Don't know if anyone is interested. I've just uploaded three very short videos of my first attempt at a 009 layout to YouTube. Just search "Somewhere in Kent 1950s". It is a what might have been station on the proposed but never built northern most extension of the Kent & East Sussex railway. When the S.E.R. refused to aĺlow colonel Stephens a level crossing to let his line cross theirs at headcorn, meaning no through trains from Robertsbridge to Maidstone, the colonel decided to save a few quid by building his extension narrow gauge line using the newly available ex R.O.D. equipment. The main money earner came from a quarry just north of Sutton and an engineering works, refurbing military vehicles for the M.O.D. just south of Sutton. I hope you find the videos interesting & please feel free to comment & give advice. Cheers, Paul.
Looks good.
To save others searching here are the links:
https://youtu.be/xHrDL2RuaVs The clearances are a bit too close on this one!
https://youtu.be/_rcKoxxNS78
https://youtu.be/J8_1rwtZrxw I hope you enjoyed the coffee!!
Perhaps it may be an idea to re-lay the sharp curve at the right hand end of the loop as it looks like it may be a bit tight for the loco and is slowing it down??
Brian Meldon
Very nice little layout Paul, thanks for showing everyone.
Shows how far 009 has come in recent years when I was admiring "Peggy" rattling through the station at the head of 3 Peco L&B coaches and thought to myself - "I've just seen 200 quid's worth of ready to run 009 passing in front of me"
Oh well, back to my 50 year old Minitrix dock tank powered Festiniog/Gem Baldwin and "hand crafted" Ratiobash coaches rattling along on (also 50 years old) N gauge bogies......................
Mick
Thank you for those - that's rather nice. But I'm not sure that stone building really belongs in Sussex! - maybe you could repaint it to look like flint?
David.
(Just ignore Mick's Scroogish comments...)
Thanks for your comments gents.
Brian, I too noticed the coaches touching the brake van when I watched it back. The goods train does actually fit in the loop. I pushed it back a couple of inches to allow a better view of the lever frame hut!
The running boards on the coaches just clear the platform too.
The coffee was good too.
The slow running round the set track curve was cured by cleaning the rails
Mick, the first coach is actually a Dundas kit purchased from a well known auction site, and built by me, Peggy was pre ordered back in January at a good price, the L&B coaches, the grey Roco loco & the 10 flat trucks were all purchased second hand from 009 sales at various shows. Most of the buildings are free give aways from Hornby magazine & Model rail magazine. The station building was a bargain, second hand cricket pavilion from a show, repainted and new roof added. I also have a 50 year old Joueff decauville with anglisized cab, Gem & Meridian kits running on various old chassis, a couple of 5/79 kits running on minitrix chassis various Dundas wagons & a few 009 society RNAD wagon kits, so as you can see I enjoy grass roots 009 modelling too. Cheers for your comments, most welcome. I will take a few photos and try to work out how to post them here, Paul.
Clayliner, I don't think the stone building belongs in Kent either!?! It was a free kit in model rail magazine and was just too nice to not build. Large helping of modellers licence applied. Thanks for looking and taking the time to comment. All comments greatfully received and taken on board. Cheers, Paul.
Quote from: paul ludlow on July 25, 2018, 22:21
Mick, the first coach is actually a Dundas kit purchased from a well known auction site, and built by me, ............................... so as you can see I enjoy grass roots 009 modelling too
Thanks for the very interesting list of your acquisitions for your layout Paul, a very interesting "lot" and you seem to have managed a number of bargains there. I have the cricket pavilion as well, obtained from 009 Sales for a knock down price - sometimes you get lucky! It is quite a sought after item actually and I had been on the lookout for the one I picked up for quite a long time.
I hope my envious comments about the
I like the yard with the inset track and wagon turntables. Is that a military installation? Also like the W & L brake van.
Mal.
The stone building could be Kentish Ragstone?
Rodney
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=kentish+ragstone&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjsmbWs_L7cAhVhDMAKHViRCHoQsAR6BAgGEAE&biw=1366&bih=597
Quote from: Rodney S on July 27, 2018, 10:58
The stone building could be Kentish Ragstone?
Rodney
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=kentish+ragstone&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjsmbWs_L7cAhVhDMAKHViRCHoQsAR6BAgGEAE&biw=1366&bih=597
I think Kentish Ragstone came mainly from a quarry that was in a place called 'Stone' this is just to the east of the Dartford crossing bridge.
This is where the stone for our church in Essex comes from. The quarry closed in the 1980's, but we managed to get it re-opened in the early 1990's to get quite a lot for the repairs to our church tower. However it has since been built on with houses so when another local church again here in Essex needed some it had to come from somewhere in the north and it was not quite the same.
Mal, thanks for the comments on the yard. I am very pleased with the results. It is supposed to be an engineering works with a VERY big contract with the M.O.D. to service, repair & refurb vehicles for them, an early version of privatisation?? Hence the heavy presence of military personell. ( I have yet to add some civilian staff - still in the paint shop!) Paul.
Rodney & Brian, Kentish ragstone it is then! So the building stays as it is! I knew some one would come to the rescue with a prototype for everything answer! Paul.
So - you see how much 009 Sales can save you, Mick
Hi all. A few more short films added to you tube, just add "some more" to the search of "Somewhere in Kent 1950s". Hope you find them entertaining. Paul.