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Western Thunderer
Ok, I may be run out of WT for this, so here goes! I think we have been lagging behind the US in terms of operation for many years, and I have always been inspired by Rev Peter Denny and Norman Eagles. When you start looking for information you realise there aren't that many books on the subject, an old CJF book, Bob Essery's books and a recent title from Wild Swan, seems to be about it. Some old BR rulebooks and general appendices also revealed that I may know about 'that' rivet on 'that' wagon, but did I know rule 2 for example? Once I delved in I realised there is so much to learn and that railways were run to get passengers and goods from A to B in a safe and efficient manner, then to make a profit.
Then I rediscovered my old my old Hornby Dublo.
Then what if operation takes precedence over rivets?
Then what if I could operate my Hornby Dublo according to the rule book?
Oh, dear, it's not looking good is it?
So then...
Tony Gee kindly supplied me with the last Buckingham Branch timetable (not the earlier one in the PECO book), and was happy for me to use the timetable for my 'ideas' as long as I did not republish the timetable.
I then thought the Dublo wagons above the chassis still stand up today, and many are still seen on layouts, then, what about setting it in the late fifties just after the LMR takeover of the GCR?
Maybe Peco code 100 track, with handbuilt third rail? Feedback control?
What about a monitor showing the timetable with a full description of the trains and what they are doing?
Then I started on the wagons, I looked at some old van kits and removed those old P4 wheels and stuck them on Dublo wagon chassis. A Parkside Fish van was then made with Dublo couplings and a Wrenn BR blue fish van repainted white.
What? Are you trying to undermine all the postwar progress that has been made in railway modelling?
NO, I've been a member of the 2mm Association for years, this is just something different and importantly for me brought back the fun. But I now have a shop load of P4 wagon wheels that could yet make it into the WT advertisement section.
Then much later...
I fitted Romford 60:1 gears to two Wrenn 08 shunters which resulted in excellent slow speed running with ordinary DC, let alone my Gaugemaster HH.
Then I started on the layout, I have designed a shunting problem for the milk loading gantry system. The siding can only load one tank at a time, meaning wagons need to be swapped in time for departure to Marylebone in order to adhere to Rev Peter Denny's timetable. This was a real shunting problem for Torrington where they could only load three tanks at a time.
There are 14 goods trains in the daily timetable that went to and from Buckingham, it looks like I can make them all work on the track plan above.
Ok, please whatever you think, this is not now, not ever meant to be disrespectful to Peter Denny's work, nor is it a joke entry, but is meant to show that operating to a timetable is possible by anyone and with any rolling stock.
Tony Harris
Then I rediscovered my old my old Hornby Dublo.
Then what if operation takes precedence over rivets?
Then what if I could operate my Hornby Dublo according to the rule book?
Oh, dear, it's not looking good is it?
So then...
Tony Gee kindly supplied me with the last Buckingham Branch timetable (not the earlier one in the PECO book), and was happy for me to use the timetable for my 'ideas' as long as I did not republish the timetable.
I then thought the Dublo wagons above the chassis still stand up today, and many are still seen on layouts, then, what about setting it in the late fifties just after the LMR takeover of the GCR?
Maybe Peco code 100 track, with handbuilt third rail? Feedback control?
What about a monitor showing the timetable with a full description of the trains and what they are doing?
Then I started on the wagons, I looked at some old van kits and removed those old P4 wheels and stuck them on Dublo wagon chassis. A Parkside Fish van was then made with Dublo couplings and a Wrenn BR blue fish van repainted white.
What? Are you trying to undermine all the postwar progress that has been made in railway modelling?
NO, I've been a member of the 2mm Association for years, this is just something different and importantly for me brought back the fun. But I now have a shop load of P4 wagon wheels that could yet make it into the WT advertisement section.
Then much later...
I fitted Romford 60:1 gears to two Wrenn 08 shunters which resulted in excellent slow speed running with ordinary DC, let alone my Gaugemaster HH.
Then I started on the layout, I have designed a shunting problem for the milk loading gantry system. The siding can only load one tank at a time, meaning wagons need to be swapped in time for departure to Marylebone in order to adhere to Rev Peter Denny's timetable. This was a real shunting problem for Torrington where they could only load three tanks at a time.
There are 14 goods trains in the daily timetable that went to and from Buckingham, it looks like I can make them all work on the track plan above.
Ok, please whatever you think, this is not now, not ever meant to be disrespectful to Peter Denny's work, nor is it a joke entry, but is meant to show that operating to a timetable is possible by anyone and with any rolling stock.
Tony Harris
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