RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted July 24, 2011 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 24, 2011 Hi Mike Good to see you on here, I hope you are well? Like you I also remember meeting up with you at Swanage for their gala, on a very hot September weekend. many thanks for the links to your own modelling work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted August 3, 2011 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2011 Changing tack slightly but to give a heads up that a new Southern layout is about to be born. At the Hornby Magazine Live / Hartlepool model railway exhibiton in a weeks time (9/10th July) Mike Wild (editor or Hornby Mag) , Richard Proudman and myself will be building a layout over the weekend of the show as a live demo. It will be called Ashland, owing to it being loosely based on a couple of North Cornwall Railway stations, and will comprise of a typical passing station and goods yard built across two 4' 6" scenic boards. I will make sure that a few pictures are posted on here after the event. I am pretty confident that we will be able to complete it. Just to catch up, Ashland was indeed built and finished over the course of the weekend show and we had a full train service running for the last hour of the show. Just to prove it he I am behind the controls with the second train of the day. A full feature on how we did it will be in the next issue of the Hornby Magazine out next week (it went to press yesterday!) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted August 3, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2011 Fancy not painting the fascias and not having a lighting unit.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted August 3, 2011 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2011 Cheeky.......yeah lack of facia painting was due to someone forgetting the black paint! We do have a lighting rig for the layout already as it shares the same one from Mike's Berrybridge layout (which is where the fiddle yards also come from) we just didnt set them up on the day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernboy Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) Hello Southern Railway Modellers. Firstly the usual caveat of 'please feel free to move this if it's in the wrong place.' Ok. I recently posed a question on RMWeb 'Is my Third Rail Plan Correct?' http://www.rmweb.co....y-plan-correct/ Much helpful information came forth. But what struck me was that my thread would eventually get lost in the archives of RMWeb history. There seems to be no repository for received wisdom/accumulated knowledge /archive pictures on the matter to which others can easily refer in the future. And to my knowledge there are no books or web pages where such information is centralised. There is the much referenced page by Russ Elliott: http://homepage.ntlw...tt/3rd-4th.html This page helped me a lot, but if you check my thread on the subject, it seems to pose as many questions as it answers when it comes to Southern Railway practices specifically. So I wonder whether there's any interest in the Southern Railway Group here on RMWeb having such a page or thread, to which we can all contribute/discuss and build a body of accumulated knowledge about Third Rail? It would definitely benefit me, and perhaps other Southern Railway modellers to come (?) What does the panel think? I know there is the SEMG, but they have no such page - and personally, following the email group, I find having photos divorced from emails unintuitive to navigate and a fracture to the thought process. Similarly, the practice of 'daily posts' (of everything) rather than 'thread by subject' equally frustrating to follow when it comes to trying to follow a specific subject matter. ------------------------ On a similar note: I tried to investigate electric point machines in Southern Railway days and find there's virtually nothing out there (plenty on point rodding/signal boxes/or point mechanisms in more recent years) but very little on the infrastructure in the inter-war years. Or did they not have them until after the war?? That question sort of proves my case It's quite difficult to find these things out... Do people think it's worth having a section/thread of this Southern Railway Group dedicated to such matters? Just a thought. Over to the great and good ... Mark EDIT: btw - I'm thinking specifically that such a thread would not be about matters such as carriage set numbers, liveries, route numbers etc, that are covered elsewhere - but would cover matters about which it is currently difficult to obtain information - colour light signalling practice springs to mind- there's always plenty about semaphore signals, but less about electric signals in the interwar years. Equally, I know there is limited interest in this period - so understand if others may not feel this is worthy of much time. Edited December 6, 2011 by Southernboy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted December 6, 2011 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2011 Hi Mark Yes I agree an specific Southern related Third rail thread is a good idea, and I would certainly welcome you starting one here within the Southern Railway Group. Perhaps a cut and paste of some of the useful information discussed in your own mentiond thread would be a starting point. Russ's excellent reference site is already listed in the Southern / BR(s) Miscellaneous links page on here but as you say a thread to capture further discussion would be of benefit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 [cough] ahem [/cough] http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/41640-southern-electrics-forum-and-other-useful-links/page__view__findpost__p__446817 We already have a Southern Electrics group in which such a thing already exists - including links to your layout and third rail plan topics Mark. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted December 6, 2011 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2011 Rod Good point well made! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernboy Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 I thought I was a Member of that group (?) ... having said that - I rarely receive notifications from RMWeb no matter what I do with my settings ... so I'm probably missing out on quite a lot Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC&DR Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Hi Rod Yes the office block between the Main and Windsor line platforms was known as the 'village'. It was of course demolished to make way for the Eurostar platforms. There was a rather useful staff canteen there. I remember using it in 1965. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old-sparky Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I hope this is the right place to say "hello". I've signed-up because I have the beginnings of a cunning plan: to build a central division layout set in the '70s (the summer of 76). Even at the plywood and imagination stage, I have oodles of questions about prototype practice. I can offer a bit of knowledge in return, having worked for the cm&ee dept (power supply division) in the 70/80s. The nooks and crannies of Waterloo............. I could go on for ages, I spent a month assisting a guy who had the sysiphian task of cataloging every piece of electrical and mechanical plant in the Waterloo complex to allow maintenance scheduling. The theatre, the publicity store arch, the rifle range (BTP guys gave me shooting lessons at lunchtime), the boiler house, the boardroom, we trawled the whole place. Enough reminiscing for now, OS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted February 17, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 17, 2012 Welcome Old-Sparky I look forward to a future thread about your layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorsetmike Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I've just had a browse through the SR/BR(S) layouts thread. I'm very surprised to see only one N gauge and one 7mm, all others are various flavours of 4mm/00, further to that only 2 claim to be pre 1948. I must say I feel very lonely, modelling 1930s steam in N gauge, lovely Maunsell olive, no gaudy malashite, will anybody else admit to pre Bulleid steam - in any gauge/scale? Having gone to school alongside the Bomo/Weymouth line in the 1940s my SR memories are of Ex LSWR Adams, Drummond and Urie classes plus examples of most of the Maunsell classes. My earlier layouts were set mid to late 50s but I've gradually built up a reasonably representative stock of older classes from an Adams A12, B4s, Drummond M7s, 700s, T9, K10 through Urie and Maunsell 4-6-0s and a Q, I also allow a couple of LMS visitors via the Somerset & Dorset. Future plans include an Adams 4-4-0, and other Drummond 4-4-0s, have a kit for a D15 waiting it's turn. Currently the Nelson is getting a new tender, the Rivarossi drive failed so I'm replacing it with a Minitrix drive and the original pattern tender. Suppose I'd better start uploading some pics and text. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted April 27, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2012 Mike Threads on your layout and your locomotive / rolling stock building / conversions would be more than welcome. Once you have stated them let me know and I will make sure they are suitably linked from the relevent threads within this group. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorsetmike Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Bit of news on the 12" : 1' scale for SR fans http://www.swanagerailway.co.uk/news855.htm Hope they intend issuing through tickets from Branksome, I can probably just about walk there pushing my 4 wheel cross between a Zimmer and a wheel chair (AKA a Rollator) Then all I want is a lottery win to get Adams 563 out of York and running on Swanage rails!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorsetmike Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Bit more on the above, the £M1.47 grant will be used to upgrade track from Worgret to Motala and refurb 2 1960s railbus's to mainline standard, or so says report in local paper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Todd Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Moorings.......... To fellow Southern modelers', I am dt or David Todd. Graham, has said he will kindly, link my layout, in Southern Layouts, when time permits. I have been @ sea,most of my working life (still all at sea ), no connection with railways. What triggered my interest ? I first moved into a village in Kent, Shepherdswell. While waiting for an early train to Dover @ 0530, an apparition appeared on the down line from the mists,at that early hour in Nov. On it's own,glided through the platforms' and disappeared into Lydden Tunnel. It looked like a sad ghoul Never seen the likes of it before, that was me, "hooked".............. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foz Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Hello! I'm Foz, 24, live in Essex, work in the south on the railway mostly installing the 3rd rail Been a modeller on and off for ten years influenced by my father whom owns a model shop in Burnham, Essex. I have developed a longing for a new layout, I will have a 16"x8" shed to play in and plan to build a 00 gauge DCC layout based on something very southern and pre 1948. Going to have a go at installing 3rd rails and hand building points from the C&L kits Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgundy Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 In case anyone does not follow the pre grouping threads, Issue 2 of LB&SCR Modellers' Digest is now available on line at http://www.lbscr.org/Models/Journal/index.html For those who prefer modern image subjects, there are items on overhead electric and internal combustion ...... Best wishes Eric 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Then all I want is a lottery win to get Adams 563 out of York and running on Swanage rails!! .......... so you won the Lottery then ...??!? .......... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 A reminder to S.R.G. Members - and prospective Members - that our annual get together and sales event is at St.Nicholas' Church Hall in Guildford tomorrow ( GU2 4AW ) : - 11.00 doors open 11.30 AGM 12.00 lunch and quiz 13.30-1500 talk by Brian Jackson on his father's photographs from 1953 End 1530/1600 ..... in time to get home to watch the footie - if you must ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 Crikey - how time flies : - Open to ALL with a Southern interest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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