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#Post#: 83763--------------------------------------------------
Building a model railway
By: Dave Date: January 11, 2014, 3:22 pm
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I thought this may interest a few folks on here as we seem to
have a few railway modellers. Work on my shed layout has ground
to a halt due to work being busy in the past couple of months
and a lack of arsedness to go out in the cold and finish fitting
out the shed. So, as a diversion, I've decided to build a small
shunting plank of just 4ft. x 2ft. I'm using standard parts and
it's in OO scale, which isn't my usual scale and is something I
haven't done for 20 years or more.
The thing that really tempted me is the latest Hornby release -
a Rolls Royce/Sentinel diesel shunter. So let me set the
scene...
It's summer 1973 and the sound of 10cc's Rubber Bullets is
playing from a radio on a window ledge of one of the
neighbouring cutlery firms. Two youths, who are lobbing bricks
at a semi-submerged and recently stolen Ford Cortina, in the
canal, look up briefly as a Rolls Royce/Sentinel diesel growls
its way over the bridge from the British Railways exchange
siding and into the River Don Works. Behind it is an assortment
of unfitted wagons carrying steel billets and plate for the
forge and pressing plant of this subsidiary company of the
British Steel Corporation...
It's a fictitious location but we're somewhere in the Lower Don
Valley area of Sheffield. Brick and corrugated iron, muck,
smoke, polluted waterways, scruffy wagons, small industrial
locomotives, cranes, pipe bridges - you get the idea...
Track plan finalised:
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Stuff bought:
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All the points as shown in the plan, plus a point motor for each
and a set of proper switches (I usually bodge this stuff with
bits of wire and drawing pins but I want to do it right for
once), Bachmann 30-ton Bogie Bolster, Parkside double bolster
kit, Code 75 flexi track and the reason I'm building this at all
- the Hornby Sentinel.
HTML http://www.hornby.com/search/?q=sentinel&ProductCategoryID=1476
I've had a root about in a box of junk and have salvaged some
bits and pieces from when I last did OO some 20 years ago. I'm
not sure if any or all will be used yet but they are:
A Scammell Scarab (kit-built), A pair of 14-ton tank wagons, two
Scammell Highwayman tractor units and one trailer (Langley, I
think), an Atkinson ballast tractor unit and a workmans' bothy
made from a dead Sentinel steam loco.
I've also bought some plywood and other wood so baseboard
construction begins tomorrow! :giddy:
#Post#: 83769--------------------------------------------------
Re: Building a model railway
By: Albert Ross Date: January 11, 2014, 3:47 pm
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I have a few Oxford Series 1 "00" scale models here... you might
get one to "scruff up" and use on this layout if you're
deserving. I may even have summat else. if I can be arsed to
look.
#Post#: 83772--------------------------------------------------
Re: Building a model railway
By: Calum Date: January 11, 2014, 3:53 pm
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Are those gaugemaster point motors? and do you need the mounting
plates like the Peco items? I have some Peco motor mounting
plate thingymahbobs here you see and they are of no use to me
anymore!
#Post#: 83784--------------------------------------------------
Re: Building a model railway
By: Dave Date: January 11, 2014, 5:16 pm
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Jim - worrisit? Go on, giz it! You know it makes sense ;D
Calum - no, these point motors screw directly to the baseboard
and have a built-in polarity switch so there's no need for the
baseplates. The Peco ones work loose in the baseplates and you
have to buy the switches separately, which are pants anyway.
#Post#: 83819--------------------------------------------------
Re: Building a model railway
By: Calum Date: January 12, 2014, 12:34 pm
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Sod ye then :smilewide:
#Post#: 83864--------------------------------------------------
Re: Building a model railway
By: dazcapri Date: January 13, 2014, 10:48 am
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I'll be keeping an eye on this it's something I've always
fancied doing but never got round to.
#Post#: 83871--------------------------------------------------
Re: Building a model railway
By: Lord Unstone Date: January 13, 2014, 11:58 am
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When I lived in my last house, we had a huge basement, and my
layout was an 8 x 4 frame winched to the ceiling. One day, I
will set up a new layout in my loft. One day.
#Post#: 83879--------------------------------------------------
Re: Building a model railway
By: Dave Date: January 13, 2014, 1:20 pm
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Anyway, progress on the Sentinel and the baseboards...
I bought the loco from my local model shop on Saturday morning.
I know the likes of Hattons etc. are a few quid cheaper but I
wanted it now, instead of mail order, and I like to support my
local model shop where I could also see, handle, and have the
loco test run before purchase.
Not long after getting it home I had it apart for a repaint.
It's going yellow with stripes.
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Between coats of paint on the Sentinel I got to cutting wood. My
old woodwork teacher will be turning in his grave wagfinger
but, hey, it's a model railway baseboard and not a china cabinet
so who cares?
[IMG]
HTML http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36023/River-Don-Works-002.jpg[/img][/URL]
Then, with the top layer fixed to the lower layer and framework,
it was time to see if the track fits. I can just get the loco
and a bogie bolster C into the headshunt and still be able to
get it into the first top siding.
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Re: Building a model railway
By: StuartN Date: January 14, 2014, 3:37 am
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Belter.
Do you find you get the time to get the use out of it?
S :thumbs:
#Post#: 83941--------------------------------------------------
Re: Building a model railway
By: Austin Date: January 14, 2014, 7:47 am
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I will be watching how you get on with this Dave, its something
I have always been interested in but I have never built a layout
of my own. Around 1992 my grandad bought me a countryside themed
layout that someone had obviously spent a lot of time on from an
auction, I would have been six or seven. I loved playing with it
but my interest has always been more focused on industrial
locomotives and steam power in particular. There was always a
lot of them around where I live and still many of the lines
still exist, abandoned. Sadly I am too young to have seen much
of it. I work around thirty yards up the main road from where
the line used to cross transporting coal from Hanley deep pit to
Shelton Bar iron and steel. They are a nature reserve and a
retail park now, but it would be fantastic to build something
based on how it was in the 50s/60s.
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