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- Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:22 am
- Forum: New Products
- Topic: Megapoint - a simple way to control turnouts?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7184
Megapoint - a simple way to control turnouts?
Has anyone experience of using the Megapoint system for controlling turnouts and signals using cheap servos? It looks to be very well thought through, cheaper and more effective than traditional point motors and simpler than setting up MERG etc. kits. It can be used with a traditional lever frame or...
- Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:55 am
- Forum: Standard Gauge Workbench
- Topic: Norwayman's Wharf Junction
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7492
Re: Norwayman's Wharf Junction
They are a bit long for shunting about on a plank that fits the SGWB criteria - So I added a few inches to the plan! Its now not a SGWB - but it does seem to have more play value; at least to me. Well rules were made to be broken. I suppose Brunel thought of his 7' gauge as a standard. :thumb But o...
- Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:29 am
- Forum: Chassis and Suspensions
- Topic: Wagon Suspension Systems Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6332
Re: Wagon Suspension Systems Discussion
Given that the combination of Parkside kit and etched W irons is the de facto standard for fine scale wagon building, it should be in the manufacturers' interests to cross refer kit to suspension type in a web-accessible table. That way we'd spend less time on researching and more on buying and buil...
- Thu Nov 26, 2015 12:09 pm
- Forum: Starting in P4
- Topic: Layout Planning & Design Inspiration - Help!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6078
Re: Layout Planning & Design Inspiration - Help!
If you have built most of the High Level kits, then something based on the Tanfield Railway would be apt - maybe the diamond crossing and the loco shed area? And Iain Rice has produced an excellent plan based on this, I think in his book "Realistic Railway Modelling: Layout Design", publi...
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 1:59 pm
- Forum: Coaches and NPCS
- Topic: I'm Being Bullied!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3323
Re: I'm Being Bullied!
Bill Bedford (Mousa Models)does downloads of generic coach interiors,which include representations of pictures which satisfy my ancient eyes at normal train viewing distances - see http://www.mousa.biz/downloads/coach_seats.html
Ian
Ian
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 5:40 am
- Forum: Standard Gauge Workbench
- Topic: Norwayman's Wharf Junction
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7492
Re: Norwayman's Wharf Junction
On this Project I assume it is OK for any sidings etc to run off stage past the defined limits of the layout proper? I do hope so Absolutely. It's only the scenic section that has to be 4'8.5" or less. The fiddle yards can be any size (within reason ;) ) and you may run sidings etc. off the sc...
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:05 am
- Forum: Cumbrian Region Area Group (CRAG)
- Topic: Cumbrian Region Area Group (CRAG) Meetings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6777
Cumbrian Region Area Group (CRAG) Meetings
Having survived* Scaleforum, and even winning a voucher for £50 at Eileen's Emporium for the best use of scratch building materials (for Clecklewyke's viaduct), attention turned to the October meeting of CRAG. This was held at David's house which is in the beautiful, largely unknown country "be...
- Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:24 am
- Forum: Standard Gauge Workbench
- Topic: Norwayman's Wharf Junction
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7492
Re: Norwayman's Wharf Junction
So, wind-swept, bleak, mud-flats, stunted hawthorns? IIiffe Stokes rather than ITV's Doc Martin. Could be really atmospheric!
Ian
Ian
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:01 am
- Forum: Standard Gauge Workbench
- Topic: Norwayman's Wharf Junction
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7492
Re: Norwayman's Wharf Junction
Welcome aboard! It looks a bit like Humber Dock - https://clecklewyke.wordpress.com/exhibition-layouts/humber-dock/ - but with an extra passwngwe line (and a later period). I take it you are planning a fiddle yard at each end? This would require two operators, or a lot of walking. Have you considere...
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:29 am
- Forum: Chassis and Suspensions
- Topic: Romford hand rail knobs for CSBs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1463
Re: Romford hand rail knobs for CSBs
Thank you, Morgan.
The order is as I speak wending its way to 247 Developments. (It would have helped if I had looked more carefully at the 247 web site - they helpfully note "CSB" against the appropriate knobs.
Doh...
Ian
The order is as I speak wending its way to 247 Developments. (It would have helped if I had looked more carefully at the 247 web site - they helpfully note "CSB" against the appropriate knobs.
Doh...

Ian
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 7:56 am
- Forum: Chassis and Suspensions
- Topic: Romford hand rail knobs for CSBs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1463
Romford hand rail knobs for CSBs
I'd be most grateful if you could remind me what type of Romford hand rail knobs I should order for making a CSB chassis.
They come in several sizes - lengths 1.2, 1.6, 2.0 3mm and WD variants.
Ian
They come in several sizes - lengths 1.2, 1.6, 2.0 3mm and WD variants.
Ian
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:45 am
- Forum: Cumbrian Region Area Group (CRAG)
- Topic: Clecklewyke on tour - Tea and trains in Askrigg, 5/9/2015
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1335
Clecklewyke on tour - Tea and trains in Askrigg, 5/9/2015
Clecklewyke will be at Scaleforum in September, so as a try-out under less demanding exhibition conditions we will be showing the layout in Askrigg Village Hall, between 2.30 and 4.30 on Saturday 5th September. We are again calling it "Tea and Trains" and the admission price of £2.50 will ...
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 6:12 pm
- Forum: Standard Gauge Workbench
- Topic: Ex-LNWR shed, somewhere in South Wales.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5941
Re: Ex-LNWR shed, somewhere in South Wales.
Hi, Philip and welcome to the workbench. This looks like a really interesting project - even if the buildings are old they look the part and the baseboard (particularly its legs) is fabulous! It's good to see you starting up again, I remember fondly your earlier web site with its thorough-going expl...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 7:50 am
- Forum: Paul Willis
- Topic: Beer and Buckjumpers
- Replies: 821
- Views: 55778
Re: Another Round...
It's wonderful what the surgeons can do with some eye defects - I just wish they could make optic nerve fibres regenerate. I'm sure they will but not in my time.
Ian
Ian
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:17 am
- Forum: Craig Warton
- Topic: GWR Goods hand barrow.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7198
Re: GWR Goods hand barrow.
David B wrote: See if you can get the pedals to go round!
It can be done -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agwaGhMvC_E
Ian
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:01 am
- Forum: Paul Willis
- Topic: Beer and Buckjumpers
- Replies: 821
- Views: 55778
Re: Another Round...
jim s-w wrote:Does anyone ever actually view models form 3 feet away?![]()
Jim
I do, with 68 year old eyes and a touch of glaucoma, so don't look too closely at the stock on Clecklewyke!

Ian
- Thu Jul 16, 2015 5:39 pm
- Forum: Where to Find?
- Topic: Clasp Brakes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1922
Re: Clasp Brakes
Thank you Jim, they look absolutely perfect.
Thank heavens for S4Soc! - and Andrew Hartshorne!
Ian
Thank heavens for S4Soc! - and Andrew Hartshorne!
Ian
- Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:17 pm
- Forum: Where to Find?
- Topic: Clasp Brakes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1922
Clasp Brakes
I'm building some ex LNER and BR fish vans for Humber Dock and everything's gone reasonably fine so far. For the first time I'm using Bill Bedford's springing units which went together nicely and I was getting really rather cocky - this finescale stuff isn't really that hard, etc., etc. - but then I...
- Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:02 am
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: Finally Made A Start in P4!
- Replies: 215
- Views: 62239
Re: Finally Made A Start in P4!
I remember watching one layout at Scaleforum 2013 which was displayed quite high. I was both amused, and rather concerned about elfandsafty, by the antics of an operator who found he needed to stand on a chair. Ah, layout height. How I love these old staples of the finescale discussion diet. On one...
- Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:05 am
- Forum: Starting in P4
- Topic: Ideal starter wagon chassis?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 18601
Re: Ideal starter wagon chassis?
Maybe a silly question but... I've just made up some BB springing units for the first time for some fish vans for Humber Dock. In general I found them simple to put together and they seem to work well on my test plank, even with the unweighted plastic kits. However I found that the W-irons were very...
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:40 am
- Forum: Standard Gauge Workbench
- Topic: Mount Woodville Works
- Replies: 257
- Views: 78204
Re: Mount Woodville Works
It's good to see another layout on the Standard Gauge Workbench.
If it's as good as Manston Brewery, and I'm sure it will...
Ian
If it's as good as Manston Brewery, and I'm sure it will...
Ian
- Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:00 am
- Forum: Cumbrian Region Area Group (CRAG)
- Topic: Cumbrian Region Area Group (CRAG) 2015 programme
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1728
Cumbrian Region Area Group (CRAG) 2015 programme
We now have a complete programme arranged for the remainder of this year: June 13 (Sat) Operating Preston (Lostock Hall) July 11 (Sat) Operating Clecklewyke or Humber Dock (Wensleyfale) Aug 13 (Thurs) (Swaledale) Sept 5 (Sat) - "Tea & trains" - try-out of Clecklewyke before Scaleforum ...
- Wed May 27, 2015 8:56 pm
- Forum: Where to Find?
- Topic: Stanier brake van chassis
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6344
Re: Stanier brake van chassis
jim s-w wrote:That's not a chassis kit though
Cheers
Jim
Doh - thanks for saving me a lot of dosh and a red face.

Ian
- Wed May 27, 2015 6:16 pm
- Forum: Where to Find?
- Topic: Stanier brake van chassis
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6344
Re: Stanier brake van chassis
That's the one.
Many thanks.
Ian
Many thanks.
Ian
- Wed May 27, 2015 10:18 am
- Forum: Where to Find?
- Topic: Stanier brake van chassis
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6344
Re: Stanier brake van chassis
Thanks, Jim, that's the right type but I thought there was one more recently announced by another manufacturer?
Ian
Ian