Thanks for the reminders also remembered as a Trip Working essentially yard to yard or engineers and Steven appreciate the photos of a modellable trains


On the subject of a class 31 I remember them on the Moorgate Widened Lines. On outer suburban stock and fantastic videos Mick

Rowdy in the clubroom?
Do you take beer in copious amounts??   

Quote from: Newportnobby on September 10, 2025, 10:25:00 PMBeen a while as the layout was stripped down for our club show on August Bank Holiday weekend and only put back together last Wednesday.
Thanks again to @mk1gtstu and @Bob G for selling me a blue class 31 and blue suburban coaches for me to run the sort of stopping service run out of Kings Cross in my spotting days

Farish weathered blue class 31 with blue suburban stock on Heatherley by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

I also ran my class 08 again but with a rake of 23 mineral wagons + brake van. Apologies for the wobbly finish to the film but the phone refused to turn off the video while I was frantically stabbing at the button

Farish weathered class 08 with mineral train on Heatherley by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

I ran the same train with a weathered class 20 and then a weathered J39 but it was getting a bit rowdy in the room so I didn't bother taking a film

Great stuff Mick @Newportnobby great to see the Class 31 running on a superb looking layout 

Quote from: port perran on September 11, 2025, 09:44:49 AMRowdy in the clubroom?
Do you take beer in copious amounts??   

No alcohol is allowed in the clubrooms, which are out in the Boondocks anyway so everyone has to drive there. The rowdiness was from upstairs where a vacuum cleaner was being tested and someone was using a circular saw, hopefully not on each other  

All the more reason to suck on a VB 

Quote from: martyn on September 11, 2025, 08:56:54 AMI like the blue train, Mick, a real,inder of my youth.

@martyn I think I know what you meant
What you remember is probably what I remember and I wanted to recreate that memory.
Looks like I got it about right

Mick has fallen into the common trap of putting the brake-seconds (BS) at either end of the train. He clearly needs encouraging to buy a couple more seconds (S) and have the BS towards the middle of the train: S S S BS S S or S S S BS S S S.

The outer suburban services typically had at least one of the two BS inset from the end of the train by one coach. Using the Farish coaches, this would give you S BS S S S BS, or S BS S S S BS S.

More formations on the Accurascale website.

For a more prototypical train Mick, I'd suggest moving one of the BS in by a coach, thus: S BS S S BS, or leaving one out: S BS S S.

Thanks, Steven.
Looks like the last option is best as these coaches are rare as rocking horse poo!

Quote from: Newportnobby on September 11, 2025, 12:24:02 PMThanks, Steven.
Looks like the last option is best as these coaches are rare as rocking horse poo!

And I had a stable full for Mick @Newportnobby 

Sixty years later and 148 times smaller - at Spalding MRC last night...



The original pic depicts an 'empties' pickup from Bournemouth Central to Bevois Park in Southampton passing Permanent Way workers with caution on the Up line between Pokesdown Station and Christchurch, Dorset, 9th March 1965.

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 > tickets here <

Good recreation of the train!

Took some steamers to the club last night so I present for your delectation a Royal Scot, Jubilee and Standard 5

https://www.flickr.com/photos/203794735@N04/shares/C284Bm43Vm

https://www.flickr.com/photos/203794735@N04/shares/yn1dL5m2W4

https://www.flickr.com/photos/203794735@N04/shares/m0T8043a6t

I hope these work as I've been having problems with the new 'better' Flickr

Yep, got em all. Lovely trains, the lot. Even the SR one 

What's happening on the 26th?

Nice to see the Royal Scot and Jubilee Mick.


Super videos!

Quote from: Bealman on Today at 09:53:07 AMWhat's happening on the 26th?

I don't have a scooby doo what you mean, George @Bealman