Osgood
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Why does Madame have a Transfesa artic?
Tales from The Room of Doom. Dipping a toe in various bucolic backwaters.
- Thread starter Flaxfield
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Dog Star
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Overseer
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Thanks Rob. The Roco paint is better but it looks close otherwise. Both have overly heavy side handrails but the MTB grabs on the body are finer. The MTB glazing looks less prismatic and the light surrounds are more subtle. Roco have done better with the checker plate on the walkways. If the running quality is similar it looks like either would do.
simond
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simond
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doesn’t everyone?
Madame was involved in the development of Channel Tunnel freight traffic (there’s a CT Tri-Bo in the background too) and was presented with it at a visit to Transfesa.
Flaxfield
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Morning all.
Progress of sorts with the gluing of the MDF top to the board now complete.
There is just a small 'island' to add to the front edge of the board, once I decide the best place for it in terms of sight lines.
Fiddle yard exit is to the bottom of the image.
Rob
Progress of sorts with the gluing of the MDF top to the board now complete.
There is just a small 'island' to add to the front edge of the board, once I decide the best place for it in terms of sight lines.
Fiddle yard exit is to the bottom of the image.
Rob
paulc
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Typically British , grey and overcast .
On a lighter note , this is an interesting way of doing things so i will folow with interest .
AdeMoore
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May be of interest Larkrail 25 didn’t attend myself but lots of rather nice layouts there by the look of it.
photos by Chris H Larkrail 2025
Joe's Garage
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Very very nice thank you for sharing guys.
I particularly like the very open narrow gauge terminus, any idea what it is called? It has a very open feel to it a bit like the VOR.
Cheers Julian
I particularly like the very open narrow gauge terminus, any idea what it is called? It has a very open feel to it a bit like the VOR.
Cheers Julian
AJC
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That's because it is - a model of Devil's Bridge in Cambrian days by Andy Cundick (who else? He's modelled just about every narrow gauge carrier going in Wales and Ireland). Looks well up to his usual standard.
Adam
Joe's Garage
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Thanks Adam for identifying it, lovely model.
Cheers Julian
Cheers Julian
Flaxfield
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So, it's been a while and I haven't much to add other than to say they is a bit of movement. I have a lot of potential projects and as alluded to on the Flaxfield thread, there has been some rationalisation which is set to continue. This is to allow me to simply concentrate on less potential projects.
Aha ! Well......One of these projects is that of a pre- WW1 SE&CR layout, the exact nature of which I've yet to decide upon. This will be stocked by a selection of RTR items which should allow a fairly decent impression of the era to be presented. It won't satisfy the purist but it should look rather nice.
I really like the idea of a proper trainset, a real 8x4 job such as Jonte's lovely ongoing project. Loco wise, 'in stock' there are examples of P class, Terrier, H Class, C Class and D Class. The Rapido 01 is due shortly, their ' what if ' SE&CR liveried Manning Wardle is due next year. All are in Wainwright's lined green livery.
Coaching stock features a rake of 4 wheelers, two rakes of 6 wheelers and a rake of bogie coaches so pretty much all things covered there.
So, there is plenty of scope for project SE&CR to develop......I just need to find room for that 8x4 board...
Rob
Aha ! Well......One of these projects is that of a pre- WW1 SE&CR layout, the exact nature of which I've yet to decide upon. This will be stocked by a selection of RTR items which should allow a fairly decent impression of the era to be presented. It won't satisfy the purist but it should look rather nice.
I really like the idea of a proper trainset, a real 8x4 job such as Jonte's lovely ongoing project. Loco wise, 'in stock' there are examples of P class, Terrier, H Class, C Class and D Class. The Rapido 01 is due shortly, their ' what if ' SE&CR liveried Manning Wardle is due next year. All are in Wainwright's lined green livery.
Coaching stock features a rake of 4 wheelers, two rakes of 6 wheelers and a rake of bogie coaches so pretty much all things covered there.
So, there is plenty of scope for project SE&CR to develop......I just need to find room for that 8x4 board...
Rob
Flaxfield
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Morning Ade.
Thank you, but I wouldn't get too comfortable. The images above show some of the SE&CR stock posed on other layouts.
The top two are on Bleat Wharf. The bottom two are on a project aborted last year ( I think ).
Any SE&CR build will most likely progress at the now customary molluscesque pace.
Worth bearing in mind that I've not actually completed a layout since 2022. That's shocking, especially where you consider that before that, four came to fruition between 2015 and 2020.
I'm just saying......
Rob
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jonte
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Most attractive set of locos, Rob, in an equally beautifully modelled setting.
Coincidentally, and especially with your kind allusion to my train set, and also with regard to your proposal of setting it in a bygone age of beautifully liveried locos as per your collection, it was my original intention to set it ‘pre-grouping’ as you intend, spared on by the following images I found online whilst in the planning stage:
Apologies, but apart from the marked image, I’m not sure where I found them as I was merely storing them for reference (I squirrelled away several more!).
However, the outlay on materials for construction to the point of getting it up and running alone, prohibited further (and considerable) investment in a large number of pre-grouping liveried locos and stock which would be required to convey the illusion of a Capital City terminus, soon put paid to that
If only for my benefit, Rob, please make it happen
Jon
Coincidentally, and especially with your kind allusion to my train set, and also with regard to your proposal of setting it in a bygone age of beautifully liveried locos as per your collection, it was my original intention to set it ‘pre-grouping’ as you intend, spared on by the following images I found online whilst in the planning stage:
Apologies, but apart from the marked image, I’m not sure where I found them as I was merely storing them for reference (I squirrelled away several more!).
However, the outlay on materials for construction to the point of getting it up and running alone, prohibited further (and considerable) investment in a large number of pre-grouping liveried locos and stock which would be required to convey the illusion of a Capital City terminus, soon put paid to that
If only for my benefit, Rob, please make it happen
Jon
Flaxfield
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Most attractive set of locos, Rob, in an equally beautifully modelled setting.
Coincidentally, and especially with your kind allusion to my train set, and also with regard to your proposal of setting it in a bygone age of beautifully liveried locos as per your collection, it was my original intention to set it ‘pre-grouping’ as you intend, spared on by the following images I found online whilst in the planning stage:
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Apologies, but apart from the marked image, I’m not sure where I found them as I was merely storing them for reference (I squirrelled away several more!).
However, the outlay on materials for construction to the point of getting it up and running alone, prohibited further (and considerable) investment in a large number of pre-grouping liveried locos and stock which would be required to convey the illusion of a Capital City terminus, soon put paid to that
If only for my benefit, Rob, please make it happen
Jon
Hi, Jon.
Those images are lovely. One other suggestion made regarding this SE&CR venture is that of a 'Minories' scheme. I think it would work very nicely and the H Class would certainly look at home against such a back drop.
My trainset plan would ideally have a pretty simple through station with a branch bay with a small goods yard.
The SE&CR stock has been acquired over time. To start from scratch now would be very expensive ( prohibitively so ), given the rather inflated prices sought by some for the likes of the Hornby H Class and the Bachmann C Class in particular. I've had a few bargains but have bitten the bullet on one or two. To date, the loco roster sits at 1x Terrier, 4x P Class, 2x C Class, 1x D Class and 2x H Class. They present a pretty assembly and as I say, will allow an impression to be provided of the period. Not very far away is the Rapido 01 and next year we will see a Manning Wardle saddle tank in a ' what if ' SE&CR livery. I accept that to the SE&CR purist, there are a few key omissions such as the Q1 0.4.4T, a Stirling cabbed O Class, and perhaps a T Class 0.6.0T but as I say, it's good enough and will certainly entertain me.
I would really like to do this so it's a question of logistics more than anything else, prime issue being that of space...
Rob
Willl
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Hi Rob,
You took the words out of my mouth re an SECR "Minories". The long abandoned Greenwich Park has a definite Minories feel to it, set in a cutting and with a compact track plan.
I was lucky to have bought my SECR-liveried C Class (the original 592) back when originally released. I paid £65 for it from Hattons, so it was a bit of a shock to see one go a few years later for north of £400! The rest of my collection has been bought second hand, most at fairly reasonable prices - it's been a slow process though, and if I hadn't had the C class to start I wouldn't have bothered. The normally obscene resale prices also used to cause some qualms about weathering, and it's certainly heart-in-mouth stuff.
Will
You took the words out of my mouth re an SECR "Minories". The long abandoned Greenwich Park has a definite Minories feel to it, set in a cutting and with a compact track plan.
I was lucky to have bought my SECR-liveried C Class (the original 592) back when originally released. I paid £65 for it from Hattons, so it was a bit of a shock to see one go a few years later for north of £400! The rest of my collection has been bought second hand, most at fairly reasonable prices - it's been a slow process though, and if I hadn't had the C class to start I wouldn't have bothered. The normally obscene resale prices also used to cause some qualms about weathering, and it's certainly heart-in-mouth stuff.
Will
jonte
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It’s still some fleet you’ve acquired, Rob, albeit most(?) are tank locos.
But as you suggest, they’d be ideal on a Minories scheme, which certainly doesn’t preclude an 8 x 4 by any means (apart from the issue(s) mentioned) as seen in the aforementioned images.
Much to mull over.
Jon
But as you suggest, they’d be ideal on a Minories scheme, which certainly doesn’t preclude an 8 x 4 by any means (apart from the issue(s) mentioned) as seen in the aforementioned images.
Much to mull over.
Jon
AdeMoore
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Hi Rob, I had noted the Bleat background. The aborted last year slipped me by hence I jumped to the incorrect conclusion something was taking shape.
But as you and Jon have elaborated on above there is much investment here so one day it will get its turn I’m sure,