engine sheds Basingstoke Shed - 70D - Comes to Buxton

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The overgrown area behind the shed leading down to Chapel Hill is taking shape.

 

 

KInd regards,

 

Richard B

 

 

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The area leading down to Chapel Hill is almost finished. The entrance to the shed from the road, as I remember it + images and the footpath that leads into the shed. To the right of this will be the grassy bank that runs down to the turntable and this was sectioned of from the public with a similar spear fence.

 

 

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

[30368]

Hi,

Good that RM Web has recovered thanks to Andy and all the rest, many thanks.

 

I will try to restore pictures eventually but a quick update on 70D's shed building - I have been working on the roof.

 

The back or closed end of the shed roof windows under construction. Originally both ends of the shed had this fairly complex window design looking a bit like the stern of a 17th Century high prowed warship.

 

Then by BR Days the open or working end of the shed had a very different, much simplified window arrangement.

 

Hopefully those that can remember Basingstoke shed will recall this view, or rather, something very like this view.

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

 

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Shed building is coming along but still a lot to do, particulaly on the interior.

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

Edited April 1, 2022 by 30368

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A few more pics.

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

 

 

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Shed roof smoke stacks now complete.

 

 

All twelve ready for painting.

 

Starting to look a fair bit like 70D as I remember it.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

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A quick update today.

 

When I lived down in Wiltshire I did a few jobs for Jack Benson on his layout, primarily building a SEF G6 0-6-0T kit for him. We have kept in touch and Jack has very generously given me his really super rake of 6 ex SR Wulrus' and the ex LBSC brake van that was attached to these trains. In return, I will build a Roxey Mouldings coach kit and part construct some Comet coach etches. Whilst I have built a number of two axle vans, I have never built a coach so this will be a first. I intend to continue with layout work and fit in the coach work when I can.

 

I am very grateful to Jack - a few pictures.

My Little Engines Q1 trundles past the shed yard with a load of Meldon Quarry produce.

The quality of the work done by Jack to the Wulrus' (accurate bogies and operational gear) is first class as is the weathering.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

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I have made a start on Jack Benson's Roxey ex SECR Push-Pull Driving Trailer kit, coach kits just as fiddly as locomotives! The Roxey kit is though, very good.

 

I have been working on the shed interior. I can't recall in detail how the interior of 70D was laid out but from the few images I have, and a bit of informed imagination (I was a fitting apprentice on BR in the 1960s) I have installed the following bits and pieces:

 

The fitters bay. The fitter seems to have repainted his bike in a very trendy orange. More to add eventually.

 

Brake blocks making a mess. I once re-blocked an 08 shunter, the chassis of which was built like a steam locomotive. The block's were B heavy for a skinny 18 year old apprentice and the old assistant fitter assigned to me by the Foreman was not much use...

The Foremans bike is not so swish being a standard black. In this image it looks as if Basingstoke shed is ready to fall down before it is pushed...

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

Edited April 15, 2022 by 30368

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A quiet corner of the shed yard in the setting sun.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

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A few images from Basingstoke shed yard featuring one of the two G6's that are allocated.......

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

 

 

Edited May 14, 2022 by 30368

[AdeMoore]

Very nice.

G6 Alan Gibson or SEF or other!?

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7 hours ago, AdeMoore said:

G6 Alan Gibson or SEF or other!?

 

Alan Gibson Ade. The other G6 is SEF which is a bit larger so one of them is under/over scale, I suspect the latter since originally it was designed to fit the Triang Jinty chassis. I must check against the drawing.

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

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A picture of the shed approach line with 32331 waiting to go onto the shed. Picture by one of my son-in-laws. Ballast train heads for London.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

[30368]

I have been fettling two of 70D's Drummond 4-4-0s, the S11 (30398) and L12 (30429). The S11 is fairly good runner and can pull 3/4 coaches without too much of a struggle. About right for the late 1940, early 1950s. The L12 needed a fair bit of work before she would run well. I have a few of my poor snapshots of these two on the bay platform and platform 1.

 

With the shed in the background, 30429 pulls away with a local for the West of England line. The S11 waits to go onto the shed.

 

Another view from the shed in BandW.

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

Edited August 2, 2022 by 30368

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Final little update on this "Late Drummond 4-4-0s" episode is the D15. A truly fine looking locomotive and a succesful design. I built mine from a PDK kit which was bought by Mrs B for my 70th birthday. It needed some cleaning around the pickups etc but otherwise is s fine runner.

Unless I get tempted into building one of my A2/1 kits (PDK and Nu-Cast) I shall return to wiring up and testing the shed yard next.

 

A nicely balanced design. Lining transfer wobble...

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

 

Edited August 4, 2022 by 30368

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Have been pondering whether to leave the shed yard points manual or driven by seep motors. I then started to wire up the double slip alongside the shed and the choice was made. To power up the live frogs of the slip with the correct polarity (DC remember) a point motor with a spare switch is required so the decision is made. I think I have wired up the first motor correctly - test it tomorrow.

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

 

 

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I have not updated this thread for some time due largely to holidays (more to come, lots of catching up to do!) spot of illness and being submerged under the baseboard fitting SEEP point motors to the Engine Shed yard. Pleased to say that this is now complete so I can make a start on the shed "scenery" if thats the right word.

 

I am using polystyrene sheet cut to profile and then covered with a plaster bandage, that approach has worked quite well on the small woods at the London end of the shed.

 

 

This is the grassy bank that those of us that knew Basingstoke shed yard did our loco spotting,

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

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I have started to use my static grass kit for the first time. Not overly impressed with the results so far although I am using 2mm grass only with 4 and 6mm on order. Perhaps when I have layered this on top the appearance will improve.

 

I have made the sleeper retaining wall from, surprise, surprise, plastic sleepers from scrap track sections. The walled section is made from a modelrailwayscenery cardboard and paper kit.

 

This area of the shed yard should be much wider, the shed turntable was located in this corner which explains the wide expanse of unused area on the prototype. I just have not got room to model this so yet another compromise....

 

The coping stones for the wall yet to fit. The rail chairs at the base of the sleeper wall will be mostly covered in yard ash and crud.

 

Kind regards,

 

 

Richard B

 

 

 

Edited October 24, 2022 by 30368

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I have persevered with the static grass and the results are now encouraging. I have overlayed the 2/4mm grasses with 6mm to create more variation both in hight and colour. The bank running alongside the shed was on chalk and in places the loose chalk cascaded down into the shed yard. I have used crushed plaster of Paris bits and pieces to replicate this. The images don't really do justice to the result.

 

A lot more detail to add but it is getting closer to my objectives.

 

 

 

32331 tries out the concrete buffer stops.

 

Some the detail at the buffer stops.

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

Edited October 29, 2022 by 30368

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The Spear fencing has arrived so I can have a go at the chalky path that ran alongside the fence and, where it was fairly easy to gain access to the shed. Within the space limitations I have tried to create my memories of a spot often visited.

 

The chalky path..

 

 

I guess that it is all a bit self indulgent but gives much pleasure and keeps me off the streets...

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

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I am now building the hoist that was such a prominent feature of Basingstoke shed. Years ago I bought a Ratio Locomotive Lifting Hoist plastic kit thinking that this could be easily adapted to represent the 70D version. Well I was very wrong! Apart from a few bits a pieces I will have to scratch build the Basingstoke hoist since it is so different having large riveted carrying trucks on which the hoist is mounted.

 

I am sorry but I have no idea where I located this image...

 

The two carying trucks are brass sheet. The wheels (wrong type but hardly visable) are mounted on stub axles which are mounted on the two side frames of the truck.

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

 

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A few snapshots of progress with the loco hoist. It is going to be a tight fit with all the size compromises of the layout but pleased with the look. Lots of detail to add not least the guide rails for the hoist trucks..

 

 

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

[Dorsetmike]

Memories of the mid 1930s, some of my locos staged in 2006 on the Farnham clubs N gauge layout
(apologies for Collingwood's front bogie being off the track )

Edited November 9, 2022 by Dorsetmike
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21 hours ago, Dorsetmike said:

Memories of the mid 1930s, some of my locos staged in 2006 on the Farnham clubs N gauge layout
(apologies for Collingwood's front bogie being off the track )

 

Many thanks for posting Mike(?). I am aware of the Farnham Clubs layout, it is a really good model of so much more than my limited shed yard and some running lines. Some really good 2mm SR loco's especially the B4!

 

Re the Engine hoist in the above snapshots, I have now made it about 15mm narrower so it now fits!

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

[Dorsetmike]

The B4 is a Peco white metal kit on an Arnold Chassis, The Nelson is hacked from a Peco Jubilee with a Rivarossi tender drive, the K10 ~(somewhat out of focus) is scratch built from Brass with a Union Mills tender drive, the S15 and N 15 are both white metal kits.

My ongoing beef about modelling the SR in N gauge is that in 49 years  I've ben doing it there has not yet been one RTR 4-6-0 for the Southern modeller. (Not counting BR standards post nationlisation, they may have run on ex SR metals but they do not count as SR for me )