Love Lane, B.R. (E) c.1956-59
- Thread starter Eastsidepilot
- Start date
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
I seem to recognize that loco coal wagon
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Update on Love Lane with some shots from this Sundays meet at Sudbury.
First up are some of the mock-up buildings made by Peter Hunt ( yes I did say mock-up, there too good really)
The Station Masters house and the signal box.
Work continues on the sand drag by Dave Rayner who has glued down a peice of foam as a basis for the sand covering and made a superb job of the boards and brackets that hold them to the sleepers, while John Birch has been getting some excellent results, using acrylics, painting the brickwork on platform edges and station walls.
Col.
First up are some of the mock-up buildings made by Peter Hunt ( yes I did say mock-up, there too good really)
The Station Masters house and the signal box.
Work continues on the sand drag by Dave Rayner who has glued down a peice of foam as a basis for the sand covering and made a superb job of the boards and brackets that hold them to the sleepers, while John Birch has been getting some excellent results, using acrylics, painting the brickwork on platform edges and station walls.
Col.
Attachments
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
Mock ups blimey 
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
Can we see it then
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Can we see it then
John,
If you have time to drift through the West Mersea thread here http://www.westernthunder.co.uk/index.php?threads/re-west-mersea.707/ there should be photo's.
Col.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Managed to take a couple of shots of progress on Love Lane at last Sundays meet.
The sand drag has received some sand. Just waiting for some weeds etc. around the edges.
Looks like Scale7JB has been around
as there is now evidence of ash disposal in the loco spur.
Ground surface may need a bit of filling ?in this area, apologies for the out of focus shot.
Col.
The sand drag has received some sand. Just waiting for some weeds etc. around the edges.
Looks like Scale7JB has been around
as there is now evidence of ash disposal in the loco spur.Ground surface may need a bit of filling ?in this area, apologies for the out of focus shot.
Col.
Wagonman
Western Thunderer
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Another better shot of the increasing ash dump
Col.
Col.
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
Will this be good for the weigh bridge office for Love Lane?
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
Not quite!
Susie
Western Thunderer
Hi All,
Not knowing anything about the GER can some of you advise?
For Love Lane, would an N7 be appropriate for pulling the Quint-art set? If so, would it have been rebuilt with a round-top Doncaster (Huzzah!) boiler rather than retaining its Belpare firebox?
Colin (or anyone else) on Sunday did you say that there are no kits now available for them?
Thanks,
Susie
Not knowing anything about the GER can some of you advise?
For Love Lane, would an N7 be appropriate for pulling the Quint-art set? If so, would it have been rebuilt with a round-top Doncaster (Huzzah!) boiler rather than retaining its Belpare firebox?
Colin (or anyone else) on Sunday did you say that there are no kits now available for them?
Thanks,
Susie
Scale7JB
Western Thunderer
Hi Susie... Would an N7 have pulled a quint art? I'm not sure they pulled much else if I'm honest.. N7's are a complete minefield, not so bad as the j tanks perhaps, but there were 6 different versions over the years, but generally for the later engines it would have been round top fire boxes.
There is a kit still produced by Ace kits, and so in answer to your question, no, nobody does any kits for an N7... I do however have the N7's have drawn up in Cad.. I'm looking forward to sleepless nights with littl'n and turbo cad very shortly to get it finished. Just need to get John Birch to draw up some masters for the castings..
JB.
There is a kit still produced by Ace kits, and so in answer to your question, no, nobody does any kits for an N7... I do however have the N7's have drawn up in Cad.. I'm looking forward to sleepless nights with littl'n and turbo cad very shortly to get it finished. Just need to get John Birch to draw up some masters for the castings..
JB.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
The N7's would be appropriate and would certainly have the round top boiler, the Doncaster built engines were their version of the N7/2, classed N7/3. The N7/5 was a '43 rebuild of the N7/1's.
N7/3 at Stratford Low Level, 1959.
Hope that's of help Susie.
There are not any N7 kits available( I think Ace did one but I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole) but I am working on patterns to mill the sheet metal components, chassis and rods for the N7.
Col.
Susie
Western Thunderer
Okay, thanks guys.
Earlier I was looking at the GA I have (it is for a 1927 Beardmore built N7) and noticed that the fluting on the coupling rods is so great they scale out at only ten thou thick in the centre! I guess they were made out of something like HT nickel chrome steel.
Well, if you two have the engine wrapped up, I better get on witht the coaches!
Susie
Earlier I was looking at the GA I have (it is for a 1927 Beardmore built N7) and noticed that the fluting on the coupling rods is so great they scale out at only ten thou thick in the centre! I guess they were made out of something like HT nickel chrome steel.
Well, if you two have the engine wrapped up, I better get on witht the coaches!
Susie