Meeting 23rd May 2025

[JulienW]

00n3 Special Interest Group. Report for meeting 7th May, '25.

Seven attended the May meeting – Alan G., Alan O'R., Alan P., Brian, David H., Lee, and Paul.
Four apologies were received – Bob, David M., Mark R and Simon d'S.

Alan G. described how he made a Clogher Valley Railway Tractor 'Unit' from Worsley Works etches. He mentioned that some parts of the etch were very narrow and a bending jig was necessary to be able to bend and form these correctly. The 'Unit' was made to fit on to a Mike Chinnery motor bogie which Alan donated from a previous model of the 'Unit'.
As the Mike Chinery motor bogies are no longer available and no current commercial motor bogies would fit in the cab of the 'Unit' Alan decided to copy and make an equivalent to the Mike Chinery motor bogie. He explained how he was able to obtain all the gears required from Branchlines and how after several attempts he was able to make an equivalent motor bogie to the Mike Chinery design that would fit in and power the Clogher Valley Railway 'Unit' Tractor.

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Alan O'R showed us photos of 3 of his 00n3 locos which ran on Clogher at the Sheffield MRS in March.
Dalriaida, a Ballycastle Railway 0-6-0ST, performed surprisingly well for an engine with a 60 year-old mechanism (see New Irish Lines November 2023). The loco was advertised in the Model Railway News for 1953 by Douglass Models of Halifax who offered this model as ready to run for £12/10/-.
The loco now runs on a Tri-ang TT Jinty chassis.



The following photo shows two CVR 0-4-2T's. On the left is a print from a David Hurst running on the Halling motor bogie (Paul T's model) and on the right No. 6 Erne, which Alan built from plasticard over 30 years ago and runs on a Berlinerbahn 0-4-0 mechanism.



The third photo shows a C,B & PR 2-4-2T, built professionally by Tony Hunter from a set of Worsley Works etches )pulling a couple of C,B & P wagons from Foxrock Models).

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Lee had now completed the Model Engine Works Hudswell style diesel loco which he'd told us about at the previous meeting. This runs on the Kato 11-110 chassis regauged for 12mm track.

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Paul described the progress with the Clogher Station building which is at last making progress. It had been a cardboard shell for some time but was now being clad in brick.
The walls are 'English garden bond' (aka English garden wall bond) with a twist in places – a line of stretchers replacing a line of headers in one or two locations.
The wall sections had been drawn up in 8mm scale, including the bricks, and then painted in water colours following advice from John (card modelling sig group member) and the book 'Cottage Modelling the Pendon Way'.
The resulting copy was then taken to a local printers to be reduced by 50% and printed in colour on 180g card.
Following cutting out and a bit of fettling of the card shell the sections of wall were stuck in place with PVA glue.


The painted drawing for the end wall in 8mm scale and printed copy in 4mm scale.


Paul decided the project had been done 'back-to-front'. Starting again he'd advise the windows be made first, the drawing up and painting of the brickwork completed next and once printed the card shell should have been made to measure ... it would all have been a bit less challenging.



Progress so far (above). There was also discussion on how the yard area (left) was set out with help from a photo from Simon d'S (in the MRJ) and another from Hamish N., who'd modelled Fivemiletown in 5.5mm scale and a photo of the yard in the Alphagraphix 'Wayside Halt' kit.

The next meeting will be on Wednesday 25th June (tbc) at 8.00pm and joining details will be circulated nearer the time.
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(Photos and report supplied by Paul Titmuss, posted by Julien Webb)