. Nick 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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