Jordan
Mid-Western Thunderer
Aww c'mon @Not Enough Panniers - give the lad a break. When your back is as bad as this, it's one or the other
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Photo nicked from Over There.
Tales from The Room of Doom. Dipping a toe in various bucolic backwaters.
.......Photo nicked from Over There.
Jordan
Mid-Western Thunderer
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
Aww c'mon @Not Enough Panniers - give the lad a break. When your back is as bad as this, it's one or the other
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Photo nicked from Over There.
Two things strike me about that photo.
First, the craftsmanship in used colour coordinated pins to attach the drapes.
Second, can someone please get the poor chap a cane or walking frame?
Gilbert
Western Thunderer
I heard he preferred a Sedan Chair....
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
A sheep in each corner??
NHY 581
Western Thunderer
Morning all,
What passes for normality hereabouts has been restored, well, for now at least.
After it's various trips out over the last few months, Ewe has returned to it's perch in the Room of Doom.
So last night, I plugged it all in and simply played trains for a bit. Newly acquired 65356 was fitted with a decoder and given shunting duties for the evening, providing a hint of what is to come with Flaxfield.
All very satisfactory.
Rob
What passes for normality hereabouts has been restored, well, for now at least.
After it's various trips out over the last few months, Ewe has returned to it's perch in the Room of Doom.
So last night, I plugged it all in and simply played trains for a bit. Newly acquired 65356 was fitted with a decoder and given shunting duties for the evening, providing a hint of what is to come with Flaxfield.
All very satisfactory.
Rob
John57sharp
Western Thunderer
What a superb scene.
NHY 581
Western Thunderer
Thanks John.
More playing with the trainset tonight. 65356, once renumbered, will be weathered along with the other J15s to feature on Flaxfield.
Rob
My father saw the BCR remnants Shropshire and Montgomeryshire, and Snailbeach whilst cycling in the borders late 30’s. I found nd it weird thinking that was nearly 100 years ago!
From those visits the BCR generated real interest for me and my first ‘proper’ layout took inspiration from it. It was subsequently sold on but still exists and is shown occasionally as a Diesel branch line ‘Shirebeck in Emswell’. I built some stock for it and started two London Road LNWR coal engines (late S&M rly motive power) which are still maturing on the shelf of doom!
The trigger finger is still itchy!
NHY 581
Western Thunderer
Hi Paul,
I do find myself increasingly drawn into the world of weedy, run down backwaters. Years ago such modelling would be dependent on kits but I think a passable job can be made now days using a few carefully chosen rtr elements.
For someone who is not in the slightest bit interested in things L&NER, I'm currently dipping into the likes of the Easingwold Light Railwayand The North Sunderland Light Railway to name but two.
Could we see a J72 added to the roster to accompany the Y7 on things light railway?
And who knows what will happen when Dapols 517 lands.......
Rob
Richard
Western Thunderer
Have you ever considered the really run down and seedy backwaters of the ex TVR Penarth Harbour Branch? Grangetown gasworks, the Railway Hotel aka 'The Red House', the wagon repair works, various distributors of FLAP, scrap yards and the traffic for the Windsor Graving Dock and its 'GridIron'
Another one in LNER territory is the Derwent Valley Light railway running from a terminus in York. Characterful stations and a history of good support for the local farming and industrial communities. There is a history in an Outwood Press book, probably out of print, but available second hand.
NHY 581
Western Thunderer
Morning all,
Hi Richard,
Funny but true. I really can't get excited about Welsh railways, including those of my home city. I have a passing interest in West Wales branch lines such as the Aberaeron and Cardigan lines but otherwise It's not really my bag. The Bishops Castle is an exception.
Cross the water and interest increases. The lines of the S&D and Midland lines around Gloucestershire, all three sections of the Southern, of course, and most definitely East Anglia. Add in anything Colonel Stephens ( excepting narrow gauge ), including the S&M.
So if anything GWR shaped were to manifest itself, then it would undoubtedly be Somerset or Devon centric. Think Wrington Light Railway.
Rob
Hi Richard,
Funny but true. I really can't get excited about Welsh railways, including those of my home city. I have a passing interest in West Wales branch lines such as the Aberaeron and Cardigan lines but otherwise It's not really my bag. The Bishops Castle is an exception.
Cross the water and interest increases. The lines of the S&D and Midland lines around Gloucestershire, all three sections of the Southern, of course, and most definitely East Anglia. Add in anything Colonel Stephens ( excepting narrow gauge ), including the S&M.
So if anything GWR shaped were to manifest itself, then it would undoubtedly be Somerset or Devon centric. Think Wrington Light Railway.
Rob
NHY 581
Western Thunderer
Hi Tim,
The DVLR is fab but Neil hereon is tinkering with that particular nugget......No, the Easingwold looks fun but I really like the rather basic look of the North Sunderland.
And I seem to have enough stock..er....in stock, to make a decent go of running a looky-likey North Sunderland service. Y7, six wheel coaches ( though 4 wheel coaches were used ) Y1/ Y3 Sentinels and assorted wagonage.
Could happen.......
Rob
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James Spooner
Western Thunderer
Of course there is always the Corringham Light Railway if you are searching for more Eastern byways…
Nigel
Richard
Western Thunderer
You are a very Baaad boy.
Have you considered some of the long and lonely lines that crossed the upper parts of England.
I too have a growing interest in the Midland lines, and getting the two books off you earlier in the year didn't help this growing itch.
I have no doubt that if I were 10 years younger, something base around Hay on Wye on the route from Hereford to Three Cocks Junction, would be a strong contender from my usual fare of Welsh BR(W).