An overall view of Clarence Dock with the new bckscene section added.
Agnes Marston is just going to the local store with her dog 'Prince' leading. It is 1970s dogs did not have to leads to keep them close to their owners.
The car is a Hillman Imp. Charlie Marston must have made a sale at the scrap yard.
Across the road from the Marston's house , Joe Johnson's fence is in need of repair. I shall have to make a little cameo of him repairing it.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Two scenes showing the new backscene at Clarence Dock
The overall view
Kevin. Glad to have helped.
NorthBrit The crane is from an Austrian company 'Kleinbahn'.
I found it. Thank you for the information. It looks like it is an older model.
There is a lot of potential for a great piece of equipment.
Added to my project list...
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Lastpikemike. That crane looks a really nice. You shuld post a picture of it on your layout.
Kevin The crane is from an Austrian company 'Kleinbahn'.
I did have a 75t crane, but it was difficult to run with it being so long. I looked for one a little smaller, yet 'looked the part'. Kleinbahn came to the rescue.
I have been waiting over 9 months for a 15t crane to arrive to run on Clarence Dock.
NorthBritA new purchase. A 45t crane in its new home at Crown Point Yard.
I am loving that model, who made it?
The boom would need to be replaced with something more solid and American looking, but I think I could make it work.
A new purchase. A 45t crane in its new home at Crown Point Yard.
In 1914 at the outbreak of WW1 the British Government asked Companies to build railguns to protect coastal towns on the East Coast. The North East Railway Company (NER) built a railgun in one week. Leeds Kirkstall Forge built one in ten days (KF1) Here is a model of the gun. I built it from the chassis up.
I hope the missing pictures now show.
NorthBritI have gone through all the photographs I have posted and all are showing okay? I have posted them through Flikr. Which ones are not showing at your end?
Which ones are not showing at your end?
The track plan from page one of the thread doesn't show up, and the two in the post that starts out "Still working on the backscene at Clarence Dock" (here's the link to the first of those, if it helps: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50515278263_7936a04692_c.jpg). Also the image in the post starting "My reference etc. library" doesn't show up.
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
Very sorry to hear about your wife's difficulties. Horrible.
I really enjoy your photos. You have some great scenes set up on the layout.
York1 John
Pruitt Nice layout, David! I missed this thread until today. Don't know why. Some of your diagrams and photos don't load - there just the broken image icon instead. Do you store photos on a subscription-reqired website? Looking forward to seeing more!
Nice layout, David!
I missed this thread until today. Don't know why.
Some of your diagrams and photos don't load - there just the broken image icon instead. Do you store photos on a subscription-reqired website?
Looking forward to seeing more!
Hi Mark. I have gone through all the photographs I have posted and all are showing okay? I have posted them through Flikr.
A short history lesson. Surprise attacks against other Countries are very rare. In 1909, five years before the start of WW1, British Railway Companies were asked to build Ambulance Carriages/coaches in the eventuality of a war. In 1912 there were Military Manouvres on the east coast in preparation of a war from a country 'across the sea'. Britain was at war against Germany in 1914.
In 1936 Britain started a massive rearmament program to be ready for war in 1941. WW2 started in 1939 and Britain was ill-prepared until 1941.
Back to the layout. WW1 Nurses on practice outside Leeds Sovereign Street.
I have not been 100% lately. The doctor has given me a course of tablets and told me to take things easy. (My kind of doctor. )
Anyway, I was cheered up when a couple of items arrived in the post for me. Some nameplates for some engines and a pack of signals.
A couple of photographs of the layout. ----
A view of T & J Harrison, small arms and ammunition loading dock. It is a view not seen anywhere looking from the control area. On the dock are boxes of small arms and ammunition waiting to be loaded on the next wagons to arrive.
Here is a view of two of the new signals. The tall one is so the locomotive crews can see the signal well before the footbridge. The signals now need to be 'bedded in' to the ground.
More to follow later.
Lastpikemike. My main interest in ships and shipping is cruise ships. Apart from going on cruises I get to be invited to look around ships and I take photographs of them. I like paddle steamers and have traveled on PS Waverley and am helping (financially) to restore 'Medway Queen'.
Dave. Thanks for your concern. It's just a thing we have to get on with and keep positive. Other people are in far worse positions.
I am glad that Dianne is now better. We need our 'soul partners' to keep us on the right track.
NorthBrit Wife caught Novichok in St Petersburg. A long story with a month on life support plus -. Five years and still learning to walk.
David,
I am so sorry to hear about your wife! What a terrible thing to have happen. Dianne banged her head in October 2019 and it was six months before she was back to normal. I can't imagine what it is like to be dealing with something like this for five years and counting.
We wish you well!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
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Thanks for the photo. Now you can put the streamlining back on.
Heck NO!!
One of my interests is the restoration of the Medway Queen; a paddle steamer. Built in 1924. Requisitioned by the Royal Navy. Made seven trips to Dunkirk rescuing troops from Dunkirk. After the war made Pleasure Trips on the south coast. Falling into disrepair she is now being restored to her former glory at Gillingham Pier.
As a way of attaining funds towards her restoration the Preservastion Society commission railway wagons for sale. I have a few. Sometimes if I feel like it Clarence Dock becomes Gillingham Pier.
Some old pictures of wagons bought from Medway Queen P. S.
riogrande. Wife caught Novichok in St Petersburg. A long story with a month on life support plus -. Five years and still learning to walk.
Some of the brickwork on the buildings/backscenes still need some attention by making them smoky black. At least they are a true represetation of Leeds warehouses.
Lastpikemike. Here is a picture of a Princess Coronation Class locomotive without the streamlining. Lady Patricia
Holy crap! Novichok! Is that the same thing Putin's cronys used on the Scripal's? How in the heck did that happen. My sympathies to you and your wife.
Back on-topic. Having been to north England a couple of times, it looks like you've capture the dense brick buildings and the look quite well! You've got talent!
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
My final purchase of London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) locomotives.
A Coronation Class locomotive, 6220 Coronation.
Two pictures of her on her first run on the layout.
Lastpikemike. There are signs all over the rail network to keep away from the track. Apparently some idiots cannot read.
The 'rhodedendrons' are from the Pound store. (Everything costs a Pound). It comes in the shape of a ball. By pulling the 'flowers' out of the ball I can make small flowers growing in the scenery. Painting them different colors I have different flowers.
riogrande. I used to be a member of a Model Railway Club in Sunderland. (Not far from Jarrow) Then my travels began. Now, as my wife is disabled due to the Novichok nerve agent and can hardly walk. I have to be near her at all times. Therefore I cannot be a member of a club. Washington used to be a little village, but now is a town of around 80,000 people.
Cool!
Apparently Washington is where George Washington's ancestors are from. Last time my wife and I were over to the UK, 2014, we visited the A19 Model RR club in Jarrow with a bunch of friendly members. They most of the railroads were US type and a number of the members had made railfan trips to the US. We even got a ride back to South Shields in a Cadilac Escalade left hand drive, imported from the US by one of the members. Quite a big car for the roads there!
We also visited Jon Grant, in Sunderland, who is quite the talented modeler with several railroads in his basement. Most of the model RR's we saw at the club are US style
Still working on the backscene at Clarence Dock. Some of the buildings were actually there before being demolished. A case of compression and compromise.
Thanks for your comments Dave & Chip.
All around the layout are things that interest me and my grandchildren have asked for to be included. Also I wanted things to be different to other UK modelers.
Sovereign Street was predominantly a warehouse area with a tram depot nearby.
(Now in 2020 the area is expensive apartments.)
Crown Point Yard was a more shopping area. Not malls but individual stores.
(Now 2020 the yard is a huge Mall.)
I wanted an area of layout to be trees and bushes. Most of it is part of the backscene.
I wanted a scrap yard. Not one like every other I have seen. Hence the small rail scrap yard. As far as I am aware I am the only person that has built one.
My oldest grandson wanted somewhere to play with his (and mine) cars and road vehicles. Therefore a small industrial estate was built.
A canal and canal boat was made at Canal Corner. Every other layout I have seen that had a canal, had locks on it. I just wanted a quiet scene.
Wyndham Farm building was a must purchase from my local model shop/store.
As mentioned previously I wanted a dock area. Clarence Dock is only two miles away from Crown Point in real life. Therefore Clarence Dock is being built.
(Now 2020 Clarence Dock is named Leeds Dock and the warehouses are expensive apartments.)
Yes the layout is 'busy' but everything has a reason to be there. I do not like the scenery to be 'cut perfect'. Grass is not one colour There has to be 'fifty shades of green'. Trees are all shapes and sizes. Nature at its best.
Happy modeling
Your layout is amazing! There is so much to see! As Chip suggests, there is a lot going on but none of it looks 'forced' to me. The scenes are quite believable.
Cheers!!
Your layout is quite dense, isn't it?
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
As lad I used to see trains running through overgrown scenery. Hardly anything was 'perfect'. Being on a train and branches of trees 'thwacking' the side of the coaches; even on the windows.
The lines on the Sovereign Street layout have become a secondary route and when running diesels local services rule. There are times when trains are diverted onto the line. There is an air of neglect. Long grass is evident and nature is slowly taking over.
Class 47 47515 Andrew Carnegie on a diverted Doncaster to Leeds Central passes Marston's Yard. Picture taken from the control area.
Sometimes trains are hard to see, but I know they are there. A Leeds Central to Dewsbury Market Place DMU waits at the signal. (In the distance beyond the scrap yard.)
My reference etc. library. Not just railroads, but my other interests in transport etc, road trasport, trams, buses canals and ships & shipping.
Finally two views of Clarence Dock