Mrkirtley800 Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 That looks very nice, are there some more pictures to come? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drduncan Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 It was in BRM many years ago. The same issue as Richard Butler’s Westcliffe so is a real treat for the GWR fan and worth hunting out. D 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted June 18, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, ChrisN said: First reaction, Wow! Second reaction, when is is set and what figures have they used? As I recall it's set c.1921 (so the Single and the Armstrong are about 20 years out of period and running with 1912 lake-livery coaches, but who cares?). Figures, don't know, but might be HO ( as is the station building, I believe, not that it's obvious) 7 hours ago, Mrkirtley800 said: That looks very nice, are there some more pictures to come? I would have spent quite a long time watching the entire sequence and photographing excessively, but I was rushed (by my standards) on this occasion as I was with elderly relatives. I have a few more pictures from the Great Central of Rowington, which I shall dig out, I have many more from a previous exhibition sighting, which I thought I'd posted those earlier in this topic, though it seems not. I will have to try to find these. EDIT: Yes, I have a good many of the layout taken at STEAM, Swindon, in 2014. Updates to follow! Edited June 18, 2019 by Edwardian 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted June 18, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2019 More Rowington for Shrewley from Saturday at the Great Central: 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Edwardian Posted June 18, 2019 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 18, 2019 Following this morning's post, posting the remaining shots of Rowington for Shrewley at the Great Central last weekend, I have now found my pictures of the layout at STEAM in Swindon, from May 2014: 21 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrkirtley800 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Thank you for showing those photos, I really enjoyed them. Derek 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRalph Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 We will be exhibiting Plumpton Green (LB & SCR c1910) at the Bluebell Railway show over this weekend. I will be operating the layout on Sunday (in the carriage shed at Horsted Keynes) and will be operating the signal box at Kingscote all day on Saturday. Come and say hello if you visit the railway either day. Mick 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Edwardian Posted August 3, 2019 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 3, 2019 The unpronounceable Ynysybwl on the Taff Vale Railway! The prototype - Link - and the Cardiff club's EM gauge model, set, I think, around 1920, seen at RailEx NE last weekend ... 29 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 What a lovely looking railway. That looks like the sort of railway you could really have fun running. 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Londontram Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 I love that quarry scene it fits in that corner so we'll but then the whole layout looks superb. Steve 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 On 03/08/2019 at 13:20, Edwardian said: The unpronounceable Ynysybwl on the Taff Vale Railway! The prototype - Link - and the Cardiff club's EM gauge model, set, I think, around 1920, seen at RailEx NE last weekend ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 That rocky river scene is brilliant. Davey Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrkirtley800 Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 Absolutely stunning 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted August 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 21, 2019 On 18/06/2019 at 07:52, drduncan said: It was in BRM many years ago. The same issue as Richard Butler’s Westcliffe so is a real treat for the GWR fan and worth hunting out. D Thanks D, just found the issue (featuring both Rowington and Westcliffe) in the BRM digitial library. February 2010. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Edwardian Posted August 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 24, 2019 (edited) Richmond. Not a layout, but a museum diorama. Some allowance must be made for the fact that the scene is a little simplified and compressed, the track looks like proprietary 'OO/HO', some of the stock a little questionable and the period a little vague. However, the architectural modelling is excellent and it is a great representation of the location and a wonderful evocation of this beautiful early station, and I was suitably impressed. What a lovely model, and what an excellent subject Richmond makes. The model resides at the friendly and much-to-be recommended Museum of Richmondshire Life. Norman Cook, he of the excellent Dunstan Harbour (RM June 2019) kindly put me on to it, Please forgive the pictures, taken through glass with my 'phone camera. The branch to Richmond was conceived in 1845 by the wonderfully named Great North of England Railway, soon to be known as the York & Newcastle and then the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, and opened in 1847. It was the work of the celebrated G T (George Townsend) Andrews, whose superb architecture peppers quite a bit of the NER system, as he did a lot of work for the various companies in the George Hudson empire. Richmond station closed in the late '60s. Some of the suite of buildings have gone. Parts have been greatly mucked about, but most remains, including the main station, which is now, inter alia, my local cinema (seen below in 2014). I think the only significant structure not within the ambit of the model is the station master's house, which was, and is, located across the road from the station. So, back to the model .... The passenger train is an attractive evocation of a NER service. Here, surely, are the trusty Triang clerestories in LNER coach brown (not NER lake). Evoking a Fletcher 0-6-0, complete with characteristic tender, the model looks to me to be of distinctly Midland heritage? A nice touch; I wonder if this location did, indeed, once boast such an abandoned car? Meanwhile, down by the Goods Shed ..... A nice touch is the fire engine loaded on a carriage truck. The railway cottages are in the background, with some window cleaning in progress. A nice mix of pre-Grouping road transport in the forecourt ... Some may question the Friesians! If I knew anything about Midland Railway locomotives, I'd guess this was a Johnsonified Kirtley loco with Deeley accretions. It certainly looks more Midland in origin than NER to me, though Fletcher did produce numbers of outside framed 0-6-0s, so this may pass as a Class 708. Edited August 24, 2019 by Edwardian 24 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Buhar Posted August 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Edwardian said: Some may question the Friesians! Waste of time. Friesians know nothing of either Midland or NER locomotives. Now a nice brown and white Ayrshire, that's a knowledgeable cow. However they may be intimidated by the wig and gown. Alan Edited August 24, 2019 by Buhar Name 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Burnham Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 (edited) Like the wagon being shunted by horse. That sort of thing would be difficult to represent in a working model, of course. Edited August 24, 2019 by Tom Burnham 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted August 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2019 5 minutes ago, Tom Burnham said: Like the wagon being shunted by horse. That sort of thing would be difficult to represent in a working model, of course. Agree; it's a really nice touch. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Lovely station. Last time I was there they even had their own micro-brewery. How cool is that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 it definitely looks like a midland kirtley 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2019 13 hours ago, sir douglas said: it definitely looks like a midland kirtley Looks like the old K’s kit. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 On 24/08/2019 at 17:03, Tom Burnham said: Like the wagon being shunted by horse. That sort of thing would be difficult to represent in a working model, of course. in these days of robotics and 3D printing, what might be the smallest scale that some Nuremberg toymaking wizard could devise a plodding shunting horse? Say 18 hands - that at 0 scale might be 42mm - too small to be plausibly animated? Lovely pictures, I've heard of the Richmond museum Looking again at Ynsbwl (innisbull ?) i was too taken by the gardens to think about that tall terrace. What do you think the internal plan/section might be? The offshot is two storey and ties in with that middle window on the main run of terrace - which at first I assumed was on a stair half landing. But is it rather the floor at street level? So the doors out to the gardens are at basement level? dh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbcompound Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 (edited) If you can have H0 scale cyclists pedaling then 4mm foot horse should be no problem. Or you could go G gauge.... https://www.walmart.com/ip/My-Walking-Pony-Walk-Along-Toy-Stuffed-Plush-Pony-Toy-Realistic-Walking-Actions-with-Horse-Sounds-and-Music-Colors-May-Vary/101251064 (also available as unicorn. Did any company have shunting unicorns?) Edited August 26, 2019 by webbcompound 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted August 26, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 26, 2019 For shunting, chaldron hauling, horse trams, goods cartage etc, the walk is the gait to master. Like all the horse gaits, it's a complicated motion to replicate mechanically at any scale ... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbcompound Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 (edited) Here is an indication of the type of mechanism you would need. I couldn't say this walks exactly like a horse, but it exhibits the complexity that a walking horse would entail. The problem would seem to be that if you miniaturised the mechanism you would need to put a skin on it, and this would be very thin https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=TYNTpOXKnJc Edited August 26, 2019 by webbcompound 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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