This page is just to inform anyone who might be interested of my latest blunderings.
Photographs of new rolling stock will be seen here
first and then as soon as I remember they will be allocated onto a proper
location.
1 Hidden
beneath a "sheeted load" is the battery for the flashing tail light.
The model for the cover was a
Morris Minor Traveller. (What else?)
2 A close up of another fine controlled weathering contract by Neil Ripley, he is also a layout designer to the nobility.
3 A train load of four twin set IPA double deck car transporters in the red livery of STVA.
4 A locomotive I met in reality on the 23rd August 1962 in a woodyard near
Bo'ness in Scotland, it was waiting to go for scrap that day.
When
I had the opportunity to acquire a cheap Bachmann example, perhaps it
was because the handrail on the smoke box door was straight? In any
event, I couldn't resist it. Now the
"Laird of Balmawhappie" has been saved for a short time to pull an enthusiasts special to Margate.
5 After
several complains from one of the operators
*, I conceeded that the
capacity of the fiddle yard should be increased. After careful
measurements I realised that I could insert a sixth road in the fiddle
yard without a significant lost of finger poking space. The
extra roads are not as long as the others but being on the centre road it
is bi-directional, if only one road at a time.
* Remember that Ray, you wanted them!
6 Two Hornby Cemflo's, "cut & shut" by Jeff Taylor to correct a basic dimension fault
7
Fixed couplings are used on several trains. The second bar on the
right hand coupling prevents buffer locking when the train is reversed, a throw back to Brockley Green days.
8 I have finally purchased a
Hornby Class 395 to represent as upto date as I can be with this layout.
It should be noted that this video was shot on the day of purchase and
the extra trailer coaches to make upto a six car set did not arrive
until the next day.
9
After much difficulty I have aquired a Roco z21 control system and a
"tablet" to give me a walkabout controller. The tablet may not last
long as Roco are producing a cordless handset "soon".
10 In
a moment of semi-madness, inflluenced by the low price, I have
purchased a Hornby green 2-BIL unit. It will join the ranks of the
enthusiast's specials and maybe loaned out to Mr Taylor's next 00 layout.
11 A return empty coal train at last, to complement the "full" one. Comprising of
10 x 21T hoppers
suitably weathered. Drawn by the Class N and protected in the rear by a
Hornby "Queen Mary" bogie brake. The eagle eyed will notice that there
are only 9 hoppers in the picture below. The 10th one has now joined
the fleet!
12 Flash unit number 5. Fitted to one of the "in the country" sections of track.