Wright writes.....

[rowanj]

My mother was a History teacher, and got me "1066 And All That" when I was 11. I ,even at that age, thought it was funny, especially when Caesar called the Britons Weedy,Weeny and Weaky. When I quoted some of it at school, just for laughs, my teacher asked if I knew it wasn't real history.... As if.

I suppose the modern equivalent is the Horrible Histories series. I found them quite funny, but it seems to reflect how clever irony has become rather coarser in our modern world.

I've just painted my J27 in Satin Black, and it looks all wrong...far too clean.

John

[polybear]

10 hours ago, Northmoor said:

"...... are internationally recognised names in the field of rotary drying technologies and other processing equipment".

 

 

That'll be PR speak for washing lines then......

[Enterprisingwestern]

7 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:

 

All sorts-railway related.

 

 

As at the long lasting one at Lincoln St Marks?

 

Mike.

[Porcy Mane]

53 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

As at the long lasting one at Lincoln St Marks?

 

 

 

Don't know Mike. It's a certainty that they wouldn't have had a monopoly in the manufacture of the products. Maybe Mr Jenkins & Co. held a few patents.

 

Lincoln CCD by Kevin Lane, on Flickr

 

and mention must go to Mr Fords phot in this post.

 

I think many forum members will be familiar with Mr Woods photographs of the tippler in Corralls Wharf at Southampton.

 

094 CORRALL QUEEN Corralls Wharf Southampton 10.71 by George Woods, on Flickr

 

093 Corralls Wharf Southampton 10.71 by George Woods, on Flickr

 

and from elsewhere on the forum:

 

 

 

 

P

Edited April 5, 2019 by Porcy Mane
Spieling mistakes.

[MarkC]

1 hour ago, rowanj said:

I've just painted my J27 in Satin Black, and it looks all wrong...far too clean.

I know what you mean. I built a very old Wills J39 (the one designed for the Triang Jinty chassis, which I have fitted with Romfords), numbered it in BR livery as the one which saw service on the Durham Elvet branch on the last 'Big Meeting' weekend that that station was in use in 1954, painted it black & satin varnished it, planning to weather it down a bit. Hmm...

 

Anyway, the project it was built for was never finished, so it's sitting in a box. I'm going to strip it and repaint it in 1946 livery, numbered 4818. I'll probably try use black satin finish paint & then try matt varnish over that, this time.

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

A better picture of the Lincoln coal unloader in this thread here;

 

 

Mike.

[Porcy Mane]

3 hours ago, DougN said:

Its where the Beer lives..... well In Australia any way...

 

A Prison Warder that used to drink in my local (It was only 200 yards from a prison) used to keep his fridge freezer in the loft. Don't ask me how it got it up there as he lived in a two storey 1930's semi.

Funny coincidence is that a detective that also drank in the pub found said Prison Warders wife in said fridge/freezer. She had made no noise at all for about three weeks but the detective admitted to making a weird noise on opening the freezer!

[Tony Wright]

10 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hello Tony

 

I tried to send a PM regarding the Big Warships, I had this message come up "Tony Wright cannot receive messages."

 

Is your in box full again?

Probably, Clive,

 

I'll see if I can empty it.

 

Anyway, just email me; it's easier.

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Tony Wright]

10 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

 

Once again, I don't seem to be able to open a new post.............................

 

Never mind; I've just deleted the words from the last one. 

 

 

The point rodding is now complete at the south end. It really has brought the area to 'life', and, despite the time-consuming nature of its making and installation, it's now one of those essential elements to include on any model railway in my opinion. 

 

The A1, 60156 GREAT CENTRAL, romping south was built/painted by John Houlden, and is ex-Gamston Bank. Strictly-speaking, the front numberplate should be lowered, along with the lamp bracket on the smokebox door, but, hey-ho, one day. 

 

 

Looking south, the rodding is once more apparent (though part-obscured by the A4). Again, strictly-speaking 60014 should not have electric warning flashes (a Stoke Summit legacy) for 1958 as she heads the Down 'Northumbrian'. 

 

Another essential element in my view on any main line depiction is to have the entrances/exits to the fiddle yards 'on the straight', not appearing/disappearing via too tight curves. 

[Clive Mortimore]

47 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

Probably, Clive,

 

I'll see if I can empty it.

 

Anyway, just email me; it's easier.

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

Hello Tony

 

I would, but I do not have your e-mail address, or phone number.

[Headstock]

Ooh, catch 22,

 

While waiting for the paint to dry on an increasing large number of teak carriages, I nocked up this little brass side conversion of the Hornby? Thompson four compartment brake. Bill Bedford sides have been used to reapoint it as a five compartment BT, I think that it is a father dinky looking carriage. There is still a little work but it is a rather simple litte conversion.

 

By George it must have uploaded, am I secret Gold plated member?

[polybear]

3 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:

 

A Prison Warder that used to drink in my local (It was only 200 yards from a prison) used to keep his fridge freezer in the loft. Don't ask me how it got it up there as he lived in a two storey 1930's semi.

 

 

My Boss has a Dressing Table in his loft, thru' the loft hatch.  He'll be moving this year, so it should prove interesting....

[Jesse Sim]

12 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

That's no way to talk about your mother...

Touché 

[Fat Controller]

12 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:

 

All sorts-railway related.

 

They seem to have manufactured a wide variety of industrial equipment, from grain driers to cement kilns. Remarkably, they are not only still about, but part of a privately-owned British company.

[Enterprisingwestern]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 

My Boss has a Dressing Table in his loft, thru' the loft hatch.  He'll be moving this year, so it should prove interesting....

 

Loft hatches are a law unto themselves, in my career I've come across cylinders and header tanks in lofts in older houses which can't possibly have gone up that way, so replacement was a bit of a challenge.

In new houses the builders cheat and put the 100 gallon tanks in the loft before the roof is tiled, a b%gger to remove when combi swapping.

 

Mike.

[jamie92208]

22 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Loft hatches are a law unto themselves, in my career I've come across cylinders and header tanks in lofts in older houses which can't possibly have gone up that way, so replacement was a bit of a challenge.

In new houses the builders cheat and put the 100 gallon tanks in the loft before the roof is tiled, a b%gger to remove when combi swapping.

 

Mike.

Having just done a move that entailed getting 40 years worth of Carp through the loft hatch I can resemble those remarks.   At least one set of rather solid shelves, made of Nigerian Teak for my father in the 40's, had to come down with the ladder removed.  Fortunately there were various offspring underneath it to catch it.  However when we had that house extended in the 80's we had to extend the roof so I designed a replacement roof truss so that we cold demolish the existing gable end.  I made the truss up on the drive then took it to pieces.   Most of the timber went through the hatch but the 8 metre long main bean didn't want to fit.   No problem. The bathroom had a hopper window, I sawed some plasterboard down, the truss was put on the neighbours lawn then passed up through the hopper window, through the hole in the ceiling and into the loft.   It's still up there holding up about 30% of the roof.   Where there's a will there's a way.  I just had to remove part of my never completed model of Woodlesford to enable the gable end to be demolished.

 

Jamie

[Mallard60022]

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ENTERPRISE WAY, DN22 7HH, RETFORD, Nottinghamshire England

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02517919

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03 Jul 1990

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[Mallard60022]

3 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Once again, I don't seem to be able to open a new post.............................

 

Never mind; I've just deleted the words from the last one. 

 

 

The point rodding is now complete at the south end. It really has brought the area to 'life', and, despite the time-consuming nature of its making and installation, it's now one of those essential elements to include on any model railway in my opinion. 

 

The A1, 60156 GREAT CENTRAL, romping south was built/painted by John Houlden, and is ex-Gamston Bank. Strictly-speaking, the front numberplate should be lowered, along with the lamp bracket on the smokebox door, but, hey-ho, one day. 

 

 

Looking south, the rodding is once more apparent (though part-obscured by the A4). Again, strictly-speaking 60014 should not have electric warning flashes (a Stoke Summit legacy) for 1958 as she heads the Down 'Northumbrian'. 

 

Another essential element in my view on any main line depiction is to have the entrances/exits to the fiddle yards 'on the straight', not appearing/disappearing via too tight curves. 

Inspiring rodding. That sounds a little strange, however I mean by this, that I am inspired by your commitment and patience and advised by your 'method' that has enabled me to envisage the way I shall tackle my yards of the stuff. However, I shall be requiring my Mr Magoo spectacles to solder up the cranks and other wiggly parts from the Roxey etchings and other bits and bobs I have accumulated.

I do not think I shall go as far a buying a specialist book on the subject (of point and signal control gear), however I shall be taking advice from those that have the 'knowledge' and seeking links to appropriate pictures; I can understand pictures most of the time. It is the big words that confuse.

May I just say that the layout is now looking magnificent now that so much more scenic work and detailing has been completed. 

Phil

Edited April 5, 2019 by Mallard60022

[MarkC]

5 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:

 

A Prison Warder that used to drink in my local (It was only 200 yards from a prison) used to keep his fridge freezer in the loft. Don't ask me how it got it up there as he lived in a two storey 1930's semi.

Funny coincidence is that a detective that also drank in the pub found said Prison Warders wife in said fridge/freezer. She had made no noise at all for about three weeks but the detective admitted to making a weird noise on opening the freezer!

This one?

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/freezer-killer-could-be-free-next-summer-1-1131780

[Porcy Mane]

6 minutes ago, MarkC said:

This one?

 

Crikey! 1994. Seems like yesterday.

[Tony Wright]

1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said:

Inspiring rodding. That sounds a little strange, however I mean by this, that I am inspired by your commitment and patience and advised by your 'method' that has enabled me to envisage the way I shall tackle my yards of the stuff. However, I shall be requiring my Mr Magoo spectacles to solder up the cranks and other wiggly parts from the Roxey etchings and other bits and bobs I have accumulated.

I do not think I shall go as far a buying a specialist book on the subject (of point and signal control gear), however I shall be taking advice from those that have the 'knowledge' and seeking links to appropriate pictures; I can understand pictures most of the time. It is the big words that confuse.

May I just say that the layout is now looking magnificent now that so much more scenic work and detailing has been completed. 

Phil

You're very kind, Phil,

 

However, despite my doing a 'fair bit' on Little Bytham, it must always be remembered that it is a group project, and would have been impossible without the considerable input of a team of dedicated friends.

 

I think a real test of any modelling is to get the camera down to an eye level view. I've tried that this afternoon, focusing on the new rodding.

 

 

Here, the photographer is standing on the top of the shallow cutting (not me, because I'm standing on the platform!), as an O4/1 approaches on the Down slow with an unfitted goods. The new rodding runs alongside. There are the inevitable wobbles (like the real thing?), but I'm generally pleased with the results.

 

 

My turn to take a picture this time, as a B17 (a rarity at LB, though common at both Grantham and, certainly, Peterborough, but not in between) enters the station on a Down stopper. Again, the odd dip and wiggle seem inevitable in the rodding. 

 

 

Looking north the rodding is certainly fitting in (though it's a sobering thought that I haven't done half of it yet!), as a V2 takes the Up slow on a fitted freight. 

 

 

The bit of rodding completed last week, as an A2/3 takes empty stock northwards.  I really don't have the least idea whether all this metal 'knitting' would work in reality (it's only dummy, of course), and close-inspection will probably reveal that my arrangements of all the gubbins is nonsense. However, it's the impression which is most important. 

 

Irritatingly, though all too-common, the front coupling on the loco is twisted.

 

Thank you for posting the picture of Seaton Junction. You will have fun with all that rodding to make. In fact, there's probably more to do than on LB! Whenever I see wonderful pictures like that, I'm filled with a sense of great loss. Not just because of the disappearance of the motive power and the train, but the removal of all that marvellous infrastructure, so redolent of the railways of our youth. What's at Seaton Junction now? Just a single track, probably overgrown?  

 

You must arrange another visit over here...............

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

[CF MRC]

The point rodding looks superb Tony and really finishes the railway.  I wonder whether a bit of dry brushing with some dark brown might be effective - it looks a bit grey and monochrome.  

 

Tim

[mswjr]

Yes it looks superb, I have to do mine soon, And if it looks half as good as this ill be happy.

[Tony Wright]

1 hour ago, CF MRC said:

The point rodding looks superb Tony and really finishes the railway.  I wonder whether a bit of dry brushing with some dark brown might be effective - it looks a bit grey and monochrome.  

 

Tim

Thanks Tim,

 

I'll keep that in mind.

 

However, many prototype pictures do show the rodding as uniform, monochrome grey.....................

 

 

 

Red Leader, you've got a few miles of the stuff to install on Grantham!

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

[CF MRC]

Maybe slightly browner stools....?

 

Tim

Edited April 5, 2019 by CF MRC