Kent & North Wales Light Railway

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:10 am

DVT Dweller:99604 wrote:I've just had a look through this thread and all I can say is wow, absolutely wow. The loco fleet, the railway, the scenics, the detail and all indoors too. Once again..........WOW

Many thanks. If you could see how much there is to do still .....

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 4:07 pm

Having spent the day landscaping the area around Stokesay Castle, time to take some pics. It´s even possible that the Regner rack railway engine "Rigi No. 7" is on its way, so the castle may soon have some added value for tourists.

K&NWLR: Stokesay Castle in the background with bridge of rack railway (in prep.), and a Pearse W&L "Earl" on the upper loop, and a Peter Angus Single Fairlie on the lower. by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Both parts of Stokesay Castle after landscaping and tree planting by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Left hand end of Stokesay Castle by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Stokesay Castle from below with rack railway entrance to the right by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: View of Stokesay castle from the level of the company warehouse by kandnwlr, on Flickr

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:01 pm

Love the pictures of the NWNGR train, thank you!

Andrew.

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:08 pm

Andrew:99724 wrote:Love the pictures of the NWNGR train, thank you!

Andrew.

Likewise! Although I believe the brake is FfR number 11/Van 4

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 7:56 am

laalratty:99726 wrote:
Andrew:99724 wrote:Love the pictures of the NWNGR train, thank you!

Andrew.
Likewise! Although I believe the brake is FfR number 11/Van 4

Correcto. The bogie coach is FfR No. 23 and the brake saloon is No. 11, both by Perfect World. I started off years back just using varnish, rather than paint, so that´s what the K&NWLR has stuck to, sometimes quite literally, when I pick them up before they´re dry.

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:27 pm

It´s been a long time arriving. Ordered in 2012, a Regner Rigi No. 7 has finally made it to the K&NWLR .... now if only I had the rack to go with the railway (only ordered today) :?

K&NWLR: Regner Rigi No. 7 by kandnwlr, on Flickr

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Chris Cairns · Post by **Chris Cairns** » Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:10 pm

Now that is very nice.

Look forward to seeing it in video action soon.

I've seen the original No.7 in the Swiss Museum of Transport, and also traveled on the steam special at the Rigi Bahnen.

Chris Cairns.

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 7:32 am

Chris Cairns:100023 wrote:Now that is very nice.

Look forward to seeing it in video action soon.

I've seen the original No.7 in the Swiss Museum of Transport, and also traveled on the steam special at the Rigi Bahnen.

Chris Cairns.

Yup, I made a pilgrimage to see this one in Lucerne recently, but I missed out when it was returned to the Rigi, even if I did travel on both the Rigi railways back in March this year. Wonder whether they´ll let it happen again?

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:46 pm

And I´ve got to get landscaping again and install the Portmeirion style bridge to the upper loop from the back of the rack rail station across the lower loop. In these older pics it´s just held up by its own weight, but shortly afterwards managed to push the station building off the edge ....

K&NWLR: Rack railway "bridge of sighs" to Portmeirion by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Rack railway "bridge of signs" to Portmeirion by kandnwlr, on Flickr

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:29 pm

Looks fantastic, love the windows on the bridge. Hope the station building was OK...

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:43 pm

Fantastic! If you get a chance would it be possible to post a sort of photographic tour around the line? I can't quite piece together how all the features go together in my mind.

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:24 am

steamyjim:100080 wrote:Fantastic! If you get a chance would it be possible to post a sort of photographic tour around the line? I can't quite piece together how all the features go together in my mind.

I can scarcely put things together myself. But the major things to note are:

1. Two separate sides to the layout: Kent and North Wales
2. Two separate loops: an upper (45mm) and a lower (32/45mm dual gauge)
3. Each loop has a separate terminus station which juts out from the loop into the room, Wales for the upper loop, Kent for the lower. But just to confuse things, each loop passes through both Kent and North Wales, obviously.
4. Dimensions 6m x 14m

But as you point out, a picture (or two) might help ..... and, as the current Ms K&NWLR has noted, might force me to clear up some of the debris which is currently littered about the floor.

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:04 am

Andrew:100077 wrote:Looks fantastic, love the windows on the bridge. Hope the station building was OK...

Just superficial damage. Now it´s time to landscape and to fix the buildings in a manner which prevents future disasters ...

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:24 pm

steamyjim:100080 wrote:Fantastic! If you get a chance would it be possible to post a sort of photographic tour around the line? I can't quite piece together how all the features go together in my mind.

Many thanks for the request. In fact, I´ve been wondering about it myself. All photos of the Kent side, on show here, were taken without flash, but with longer exposure times, so there´s some glare from the room lights. As the more observant amongst you will note, no serious clearing up was done beforehand :-\ And yes, one of the bottles on the table is gin.

K&NWLR: Kent - an overview of the Kentish side of the layout. The Wallace & Gromit space rocket next to the half-timbered building is a termporary attraction. by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Kent - the view from the castle toward the oast house and St Trinian´s. by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Kent - looking back at the castle with the Gn15 line to the left of the lower loop, ending underneath the upper loop bridge. by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Kent - the Green Man pub to the right, St Trinian´s in the background and the oast house to the left. by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Kent - the bridge across the river at St Trinian´s Halt, with the oast house and St. Trinian´s to the right. by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Kent - the Kentish corner with a mill building in the background. Watch this space for new Canterbury buildings soon. by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Kent - the terminus station on the left with the village and pub above the upper loop in the background. by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NWLR: Kent - a view onto the Kent terminus station with footbridge. by kandnwlr, on Flickr

K&NET: Kent - a view over the Kent terminus looking up to the pub above the upper loop. by kandnwlr, on Flickr

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:18 pm

Thank you for taking the photos! Your line is a work of art! Seriously impressive stuff.

DickH · Post by **DickH** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:04 pm

What an impressive railway!!

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:12 pm

I thought it was the Kent and North Wales? Barry's in the South you know, although you've recreated all those lines of locos beautifully, apart from the rust and missing fittings...

Joking - and jealousy - aside, it's a lovely railway, so many excellent scenes that are beautifully blended together. Looking forward to the photos of the NW side...

Andrew.

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:52 pm

Andrew:100140 wrote:I thought it was the Kent and North Wales? Barry's in the South you know, although you've recreated all those lines of locos beautifully, apart from the rust and missing fittings...

Joking - and jealousy - aside, it's a lovely railway, so many excellent scenes that are beautifully blended together. Looking forward to the photos of the NW side...

Andrew.

Can´t do rust (well not a lot, and that´s real), but missing fittings are what holds the two sides of the layout together, at least metaphorically.

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Thu May 01, 2014 8:49 am

Thanks for the friendly replies. Still quite some work to be done here, but keep an eye on the space to the far left of the pic. There´s going to be some (re)building going on there pretty shortly ... :P

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kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Mon May 12, 2014 11:50 am

I got so carried away during landscaping the corner around Stokesay Castle (see prev. page), that I decided to install a little Treddol slate station below, which will get the name Stokesay Halt. If it looks as though it´s in the middle of a building site, then there´s a good reason. It´s a still a real building site still missing the slate platform, entrance, steps, and greenery.

But after putting the station into place, there was no going back with a job that I had been putting off, that is building dry stone walling in real slate to match the station. This was something of an experiment.

I first built a foundation of modelling clay to provide a base into which to push the first layer of slate. The I did a little practice around the station, before I set out to build around 90cm (or 3 foot in old money) worth of walling round to the point where the rack railway will cross both tracks. It´s not perfect, but this is as far as I got before running out of slate. There´s a temporary vegetation strip hiding the modelling clay from the camera, and no trees have been planted yet, which will be needed to match the other side of the track.

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