Hartley Hills, LNWR c1900 - buffer stops, how do you build yours?

Eastsidepilot

Eastsidepilot

Western Thunderer
Caggers said:
As you know I have seen the research effort you have put in for this project and am not sure I am up to the job, then after all my effort (if I go that way) to be told every time I show the layout I had got something wrong would be a bit disheartening...
Thoughts?
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Go for S7 mate, I know of someone who is building a Thomas Tank:rolleyes: and another a clockwork :eek: 0-4-0 saddle tank in S7!
so don't worry about having the correct chairs etc. for your chosen railway especially if there are non available, you can still model in S7 :thumbs:

Col.
 
Dog Star

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
Dear Mr. Caggers,
Will I? Yes.
Could I? No.
Yours etc..

No idea what was wrong with the permalink so changed to reference a specific post in this thread.

Do not worry about the niceties of trackwork... just decide if you care if the frames and wheels of your model are where a scale equivalent ought to be (S7) or not (something else). Whilst the difference in gauge between 0-FS and S7 is something like 1.5mm (depending upon which 0-FS gauge is in use today), the difference in width over fames is greater than the difference in gauge and hence distorts the relative placing of features such as cylinders, splashers, firebox side plates.....

Paracetemol does not help... getting the hands dirty does and is most enjoyable. Ask Mr. Lewsey who built some track today... and left with a big grin.

regards, Graham
 
Dog Star

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
The LNWR Special tank was kept busy this afternoon.... sometimes just standing to on the Up Goods Line and sometimes working a trip freight from Hartley Hills North Yard to the South Yard. And then came the big moment... one of Webb's Wonders wuffed into the Up Local Platform and expired rather ungracefully. Eventually the casualty was removed and the Station Master (another of Albert's drinking pals) looked down the yard at the only available source of power.... the dear old Special Tank. Never mind, not a heavily laden working this afternoon, just 3 on.... enough to make the tank work hard.

So here is what the Hartley Hills Examiner recorded:-

Just standing to...
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Working the trip...
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The big moment comes...
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regards, Graham
 
Wagonman

Wagonman

Western Thunderer
Lovely photos Graham, but surely you would have been using those new-fangled orthochromatic dry plates... (you can't make prints from a Daguerrotype) :)


Richard
(ex photographer – but not that long ago, honest)
 
Dog Star

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
Wagonman said:
...surely you would have been using those new-fangled orthochromatic dry plates... (you can't make prints from a Daguerrotype) :)
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Orthodontic plates? not me.

Who said anything about making prints? My improved Daguerrrotype has a new-fangled connection to a 12Vdc Abacus Mk II and that enables me to post the pictures to WT by direct Carrier Pigeon.

regards, Graham Frith-Taunt
 
Dog Star

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
Unfortunately dusk descended too quickly and by the time I had reloaded the camera the light was not good enough for any more photos. Sad really for as I climbed over the yard fence, being the quickest way to the local Local, there came under the occupation bridge the unmistakable sound of a weezing and gasping LNWR 0-8-0 pulling.... just light engine.... doing about 5mph and sounding as if that speed was too much effort! A fellow spotter looked over and uttered "sounds a good un" which, I think, was a refence to the grinding noise of flange on rail.
 
Dog Star

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
Thank you Adrian,

Kind of falls into the photoshop for/agin discussion, I like the idea as the image shows such a nice scene.... Manningtree?
 
Buckjumper

Buckjumper

Flying Squad
Wagonman said:
Wow! A Calotype! Fox-Talbot would have been proud of you, not to mention amazed at the brevity of the exposure...
;)
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I thank you :D

Dog Star said:
Thank you Adrian,
Manningtree?
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Trees and sky from East Herts, water from Scotland, exhaust from the GWR and embankment from Slifor...

Dog Star said:
Now that backdates some of the livery variations.... do not tell the LNWRS!
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Well they do say never trust a photo caption in a magazine...:))
 
J

John D

Western Thunderer
weezing and gasping LNWR 0-8-0 pulling.... just light engine.... doing about 5mph and sounding as if that speed was too much effort!
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I hope this is tongue in cheek otherwise I could get really upset :rant: .....a bit of homework like Ted Talbot's 0-8-0 book would perhaps give give the real picture.

one of Webb's Wonders
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Errmmm....actually they were designed in Ramsbottom's time , Frankie just tidied them up a bit;)
 
Dog Star

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
Not seen on the most recent visit to Hartley Hill was John's LNWR Jubilee 4-4-0 engine.... this is likely to be working the main line services. I was lucky enough to spot some of the coaches for the express rake, for some unknown reason some of the rake had been detached from an earlier service. Whatever the reason for the stock being left as it was, by courtesy of a local newspaper reporter we are able to apprerciate the beauty of LNWR carriage livery as applied in the early years of the 20th century:-

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regards, Graham
 
Buckjumper

Buckjumper

Flying Squad
John's glorious rake of LNW carriages can be seen in action visiting the embryonic Croscombe Magna, along with the 0-8-0 (plodding along at about 5mph!) and some of Richard Carr's green and blue diesels. There's a dodgy rail joint that needs fixing in there somewhere. Not your usual musak either...

 
Dog Star

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
Buckjumper said:
John's glorious rake of LNW carriages can be seen in action visiting the embryonic Croscombe Magna, along with the 0-8-0 (plodding along at about 5mph!) and some of Richard Carr's green and blue diesels.
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As reported in post no.#154.... without any colour bias!
 
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