Ah double Locos & reversing Locos that's C😎😎L - I like your 'weathered' Loco on the far Line - I don't have any 'weathered' Locos but I do have a 'Weathered' Engine Shed thou...😉🚂🚂🚂
Hi, Many thanks for the observations. The main aim of this layout is to re-create the steam railway as I recall it in the 1960s.'Double Headers' and 'Tender Firsts' were a more common sight than is perhaps realised. 🙂👌
Ahhh another relaxing afternoon watching Westbridge Jnc - thanks. Your brake-down train is rather posh, you do look after your staff don't you! No tea served here!
Hi Chris, Many thanks for your contribution. I believe corn beef sandwiches were the order of the day on some breakdown trains...me?...I can't do without tea anytime anywhere! There's a picture of a spic and span 8F coming off Willesden shed with a breakdown train ('Working Steam Stanier 8Fs Ian Allan Publications)
Good Morning Graeme. What a fantastically varied mix. That "grotty" looking fleet with the mineral wagons is just brilliant. Also Im wondering about your crane, surely thats not the old Dublo one? It looks amazing. A wonderful running session. Thankyou.
It's so good for me to receive these enthusiastic comments and observations from you and other regular viewers to this channel. Thank you so much! The crane is a recent creation from Bachmann, it really is the bees and knees and it works exactly as the prototype. But woe betide if you get the pulleys crossed!! If you wind back about four years on this channel you will come across a scene of two cranes attending to a derailed Black 5. One is the one you see here and the other is the Tri-ang Cowans Sheldon 75 ton crane. The latter is bereft of all the structural detail and pulleys but it is very well finished with printing and lining which Hornby applied to make it more 'acceptable'. The Dublo crane sits at the back of the layout between the loco yard and small goods yard. Many thanks, Cheers, Graeme
Hi, Many thanks for your insights and enthusiasm. I do have some new additions to my 'fleet' and this does open up new possibilities/combinations. Problem is I sometimes forget what I've got and then I remember the items I haven't had out for five years or more! As always, delighted you enjoyed the running session🙂
Many thanks for your contribution here! No, it's not a paint job, it's a weathering powder job! The WD was one of my first "new" Bachmann purchases (as opposed to the re-hashed Mainline) but as it was in pristine finish I hardly ever used it. I recall seeing these locos (far too many!) back in the day and they were by far the worst looking by a fair margin. I would wait in anticipation for the Fairburn 2-6-4T with its lined black livery hauling 2 Mk1's in real Hornby-Dublo tin plate gloss maroon with the Southport connection of the 'Merseyside Express' on its way to Lime St. The weathering powder is very quick and easy to apply if very messy!
@@crewelocoman5b161 Excellent work, perhaps the WD will get a profile video one day. My grandad used to like them in particular. I can't remember the location but he would tell me about the boom boom boom boom when a long unfitted goods would stop and stack up. Then again boom boom boom boom as it started off and the chains took up the slack one at a time. I used to have the N gauge model on my old layout. It's every bit as good as the 00 model. I completely agree about the MK1's and paint finish. I would love for Hornby to issue a modern standard MK1 coach with a baked on paint finish under their relaunched dublo range.
@@Night_Ferry Delighted you liked and approve of the 'finished' product! It's relatively quick and easy to apply. That's an interesting thought about Hornby replicating the Dublo tinplate finish on their"Dublo" range. The Bachmann Mk 1s have an excellent detail and print finish but the maroon is as dull as dishwater...though mine are nearly 20 years old now. The Hornby revamped Tri-ang from the 90s had a slightly better finish. The best of the plastic finishes were from Mainline. I was unaware until recently that they acquired the Airfix tooling for the Stanier LMS coaches which looked horrible in a drab matt brown/purple finish and were transformed into a nicely sheened BR maroon finish and lining out. They sit perfectly well in a formation of the latest Bachmann and Hornby LMS maroon coaches. I recall a driver when asked about the WD 2-8-0 saying to me "The best thing about them was getting off them!"...
Hello Lynden. My layout does have a storage area and I have to add and remove trains all the time to the storage area...which is basically cupboards and drawers directly beneath the layout. Thank you for your kind comment as always and for your question.
@@crewelocoman5b161 That's interesting Graeme. I'm planning my new layout so my thoughts are how I plan a storage area at the moment and how I incorporate it. Watching your layout always gives me inspiration!
@@lyndengrant1657 Thanks for that Lynden, storage is an important consideration. Mine are cheap chest of drawer units under the layout. You could build your layout board on top of storage units I suppose, potentially making better use of space?
wow magnificent running! sweet trains :)
Hi, Thank you for your interest and comments! Delighted that you enjoyed the running session.
What an amazing layout
Hi, Thank you for your kind comment. Delighted you enjoyed the view.
Mesmerising.
Thank you again for the endorsement...it's how I remember seeing them...
Ah double Locos & reversing Locos that's C😎😎L - I like your 'weathered' Loco on the far Line - I don't have any 'weathered' Locos but I do have a 'Weathered' Engine Shed thou...😉🚂🚂🚂
Hi, Many thanks for the observations. The main aim of this layout is to re-create the steam railway as I recall it in the 1960s.'Double Headers' and 'Tender Firsts' were a more common sight than is perhaps realised. 🙂👌
goodone liked the wd on the coalhoppers shades of west hartleepool sunderland 1967
Many thanks for your comment. I thought this might strike a chord!
Ahhh another relaxing afternoon watching Westbridge Jnc - thanks. Your brake-down train is rather posh, you do look after your staff don't you! No tea served here!
Hi Chris, Many thanks for your contribution. I believe corn beef sandwiches were the order of the day on some breakdown trains...me?...I can't do without tea anytime anywhere! There's a picture of a spic and span 8F coming off Willesden shed with a breakdown train ('Working Steam Stanier 8Fs Ian Allan Publications)
Good Morning Graeme. What a fantastically varied mix.
That "grotty" looking fleet with the mineral wagons is just brilliant.
Also Im wondering about your crane, surely thats not the old Dublo one? It looks amazing.
A wonderful running session. Thankyou.
It's so good for me to receive these enthusiastic comments and observations from you and other regular viewers to this channel. Thank you so much! The crane is a recent creation from Bachmann, it really is the bees and knees and it works exactly as the prototype. But woe betide if you get the pulleys crossed!! If you wind back about four years on this channel you will come across a scene of two cranes attending to a derailed Black 5. One is the one you see here and the other is the Tri-ang Cowans Sheldon 75 ton crane. The latter is bereft of all the structural detail and pulleys but it is very well finished with printing and lining which Hornby applied to make it more 'acceptable'. The Dublo crane sits at the back of the layout between the loco yard and small goods yard. Many thanks,
Cheers,
Graeme
Fantastic running session with a mixture of duties for a change I enjoyed it!!
Begs the question what new recent additions you have on your fleet ?
Hi, Many thanks for your insights and enthusiasm. I do have some new additions to my 'fleet' and this does open up new possibilities/combinations. Problem is I sometimes forget what I've got and then I remember the items I haven't had out for five years or more!
As always, delighted you enjoyed the running session🙂
love it, thanks for sharing
Many thanks for your comments. Delighted you enjoyed.
Lovely session. Nice to see a proper breakdown train modelled. The WD is brilliantly finished, is that one of your paint jobs?
Many thanks for your contribution here! No, it's not a paint job, it's a weathering powder job! The WD was one of my first "new" Bachmann purchases (as opposed to the re-hashed Mainline) but as it was in pristine finish I hardly ever used it. I recall seeing these locos (far too many!) back in the day and they were by far the worst looking by a fair margin. I would wait in anticipation for the Fairburn 2-6-4T with its lined black livery hauling 2 Mk1's in real Hornby-Dublo tin plate gloss maroon with the Southport connection of the 'Merseyside Express' on its way to Lime St.
The weathering powder is very quick and easy to apply if very messy!
@@crewelocoman5b161 Excellent work, perhaps the WD will get a profile video one day. My grandad used to like them in particular. I can't remember the location but he would tell me about the boom boom boom boom when a long unfitted goods would stop and stack up. Then again boom boom boom boom as it started off and the chains took up the slack one at a time. I used to have the N gauge model on my old layout. It's every bit as good as the 00 model. I completely agree about the MK1's and paint finish. I would love for Hornby to issue a modern standard MK1 coach with a baked on paint finish under their relaunched dublo range.
@@Night_Ferry Delighted you liked and approve of the 'finished' product! It's relatively quick and easy to apply. That's an interesting thought about Hornby replicating the Dublo tinplate finish on their"Dublo" range. The Bachmann Mk 1s have an excellent detail and print finish but the maroon is as dull as dishwater...though mine are nearly 20 years old now. The Hornby revamped Tri-ang from the 90s had a slightly better finish. The best of the plastic finishes were from Mainline. I was unaware until recently that they acquired the Airfix tooling for the Stanier LMS coaches which looked horrible in a drab matt brown/purple finish and were transformed into a nicely sheened BR maroon finish and lining out. They sit perfectly well in a formation of the latest Bachmann and Hornby LMS maroon coaches.
I recall a driver when asked about the WD 2-8-0 saying to me "The best thing about them was getting off them!"...
Another enjoyable running session, thanks Graeme.
Does your layout have a storage area or do you add/remove train's when the mood takes you? Lynden.
Hello Lynden. My layout does have a storage area and I have to add and remove trains all the time to the storage area...which is basically cupboards and drawers directly beneath the layout. Thank you for your kind comment as always and for your question.
@@crewelocoman5b161 That's interesting Graeme. I'm planning my new layout so my thoughts are how I plan a storage area at the moment and how I incorporate it. Watching your layout always gives me inspiration!
@@lyndengrant1657 Thanks for that Lynden, storage is an important consideration. Mine are cheap chest of drawer units under the layout. You could build your layout board on top of storage units I suppose, potentially making better use of space?