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Re: British engineering 1935
By: Dave Date: October 29, 2013, 4:49 pm
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That's an ambitious layout! Looks like you've single-handedly
been keeping Metcalfe's in business. ;D I like the dockyard
area - does the wagon turntable work?
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Re: British engineering 1935
By: genem Date: October 29, 2013, 5:46 pm
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Shot of "Royal Scot" at 00.43 .... well here is us being donated
the plaque off an even later version.
"Up the Royals"
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Re: British engineering 1935
By: Sunny Jim Date: October 29, 2013, 5:50 pm
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[quote]That is amazing - not a hope in hell of doing something
like that here now [/quote]
Au contraire Blackadder:
HTML http://a1steam.com/
HTML http://www.lms-patriot.org.uk/warrior.html
to name a couple of the many new builds going on as we speak.
The Tornado is of course not a proper engine as it was completed
at Darlington on the former Stockton and Darlington Railway, if
you believe our Dave that is! Its boiler was made in East
Germany and has caused problems, but not as bad as one built for
Australia that didn't fit and was sent back. The Patriot is to
be built in Britain as far as is practicable, but things like
wheel tyres come from South Africa.
6207 was of cours a Princess rather than a Duchess and both 6201
and 6203 survive. Of the Duchesses, 6229, 6233 and 6235 survive.
Plus there are a few of those ugly humpty backed East Coast
things around!
Sunny Jim
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Re: British engineering 1935
By: a twig Date: October 29, 2013, 6:00 pm
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[quote]
The Tornado is of course not a proper engine as it was completed
at Darlington on the former Stockton and Darlington Railway, if
you believe our Dave that is! Its boiler was made in East
Germany and has caused problems, but not as bad as one built for
Australia that didn't fit and was sent back. The Patriot is to
be built in Britain as far as is practicable, but things like
wheel tyres come from South Africa.
[/quote]
Precisely my point, Germany, Australia, South Africa.... :)
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Re: British engineering 1935
By: megatoad Date: October 30, 2013, 4:40 am
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[quote author=Dave link=topic=7105.msg78505#msg78505
date=1383083346]
That's an ambitious layout! Looks like you've single-handedly
been keeping Metcalfe's in business. ;D I like the dockyard
area - does the wagon turntable work?
[/quote]
Yes, just a few metcalfe models! they are far superior, plus a
lot of ScaleScenes, including the arches, dock, canal boat and
ship. I have just bought a colour laser now which should improve
the quality and colour stability of the texture sheets etc.
As for the wagon turntable, yes it does. It took a lot of
searching on't 'tinternet for a working wagon turntable. I
finally found an excellent kit for On30 fully indexed and
powered. At the click of a switch it rotates 90deg
anti-clockwise. When I oredered the kit when I mentioned that I
actually wanted it for 00 guage the chap actually burned the
planking sheets in 00 scale for me.
The main issue is that as it is a true 4 sector turntable
actually wiring the sector plates it very confusing as after a
quarter turn it can technically short the whole layout,
especially a DCC one like mine. so it needs a DPDT switch wiring
into the table feed. As yet I have not wired this supply.
It is an extremely well designed construction with clear, easy
to follow instructions. The only issue realy are that the
soldering the rails to the pcb is very dificult and the rails
themselves dont fit easilly inti the jig.
Take a look at his splendid kits at
HTML http://www.kitwoodhillmodels.com
HTML http://www.kitwoodhillmodels.com
HTML http://megatoad.jalbum.net/My%20Website/Model%20Railway/The%20New%20Station%20Project/slides/IMAG0707.jpg
HTML http://megatoad.jalbum.net/My%20Website/Model%20Railway/The%20New%20Station%20Project/slides/IMAG0710.jpg
HTML http://megatoad.jalbum.net/My%20Website/Model%20Railway/The%20New%20Station%20Project/slides/IMAG0713.jpg
HTML http://megatoad.jalbum.net/My%20Website/Model%20Railway/The%20New%20Station%20Project/slides/IMAG0715.jpg
HTML http://megatoad.jalbum.net/My%20Website/Model%20Railway/The%20New%20Station%20Project/slides/IMAG0720.jpg
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Re: British engineering 1935
By: Calum Date: November 3, 2013, 5:05 am
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You'd probably be pleasantly surprised if you saw our place...
Not much red tape and lots of skilled people keeping them
running and maintained... just this week we had a little known
loco come in for its overhaul to be completed. The Flying
Scotsman if you've heard of it? Far from my favourite locomotive
but will be fantastic to work on, and make parts for, such a
historic piece of British engineering! I machined the new valve
spindles for Duchess of Sutherland at work a couple of months
ago... All bloody four of them. Was up here a few weeks ago for
the steam gala. Think they'd been fitted by then. Great to see
the fruits of your labour when it's working in a machine like
that!
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Re: British engineering 1935
By: strang Date: November 3, 2013, 9:28 am
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Proper job satisfaction that by the sounds of if Calum!
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Re: British engineering 1935
By: Dirty Girty Date: November 6, 2013, 12:03 pm
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Now that Vid is some proper engineering.
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Re: British engineering 1935
By: Calum Date: November 6, 2013, 3:00 pm
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Certainly is, Mark!
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