Today on the WGLR

Just caught up with this after my hols.

Mel, you've really got your mojo workin'. Great stuff.
I actually like the "standardisation" look, as it feels (to me anyway) more realistic. Apart from the Colonel Stephens "car boot sale" approach to acquiring motive power, lots of lines had a least a couple of similar engines.

More power to your elbow, sir!
 
Ere now whereabouts in Brsomgrove did ya get that building? Gotta go there myself this week ;)

Edit: Forget that. Just found the nice day in Brosmgrove thread. Anyhoo nice piccies as usual bud.
 
Had a ride out to my favourite independant DIY suppliers yesterday - a so much nicer experience than using the usual multi national suspects and usually considerably cheaper. Ordered a load of stuff to be delivered (free) which arrived 4 hours ahead of schedule this morning.

First job was to lay a small brick wall to edge Gooey station using bricks re-cycled from the garden to match the existing wall in the area of the stone circle.

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I got a couple of decking planks to edge the baseboards for the interchange sidings. I am favouring having the plain side showing ...................

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................ Alison favours the grooved side. So you can guess which will win. :bigsmile:

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I've also built an extension to the baseboard which will eventually lead standard gauge trains into the shed. Still quite a bit to do on this, but you get the idea. All the wood is pressure treated, but it will still be covered in good quality felt to match the existing baseboards.

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I'm not entirely confident that I'll be able to fit in the reverse curve required to connect the point behind the building with the bridge to the shed considering the min radius for my pannier tank - but I like to live dangerously. :bigsmile::bigsmile:
 
Looking good. I have always thought its good to mix between smooth and ribbed but natrually the wife has an input.... :rolf:

seriously though I agree with you on the decking edge.
 
Mel looking good, but I too doubt you'll be able to get a pannier through that potential reverse curve, how about moving the shed?!!
 
jameshilton said:
Mel looking good, but I too doubt you'll be able to get a pannier through that potential reverse curve, how about moving the shed?!!
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Any movement of the shed in the right direction would result in it either being in the next road down, or in the neighbour's garden James. :rolf:

There are plans B, C, D, E ................ etc. up to about W? ;)
 
See, we think we're in control of our railway schemes but there's always SWMBO. And speaking from experience......our brains work in a different way.
 
Andy Worsfold said:
See, we think we're in control of our railway schemes but there's always SWMBO. And speaking from experience......our brains work in a different way.
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Indeed Andy and the edging plank will be fitted with the grooved side showing on the grounds that I know which side my bread is buttered. :rolf::rolf::rolf::rolf:
 
Well today started off with wall to wall drizzle, so I wasn't able to get out until after lunch. Still I was able to make a start on preparing the ground for the new tramway section. I originally thought about slabbing this, but I'm now on plan ......... errrrrr ........ K? ............ which involves laying a weed membrane followed by a thick layer of builders ballast (a mixture of grit sand and gravel - you can add cement to it to make concrete). The beauty of this stuff is that, because it's so coarse, once it's levelled and tamped down, it is less likely to sink.

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Of course, being a fully qualified idiot, I only had 3 bags delivered (I already had 1 bag left over from previous works), when I'll probably need 7 or 8. Especially daft when it's currently on special offer if you buy more than 5 bags. :confused::confused:

Anyhoo, the drizzle's come back now. :crying::crying:
 
Oh yes, and talking about a plan not surviving first contact with the enemy (eh?), I've had another think about the reverse curve I'll need to get the standard gauge into the shed. I remembered that Cliff Barker makes gauge widened track (by a couple of mm) for use on tightish curves. I've got plenty of track, so I could just buy a couple of lengths of the gauge widened sleepers and thread the rail in. I'm a lot more confident that I can make it work now. This is plan F BTW :bigsmile::bigsmile:
 
Nothing like doing a proper job hey Mel and then the problem is when you go to sleep, you wake up with a couple of new plans floating around. All good stuff tho
 
Tony said:
clearly not what you want Mel other wize you would have thought of it but cant you have a turntable into the shed instead of the reverse curve
Tony
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The engine shed's not going to be used mate, it's just there as a building. Now that the main door has been exposed, it'll be blocked up.
 
yb281 said:
................ Alison favours the grooved side. So you can guess which will win. :bigsmile:
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Nowt wrong with being groovy, man :bigsmile:
It really is all looking very swish indeed :thumbup:
 
Cheers Pugs. :thumbup:

Thought I'd better take advantage of today's break in the weather to start work on the new sidings (I suppose I should be calling them the jubilee sidings?). They are taken off the old goods siding in Wetton Yard. The nearest road leads "off stage" to the RAF base (hence it's got no buffer stop). The far road is the new Wetton goods siding. They're laid on some ...... errrrr ...... slabs (more like tiles really) that I picked up from a garden centre years ago for 10P each. They used to be used to edge the area around Gooey station, but when I put in the new interchange, they fouled some of the locos and have been replaced by the previously mentioned brick wall. I know they're pink, but they'll be hidden when the track gets ballasted. I have plans for some buildings in that big gap at the front of the bed. ;)

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The former loco siding to the right of the next pic will become the link to the new tramway (the coaling stage is well past it's sell-buy date and the grounded van will find a new home).

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Of course, it all needed testing, so tramway diesel Nellie was used to shunt a few wagons. As you can see, the RAF spur comfortably holds 3 vans, 4 at a push.

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The "domestic" siding also takes 3 wagons comfortably without fouling the points.

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Having dropped her wagons off, Nellie returns to cross the main line and pull into Wetton station.

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Looking good Mel. Well done to the engineers of the WGLR/GIT for working on a Bank Holiday. Must be the incentive of double-time and a bottle of Madder Ale at the close of play! :bigsmile:
 
whatlep said:
Looking good Mel. Well done to the engineers of the WGLR/GIT for working on a Bank Holiday. Must be the incentive of double-time and a bottle of Madder Ale at the close of play! :bigsmile:
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Cheers mate. Much posher plans for the workforce tonight though - fish, chips, wine and fireworks. We know how to treat our staff!! :thumbup::thumbup:

Seeing as how I had the box of track and hacksaw out, I thought I'd give you a better idea of how the tramway fits in. For those that haven't seen it before, it's based on the Wisbech & Upwell's Boyce's Bridge only in mirror image.

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The coaling stage fell apart when I picked it up. It was only held together by cobwebs and the surrounding buildings. The water crane is re-usable though and the grounded van just needs a clean.
 
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