Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
Being in East Anglia perhaps the station should have named ÞREOTIENE - retaining the Anglo Saxon/Old English spelling with the thorn or þorn (Þ, þ).....
simond
Western Thunderer
Thorn is an old English “th”, Thorn (letter) - Wikipedia
so “ÞREOTIENE” is three - o - teen, I guess.
so “ÞREOTIENE” is three - o - teen, I guess.
RichardG
Western Thunderer
ÞREOTIENE is an old English form of 'thirteen' and the pronunciation might be 'thro-teen'
Thirteen - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
The reference to '13'' comes from the quantity of foreign wagons in my collection until earlier today. I have decided to move the visiting LT&SR horsebox to the section of coaching stock so I am now down to 12 for a while.
Being in East Anglia perhaps the station should have named ÞREOTIENE - retaining the Anglo Saxon/Old English spelling with the thorn or þorn (Þ, þ).....
I like this a lot, but for a different project. Perhaps a H0 diorama I want to build to hold scenic models I made during the lockdown. I'd like to keep the name of 'Heybridge Basin' unchanged unless the layout ends up totally unrecognisable from the real location.
RichardG
Western Thunderer
Once upon a time I built a 00 shunting layout I called "Baker's Yard" because it was 39 inches long. The idea being, a baker's dozen is 13 so a baker's foot might be 13 inches and so on.
A baseboard 39 inches long will fit between the wheel arches in the boot of my car. For the future H0 project in my previous post.
A baseboard 39 inches long will fit between the wheel arches in the boot of my car. For the future H0 project in my previous post.
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GER ballast wagon (c.1888)
RichardG
Western Thunderer
I want to stay away from maths altogether!
I have wanted to build the early GER ballast wagon (diagram 39) from Ragstone Models for a while but I couldn’t see a decent excuse to include the model in the project. The LT&SR horsebox has rather changed my outlook, because this was built to a GER design. It therefore seems fair to suppose that someone (even the GER themselves) could have supplied ballast wagons of the GER design to the Heybridge Railway.
The kit seems very reasonably priced, but then again it provides just eight castings, some styrene to make the floor, and two couplings. The castings for the axle guards are really crisp and need hardly any cleaning up; conversely the long sides are distorted and need work.
I have built the model around a new floor of 0.25 mm brass. There are so many different angles involved here I cannot comprehend how anyone could build the model with just the cosmetic styrene floor.
To begin I soldered the sides along just the edges of the floor and not up into the corners. I have minor errors along the solebars (they are spayed outwards about one or two degrees) and a fairly tight arrangement of the four corners of the sides.
Then I twisted the ends of the sole bars (the dumb buffers) into their final alignment and soldered up the corners.
With the soldering confined to the areas near the floor, the sides look as though they can drop. The lack of a physical connection at the corners also means I could curve the long sides outwards so they look a bit more natural. Three of the four latches for the doors broke off during assembly and I cut the fourth one off for completeness.
I am going to try to paint this model before I add the wheelsets, see how I get on. I have started with the easy bits.
As someone who craves right angles and straight lines in their models I have found this build to be a bit of a challenge. I spent a lot of time fettling and trying to straighten the sides but however hard I tried I could not get things to align completely to build a wagon in ex-works condition. This is probably a good thing and the wagon with its curving sides now looks a bit "used". I have learnt rather a lot here, more than the photos show.
RichardG
Western Thunderer
When I wrote the back story for the Heybridge Railway two years ago, I thought the chapter on “Representing the Railway in a Model” was a bit wishy-washy. Looking back at it now, it was also a bit confused in places - in particular, E H Bentall had a foundry for smelting pig iron, not for smelting iron ore!
So as a diversion from modelling I have corrected and expanded this chapter and posted the new version in place of the original. I am not too sure whether this is important to many people except me, but it ought to help me to focus on the project and make a better model.
At the moment, I think most of my modelling reflects these aspirations. I have only built one wagon which I decided to sell (the GWR Hydra), but there are large gaps especially the wagons used to export the products of E H Bentall. I am still pondering whether these should be liveried as private owner wagons or written up with the name of the railway.
Representing the Railway in a Model
So as a diversion from modelling I have corrected and expanded this chapter and posted the new version in place of the original. I am not too sure whether this is important to many people except me, but it ought to help me to focus on the project and make a better model.
At the moment, I think most of my modelling reflects these aspirations. I have only built one wagon which I decided to sell (the GWR Hydra), but there are large gaps especially the wagons used to export the products of E H Bentall. I am still pondering whether these should be liveried as private owner wagons or written up with the name of the railway.
Representing the Railway in a Model
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RichardG
Western Thunderer
The early ballast wagon hasn't worked out quite as well as I would like.
Slips of 0.2 mm postcard to set the ride height while the epoxy glue sets. Next time I might place these under the first three axleguards and not just the last two, so I can go up or down on the last corner.
I wanted to finish the wagon in varnished wood. The GER might have used this on similar wagons around 1878 to 1892.
Unfortunately I have got the whole wagon crooked. The wheelsets are true to the centre line and to each other (the model runs well) but the four sides of the model are on a skew. I thought the error was only at tops of the sides, but it goes right down to the underframe. I don't know how this happened, because I thought my brass floor was true.
I think it will be best to paint this one grey so it blends in with the other wagons and doesn't call too much attention to itself on the layout.
alastairq
Western Thunderer
Lozenged possibly due to a heavy shunt? The same thing happens to the all-powerful, ever-so-strong-&-mighty, Land Rover.....when backed [or, smacked?] smartly on one rear quarter bumper [bumperette?]...mostly into something heavy, hard and unmovable? The whole chassis adopts a lozenge shape. Often the doors suddenly won't close, or fly open unexpectedly.....Quite alarming to unsuspecting passengers. Also, tends to corner better in one direction, than the other. Most regular drivers fail to notice....so immune will they be to the vagaries of operating Land Rovers....
Osgood
Western Thunderer
A similar issue in S7 recently caused one wagon to constantly derail (only when one end was running through the point in one direction) at just one set of point blades - several minds were occupied for several man hours until the (very minor) lozenging was eventually diagnosed.
Despite perfect running of all other stock, a combination of ever-so-slight, and for each one generally acceptable, deviations from the perfect value of every potential variable (track gauge, back-to-back, flange profile, point blade top relief angle, axle parallelism, point blade curvature) had ganged up on the poor wagon, whose crab-like gait caused the flange of one wheel to climb up onto the end of the point blade.
This was easily resolved by tweaking the angle of the pivoting axle cradle.
Despite perfect running of all other stock, a combination of ever-so-slight, and for each one generally acceptable, deviations from the perfect value of every potential variable (track gauge, back-to-back, flange profile, point blade top relief angle, axle parallelism, point blade curvature) had ganged up on the poor wagon, whose crab-like gait caused the flange of one wheel to climb up onto the end of the point blade.
This was easily resolved by tweaking the angle of the pivoting axle cradle.
RichardG
Western Thunderer
So, nothing to do with the curvature of the Earth, then?
Truly Alastair this is the funniest post I've read here all year.
But, the standards for S7 don't mention curvature of the earth. A notable omission from a well-thought-out standard. I will remember this for when I have the right audience
Rob R
Western Thunderer
Don't forget that is a slightly sharper curve north-south than east-west.....Truly Alastair this is the funniest post I've read here all year.
But, the standards for S7 don't mention curvature of the earth. A notable omission from a well-thought-out standard. I will remember this for when I have the right audience
RichardG
Western Thunderer
Some more photos to wrap this one up . . .
The skewing error is entirely my fault; the various castings are all the right dimensions and it's not as though one side is longer than the other.
So to try to disguse things I have painted the outside of the the wagon as if the light source is immediately overhead. The two ends and the sloping sides are a shade darker than the solebars. Then I arranged the load of ballast to be in an asymetric heap.
The couplings are from the Ragstone kit. I have built the model using only the parts supplied in the kit, plus a new floor and the wheelsets.
I guess the Heybridge Railway would have needed four or five of these to make a ballast train, but I am making just this one.