@port perran - They look and sound good on your awesome layout. 

Quote from: scottmitchell74 on Yesterday at 04:13:35 PMThere's lots of useful prototype chat on this thread, but not a word about the model's performance.

I'd love to hear about that.

I've got three of the Class 59s which I run on my layout when I'm operating in modern image mode.
They are, I think, nice models which run really nicely.
They cope well with really slow speeds if that is something you want.
Here's a little video of my three (plus a Class 66)

What a fabulous layout! It shows the level of realism achievable in the larger scales. I've only watched the first ten minutes or so but I will watch the rest in due course.

However, what is this I see? Did I spot an interloper, a Gresley carriage at about 4:45? I'm not well versed in GW carriages, or GW anything to be honest, so it could be from the right neck of the woods after all.

Thanks for posting, Martin.

Cheers,

Chris

There's lots of useful prototype chat on this thread, but not a word about the model's performance.

I'd love to hear about that.

Quote from: grumbeast on Yesterday at 02:43:03 PMThis is a great thread!,
Emjaybee thats a wonderful layout, but I confess my eye was drawn to the wonderful wall of ephemera!

I'm afraid I don't have any pictures of my first railway.  My Dad built it for me and it was N gauge, my little bedroom had room for it and my bed only.  Dad built it high enough that we could hang my clothes under it and put everything else under there.  It was a 3'x 3' double track loop,(in a 6'6"x6'6" room!).  My first trainset was a Lima 31 and 2 coaches, unfortunately gone now, I know they were pretty rubbish but I did love that locomotive.

What's just as remarkable was that my Dad built it despite hating trains (something to do with being stuck in a train at Crewe for hours and hours when he was a squaddie!).  It was my mum who got me into them as she used to holiday at an Uncle's who was a signalman at Pencoed crossing on the South Wales mainline and used to stay in his house in a room so close to the track you could almost touch the trains

Graham

Ah, yes. The ephemera represents decades of family trips, Dad's work dealings etc., etc..

Here's a better view.









The two crests that 'bookend' the collection are genuine decals. Discovered & liberated from the stores at Wolverton Works sometime in the '70s I think. They're mounted on genuine Crimson Lake LMS paint from the same source.

At some point in time I have to break it to the wife that they'll be coming our way. That will NOT be up for discussion.

I was in two minds as to whether to post this or not, especially as it is O Gauge related, but in the end I decided to.
[Moderators please delete if you think it is not applicable to this forum]

A friend of mine who lives literally 10 minutes away in Dawlish is an O Gauge modeller.
He has a pretty large, probably 30ft by 20 ft layout under construction  at my old club down in West Cornwall but back in the period roughly 2008-2015 he built, with assistance from a few pals, a rather magnificent layout in a purpose built building.

It is based on South Devon - mainly Rattery Bank and the Plymouth area.

Due to a house move the railway was dismantled.

My friend had some video footage but it was in various formats, several CDs, some files on his laptop, various memory sticks and a little bit of early phone footage.

Malcolm asked me if I could collate all of that into a watchable format as a memory of the layout for him which was a bit of a challenge as the videos were in various formats.

We had about 4 hours in total but a lot of it was of rather poor quality and taken, unfortunately, in less than ideal lighting  conditions.

Nevertheless I managed to do my best with what was available.

We took the decision to overlay the video with background music because the videos were a mixture of sound and no sound with in many cases a lot of background noise and chatter.
Please do turn the sound down if you don't like it.

It was, to my mind, a magnificent layout so, if you are interested, here goes.
Just a warning though that it is about 80 minutes long.
Oh and I do know that there are a few errors in the textual info but that's for another day to correct.

What you need is a beer hammer.
Hammer one side, beer bottle opener the other.

"Probably the best hammer in the world"

Came in very useful when I was dismantling a DJM 71. If you look closely you can see the tiny double ended motor with its two yokes.

Twice a year I have to think carefully when setting my oven timer for our Sunday morning freshly baked baguette. Luckily I have a degree in engineering. And a hammer.

Just a reminder clocks go forward in the small hours of tomorrow so we lose an hours sleep

This is a great thread!,
Emjaybee thats a wonderful layout, but I confess my eye was drawn to the wonderful wall of ephemera!

I'm afraid I don't have any pictures of my first railway.  My Dad built it for me and it was N gauge, my little bedroom had room for it and my bed only.  Dad built it high enough that we could hang my clothes under it and put everything else under there.  It was a 3'x 3' double track loop,(in a 6'6"x6'6" room!).  My first trainset was a Lima 31 and 2 coaches, unfortunately gone now, I know they were pretty rubbish but I did love that locomotive.

What's just as remarkable was that my Dad built it despite hating trains (something to do with being stuck in a train at Crewe for hours and hours when he was a squaddie!).  It was my mum who got me into them as she used to holiday at an Uncle's who was a signalman at Pencoed crossing on the South Wales mainline and used to stay in his house in a room so close to the track you could almost touch the trains

Graham