Took some stock to the club last night............

[port perran]

Looks good but those six wheel milk tankers need to be absolutely filthy.
I've just purchased three more to go with my existing filthy ones.
It'll seem a shame to severely weather the new ones but that's the way I always remember them.

Your Class 41 looks the business.

[crewearpley40]

Parcels train looked just as impressive Mick as well as the milk tanks

[Newportnobby]

Looks good but those six wheel milk tankers need to be absolutely filthy.
I've just purchased three more to go with my existing filthy ones.
It'll seem a shame to severely weather the new ones but that's the way I always remember them.

Your Class 41 looks the business.

And the milk tanks are supposedly weathered. It's the Dapol factory weathered set of class 22 + 6 tanks.
I agree they need further work

[Foxhound]

Looks good but those six wheel milk tankers need to be absolutely filthy.
I've just purchased three more to go with my existing filthy ones.
It'll seem a shame to severely weather the new ones but that's the way I always remember them.

Your Class 41 looks the business.

And the milk tanks are supposedly weathered. It's the Dapol factory weathered set of class 22 + 6 tanks.
I agree they need further work

I bought the bookset with the Hymek and the united creameries silver tanks. It was my post-divorce present to myself and my reintroduction to model railways 16 years ago.
The layout you're running on is absolutely beautiful.

[Newportnobby]

Thank you. It's our club layout 'Heatherley' and I can't accept any kudos as it was built long before I joined the club. It's somewhat long in the tooth (like me) and a new layout is being built at present which will be an end to end one

[Newportnobby]

Well, if @Nbodger can have a steamy journey, then I can have a steamy evening at the club layout so here's 3 vids from last night (BTW - I tried the J50 on the coal hopper train and it hauled them all with no issues.)

WD with coal hoppers
WD with coal hoppers on Heatherley by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

Super D with same train
'Super D' with coal hoppers on Heatherley by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

J50 with cattle train
J50 with cattle train on Heatherley by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

Thanks for watching

[Bealman]

All three running smoothly and quietly.

You know, that really is a rather nice layout, Mick. What do they plan to do with it when they retire it?

[Newportnobby]

No idea, George. There's been no talk of retiring it.
Too big for my little abode, that's for sure

[Bob Tidbury]

I am taking my B H E   G W R Twin railcars to the club tomorrow as we are testing the new control panel on Paddock Hill .
And we are going to run our NEW Layout Wokingham as well ,this layout is still under construction as its going to be a  highly detailed model of Wokingham in the 50 /60s including dummy 3rd rail ,the track is able to operate but the scenery is still being built as all the buildings are scratch built scale models built by Gary Robinson ,
Over 18 months of painstaking research took place before it was started and a new member Rob Evans has taken drone photos of the church and 3D printed it it looks amazing and even has sound installed ,he has now taken drone photos of the signal box whick is about to be demolished so that will keep Gary busy for a few days .Drone permision was applied for and granted so all legal .
Any Forum members are welcome on our running days on the last  Saturday every month ,We meet at The West London Aero Club White Waltham which is a very busy active airfield .
Bob
PS we are NOT running the modules as there is not enough room for layouts and modules .

[geofff]

Hello Bob

I live in the SL6 area, so I should really get along to your club.  I look forward to any photos of the Wokingham layout , as in my youth I followed Slough Town F C and seem to remember the Wokingham ground very near to the railway - it was a FA cup tie.

[Newportnobby]

Having been away from the club for a couple of weeks thanks to a chest infection some kind soul brought along to share (    ) I took my class 24 recent purchase along for a couple of vids. Sorry about the first one but some  pop up obscured the off button so I wobbled the phone somewhat trying to stop the vid
I also thought the loco was growling a bit and then found someone had set the controller with feedback on, so they got a verbal clip round the lughole.
I've not decided what disc codes to shown on the loco so it has 'em all lit up at present
The Dapol B1 in the second one was another chap's and seemed to trundle around quite happily

Weathered class 24 on Heatherley (1) by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

Weathered class 24 on Heatherley (2) by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

[crewearpley40]

Trundling around nicely mick


Hope you are over that infection

Chris

[Bealman]

A different perspective in the first vid, Mick - I like it! I have a Dapol engine just like that, by the way - won it in the NGF raffle! It's a nice runner too.

[Newportnobby]

3 clips from last night's meeting. If you intend watching them I suggest you mute your volume so as to avoid some Yorkshire bloke waffling on/swearing. For some reason my Dapol Britannia didn't like the uneven board joints of the club layout so had to be taken off. These BachFar models soaked it up........

Class 8F on Heatherley with a hopper train by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

Class J39 on Heatherley with a short rake of Presflos by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

Unrebuilt Merchant Navy on  Heatherley with mail train by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

I'm aware the POS vehicle in the mail train rake is wrong era but I like it so..........  

[Newportnobby]

Not a good night at the club last night
I took my Kato class 800, my blue Hymek and blue Western (Dapol) along with a mix of Dapol and Farish blue parcels stock.
With the stock mixed up I suffered lots of random uncoupling yet when I put all the Farish in one rake and the Dapol in another, all was fine despite Dapol locos hauling Farish stock @CH

Meanwhile, my friend Rob's Farish A4 coughed and spluttered and was eventually removed. His 4MT 2-6-0 suddenly lost it's tender when run tender first. The first I saw was when a tender came through Heatherley station on its own Then a full rake of Farish crimson/cream MK1s derailed in the fiddle yard and it looked like a re-enactment of the Harrow & Wealdstone crash