New Super-Layout - Masborough in Emmadale

richard carr

richard carr

Western Thunderer
As the virus has banned all my mates from coming round to build the layout for me, I'm now having to do it myself.
Fortunately working at home does give me another 3 hours a day as that's roughly how much time I spend commuting each day even though I only live 25 miles from London. Unfortunately, it's not a holiday I still have plenty of work to do and meetings to attend, but I have been able to make a good deal of progress during the past month.

It is a long while since this was updated, over 14 months and quite a lot has happened even though most of our time has been dedicated to Love Lane.
I was able to acquire the layout that Steve Baldock had started building before he passed away. It was intended to be part of Bath Green Park MPD complete with a lovely turntable.

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There was still quite a bit of track to build including finishing off 2 double slips, but as building complex trackwork is one of my favourite things that wasn't a problem.

The really BIG problem was how to fit this into the rest of the layout. I had always planned that at some point we would build a branch off into the centre of the layout that would then reverse and go round the inside onto an upper level.

So for the past month I have been learning how to be a carpenter as I have had to build this.

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It would have been a lot easier just to build a simple board, but I wanted to have a bridge linking the 2 parts of the layout, so I have created a road running under the tracks from the station area to what will be the diesel depot.
 
Scale7JB

Scale7JB

Western Thunderer
Just a thought...

Do we plan to scenic the wedge shape area between the loco yard and station?

We could have drop in sections sitting on shelves that could be removable? They wouldn't be heavy.

JB.
 
AdeMoore

AdeMoore

Western Thunderer
Missed this brilliant now on my watch list.
Get Croscombe Magna, together with Heaton Lodge Junction Heaton Lodge Junction over on the other channel! In one Hall, each would be quire something but two now that would be something else.
 
richard carr

richard carr

Western Thunderer
You might be tempted to think that using 12 mm ply is overkill, well I suppose it is, but Steve had built all his boards using it and they are rock solid, so I thought I would continue in the same way. One advantage of 12mm ply is that you can use a dowel jig and join everything with 6mm dowels. I did try one of the cheap plastic jigs to begin with but they are too flexible, they would be fine on thicker pieces of timber, but not on the this. So I bought an all metal jig and it worked just fine.
Once I had built it I had to fit it to the old baseboards, but I had made a small mistake in the design and I had to chop about an inch out on one part of the existing board, marked in red in the photo. The yellow multi tool was the easy way to do this, all done in 5 minutes.

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The multi tool has proved very useful indeed.
 
Len Cattley

Len Cattley

Western Thunderer
Hi Richard, did you get Steve's 9F, as I have a MOK 9F and a would like to (eventually) put his smoke units in it?

Len
 
Tim Humphreys ex Mudhen

Tim Humphreys ex Mudhen

Western Thunderer
Len Cattley said:
Hi Richard, did you get Steve's 9F, as I have a MOK 9F and a would like to (eventually) put his smoke units in it?

Len
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Len,

Steve had an 8F rather than a 9F. It was bought from Steve's estate by Robin Impney, Boyblunder on this forum, a member of the Love Lane Group. He had it working and operating complete with smoke and steam at the Bristol show. The latest edition of the Scale 7 newsletter has some photos of it in action at Bristol.

Trust you're keeping well
Tim
 
Len Cattley

Len Cattley

Western Thunderer
Thanks Tim, keeping well hope you are ok. I thought that Steve had a 9F, I know he had an 8F I saw it at the Albury show one year. Never mind will have to find out when this quarantine is over and the Albury show is on again.

Len
 
richard carr

richard carr

Western Thunderer
Len

Steve was going to build 2 MOK 9fs, 2 west countries, an S&D 7f, a BR standard 5 and whole list of other things as he had already bought the kits !

You should talk to Robin about the smoke unit because it regularly goes wrong and burns out.


Richard
 
Oz7mm

Oz7mm

Western Thunderer
richard carr said:
Len

Steve was going to build 2 MOK 9fs, 2 west countries, an S&D 7f, a BR standard 5 and whole list of other things as he had already bought the kits !

You should talk to Robin about the smoke unit because it regularly goes wrong and burns out.


Richard
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Actually he had three S7DJR 7F kits. One went to Germany and one to Canada!. He had a third, rebuilt West Country, another 8F and a 4F 0-6-0 to build. He had the next few years mapped out I think, though he did seem to build remarkably quickly. I once asked him how he did it at a Love Lane meeting. His reply? "I don't stop for tea and chocolate cake every two hours"

Quite a character.

John
 
john lewsey

john lewsey

Western Thunderer
I remember the day that we put the embryonic Croscombe in my van and took it to Richards house. We put it up and had a loco running, there were only a few of us but it was quite a cheer when the loco moved ☺
 
7mmMick

7mmMick

Western Thunderer
richard carr said:
So I bought an all metal jig

The multi tool has proved very useful indeed.
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Hi Richard,

If possible could you post a picture of the jig and some more information about the board construction. If it’s worked well for Steve’s layout and yours then there’s good reason to plagiarise :D

Cheers

Mick
 
farnetti

farnetti

Western Thunderer
john lewsey said:
I remember the day that we put the embryonic Croscombe in my van and took it to Richards house. We put it up and had a loco running, there were only a few of us but it was quite a cheer when the loco moved ☺
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I remember that as well, from Peter's house. It was good to meet Richard at Bristol this year after a long time.

Ken
 
richard carr

richard carr

Western Thunderer
The next task is to dig up the old plain track and put a new point in, sounds easy but it this was in the scenic section and the track was already ballasted.
I thought I photographed the before the hole and the after but I can't find them if I did.
I removed the track with a chisel but that was far from clean, here's the track after it was removed

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The track had been built on some 1.6mm ply then stuck to the baseboard top with some kind of tape, so it took a part of the MDF baseboard with it.
The baseboard top was in three layers, some 6mm ply a layer of foam and than a final layer of 6mm MDF.
So it was out with the multi tool to cut out the MDF layer, all done in 2 minutes

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Then very fortunately it turned out that the foam was only glued to the MDF so it came out cleanly too.

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So here's the new bit all fitted.

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Richard
 
Eastsidepilot

Eastsidepilot

Western Thunderer
I have a set of dowelling jigs inherited from my late Father, of coarse it's imperial so anyone who still has an imperial set can get dowel's from here, as well as metric. Beech Dowelling

Who's make is the set you have Richard ?

Col.
 
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