Oldham Goup

[Hugh Norwood]

"North west" groups Zoom meeting 21st August, 2023 cont/d.

Paul T gave a quick update on his new layout Clogher including a look at the station building which will be a challenge in card. There was some discussion on possible techniques of construction, roof pitch, etc. (David H. offered to look at Alan's photos and help with the design and soon produced a scale resource to help aid construction to scale.)
There were a couple of photos of the final design print of the CdN van (wagon couvert) and loco photos taken on a recent visit to the W&L Rly.

The card mock up of Clogher Station building:

[Hugh Norwood]

"North west" groups Zoom meeting 21st August, 2023 cont/d.

Sir Drefaldwyn running on the W&L Rly, Saturday 19th August, 2023, at Welshpool station. The loco has recently returned to service.

[Hugh Norwood]

"North west" groups Zoom meeting 21st August, 2023 cont/d.

The next meetings are planned as follows:
Saturday September 30th at Greenfield Methodist Church in the afternoon.
   Wednesday October 19th (provisional) in Grasscroft at 8.00pm.

And at a date to be agreed in November – Zoom meeting.

s.p.t. 5-9-23.

[Hugh Norwood]

16 October
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[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham Group meeting 30th September, 2023.

Twelve group members were present for the meeting, Alan C., Alan G., Bob, Charlie, David E., David H., Peter, Raymond, Rob, Ron, Tony and Paul.
4 apologies had been received from Alan S., Hugh, Mark, & Phil.

Below is a photo report of the meeting. I think I got to see most of the models on display and my apologies if I missed anything.

Alan C brought along some Isle of Man stock (00n3) – No 1 Sutherland with a couple of coaches and the ex CDR railcars using some parts of the Anbrico kits.

[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham Group meeting 30th September, 2023. cont/d.

Alan G. also had locos to run on the 00n3 track. Three new builds, The 'Countess of Antrim', an 0-6-0ST; a Ballymena & Larne 2-4-2T and a Worsley Works Hudswell 4-6-2T from the L&LSR (photos show the latter two).

[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham Group meeting 30th September, 2023. cont/d.

Bob had brought his TTm layout St-Trojan-les-Bains, a terminus on the metre gauge lines that served the island of Oléron off the coast of France. The layout has made good progress and is now close to completion.

[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham Group meeting 30th September, 2023. cont/d.

Charlie had an eclectic mix of stock which included some of his Indian railway locos, one seen below with what can only be described as a mixed train.

[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham Group meeting 30th September, 2023. cont/d.

David H. brought along many of the recent Model Engine Works models in TTn3, 009 and 00n3. A selection are shown below, some of which are in the development stage.
00n3 – Ilen and Ida from the Schull & Skibbereen Railway. Both use a Halling chassis (IDENT-VAR-H0M)

[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham Group meeting 30th September, 2023. cont/d.

... and some freelance locos and coaches. The locos us the Kato England chassis. (I should have checked the coach roof! It does fit.) {first photo}

... and two locos under development – they also use the England chassis. {second and third photos}

[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham Group meeting 30th September, 2023. cont/d.

David E. brought two wagons that will make up a track clearance train and had found a small model of a tree shredder which will be placed on another wagon, a significant find for the project.

Raymond had fixed up a demonstration of delayed action uncoupling in use with 009 stock. It used a dropper and pin carefully placed on couplings and an electromagnet. This worked very well.

Paul had set up the Clogher Station boards which use Annascaul fiddle yards. All seemed to operate well once he'd worked out the direction of the switches for on and off!
There is still some woodwork tasks to complete and then work will move onto painting and ballasting the track.

He'd also provided 3 trains to run on the layout including the Cotés-du-Nord Blanc-Misseron tram loco with a short CdN goods train.

[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham Group meeting 30th September, 2023. cont/d.

The next meetings are planned as follows:
   Wednesday October 19th in Grasscroft at 8.00pm.
   Wednesday November 8th on Zoom (t.b.c.)


s.p.t. 3-10-23

[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham Group meeting 18th October, 2023.

Four group members were present for the meeting, Alan G., Charlie, David E., and Paul who had braved the beginnings of Storm Brabet to reach Grasscroft.
4 apologies had been received from Alan S., Bob, Peter and Phillip.

The 009/00n3 test track was out for use.

Alan brought to the meeting a chassis for a new build loco – the 0-6-4T King Edward from the Cavan & Leitrim Railway. This ran very smoothly along the track. The next task was to complete the body for the loco.

Charlie showed us a redesigned Sierra Leone style Hunslet which made use of the Dundas kit with significant alterations. It runs on the Fort Whiting layout. It currently uses an adapted Fleischmann 2-8-4 chassis. Unusually neither chassis present ran well for any length of time despite fettling so Charlie was considering 'Plan C' for an alternative chassis.
Running well was a small French railcar using an old style Kato chassis and a new project for a brake van in colonial style that had it's origins with a Chris Ward 3D print.

Paul had been busy continuing with the woodwork for the Clogher layout so had completed very little modelling. He had decided for 'relief' to recommence one of the buildings on Melton Market and had added 'paper' timber to the ends as a first step towards completion (by the end of November??).

The Bachmann 'Charles' trundled around the track with a rake of wagons and this focused some discussion on ready to run 009 and kits. There was also discussion about the highly successful Statfold 50th Anniversary exhibition and the forthcoming 009 village at the Warley MRE at the NEC.

The next meeting is planned as follows:
Wednesday November 8th on Zoom – back to the 2nd Wednesday of the month. Details to be circulated the weekend before.

s.p.t. 25-10-23

[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham & NW groups meeting 8th November, 2023.

Fourteen group members were present for the meeting, Alan G., Alan S., Andrew, Darryl, David E., David, Garry, Hugh, John, Stuart, Tony, Paul M., and Paul T. We were pleased to welcome Paul Ta to his first meeting.
Three apologies had been received from Bob, Ian and Phillip.

Alan G.'s latest model is of the Cavan and Leitrim Railways 0-6-4T locomotive King Edward. He had already built the chassis but he found that on making the body the water tank sides do not totally hide the gearbox. This will cause the gearbox to be seen under the boiler. Alan is now making different templates from card and rolling them to the boiler's shape to see if this problem can be overcome, before he makes a boiler out of brass sheet.

[Hugh Norwood]

Oldham & NW groups meeting 8th November, 2023. cont/d.

Alan S. had constructed a Leek and Manifold Light Railway transporter wagon from various resources with the help of plans from Gratton's book
on the line. {photos}

He'd also constructed, mostly from card, a Glyn Valley Tramway tar wagon.