St Andrews Island and other tales.

A really lovely line. A real example of less is more and it is full of atmosphere. (My layout is rather 'more is less' when compared with this one) :clap::clap:
 
royale said:
A lovely, evocative railway with some great master building work going on. Depending where you are in Derbyshire (I'm in Long Eaton), if you're in need of ballast, there is a good quarry that I last used a couple of years ago - bought quite a bit, so haven't needed to go lately, so I hope they're still operating. Take the A 515 from Ashbourne to Buxton and at Parsley Hay turn right onto a lane called The Rake. After a short distance, turn right again onto Long Rake leading towards Youlgrave and the quarry is on your right after about a mile. They sell quite a variety of different stones in sizes from 3 mm up and are very helpful. I bought a greeny-gray granite in 3-5mmwhich weathers very nicely and I think it was £2.75/£2.95 for a 10 kilo bag.
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I know where you mean! Not that far from me, I'll pop in at some point when I'm driving past. I always thought they dealt with the trade only!
Thanks
Steph'
 
Just nipped out an took a pic of the difference between the hand laid track and the LGB/Aristo stuff.... The hand laid stuff is more 7/8ths in scale!

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Still wondering how the wood etc will hold up over the next couple of years! Long term testing this!
 
the lighter ballast looks better in the larger spacing of the hand-laid, too
lovely railway
 
StephH said:
royale said:
A lovely, evocative railway with some great master building work going on. Depending where you are in Derbyshire (I'm in Long Eaton), if you're in need of ballast, there is a good quarry that I last used a couple of years ago - bought quite a bit, so haven't needed to go lately, so I hope they're still operating. Take the A 515 from Ashbourne to Buxton and at Parsley Hay turn right onto a lane called The Rake. After a short distance, turn right again onto Long Rake leading towards Youlgrave and the quarry is on your right after about a mile. They sell quite a variety of different stones in sizes from 3 mm up and are very helpful. I bought a greeny-gray granite in 3-5mmwhich weathers very nicely and I think it was £2.75/£2.95 for a 10 kilo bag.
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I know where you mean! Not that far from me, I'll pop in at some point when I'm driving past. I always thought they dealt with the trade only!
Thanks
Steph'
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Steph - If you go to the quarry from the Youlgrave direction, after you leave the village, you'll need the second quarry on the left - I hope their prices haven't gone up too dramatically since I was last there.
 
Hi Steph,

I see you're taking Snipe Fen to ExpoNG later this month. That'll be something to look forward to, in contrast with all the 009! Will you be able to bring any of the "garden" locos for display, I wonder?
 
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