Love Lane, B.R. (E) c.1956-59

[Overseer]

I have also read good reports of CRC 2-26 for maintaining contact.

I can add another one. CRC 2-26 works very well. I spray a little on a cloth and rub on the rails out of the fiddle yard and some critical spots at the beginning of an exhibition day. It does improve pickup and doesn't seem to leave a residue.

 

[S7BcSR]

Couldn't get to Warley, date always clashes with other priorities. Congratulations to all the Love Lane Group for all those long hours that you have put in, it was worth it! Even at Brightwell it always looked as though it was going to be something special all those years ago. The photos really make me wish I could have been at Warley and then to come away with a shield. What a weekend.
Rob

 

[Boyblunder]

Thanks for all your suggestions. Next year we can included CRC 2-26 in the comparative test. The notes for CRC 2-26 can be seen here: https://docs-emea.rs-online.com/webdocs/1245/0900766b81245015.pdf. We have a metallurgist on the team so maybe he can produce the definitive test results based on proper scientific data for the benefit of the whole railway modelling community. Or maybe we will just drink coffee and talk about it as normal.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Love lane was re-assembled today at it's home after return from NEC a couple of weeks back.
Bob successfully test ran his recently, nearly, completed J17 ( a few more details to add ) and along with Love Lane's own J15 we tested the layout circuits after Rob had connected all the cables and control boards. etc..




Apart from re-assembling the layout we discussed the fitting of a back scene and the building of another scenic section on the up direction from the station and to balance that another extension board in the storage road section.

Col.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

As well as Scale7JB's excellent professional photo's of Love Lane at the NEC I too took a few shots and I've sorted some out that show some other angles and areas of the layout.
In the first shot we have the gated entrance to the goods yard, the gate was built by our very own Sopwith Steve.
The second shot shows the gardens built by John Watson, a man most knowledgeable of the Mid-Suffolk Railway ( see 'A Suffolk Idyll' in an early MRJ )

 

[Scale7JB]

I wonder if Steve could elaborate on the masterpiece gate. I believe all the joins are real mortice and tenon joints?

JB.

 

[mickoo]

Still say it should be a trolley bus with overhead wires outside the station

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Still say it should be a trolley bus with overhead wires outside the station

I'll look good but the road would be too narrow.....


I see there is still plenty of detailing to do around the station front.... street lights, street furniture etc. As well as a bus stop on the other side of the road. Given the narrowness of the pavement one mounted this way round either on a post or from a lamp post.

Photo from London (Bus) Stop Flags.

Just as a thought - would there have been a parade of coal merchants offices where the flower shop is or are they deemed to be off-stage near the goods yard entrance?

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Dave,
There is a lot more detail additions to come like the bus stop and coal offices and some more, it's still very much work in progress, keep tuned to this thread

Col.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Still say it should be a trolley bus with overhead wires outside the station

I too like trolley buses but the part of country where Love Lane is supposed to be based is deemed too far out for trolley buses.

Col.

 

[Arun]

Surely you must be able to find a spot for one of these somewhere.........

 

[mickoo]

I too like trolley buses but the part of country where Love Lane is supposed to be based is deemed too far out for trolley buses.

Col.

Sounds like people are taking things too seriously and besides, since when has reality been such a sticking point with toy railways

 

[Dog Star]

"Also other buses... " is understood - what is meant by " 'Notice to drivers' Headstop"?

 

[Dan Randall]

"Also other buses... " is understood - what is meant by " 'Notice to drivers' Headstop"?

I just Googled it Graham and came across this, which may, or may not answer the question!....

Headstop / Tailstop - London Banter


Regards

Dan

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Well looking at Dog Star's photo. It would seem that the bus driver should stop with the cab ext to the bus stop so that he's not blocking the entrance to the yard in the shot.
But why does the other bus stop not have 'tailstop' on it. ?....having said that I suppose the driver would usually pull up with rear end at the stop normally.
Bloody obvious ...

Col.

 

[Scale7JB]

Sounds like people are taking things too seriously and besides, since when has reality been such a sticking point with toy railways

Probably about the same time that @eastsidepilot and I were marking out and drilling our own front tubeplates..

I guess we want to try and avoid the comments from the anoraks at shows that obviously know more about the area then we do..

JB.

 

[simond]

As the penguin said, “just smile & wave”...

 

[Arun]

There again GreenLine coaches got pretty much everywhere.......
John - In the presence of folk who obviously know more about your prototype than you do, the obvious solution is to mention that it's a two day show, you'll be here tomorrow and would love to see their version so you can see how it should be done.................. My experience has been that they find an excuse not to turn up............

 

[mickoo]

It's beyond me how anyone can have more knowledge (or stand firm about what is or isn't right) about what is essentially a fictional location somewhere north east of London in Essex or Hertfordshire

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

It's beyond me how anyone can have more knowledge (or stand firm about what is or isn't right) about what is essentially a fictional location somewhere north east of London in Essex or Hertfordshire

Or anywhere for that matter but it does happen .

Many years ago I exhibited a HO SBB/BLS layout named St Rickard and punters were convinced they had been to the station. And the same occurred with a a friend's large HO Austrian layout, Prutz, based on a imaginary line from Landeck up the Inn valley through to Switzerland and Italy. Again, punters were convinced they had travelled on the line and stood on the platform!!!!