Captain Kernow's layouts

[Nick Rogers]

Very nice, Tim. I do like an 0-4-4 loco - Edwardian elegance and all that!

 

[Captain Kernow]

A Jinty shunts a few wagons at the old platforms on the long-disused station:

 

[Pencarrow]

A Jinty shunts a few wagons at the old platforms on the long-disused station:
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Looking good CK

 

[Joe's Garage]

I doooo like the Jinties....is it the influence of the old Triang model from my early days? A very hansom workday looking loco in any scale. But that is only my opinion!!
Julian

 

[Stephen Freeman]

Although a GWR fan I too have a soft spot, they were around Crewe Works etc into the 1960s and I remember the Triang Models being featured on Berrow, to my mind possibly one of the most satisfying layouts (not sure about the turntable feature being added etc), a Branch off a Branch. I have only ever owned 2 models (a 7mm scale one from a JM Products kit, sold years ago and a Hornby blue S&D one, still in the box).

 

[Captain Kernow]

The latest loco for Callow Lane is this DJH 02, which I was fortunate enough to buy completed from a fellow S4 society member recently. It will be re-liveried to represent one sold into industrial use:

 

[2996 Victor]

That's a super little thing, isn't it? I'm quite jealous: even as a diehard fan of kettles I find these little diesels absolutely charming.

Cheers,
Mark

 

[NHY 581]

Being the lazy 00 sort, I await the Heljan RTR example arriving which I believe isn't that far away.

Rob

 

[2996 Victor]

Ooooh, I must've missed that announcement off to do some digging now.....

Mark

 

[LarryG]

Never owned a Triang Jinty but I built a lot of loco bodies on the chassis ~ re-wheeled with Romfords of course + 30-to-1 gearing. This whole business of 'scale-modelling' looks wanting now when I look at today's r-t-r scene.

 

[Captain Kernow]

We're getting close to the end of the Somerset and Dorset in March 1966 now and it won't be long before the output of what's left of the Somerset coalfield has to be routed via the North Somerset line to Bristol and Portishead power station.

Bath Green Park 8F 49706 has arrived at Engine Wood to collect some loaded minerals for Portishead:



Photo by Andy York, courtesy of BRM

 

[Captain Kernow]

Regular Kington area loco 1458 arrives at Bethesda Yard with the recently discovered and preserved 2-4-0T 'Lady Margaret', which is en-route to a new base at the Army depot at Llanddewi, at the top of the light railway: