Scenes from an obscure railway. Complete Closure - 10 June

[JCON]

Can't wait to see some video of this running! Also when the fun really begins, adding the groundwork, buildings and dingys…

[Dukemaddog]

Wow, I finally got caught up with this. Nice comedy interlude too. Dinner and a movie, what a treat!

Everything's looking great so far, looking forward to seeing the test runs.

[WardWorks]

Hello Folks - Cheers ! 👍

Matters Arising ... 🤔
Bruce and Bucky Keep watching, it can only get better from here...

Joe Scenics are a lil way off yet, still got a bit of wiring to sort out and test running to do ... All of the points have to be lifted, need to drill a couple of holes under most of them (that's why I used drawing pins to hold them and the rest of the track down), plus I need to sort the curve onto the end board (and get it properly laid) 🤔

Joe and Duke Sorry guys, I can't help you with videos - don't got a video camera... Do know somebody who might lend me his though 😃 Prob is, he's out of the country at present and with the dang virus, he probably won't be back anytime soon ☹️🥺.

Minor disaster 😲 (not to the railway itself, you might be pleased to hear !), I turned on the light in the room this morning and nothing happened... Either the switch has died, or the tubes are dead... In any case, I cannot do a thing about that til tomorrow, dang hardware/electrical store is closed on a Sunday 🤬... More of a nuisance than anything else, I've been using a couple of anglepoise style lights on the immediate area where I've been working anyway !

Regards
OB of ambivalence ... 🙄 distinct overabundance of blood in my caffeine stream, measures to counteract that are drinkable NOW ! ☕️☕️☕️ Ahhh ! 😉😃

[WardWorks]

Hiya - Me again 🙄

Just got the curve laid onto the end board (and got the legs under the far end of the end board, so its level with the rest of them !) then hit a realisation... it am wot it am now, not going any further round the room (cos the baseboards are exactly at the room's powerpoint height), any lower and I'm going to rick my back working on them 😫 and any higher and I'll be operating t'booger standing up ! .. I'm NOT prepared to rick my back (yet again), for anybody, I can work round the existing powerpoint "problem" (3 more on the far side of the room and plenty of extension leads) 👍

Therefore, its now at the stage where the wiring needs to be permanent (via a control panel), rather than the temporary "spaghetti junction" concoction it is now, so the tangle of temporary wires has been disconnected under the boards (plenty of wire left attached to the track to hook into).. So nothing moving atmo, I'll git onto panel enclosure manufacture and proper wiring tomorrow, should have it all back up and running on Tuesday, which just leaves the problem of how to video it... before anybody says mobile phone or ipad, I'd rather not for various reasons (which I won't discuss - ever ! 🤬)

Back asap once that's accomplished, to my (hard bitten by very bitter experiences at model railway exhibitions) somewhat exacting standards 🤯

Best Regards
OB 😉 of about to frazzle his brain matter on wiring intricacies, its far better to get this stuff right FIRST time than have it fail repeatedly at the worst moments 😖

[JCON]

As and when you can Mr. Engineer!!!

[WardWorks]

Oh alright then.... a few pics for you, trains posed specially... 😎



A grubby class 47, 47- 593, "Galloway Princess" (aka "the galloping gullible" by crew members of my previous layouts), passes a couple of wagons in the back sidings and pulls into the start of the Arkenhill Curve as it departs with a short train of Anti-Littering patrol vehicles belonging to the 3rd Derwent Nettlegraspers (Baroness Wobbleigh's Own)... (Wagons are pewter kits, Tanks are Ace 1/72 Scorpions and Scimitars (til I get my hands on enough of the Airfix 1/76th scale kits to replace them with !)🙄

Lets have a look at the wagons in question ... 🤭



Errr... no further comment necessary 😖 Next photo please !



Further down the layout, in what will become the platform road, the Track Inspection Saloon awaits clearance to proceed up the line, pushed in this instance by Derby's Test Train liveried Class 31, 31-970 to be exact. 🤓



Whilst in the sidings parallel to the platform roads, a Railfreight Distribution Sector liveried Class 33, 33-205 awaits the signal to depart with a short van train 😎

Regards to All
OB of waiting for the soldering iron to heat up and the finger singein' screams to (hopefully not !) start ! 😉💥🤬🤫🤭

[JCON]

Holy Bat Balls Batman!!! What a line!!!

[WardWorks]

Teehee - somebody's about to have a curried brick chucked at him if he keeps mentioning my unmentionables like that ! 😆

Just found the box containing the rest of the locos more likely to be seen in regular photos of the line - the Class 25's and 26's, plus more of the 31's and the two trios of 37's I was looking for... 47's are severely speed restricted down this way, owing to their weight. 😖

Also found a few more interesting trains, including "ol stinky" (Fertiliser vans and a couple of opens with bagged Fertiliser), the "Pipeliner", And a few other jobbys (including the notorious "green glower"), still haven't found the infamous "EFG" wagon (aka "British Railways Mobile Disco" yet... it'll be round here someplace ! 😎

Regards
OB of leaving minds Boggling 😲🤭🤔 - sorry no further hints ! 😉

[dogfish7 (R.I.P.)]

Now it's looking like a Rail Road.

[JCON]

Glad ya found most of your engines.

[Dukemaddog]

All those look great on this obscure railroad, despite you keeping things obscured. I love it and am looking forward to seeing more.

[WardWorks]

Cheers Guys 👍... Matters arising.. 🤓

Bruce and Duke - Stick around guys, the basics of scenery ain't too far away 😗🎵🎶

Joe - I knew I had 'em, just didn't know where they were - Put 'em in place so safe, I'd forgotten where they'd got to ! 😖

More photos coming before the day's out - nothing seen yesterday will be in today's ! 🙄

Regards
OB of in training 😉

[JCON]

Sounds good!!!

[WardWorks]

Here ya go then ...🙄



Twin class 26's in Railfreight Grey leave with the "Pipeliner" as they pass the stand-in building for the Vaig Brothers Railhead, a train is revealed parked down the front siding, somebody's going to be in trouble for parking that train there ! 🤯



Its the infamous "Green Glower" a spent Nuclear Power Station Fuel Rods transport wagon (that's the outer layer or "parasol" showing, inside is another layer then the Nuclear Flask itself), flanked by a pair of barrier wagon and a brake van each end of the Flask Wagon.. The Coal Sector liveried Class 31 that's in charge of the train is moving back onto the train from the siding behind it... It's going to pull it down the platform road, detach and then run round the train... What's the hold up ? 🤔



Ok nobody's getting a rocket, there's a train on the loop being run around.. Its the "scrapper" 5 wagons full of scrap metal with a Class 25 crossing from the platform road to the loop, in progress of running around its train... 😎



And having rejoined its train, the Class 25 has to wait as a Class 37 (37408 "Loch Rannoch" by name), rumbles in with an empty coal drag bound for siding 3...🤓



Following which, the 25 departs with the "scrapper" 😆



Finally, the 31 pulls the "Glower" down the platform road, uncouples, runs round the loop and rejoins its train, departing almost immediately... 👋



.. and they all lived happily ever after, the somewhat unhealthy green glow faded and went away from all involved after a few days, with no ill effects reported 😆

Regards 
OB of still in training 😖😉

[JCON]

Love it!!!

[WardWorks]

Cheers Joe 👍

Stay tuned for tomorrow's episode of "Off the Rails" in which a long laughed at rumour becomes awful fact ! 🤔😲😖

Yours
Iva Shakyands, Chief Cameraman, Lens Scratcher and Scapegoat, TFNCoS Rly Co 😉

[dogfish7 (R.I.P.)]

I'm liking how we can actually see how they set up different staging in real time. Do you have the diesel noise set up with speakers?

[BUCKY]

Always looking forward to the next update form your lair!!

[WardWorks]

Cheers Folks 👍. Matters Arising... 🤔

Bruce - No I don't have sound, mainly cos I cannot afford that particular control system (DCC) in addition, I've never heard onboard sound that's at all realistic in OO scale (4mm/ft) it always sounds tinny to me, no matter what speakers are in the loco. 😲😖

Bucky - Keep watching... more coming early next week ! 😎

General Message to all fans - No more photos til early next week, going to strip all the temporary wiring out and wire it properly throughout over Easter, starting today. Been taking too much time fishing things out of boxes and posing them on the layout for photos, before putting them away again.

Regards and apologies to all
OB of really in training as of now 😉

[JCON]

Works for me!!!