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She is currently at DLR Dan's for work. He has kindly taken a few piccies for me to pop up here...

Meet DVLR No. 4 River Tang




She is very pleasingly proportioned (got quite a bit about the southwold sharpies about her). She needs gas burner work, new cylinders (hence the add in the "wanted" section and various other bits and pieces. She will soon by DVLR standard livery (no real need for me to say that is there). She has a very short (mamod) wheel base and RC (which will be properly set up and self contained) so will be perfect for my line with its sharp corners and need for slow speeds. Thinking of adding motion covers like on the rye and camber locos to keep the grit from the quarry at bay (or to hide the ossilatiors)

I'm rather pleased with this one and think it will make a good addition to the fleet.

she looks very nice zach!

wow its like the little brother of the Mayflower

really nice  8)

That will look good in blue with a white roof

Now that is a very nicely proportioned little loco.

I wonder if a pair of RWM Janet cylinders would be beneficial. I'd love to own a Merlin LW in order to experiment so, but fear that I would be crucified.

That's a very nice little loco Mr Bond, and should look well at home on the DVLR

What a lovely little loco! Don't think I've ever seen one before. Bet you can't wait to get your hands on it...

Have fun,

Andrew.

Nearly bought one of these about 20 years ago. Lovely looking thing, looking forward to see it when it emerges from the works.

For an oscillating locomotive that does have some rather appropriate looking proportions, although the row of 4 screws either side of the smoke box could do with being hidden.

Must admit I do not recall this one in the Heritage Auction at Peterborough, but being 45mm I probably ignored it.

Look forward to seeing how slow it will run on R/C.

Chris Cairns.

It is regaugeable - the build is interesting with many features not seen on modern locomotives - the tanks wrap round and so give the impression of tanks rather than just hollow shells and all the bolts are hex bolts. does anyone know anything about the history of this locomotive or the little wonders in general?

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:36414 wrote:As much as I love the idea of home-made track I have decided to go for the Peco track. This I can put down and take up as much as I please when I move house etc.
Maybe one day I will have home grown track!

Having looked at the possibility of home made track I think this is the way I shall go too.

Mmmm, peco track is just alot less maintenance and it meant I could buy a load second hand and could lay track when ever I was ready rather than having to wait until I had built the next bit. I love the idea of having built one's own track but the flexi-track really is a better solution for the time being and will last a lot longer!

Phew, its been a while, got back from uni to find this...





Hmmm, there's a railway in there somewhere...
So it was out with River Butley and a rake of wagons to clear the track (this train was for picking up the tree trimmings)


For clearing some of the cuttings the "brick kiln" was fired up



All set to start the improvements and enjoy running some trains

That looks better , How long was it left for to get like that ?

It was left for a whole term while I was at University (two months)
So, I decided to mock up Woodbridge again with cardboard that tomorrow I will try and make from ply wood properly. I have a good supply of window frame materials and glass ready to go. Laurence was saying how he missed "Catchit Tunnel" and it got me thinking. I originally got rid of it as it was too "hornby dublo" ie the hill looked two artificial and was too steep (The original idea behind it was to make maximum use of the space and put the Woodbridge buildings on top of the tunnel. So I thought, why not make the back branch THROUGH the buildings yet keep it so that from the "trains'" points of view it is going through a perfectly ordinary cutting/tunnel arrangement. This gives me a chance for another row of buildings which I decided could be the thoroughfare, as the actual street is quite short the plan is to add mirrors at each end to give the illusion of a much longer street in a small space. Please excuse the dodgy cardboard and sharpie mock ups but they really help me to "See" what goes where.
The first row of buildings by the turntable

The cut through to the thoroughfair

A view down into the narrow street

The other side of the station has grain wherehouses

The whole arrangement

That's the woodbridge side, from the "bawdsey branch" side looking towards Snape Street

Looking towards bawdsey (the backs of the buildings will be disguised by craggy rocks and plants)

The railway will go through these buildings here

What I am most excited about is all the different roof lines there will be and lots of chimney pots (The view from my window is all wobbly rooves and chimney pots)

That sounds like an amazing use of space! Great idea!

"Smoke & Mirrors"

Looking good Zach ,I like the narrow street effect .

Sounds like a good idea! You could call the shop / tunnel:

"Catchit and Pishing's instruments "

See what I did there?