Model Railways anyone????

So are many people into model railways on here? i've spent a fair bit of time (and money!!!!) on mine over christmas, always good fun when you cant do owt for the snow blocking you in!

gonna try and get some pictures, though my railway hasnt got any landscape yet, its pretty much track, gradients, and a few stations and such like, its forming the basis, so i know what i want before i go for it!

Paul

Jup here,

Gauge N, also 16mm/IIm and even a bit OO but only had a layout for N because space.....struggling since years to build a layout out in the garden for 16mm garden railway...


kindest regards
Markus

Very nice,

i dabble in N gauge, but my railway in the loft is 00, and i've got a live steam set in 16mm that might get built up in the garden one summer

i also use narrow gauge, 009, or HOe in continental terms, represents 2ft (600mm) gauge in 00 scale.

love railways, was brought up on them

nice, for my part i will probably make a little layout in OO for my biggest boy, but also would love to see my big trains outside running. my N stuff is mostly 20 years old, i started with trains again as i visited Yorkshire and saw some nice english made stuff. i like the way it looks and feels more then continental stuff, same like with stationary engine hehe...

BavarianLister wrote:nice, for my part i will probably make a little layout in OO for my biggest boy, but also would love to see my big trains outside running. my N stuff is mostly 20 years old, i started with trains again as i visited Yorkshire and saw some nice english made stuff. i like the way it looks and feels more then continental stuff, same like with stationary engine hehe...

haha, ironic thing is that my 00 railway has a German Class 65 tank engine on it, made by fleischmann, very well made, and extremely heavy, just a swine for changing the couplings to the british type thats all!

so do you model in british 00 or european HO? i surmise its 00, as thats what you mentioned, so does that mean your trains are british outline?

Paul

Paul_sterling wrote:

BavarianLister wrote:nice, for my part i will probably make a little layout in OO for my biggest boy, but also would love to see my big trains outside running. my N stuff is mostly 20 years old, i started with trains again as i visited Yorkshire and saw some nice english made stuff. i like the way it looks and feels more then continental stuff, same like with stationary engine hehe...

haha, ironic thing is that my 00 railway has a German Class 65 tank engine on it, made by fleischmann, very well made, and extremely heavy, just a swine for changing the couplings to the british type thats all!

so do you model in british 00 or european HO? i surmise its 00, as thats what you mentioned, so does that mean your trains are british outline?

Paul

hehe, looks like neighbours grass is always greener, i don t like Fleischmann alot, in N i was Arnold and Minitrix fan in the old days as they were not battered and sold. Actually i like this hornby couplings, somehow for me it works even other say its a bit crude and big, i m more for the layout...details. In N it was a crude mix of european, so german, british, austrian, french even spanish thingy...fitted in an alpine play layout. So i don t own any HO, but lots of OO locos and so on, so yes they are very british ;-). With my 16mm / 45mm train you can see my development from LGB brand over to american style and at least ended british again...unfortunately i haven t the deep wallet to get all my hobbies done so a roundhouse loco is still on my wishlist.....

the new hornby couplings are superb, the fleishmann ones are very similar, but the couplings are 2-3mm higher than the hornby and bachmann ones, so they wont connect up to the coaches, i'll modify it though, the most recent generation of hornby and bachmann models have been out of this world like, but so have the prices lol.

i have a couple of minitrix chassis in my narrow gauge engines, they are pretty good, but one it temperamental

Paul

Oh really i don t think so, even the new models of Bachmann und Hornby have really fair prices.....if you look Märklin or Fleischmann, Roco or how you name it they are indeed priceworthy. I got fascinated by the live steam hornby locos....got a loco but forgot i need a special controller....will get it by time...but first in need a new stationary engine hehe...

I got a OO gauge layout 12feet by 6 feet..I sold off a lot of locos and rolling stock so I could buy N gauge but as yet havent bulit a new layout even though i got a fair bit of track and stock...I also slowly as and when funds allow in buying 16mm rolling stock and 2 steam locos and 1 electric diesel 040 engine for when i get to build a outdoor garden layout(most proberbly when i retire )

got two railways, both 00.

the main one is a u shape, with 2 fiddle yards, branch line, goods yard, main line thru station, small village, steam rally, with a total non stop run of almost 30 feet (scale half mile????) aprox 40 steam locos, with half duzzon desials. lots of rolling stock.

three eras are models. the 1st one is LNER (1923 to 1947) but with the steam rally removed and a farming scine inplace. the odd LMS GWR and SR locos also puts in an areance. shed pilot is LNER J72, but the locos on the main line very from Stirling Single wheeler (repainted Emily from the Bachamn Thomas range) which was brought out of retirement in the 1930's to introduce the refamped flyingscotsman service, to the A1s and A4's. B12/3's and B17's veature hevely, myself being biased to local (Norfolk) engines. The Brance line locos used are N2 V3 and J86 and two 3 carage stocks are used.

2nd era is BR from 1950 to 1965, and vetures BR standards, as well as pre-nationaisation locos and rolling stock in BR colours. The station pilot is a Ex Lner J72, in BR Black, and main line locos very, from the likes of the Br Black B12/3 and 8Fs, to BR 9Fs and Britanias. Br (ER) is mainly modeled, (with a lot of stock that would have run on the MGNJR rute) but MR SR and WR trains and locos also put in an apearance on cross country specials. BR desiails are creeping in with the class 31 and 25. The farm scine is replaced by the rally scine. The branch line is operated by N2 J86 and a Br black collett goods, with 2 stocks being used (alknow this can be cut down in time to imply the line being rundown)

3rd era is presivation, from the 1970's to 1990's. rally scine is kept, mostly a cobination of all types of rolling stock, but BR blue desials and BR blue and grey rolling stock puts in aperances as main line specials. the branch line is still operated by BR and is run by a blue and gray 101 DMU (2car) BR blue desials now putting in aperances are class 33, and class 40. locos like evening star, flyingscotsman and sir lancealot can be seen bring in these specials before returning desial hauled.

The station is protected by a pair of (static) semephore gantry signals. the main line trains enter the senic section under a gurder bridge, beside the water tower wilst on the other side of this is the branch line that enters via a tunnel (portal) the branch line terminates in the stations bay platform (no run round, ran out of room, but is conected to the main line, so either the station pilot can be used to shut stock, or as oftern the case a 2nd loco is stored on the concting line and used to haul the train back, the loco being replaced by the orgional train loco. after the station, the main line sweeps round to the left, past the steam rally site, and sweeps left again, behind the church, and exits the senic section via a pair of stone tunnel portals. The goods yard comprimised of 3 storage sidings, the good shed on its own siding, and currently the station pilot shed on another siding. buildings are a mix of card and plastic. most plastic being either airfix or ratio, but the station platforms station buildings being hornby. card buildingds are either superquick or metcalffe.

The story is that the branch line was built by the Swanthorpe Junction Railway company, and was the station fetured was the westerly turminus of the 30 mile branch line. The mainline was orgionaly built jointly by the GER, and SJR in West Norfolk (where its a bit flat) after a need for a line to connect with the SJR was spotted and was a secoundary main line from north west norfolk to the some where in cambridgshire. the MGNJR also had running powers, and the odd GWR cross country special headed by a Dean Single some times put in an aperance on holiday specials. in 1923 the branch line fell compleatly under LNER rule, but the mainline fell under joint LNER and LMSR ownership, but the LNER always ran more stock over the line that the LMS who mainly used it for moving goods traffic, mail trains and throu express workings from the midlands to places like kingslynn, norwich and yarmouth. The SR also ran the odd pulman train form london Victoria, to convay the royal famely and special dignatrys to one of the stations further up the line where they would disembark and travel to one of the many big manor houses. The GWR also ran summer holiday specials on the line, usuely hauled by a castle class. In 1947 the line was nationlised and wilst the main line operations did begin to fin out, the branch line service was oftern packed full to copacety, due to the narrow twisting lanes, with many low bridges proving to be unpolular with bus companys. By the withdrawal of steam, the mainline was down to goods only traffic and the odd specials, how ever the branch line was still thriving, but down to a 2 coach DMU service. a preservation socety was formed, and called them selfs the swanthorpe junction railway presivation socety, and managed, with help from a welthy backer, to buy the mainline from BR.

back to reality

most track is Peco streamline, and all points are peco. some set track has been used on the cerved section, and this is Hornby.

The other railway is also 00 gauge, and is more of a plaything. it is a basic layout 8 feet by 4, with a single loop of track (yes this one is constant running) with a single lane fiddle yard and single line goods yard. the station is a one track afair. it is basied around a large village, and is ment to deplict one of the stations on the branch line of the other railway. All track is hornby, and the buildings are a right mix or replainted triang plastic kits, balsa wood home construction, some unknown make (very basic) card kits, Superquick and Mettclave card kits, and peco plastic signal box the fiddle yard runds the length of the layout, and forms the return part of the loop. it is hidden by a backscine (peco) and the trains enter and leave via 2 tunnell mouths (hornby)