4mm Llanfair
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LarryG
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How shunting works at Llanfair. Daily goods arrives...
Loco runs round and picks up the brake van....
Which it deposits in the loop or make-up siding...
Goes to yard to collect empties from shed and coal yard...
..And places them in the make-up siding with the brakevan...
The newly arrived wagons are then shunted into the goods yard....
Loco then goes to the outgoing wagons to await a path back to the junction...
If passenger train is due, the goods train moves into headshunt to leave loop free. Goods loco can replenish coal and water at any time during shunting manoeuvres...
Loco runs round and picks up the brake van....
Which it deposits in the loop or make-up siding...
Goes to yard to collect empties from shed and coal yard...
..And places them in the make-up siding with the brakevan...
The newly arrived wagons are then shunted into the goods yard....
Loco then goes to the outgoing wagons to await a path back to the junction...
If passenger train is due, the goods train moves into headshunt to leave loop free. Goods loco can replenish coal and water at any time during shunting manoeuvres...
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LarryG
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I've had a different kind of lifestyle since 2021 with plenty of non-hobby activity, hence the slow progress.
Anyway, I removed years of sanding dust, spray dust, sawdust and frankly, rubbish this morning. So for the first time in 6 -7 years, the bench opposite the layout is actually tidy instead of being buried under piles of everything to do with layout building. The window side is of course meant for a fiddle yard, something it hasn't had since around 2016...
Anyway, I removed years of sanding dust, spray dust, sawdust and frankly, rubbish this morning. So for the first time in 6 -7 years, the bench opposite the layout is actually tidy instead of being buried under piles of everything to do with layout building. The window side is of course meant for a fiddle yard, something it hasn't had since around 2016...
Hayfield1
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timbowales
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Now how long is it going to stay so tidy?
LarryG
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Could be quite a while. I'm working outside the shed next.
timbowales
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Is that on the garden railway?
Nick Rogers
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Evening Larry,
Really great stuff. It is all coming together very well.
I fear Dr Beeching cannot be far away!
Please don't rip up Llanfair just yet!
All the best,
Nick
Really great stuff. It is all coming together very well.
I fear Dr Beeching cannot be far away!
Please don't rip up Llanfair just yet!All the best,
Nick
PhilH
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LarryG
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A year or so ago, a good friend sent me some of the Hattons Genesis coaches finished in various non-revenue liveries...
They reminded me I took a photo of some GWR Departmental 4-wheel and 6-wheel coaches during an afternoon in Barmouth on 20th August 1963. I seem to remember they were in black. They bear no resemblance to the Genesis coach, but the photo might be useful.....
They reminded me I took a photo of some GWR Departmental 4-wheel and 6-wheel coaches during an afternoon in Barmouth on 20th August 1963. I seem to remember they were in black. They bear no resemblance to the Genesis coach, but the photo might be useful.....
timbowales
Western Thunderer
Thank you for posting that photo, very useful .
LarryG
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PhilH came over yesterday to try out these neat DCC Sound locos. For anyone considering buying these models, they ran exceptionally smoothly with no waddle, unlike their prototypes. I was very impressed although there'll be no conversion on my part to Gauge 0 NG.
Phil was the regular driver at Llanberis Lake for years and drove the green one at a FR Gala some years ago.
Phil was the regular driver at Llanberis Lake for years and drove the green one at a FR Gala some years ago.
paulc
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I bet they have issues with the bridge opening.
