RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 14, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14, 2021 (edited) Following on from the successful documentary about the saving of the line in 1953 here are the further stories of the railway. With everyone else getting excited about 4mm I’ve been wondering what to do with my small O gauge collection and that includes the Dapol 1401. Finally watching the film again decided it and I thought I’d do a small layout based on Titfield post the documentary film So post filming 1401 was repaired and Thunderbolt returned to the museum. Walter Valentine agreed to pay a fine to compensate British Railways for the ‘loss’ of 1462 and to spare Dan & Himself a custodial sentence. 1462 was then also repaired with a new bufferbeam and the boiler shifted back to its correct position and has subsequently joined the roster Currently Squire Gordon and Mr Valentine are looking at moving the engine shed to the yard and reopening the line beyond Titfield to Crockstone as Walter has ideas for Crockstone Brewery he’s just bought as an ‘investment’. So we won’t be needing this (Crockstone follows T.E.B. Clarke’s idea of Titsey/ Limpsfield becoming Titfield and comes from Crockham/Godstone) Edited March 31, 2022 by PaulRhB Layout named 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 15, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 15, 2021 (edited) Edited April 13, 2022 by PaulRhB 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcD Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 I like it. What are you going to be using for a coach? The Wisbech and Upwell coach was available as an etch from D&S models but I'm not sure if it available now. Marc 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 15, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 15, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, Furness Wagon said: I like it. What are you going to be using for a coach? The Wisbech and Upwell coach was available as an etch from D&S models but I'm not sure if it available now. Marc Technically the W&U coach was wrecked and doesn’t appear in the records after the film although its rumoured a second one was seen so this may be no.7? Simon (Rue d’Etropal) does 3D prints. I understand some Stroudley coaches were also acquired from the Southern Engineers Dept but I haven’t found the livery details yet so more research required. Dan’s house continued in service as the new lounge car so that will probably require scratchbuilding along with it’s Loriot Y chassis. Edited April 15, 2021 by PaulRhB 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 15, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 15, 2021 (edited) On 15/04/2021 at 12:28, PaulRhB said: Simon (Rue d’Etropal) does 3D prints. Speaking of which he also does this, below, which Mr Valentine found while in holiday in Ireland and though would be ideal for the Crockstone Brewery shunter once the converter truck is regauged. Edited March 31, 2022 by PaulRhB 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHC Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Inad to have a look at the date of the first entry. But I was wrong well done looking forward to this progressing. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted July 27, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27, 2021 (edited) On 15/04/2021 at 00:42, PaulRhB said: Walter Valentine agreed to pay a fine to compensate British Railways for the ‘loss’ of 1462 and to spare Dan & Himself a custodial sentence. Plates courtesy of Narrow Planet. Edited March 31, 2022 by PaulRhB 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 8, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) After many ideas I’ve finally settled on a plan that’s 6ft long for the station. This will be Crockstone to the West of Titfield with the line extended through Titfield shed. It started as many do with a doodle after I’d been reading a book on the IoW and liked the simple Bembridge plan. I had the idea that I could have an industry off the turntable so Mr Valentine’s brewery will be operated by the loco pushing it across the table from the loop. The reasoning being that the brewery building blocks a direct headshunt. Grid is 3” squares so roughly 6x2ft Brewery can be added later on a separate 1ft board. Later still I plan to add a 90° curve using the set track and another similar sized version of Titfield. The plan uses standard points here but experiments today proved I can use the set track points trimmed slightly without buffer locking on all three locos so as I already have a couple I will probably go with them. Edited March 31, 2022 by PaulRhB 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted January 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) On 15/04/2021 at 13:23, PaulRhB said: Speaking of which he also does this, below, which Mr Valentine found while in holiday in Ireland and though would be ideal for the Crockstone Brewery shunter once the converter truck is regauged. Also available in 12"/1ft scale at Amberley - I assume the parts are still there. If you want another oddity, you could give 18100 a test run down the branch. It was at Mallingford / BTM at the same time as the Thunderbolt. Edited February 14, 2023 by phil_sutters Replacement of lost photos. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 9, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2022 37 minutes ago, phil_sutters said: Also available in 12"/1ft scale at Amberley - I assume the parts are still there. If you want another oddity, you could give 18100 a test run down the branch. It was at Mallingford / BTM at the same time as the Thunderbolt. Yes one of at least two this side of the Irish Sea as there’s one, less the carrier wagon, in the NG museum at Tywyn too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 9, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2022 (edited) The two setrack points trimmed down and spaced with a straight. I need to get some timber cut . . . Edited March 31, 2022 by PaulRhB 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 10, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2022 (edited) The brewery added and the points changed to the actual cut down setrack version. Edited April 13, 2022 by PaulRhB Updated the brewery buildings 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 25, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 25, 2022 The layout finally has a name, ‘Next stop Titfield’ as Titfield is indeed the next stop from Crockstone Brewery 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 (edited) All highly entertaining! Bembridge-style in 6ft is good going, and I like the way you’ve made the layout quite wide for its length, which I reckon will make it look spacious in a way that my ‘study plank’ refuses to do, despite being longer (2200x450). Edited January 25, 2022 by Nearholmer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted March 17, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) some sort of modern art? Edited March 31, 2022 by PaulRhB 6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 13, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2022 (edited) Collecting stock makes me hungry for some reason . . . . These having been retired from mainline use are now used for general freight on the T&M. Edited April 13, 2022 by PaulRhB 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 15, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 15, 2022 At the Heaton Lodge show I met up with a friend who had a few things to sell I was picking up and he gave me this baseboard that’s really well built. So I’ve been doodling ideas to use it as a micro at home. So I thought what about Crockstone wharf just off scene on the bigger layout? The idea is they enter from the left end and there’s an old siding off the right too so there’ll be a sleeper chained to the track rather than a bufferstop. (You never know you might want to extend it later 😜) 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom q vaxy Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 aside: really like the non-square baseboard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted February 19, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2023 Well it went a bit quiet but things have been collecting 😉 The turntable arrived so when warmer weather arrives I can start laying track and ballasting. Tom Young’s sequel arrived to the film and bears a very similar idea for the continuing story to mine so that was good. It lead to a second P&C Bedford arriving to be converted to a railbus and the book has some teak Gresley coaches replacing Dan’s coach. In the book only the first one, a buffet, has arrived but as Hattons we’re selling off their Gresleys and no buffet was made I have acquired a Corridor Third that is obviously one of the later ones to arrive. Like the Buffet it’s been restored to original teak condition 😎 and will be having a ‘Valentine conversion’ (installing a bar) and be reclassified as a Bar Lounge Third, BLT. ©️ Hattons 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
47606odin Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 2 hours ago, PaulRhB said: I didn’t even know these existed….I’m off shopping now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted February 19, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2023 1 hour ago, 47606odin said: I didn’t even know these existed….I’m off shopping now Got both of mine for £20 on eBay Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
47606odin Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Just now, PaulRhB said: Got both of mine for £20 on eBay well, I just got one for £14.99 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Is this the IXO 1:43 OB or the Corgi 1:50 Paul R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
47606odin Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 13 minutes ago, pwr said: Is this the IXO 1:43 OB or the Corgi 1:50 Paul R Corgi 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickBrad Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 I'm a huge fan of anything Titfield related, so looking forward to updates on this one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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