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BorisSpencer wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:24 am

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:49 pm I'm a Peckforton-oholic too, and thankfully there is no cure!

Careful, Rik's getting you hooked, next thing you'll be having to buy special edition DVDs with bonus footage and directors cuts!

Rik has already been kind enough to use his skills with his camera to create a video of my railway.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHGDJmKpnIQ

I can think of no better way of enjoying our joint efforts.

I have seen this video before and I love it. It shows how good a line can be with a little care and attention to detail. This has to be one of the best lines in the UK, for me anyway...


By the way have you seen how many like's the video has and how many dislikes....NO dislikes...and,

108 likes....

Thanks Rod
It amazes me how quickly people start watching my videos. With the latest one, I uploaded it and by the time I'd copied the URL to paste a link on the forum, it had already had three views and one like. I hadn't even had a chance to watch it online myself.

I do enjoy making the videos - and watching them myself as a record of how things have developed over the years. It's a bonus that others quite like watching them as well.....

Rik

Braved the conditions again today to shoot this little video



Hope you enjoy

Rik

Great views of 'just the right amount' of snow. It really enhances the train. I like the wagon steps picking up a bit of snow. The loco looks good. Did you manage to get any of the electronics into the side tanks?

Brilliant Rik, another superb video of your line. Love the engine sounds, it is very realistic.

Love the Dance Band music also. Thats what my Dad used to listen to all the time....

gregh wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:37 am Great views of 'just the right amount' of snow. It really enhances the train. I like the wagon steps picking up a bit of snow. The loco looks good. Did you manage to get any of the electronics into the side tanks?

Thanks Greg
I put everything into the cab. The tanks hold a couple of really chunky weights which I wanted to retain for adhesion.

Rik

FWLR wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:55 am Brilliant Rik, another superb video of your line. Love the engine sounds, it is very realistic.

Love the Dance Band music also. Thats what my Dad used to listen to all the time....

Thanks Rod
I borrowed the idea of the 1930s music from a marvellous video of the Melbourne cable trams which Greg sent me for my 70th birthday. By coincidence, I bought my mum a couple of Henry Hall CDs for Christmas. He was one of her favourites before the war. I'm hoping that as they were recorded in the 1930s the music will be out of copyright.

Rik

Very nice Rik!

There was snow here today, but it had really started melting by the time we'd been for a stroll in the park, so I didn't get to run a train in it this time. I must admit, I wasn't too disappointed, I'm obviously not as tough as you!

Lyn's very nice - will she be retaining her lined Southern livery or going into "Peckforton Green"? I'm always surprised by how at home Lyd looks on the Ffestiniog, despite having "Southern" in big letters along her tanks!

Andrew.

Andrew wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 4:03 pm Lyn's very nice - will she be retaining her lined Southern livery or going into "Peckforton Green"? I'm always surprised by how at home Lyd looks on the Ffestiniog, despite having "Southern" in big letters along her tanks!

I doubt I'll keep the loco as is. Lyn wasn't a 3' gauge loco and so they've taken quite a few liberties with the scale. According to a review I read in Railway Modeller it's built to a scale of 13.8mm to the foot which means the cab is too small. The most difficult aspect though is the amount of overhang each end which means there is a considerable outswing on my tight curves. I'm presently trying to see if there's a nice little Irish 4-4-0 with drivers the same size. Failing that I might look at the IoM locos.

Rik

ge_rik wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:37 am Thanks Greg
I put everything into the cab. The tanks hold a couple of really chunky weights which I wanted to retain for adhesion.
Rik

I thought I remembered that the tanks were separate from the boiler and I couldn't use them. (But that was 1997 when I took two Lyns, threw away most of them, and made this..

gregh wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:34 pm I thought I remembered that the tanks were separate from the boiler and I couldn't use them. (But that was 1997 when I took two Lyns, threw away most of them, and made this..

What a magnificent beast. I doubt my conversion will be quite so impressive. I'm looking for an Irish 4-4-0 or 0-4-4 but all those I've looked at so far have larger drivers.
In 15mm scale Lyn's drivers are 2' 6" on a 5' wheelbase. I think I might have to improvise a design of loco they might have made. I quite like the look of a Schull & Skibbereen Peckett - driver wheelbase = 5' 6" : driver dia = 3' 4" I might be able to get away with the smaller wheel diameter as the flanges are over sized and so the wheels look a bit larger.
Image source: https://spellerweb.net/rhindex/Ireland/ ... chull.html

Rik

Looks like that would make a rather interesting prototype.
Not sure how successful it will be with the cylinders outside the frames and the drivers inside, I don't think the marketing department spoke to the technical department when creating the artwork.

BorisSpencer wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:41 am Looks like that would make a rather interesting prototype.
Not sure how successful it will be with the cylinders outside the frames and the drivers inside, I don't think the marketing department spoke to the technical department when creating the artwork.

It was actually built and ran for a while. Source: https://durrushistory.com/2013/11/25/tr ... y-co-cork/

Though it was later rebuilt with inside frames.

Rik

What a crazy, distorted picture.... the shed door looks to be off alignment with the track and too narrow for the locomotive, also the track beneath the loco looks to be higher than the adjacent rails and suggests it is on some kind of traverser. Only when studied more closely is it possible to see a turntable.... I think?

What a lovely possibility Rik. I can just picture one of those in PLR green!

CFLR Andrew

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:13 pm What a crazy, distorted picture.... the shed door looks to be off alignment with the track and too narrow for the locomotive, also the track beneath the loco looks to be higher than the adjacent rails and suggests it is on some kind of traverser. Only when studied more closely is it possible to see a turntable.... I think?

Just checked the track plan for the station at Schull and indeed it is a turntable, with the engine shed at right angles to the station platform. As they used to say in Railway Modeller, there's a prototype for everything ......

Rik

A big coincidence - my sketching for a future indoor layout had a turntable with loco shed at right angles to Main, just like Schull.

Back on topic, here is your challenge (should you choose to accept) -
https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.a ... /view/4345

I've thought and thought for years how I could do the 'fancy shaped' saddle tank but it is too hard for me. Does anyone know if that shape has a name?
It's an 0-6-0 but a 2-4-0 would look the same or you could stretch it to a 4-4-0.


A friend in NZ made one, here....
http://ashrail.com/F72.htm

gregh wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 9:09 am Does anyone know if that shape has a name?

Hi Greg!

According to this article https://www.heritagerailway.co.uk/2608/ ... -survivor/ it's an "ogee" tank - I've seen that tearm to describle the sape of arches etc in architecture...

The litte Great Eastern tanks of this style were known as "coffee pots" - the sole survivor used to live at the North Woolwich station museum, where I'd visit it sometimes on the way to see my Nan in Plaistow:



It's a lovely loco, and I like your 0-6-0 variant too Greg.

Andrew.

ge_rik wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:57 pm

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:13 pm What a crazy, distorted picture.... the shed door looks to be off alignment with the track and too narrow for the locomotive, also the track beneath the loco looks to be higher than the adjacent rails and suggests it is on some kind of traverser. Only when studied more closely is it possible to see a turntable.... I think?

Just checked the track plan for the station at Schull and indeed it is a turntable, with the engine shed at right angles to the station platform. As they used to say in Railway Modeller, there's a prototype for everything ......

Rik

It's wonderful, isn't it? If I were to start over in the garden I might be tempted to go down the Irish 3' route - well, I might if I could work out how to pronounce the place names!

Lovely loco Rik, a great combination of Peckett chunkiness ("Henbury", on the Bristol Harbour Railway has those curves from cab to bunker) and the elegance that almost always seems to come with 4-4-0 designs. I think it'll be a beauty...

Andrew.