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I look forward to seeing progress. I wil add this topic to my 'following' list .

Which coupler would you recommend for Bachmann mk1 coaches ? Is it necessary to modify the buffer beam to use them ?

Impressive !

I've decided to finish off Slitrigg goods yard, starting with the cattle dock. It's nice and warm working in the dining room so I am building a module to fit when it is complete. Cardboard base, Wills stone setts, plasticard strip and some scrap bits and pieces, detailed with Chinchilla dust and flock powder; topped off with a spare gas lamp. I have also completed another Parkside kit for the fish train.

Facing points on passenger lines must be fitted with a facing point lock, which results in additional equipment. Mechanical points would be fitted with a bolt lock, usually worked from a separate lever in the signal box. Therefore facing points need two levers rather than just one lever, with additional interlocking between them and point rodding and connections. For this reason, they were avoided wherever possible. The Midland Railway was particularly reluctant and avoided facing points except at diverging junctions and stations.

Finished a bit of 2D modelling too.....

Not a lot of progress on the layout this year - most efforts have been on maintenance and rolling stock construction. The next major task will be to relay and detail the 20 ft section between the fiddle yard and the three arch bridge approaching Whinburgh from the south. This section is simply plain track layed straight on to the baseboard. It is quite inaccessible because most of it located is under the eaves and behind another scenic section, so the plan is to take a rubbing of the track alignment then remove the track and lay it onto prestretched lining paper. I can do this away from the layout, including painting and ballasting. If it goes to plan, it should then be possible to insert the detailed track into the layout and then just tidy up the joining sections at each end. Fingers crossed !!!!

Meanwhile, some activity at Whinburgh...

Hawick D49 sets off southbound from Slitrigg on a stopping passenger train.....

A St Margaret's B1 trundles down the gradient towards Slitrigg with a north bound train of fish empties...

And an Edinburgh to Carlisle stopping train...

Platform details...

A few details from the line... An LNER CCT (Chivers kit) attachment=1042625:WP_20180822_18_26_57_Pro.jpg]

Work in progress

Hi Martin ; all my weathering uses railmatch acrylic paint and some coloured chalk or talc. The ripped off posters are painted on with an almost dry brush. Thank you for your complimentary comments. I treat this layout as a 3D picture and try to achieve an overall balance of textures and colours

Thornton Junction 4MT 76109 stands in for regular Hawick loco 76050, on the afternoon Newcastle to Hawick school train. There is a photo of 76050 on this train consist in 1965 in 'Steam Ramble no2 North West', by M Pope

An ex NBR J35 rumbles into the Up Goods at Whinburgh North on the pick-up goods....

A few items of rolling stock .... This LMS period 2 corridor brake third is a I recent build from a Comet kit. It forms part of one of the sleeper sets. Another Comet kit; a Stanier 6-wheel BZ. I remember seeing these at York still in traffic in the mid 1970s. A Bachmann Mk1 restaurant car with added curtains and weathering. Some Parkside Dundas fish and parcel vans waiting collection at Windburgh In the coal yard at Slitrigg. . And a dog fish in the engineers siding at Whinburgh.

A Britannia pacific climbs towards Whitrope summit hauling the southbound St Pancras sleeper....

A few recent pics of train operations on the line..... A Sulzer type 4 is rostered to the down Waverley express.

They make good subjects for still life.... Got my drawing back from the framers today.....

I don't use a login or password. It is possible to purchase them without one. This is York is a good choice

I'm pleased to report that further MP3 downloads from the Peter Handford archive are now available including: 'LNER', 'This is York', 'Somerset & Dorset' and three albums of SNCF locomotive recordings

Tony, my layout is on RM Web 'Whinburgh and Slitrigg'.. Regards etc....