RMweb Premium Popular Post 60027Merlin Posted July 21, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2023 (edited) With some heavy showers today putting paid to cutting the grass etc. I took the opportunity to look through the photos from a year or two back and selected some workings around the layout with two photos for each train. Hopefully there will be some of interest. Edited July 21, 2023 by 60027Merlin 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowanj Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 (edited) Always great fun trainspotting at Longdrem, Eric. Edited July 23, 2023 by rowanj 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted July 23, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2023 John, Same for me spotting at Little Benton. Of course some of my local engines are passing your way as well! Eric 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted November 4, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2023 Another mixture of workings around and about Auld Reekie. 14 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunalastair Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 Very nicely evoked. I think that I can remember the last of the NBR 0-6-0s at the end of our street on the ESSR, but that might be sepia-toned memories. Like the Pacifics on the train to Hawick to visit my grandparents - is that a real childhood memory or has it been 'reconstructed'? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted November 5, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 5, 2023 Quite a few Waverley Route workings now and again on the layout with the Pacifics from Haymarket and Carlisle Canal. Always good to have the memories as we were lucky to see the real thing. Great railway days! 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 5, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 5, 2023 9 hours ago, 60027Merlin said: Quite a few Waverley Route workings now and again on the layout with the Pacifics from Haymarket and Carlisle Canal. Always good to have the memories as we were lucky to see the real thing. Great railway days! So far as this locomotive is concerned, some of us never did see the real thing. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted December 4, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 4, 2023 After running through some earlier photos which were lost on here at the system changeover, here is a selection from the December 2018 posting. Five years on, how time flies. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunwurken Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 Great photos as usual Eric. After a few years break I am at last getting to grips with a number of long outstanding projects, a K4, appropriately MacLeod of Macleod and I also have a GEM Glen kit. Can I ask what chassis you used on your locos? Trust you are keeping well. Kind regards Malcolm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted December 5, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 5, 2023 Malcolm, I am still bashing on and keeping well. Good to read that you are going to tackle some outstanding kits. The K4 has the Dave Alexander chassis supplied with the kit. In these last photos, Glen Falloch is a GEM kit on a Triang L1 chassis with Romford wheels and gears. I built it when it was released in the early/mid 70s along with the other N. B. R. kits from GEM, even the Atlantic! Amazingly enough I only got round to finishing the Atlantic last month as the tender lining still had to be completed. Only about 48 years later! Glen Arklet is a PDK kit built about 10 years ago. it comes with a set of frames etc. Of course the main difference is in the chassis wheelbase as the correct 9 foot 6 inches wheelbase for the driving wheels is where the PDK kit scores. The Triang L1 chassis has a wheelbase of 10 feet. If both locos stand side by side it can be noticeable, perhaps because we know the difference? However, the Glen and the Scott by GEM still look fine. Hopefully one of the ready to run manufacturers will release them soon. It is certainly not for the want of bringing this omission to their notice, especially at the AMRSS Show in Glasgow over the last decade or more! Regards, Eric 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted December 17, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 17, 2023 (edited) Same name but two different locos. Of course, a few decades separate them unless there was a time warp at Haymarket. The GEM North British Railway Atlantic purchased when released in the mid 70s and built then. The loco and tender were painted a year or so later then the loco was partially lined a few years after that. The loco lining was then finished a couple of years ago and then the tender lining was finished last month. Back then I had many other things to do and could not face the lining which would have taken quite a while (which it did) No doubt there are still odd bits missed out but that is it for now or perhaps ever! or it in black and white. Edited December 17, 2023 by 60027Merlin 14 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted December 18, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2023 Beautiful work Eric. Lining always scares me a little, and I take about as long as you to get the courage up to do it! Cheers Tony 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post 60027Merlin Posted December 28, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2023 Another year just about over but the year(s) on the layout stay the same. Teddy boys to the fore and rock 'n roll still hammering it out. 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post 60027Merlin Posted February 28 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 28 Another selection of local workings mainly heading north of Edinburgh or heading from the north for the city. 22 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowanj Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 Always a pleasure to trainspot at Longdrem, Eric. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted March 2 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 2 Lovely to see so many different loco classes that never ventured down south. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted March 23 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 23 Whilst waiting for my wife to finish reading the paper just now I decided to mess about with cropping some photos to convert them into close ups. Haymarket to the fore! 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted March 31 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31 It’s always interesting to see names and numbers that hardly (if ever) graced more southern lines. I particularly like Felstead as it is the star on one of Peter Handford’s recordings departing Montrose up to Usan SB. I did seriously look at modelling that location simply because of that recording and that it was home to some of my mother’s Erskine relations. Cheers Tony 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted April 30 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30 Another selection of snaps taken over the years featuring a mix of views, loco classes and workings. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post 60027Merlin Posted June 13 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted June 13 More out and about views of the workings on the Main Line and Branch Line. Some on the Pinkhill Branch Back to the Main Line then in close up Madge Wildfire borrowed for a quick turn to Perth before returning to Newcastle. 20 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted June 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14 Lovely stuff Eric, always enjoy seeing more views from north of border. Just noticed all your signal wire paraphenalia for the first time and now you’ve got me thinking about how I should add that on my layout (after the point rodding that is…). Cheers Tony 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted September 12 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12 More views from the archives featuring a few areas on the layout. Wills K3 61990 still going strong after 55 years 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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