Charwelton into the 80's

[Si2020]

Hi all,

Will just drop this here for you

 

 

[Warbonnet]

Needs more PTAs! 

[Si2020]

58 minutes ago, Warbonnet said:

Needs more PTAs! 

We are waiting for them to arrive!! 

[jhb171achill]

Superb looking layout (even if it is "narra gauge"!)  

[Garfield]

Only a matter of time now until the layout is populated with CIÉ locos and is renamed 'Charlestown into the 80's', @Si2020... 

[jhb171achill]

Ballycharwelton?

Knockcharwelton?

Dún Char Weltán?

Slieve Welton?

 

[Si2020]

3 hours ago, Garfield said:

Only a matter of time now until the layout is populated with CIÉ locos and is renamed 'Charlestown into the 80's', @Si2020... 

That would be something to see......

 

[Si2020]

7 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Ballycharwelton?

Knockcharwelton?

Dún Char Weltán?

Slieve Welton?

 

More like Craggywelton......We dont take things to seriously.......honest.

 

No where did i put the rivet ruler 

Edited October 27, 2020 by Si2020

[jhb171achill]

The actual name would obviously be an ecumenical matter.

[Si2020]

Taken from the road over bridge

 

[Mike 84C]

Driven over that bridge many, many times! Is that the York-Bournemouth or a Nottingham-Marylebone? The memories Charwelton  brings to mind for me. Wonderful layout.

[Si2020]

10 hours ago, Mike 84C said:

Driven over that bridge many, many times! Is that the York-Bournemouth or a Nottingham-Marylebone? The memories Charwelton  brings to mind for me. Wonderful layout.

HI Mike,

Thanks for the kind comments.

I think the service is Newcastle - Poole one. We have used a 1950s working timetable and try to run services that ran then and would still be running when the layout is set now.

Its also a summer Saturday to enable us to run some locos that wouldnt normally run down the line, for exapmle 37 033 is showing her Stag stickers in the photo so is a long way from home!!

Plus we are hoping to add a few of the new Accurscale 37s when they arrive

[Mayner]

I explored the station site and walked along the trackbed towards the tunnel when I was living in UK in the early 90s. 

I was exploring the remains of the ironstone tramways in the area, I think the gateway to the quarry tramway was still in place 30 years after the quarry closed.

[Si2020]

52 minutes ago, Mayner said:

I explored the station site and walked along the trackbed towards the tunnel when I was living in UK in the early 90s. 

I was exploring the remains of the ironstone tramways in the area, I think the gateway to the quarry tramway was still in place 30 years after the quarry closed.

Hi,

 

We have had a few people come up to us at shows about thier memories of the station. One guy I was chatting to who’s dad was the quarry forman.

Didn’t realise that the gate was still there that late as one guy said they replaced the fence once the line had been lifted out of the yard. 

 

[Mike 84C]

Well, this old git fired Brittania's and Black 5's along there in the last gasps of GC steam. I seem to remember Catesby as being a very wet/ muddy tunnel.

[Si2020]

2 hours ago, Mike 84C said:

Well, this old git fired Brittania's and Black 5's along there in the last gasps of GC steam. I seem to remember Catesby as being a very wet/ muddy tunnel.

Lots of people have said the same as you to it being wet.

It’s now go a new lease of life once it opens as a wind tunnel for automotive testing. 

[Si2020]

For the past 3 years we have had a couple of working weekends inbetween shows to sort out any issuesthat may have developed as with a layout this size if there is an issue it can turn it into a large diorama which has happend once, but thats another story.

Well we had a working weekends a few weeks ago and those very nice people at Accurascale allowed us to have a play with the forthcoming Now available PTA wagons, you may have seen the video they posted up of the wagons traveling along the cutting. Anyway I managed to get a couple of pics of the wagons in the station

 

[Si2020]

 

No words needed really

[jhb171achill]

On ‎31‎/‎10‎/‎2020 at 12:16 PM, Mike 84C said:

Well, this old git fired Brittania's and Black 5's along there in the last gasps of GC steam. I seem to remember Catesby as being a very wet/ muddy tunnel.

Black 5s.....love those engines!

[Si2020]

Whilst we where exhibting at the 2019 Derby exhibition we had this visitor on the layout for the weekend

 

This isnt our work but its was built by a friend of ours BUT it is on the list of future projects to be done.

[Si2020]

The steps up to Station rd.

[Si2020]

Due to the size of the layout, being just under 40ft long, we only get chance to set the layout up at shows or on our working weekends. The working weekends consist of 2/3 long days were we just work down the list of jobs/snags that we have come across.

The photo below was taken during one of those weekends and gives a nice view up the layout that you normally can't get due to the bridges being in the way.

 

[Blaine]

Proper layout this, its Irish equivalent (BR Sectorisation 1987-1995) mainline layout should eventually be seen when this current period of mass hysteria is over

[Si2020]

[Si2020]

As its friday i thougt it would only be fair to post up another photo.

Now this is one of those views you only get to see if your operating the layout.

 

[Si2020]

When we first got the layout we had did think that the task of converting it to DCC wouldn't be that difficult, well we may have been a bit wrong with that assumption.

These are a couple of pics of the 2 contorl panels.......

The main panel

 

Fiddle Yard panel

Since these where taken we have removed most of the wiring and the main panel is now being fitted out using the megapoints controls for the signals and points.

 

[Si2020]

So its been a while since the last post due to work, lots of gluing being done......

Any way due to the size of the layout we can only set it up when we are at shows or at our working weekends and this weekend is just one of those weekends. Lots of work was being done but these had truned up so it would have been rude not to pop them on the layout for a few photos

Lovley set of wagons and too modern to be run on the layout at a show but once I've done the support coaches they can have a few trips round when we are working on the layout.

Edited May 30, 2021 by Si2020

[Si2020]

A view not normally seen by the public

[Si2020]

HI all,

Whats this two post in one day........

Well I forgot to say that we have had some show confirmations for Charwelton into the 80s

So we are going to be at the following shows over the next couple of years.

2022

Perth  June

Wigan October

2023

Railex  May

Whilst the above shows are in the UK, we do attend international shows both as visitors and exhibitors (If we are invited).
If you are at any of the abve then please pop by the layout and say hi, none of us bite.....honest.

[Si2020]

When we are at shows we have as much intrest in the fiddle yard as we do in the front of the layout,

Seen here during one of our working weekends having the colour tape added to make it easier for guest operators to see which road they are driving in to.

[jhb171achill]

On 26/3/2021 at 3:24 PM, Si2020 said:

As its friday i thougt it would only be fair to post up another photo.

Now this is one of those views you only get to see if your operating the layout.

 

Can it be Friday more often, please?

Superb photos, superb angles, very well composed, and amazing scenery. That's the sort of layout I like, where you can lose yourself in the entire scenery and background...... excellent stuff.

[Mike 84C]

My truck going over the railway bridge loaded with bags of fertilizer!  Did that many many times. After my all to brief sojurn with BR

[Si2020]

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

Can it be Friday more often, please?

Superb photos, superb angles, very well composed, and amazing scenery. That's the sort of layout I like, where you can lose yourself in the entire scenery and background...... excellent stuff.

Thanks,

We can't take credit for all the photos that are posted up as some are from the British Railway Modelling Magazine article that was in the May 2019 issue after we had a photo shoot at the 2019 Doncaster BRM show with Andy York.

We also do a few phtos for those Accurascale guys as they keep sending us stuff to play  test on the layout

6 minutes ago, Mike 84C said:

My truck going over the railway bridge loaded with bags of fertilizer!  Did that many many times. After my all to brief sojurn with BR

I have to admit you may have been going a different way since that photo as I don't think we have had the lorry on the layout since. We have that much 80s stuff to go on the various 80s layouts, we have plus a couple of future ones that are in the pipeline

[Broithe]

Facebook has just suggested that I might be interested in this picture, so I thought it might be worth mentioning here.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1390742637606844?multi_permalinks=4895466017134471&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen

 

© Ian Krause.

[Si2020]

21 hours ago, Broithe said:

Facebook has just suggested that I might be interested in this picture, so I thought it might be worth mentioning here.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1390742637606844?multi_permalinks=4895466017134471&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen

 

© Ian Krause.

Hi,

I saw that one as well. Not seen any photos in this direction before and its an intresting view with lots of detail information on it. Things like the run of the telegraph poles and the stay on the down signal. Not sure that we can add it as the embankment on our model isn't deep enough at this point, plus we will probably catch it when cleaning the track.