4mm Podimore: landscaping.
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AJC
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Put a pannier on the railtour trio, job done! Truth be told, they'd probably bus personnel from Yeovil. Several pictures of Yeovil Town have Navy Bedford buses in the forecourt - Bedfords, I think they were. This sort of thing:
Freight is a different matter, I have a couple of opens marked down for crates of various kinds: does anyone know the sizes of '60s aero engines? There's also a stores van, numbered as an internal user, allocated to the end of the goods siding for additional small stores capacity.
Adam
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Tim Hale
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Adam,
Sorry to bang on about calf traffic but it required no special loading facilities, just out of the farmer’s truck, through the gate, into the float on the platform and into the horse box. The image was lifted from this blog, Crewkerne was not alone in sending calves in horse boxes, I think that Hornby offered a very nice horse box marked specifically for calf traffic AND my collection of images did contain a Bulleid at Crewkerne with the horsebox behind the tender. Dave Smith might be a source of either information about the float.
I forgot to mention that I have intimate experience of PSTO(N) logistics and horrible Bedford blue buses.
Tim
Sorry to bang on about calf traffic but it required no special loading facilities, just out of the farmer’s truck, through the gate, into the float on the platform and into the horse box. The image was lifted from this blog, Crewkerne was not alone in sending calves in horse boxes, I think that Hornby offered a very nice horse box marked specifically for calf traffic AND my collection of images did contain a Bulleid at Crewkerne with the horsebox behind the tender. Dave Smith might be a source of either information about the float.
I forgot to mention that I have intimate experience of PSTO(N) logistics and horrible Bedford blue buses.
Tim
Yorkshire Dave
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I remember these Bedford buses in RAF blue we were stationed at RAF Brüggen back in the late 1960s.
A 1/76 whitemetal Bedford SB3 Strachan bodied coach was produced by BW Models. Some occassionally appear on well known t'interweb selling sites. In fact there's one on there now. BW MODELS 1/76 OO GAUGE 4MM BEDFORD SB3 39 SEATER COACH WHITE METAL KIT SEALED | eBay
It'd certainly be different from the usual corporation bus on bridge!
76043
Western Thunderer
I've found that using an actual working timetable from the area being modelled can be all you need. For example looking at the FoD branch timetable in the 50's there were sixteen trains a day. If I ever get round to building this layout it will be all I need and is varied enough for me.
Obviously you can add or delete as required, but the bones of a real timetable are pretty useful.
For my Dublingham layout, pinching the Peter Denny timetable resulted in 15 trains per operating session. I generally get through three timetable cycles during a show, operating as fast or slow as I want and it's plenty of excitement.
Tony
Obviously you can add or delete as required, but the bones of a real timetable are pretty useful.
For my Dublingham layout, pinching the Peter Denny timetable resulted in 15 trains per operating session. I generally get through three timetable cycles during a show, operating as fast or slow as I want and it's plenty of excitement.
Tony
AJC
Western Thunderer
Yes, that’s good discipline. I have a vague idea how to tackle that (though perhaps not operator self control...). The obvious analogies would be Bridport/Portland (especially Portland because it's weird)/Abbotsbury and I think that ought to be possible.
Adam
AJC
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Oh yes - that's the same source as the Sea Venom, which looks quite nice (on the sprue, anyway). I vaguely remember seeing Wessex on test out of Westland as a child, funny looking things.
Adam
John57sharp
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My neighbour,back when I lived with parents in Bebington, flew these for the Forces, three of them appeared over his house one day, very low, circled a bit and continued onwards. No doubt he was waving
simond
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I remember a bit of a special at Birkenhead school, when we were marched out and stood around the cricket pitch, CCF in best bib & tucker, one came over low, circled and dropped a rope, a load of commandos slid down the rope and “secured the area“ and it landed. When it had cooled down a bit, we were allowed to have a look, we were not allowed in the cockpit, but we could have a look inside. I have a vague recollection they opened the engine doors too. About fifty three years ago…
I think they were trying to inspire us to join the forces!
g
simond
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I thought “mesh”, keep foxes out and chickens in, whilst providing for ventilation, and it’s portrayed as transparent.
But the top panel is obviously a grille of some sort.
So I conclude that you’re right, the right hand panel is a sliding door shown in the open position, it’s the way that the chicken herder gets in to clean the shed out, and collect the eggs.
But the top panel is obviously a grille of some sort.
So I conclude that you’re right, the right hand panel is a sliding door shown in the open position, it’s the way that the chicken herder gets in to clean the shed out, and collect the eggs.
AJC
Western Thunderer
Some actual modelling, courtesy of a few bits from ModelU, allowing me to complete the guttering and down pipes. Some lighting cable conduits and switches (along with some form of steps up to the platform), and telephone insulators and we’re nearly there.
Pipework around the other end will take longer, but that’s the core of the structure done.
Adam
Pipework around the other end will take longer, but that’s the core of the structure done.
Adam
timbowales
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I was under the impression that the eggs were collected from the low level lean to?
AJC
Western Thunderer
Hi Tim, not being dense at all, I have been vague about this myself.
Just south of Rimpton was plan A, and what I initially thought of. This would make Sherborne the more likely junction, I think, which is probably sub-optimal if you consider where Ilchester is. Mind you, a branch served from Yeovil Junction probably wouldn’t be very much better for the shops.
Plan B, which seems odd, until you think of the huge earthworks put up to get the Lyme Regis branch over the mainline at Axminster, would be a line diverging from the LSWR connection from Town to junction, skirting east of Pen Mill and the GWR and going over their line round about Trent and heading along the Yeo round Mudford, calling there, Podimore, and terminating in Northover.
Plan C, much more sensible, would involve running powers over the GWR before branching in much the same way as Plan B. Not impossible, given how railways around Yeovil worked, but also (given it took a World War to install a proper main running line connection between the two), perhaps the most unlikely: the GWR should have built the thing. That said, think of Portland’s railway history, which, if you don’t know it, defies belief, and all bets are off.
All this contradicts a lot of what I said in post 1…
I’ll sketch a map in a bit.
Incidentally, through work, I’ve come across a letter from the Parish Council in Mere, following the passing of the Light Railways Act enquiring about the possibility of a railway not to the LSWR, whose main line passes Gillingham more or less in line of sight from Mere, but to the GWR, whose routes locally are the wrong side of a very big hill…
Adam
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AJC
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I’ve been doing a bit of wiring, which is dull, if necessary. More interesting is some landscaping, getting buildings to the correct level and making a base for the lane to the village and the road access to the goods siding. Nothing on this layout is flat, one of the design goals for it, so everything rises and falls with the aim of drawing the eye.
Adam
Adam
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Tim Hale
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Adam wrote “Nothing on this layout is flat, one of the design goals for it, so everything rises and falls with the aim of drawing the eye”
Always a sensible approach even if it is no more than a sheet or two of foam board. Gently undulating, cambered uneven roads, should be a mandatory requirement.
Tim
Always a sensible approach even if it is no more than a sheet or two of foam board. Gently undulating, cambered uneven roads, should be a mandatory requirement.
Tim
AJC
Western Thunderer
Absolutely - the real world is almost never flat (as a cyclist, I can tell you that Noël Coward was badly wrong about Norfolk, narrow though the parameters are), and the flat bits tend to be riddled with ditches...
The most visually successful model railways - in my view, anyway - at least offer that impression. Ditchling Green is the one that I first saw that did this for me, actually all of the Gravetts' layouts do, and Iain Rice's Woolverstone in print (a double digit MRJ), so that's what I'm trying to achieve: sidings that are level while the mainline goes up on a low embankment, the line into the dairy rising slightly, the roads having subtle rises and falls just as those I use every day do. It's easy to start with a flat board and go up; down needs a bit more thought!
Adam