Darjeeling Railway in 009

[Tom Haythornthwaite]

Erm, my dream of modelling the Eritrean Railway in HOm has been derailed because I could not find any suitable locomotives or railcars.  The closest loco was the Bemo Mallet, but it is a) 2-4-40 instead of 0-4-4-0, b) excruciatingly expensive, and c) unavailable.

Now I am thinking of the Darjeeling railway in 009, giving at least the following advantages:

- smaller permitted radii (with the prototype being 2' guage instead of 950mm)

- available locomotives, such as the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway D Class Beyer-Garratt from Backwoods Miniatures

- possibility of modelling escarpment switchbacks (zig-zags) in much less front-to-back space than the tripple 180 degree curves climbing the Eritrean escarpment (which need at least 2 x 2 x the minimum radius).

Does anybody know of any Darjeeling layouts I could learn from?

Tom

[Elmgate]

Tom,

The current, July 2013, 009 News has "Darjeely" by Eddie Bristow featured.

My colleague, Phil Savage, is constructing "Ghum to Batsia loop" - see Mick Thornton's photos of Sussex Downs Group's 2011 show:

https://picasaweb.google.com/Mick6126/SussexDowns009GroupOpenDayWivelsfield28May2011#

Hope this helps,

Regards

Tim Sanderson

[MickT]

Tom,

Tim has beaten me to it! I've been wading through my Blog photos and have come up with:

2009 Sussex Downs members day Haywards Heath photos 031 - 033 show Phil Savage's D&HR layout in early stages of construction.

2011 Sussex Downs members day Wivelsfield photos 019 - 023 show the layout in a more advanced work in progress state

2012 Narrow Gauge South, Sparsholt photos 047 - 049 show it with further progress having been made.

Unfortunately I haven't yet photographed the layout more recently than that (I don't think I have anyway - it is possible there may be a later set of photos in more recent blogs which I've overlooked!)

Additionally check out 2013 009 Society members day & AGM, Rainford Merseyside photos 035 - 039 Darjeely by Ed Bristow

All the above can be accessed at: http://micksrovingreporter.blogspot.com/

Hope that helps get you on your way!

Mick

[Hugh Norwood]

Was it Gert Jensen who had the entire line in his garage?
It was photographed some years ago.

[MickT]

Yes it was the late Gert Jensen's layout. It was featured in the Modeller and in the News (was it when you had the blue pencil Hugh?) I don't have either reference to hand at the moment, but I'm sure somebody must have them!

Mick

[tedp]

If you're interested here is an account of adding false frames to an inside frame chassis. The subject is the Langley Darjeeling 'B' class loco.

http://www.009society.com/forum/index.php?topic=1127