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Sat, 19 Jan 2008
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| More Electrics |
Christmas out the way and too cold to do anything
else i thought it was time to install five new
electric points and wire them up to operate with
the others on the layout. I can now run trains in
from other lines into the passing loops and send
others out. I have also wiered into the layout 3
electric signals to operate automatically as the
train approches the signal and returns back to
danger once the train has passed.
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Posted 17:41
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Thu, 03 May 2007
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| New Locomotives and rolling stock |
A kind man Mr Sam Taylor of Kingston upon Thames
sent me a e mail asking if i would like his old
Hornby Dublo layout from the 1950's as he was
clearing his loft out and was moving overseas. So
on Saturday we left Coventry for Kingston not
quite knowing what to expect. We were given the
Duchess of Montrose train set' A N2 Tank engine
and a Bristol Castle locomotive all in nice
condition. There was also boxes of track, wagons
coaches plus a few accessories Dublo and other
makes. A few drops of oil and the Bristol Castle
moved for the first time in over 45 years, The
Duchess and the N2 Tank were both missing there
armatures, pickups and wireing. The N2 will stay
a rolling chassis so it can be used to double
head and The Duchess will be restored back to
it's former glory. We think this will have to be
the end of what we can fit on the layout as all
of the sidings are full.
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Posted 11:33
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Mon, 16 Apr 2007
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| Train Shed |
A few bits have been done to the layout in the
last few weeks. We have fitted working street
lamps to the roadside which have been wired to a
switch to have have them off in the daylight. We
have also built a Peco train shed to span over the
station only to build it and find E3002 will not
fit under with the pantographs down! the train
shed came with extentions so we were able to gain
a bit more height so the electric now passes
under. More Peco people have been added to the
island platforms and a fence now runs round the
inside of the layout. I have got to put the tarmac
down for the road which runs on top of the bank to
have my Trackside vehicles on. The layout is
almost two years old now and has come along way
since the first train ran round the single line.
My youngest son Declan can not keep away from the
trains he loves them. I have also started to help
build my Dad a model railway he runs the modern
day Hornby a link has been added in the links page
to that site
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Posted 13:44
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Tue, 27 Mar 2007
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| Scenery and Track |
The last sections of track have been added to the
layout and there is no more room to add anymore so
the wife keeps telling me, Track has been changed
in the layout for better sections to replace the
ones which were not so good. All the black
switches now work which has made running the
trains more interesting especially trying to
remember which one does what. An embankment has
been made at the back of the passing loops with a
road on top to hold all the Trackside vehicles I
have. I have started to fit neo magnets into some
of the locomotives which has improved there
performance.
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Posted 10:40
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Tue, 07 Nov 2006
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| Layout Electrics |
We have been really busy over the last few months
running wires for signal lights, electric points
and isolating track sections. The layout now has
over 45 original Hornby Dublo switches (and it's
guess work which one works what). The layout has
also been extended behind the holding loops with
more passing loops to hold trains up to 8 coaches
long. New locomotives have been added the latest
being City of Liverpool along with two re painted
Standard class 4mt's. Another Duchess of Montrose
has been bought to be re painted as the City of
Leicester and we are still looking for another
City class loco to turn into our home city the
City of Coventry .
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Posted 14:18
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