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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Sat Apr 02, 2022 4:31 pm

Thanks Richard. Still are a few jobs to do, yes, a bit more weathering. The black and yellow stripes were fun, got some yellow stripe transfers but trying to space them was difficult plus the fact the body (which the buffer beams are attached to) had to be up ended to work on. Soon gave up that idea so it was down to using 2mm masking tape and spraying. Couplings to add and pick ups to make and fit along with a chip, nearly forgot and a driver!
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Allan Goodwillie » Tue May 03, 2022 6:16 pm

Hi Rob, :D
this is my first post in ages as I have been suffering the effects of long covid, Due to it I have not managed to progress Scotts Road, but will get back to it in the summer, I hope. Your model is very good indeed, How did you make the wheels, I had a go at making some years ago and they are not easy to get right.

Allan :)

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Tue May 10, 2022 5:44 am

Hi Allan,
The wheels are Gibson's.
Get well soon.
Rob

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Wed Dec 14, 2022 4:41 pm

The good summer got in the way, trips away, gardening etc.
A few months ago it was back to 'work'.
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Finally got all the ground works finished around the screens and also built a fan housing.

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The start of detailing around the compressed air tank, still more to add.
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby ken kirk » Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:32 pm

Stunning as usual Rob.
Glad you are busy again.
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:11 am

Guess it is time for an update......

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View of the right side of the layout. The fan housing stands in the far corner with its two ventilation shafts.


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The left side with a water tank and blacksmith shop to the rear, more detail added in the foreground.


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More details added around the screens. Modelu workman clearing up the spilled coal, his hat and coat hangs on the pillar to his right.


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The down cast shaft engine winding house now complete, ropes also added to the up cast head gear.


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A miner (Modelu) pops out of the pit top for some fresh air and possibly a Mars bar!

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Allan Goodwillie » Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:39 am

Hi Rob, :)

Your colliery is coming along in great fashion. I am back building again after a long period of covid difficulties and hope to get back to working on Scotts Road in the summer. I will post some photographs then once I feel I have made enough progress. I had always intended adding a colliery at one end, but now doubt I will have the time as I have other priorities in recovering my mainline layout after it was damaged by water two winters ago. My colliery would never be so comprehensive as yours or look so good. Scotts Road is in fact a distribution yard on a colliery system, the collieries being a short distance away. Busy building a couple of unusual locomotives at the moment. Both are well tanks built by Wheatley and running on his railway in the 1880's. I am hoping to have them both finished in about three weeks, providing my long covid allows.

Good to see you have been busy! :thumb
Hope all is well at home.
Allan :)

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Terry Bendall » Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:07 am

All looking very good Rob.

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby bevis » Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:11 am

Looking good Rob, hope to see the layout in the flesh at some point.

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:03 am

Allan Goodwillie wrote:Hi Rob, :)

Your colliery is coming along in great fashion. I am back building again after a long period of covid difficulties and hope to get back to working on Scotts Road in the summer. I will post some photographs then once I feel I have made enough progress. I had always intended adding a colliery at one end, but now doubt I will have the time as I have other priorities in recovering my mainline layout after it was damaged by water two winters ago. My colliery would never be so comprehensive as yours or look so good. Scotts Road is in fact a distribution yard on a colliery system, the collieries being a short distance away. Busy building a couple of unusual locomotives at the moment. Both are well tanks built by Wheatley and running on his railway in the 1880's. I am hoping to have them both finished in about three weeks, providing my long covid allows.

Good to see you have been busy! :thumb
Hope all is well at home.
Allan :)


Hi Alan, I've been wondering how you are what with your long covid and pleased to hear that you are building again and that Scotts Road will get some progress. Shame that earlier planning and distance prevented a collaboration. Look forward to seeing your progress. All is very well here at home.
Rob

Terry Bendall wrote:All looking very good Rob.

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Thanks Terry :thumb

bevis wrote:Looking good Rob, hope to see the layout in the flesh at some point.


Thanks Bevis, by all means call in if you are in the area.
Rob

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:34 am

A motor just delivered to the workshops....

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Work now progressing on the stores and a part of the the stock yard...

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All items scratch built from styrene sheet, strip and turned items from aluminium bar.
I have a photo of a disused mobile emergency winder which I intended to model in its entirety but space was limited so just the winding drum was made and basically dumped in the corner of the stock yard. The cooling fins on the motors were tricky, I ended up making a jig and positioned the fins on a strip of styrene in the flat then wrapped and glue around aluminium bar.
The conveyor belt rollers involved drilling 2mm styrene rod then inserting .75 rod to form the shaft, so far some 70 odd rollers.
The pallets were made from thin strips of wood.
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Suffolk Dave » Mon Apr 24, 2023 6:27 am

Nice modelling, I love the attention to attention to detail here.

But let me show my ignorance by asking what might turn out to be a stupid question: would the motor have been too heavy for the forklift truck to move around?
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby JFS » Mon Apr 24, 2023 8:11 am

Suffolk Dave wrote:... would the motor have been too heavy for the forklift truck to move around?

Ah - you have overlooked the fact that the back wheels of the truck are off the ground and the two lads are having a conversation along the lines "I told you so. Now go and get the big truck like I said ..." :D

Great modeling as always Rob! But it might need dirtying - I seem to remember every colliery I visited in the seventies was ankle-deep in black slurry when it rained, and black dust when it didn't!

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Allan Goodwillie » Mon Apr 24, 2023 6:31 pm

Hi Rob, :D

Interesting and a lot of work I am sure in the detail. I am also sure the men would figure a way, it reminded me of something I saw in Goose Island in Chicago when watching movements in a steel company's yard where gondolas were being shunted very roughly by the yard crane, which was on bogies and bucking like a bronco. There was no way to couple the vehicles. Similarly an interesting hour in a scrapyard near Thornton where ex-NCB locos and Wemyss engines were sent after their useful life. There had been heavy rain in the morning and the yard was like a quagmire and scrap was being manoeuvred using a large lorry driving on its back axle - no tyres! You can imagine the churning muck!

Scratch building a couple of very unusual well tanks at the moment.
Allan :)

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:11 am

Suffolk Dave wrote:Nice modelling, I love the attention to attention to detail here.

But let me show my ignorance by asking what might turn out to be a stupid question: would the motor have been too heavy for the forklift truck to move around?


Thanks Dave, not a stupid question, I modelled the fork lift on a photo, the fork lift and motor were of similar proportions albeit that in the photo the armature had been removed. Fork lift trucks do have counter balance weights at the rear. Maybe I’ll model the motor without the armature.
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Suffolk Dave wrote:... would the motor have been too heavy for the forklift truck to move around?

Ah - you have overlooked the fact that the back wheels of the truck are off the ground and the two lads are having a conversation along the lines "I told you so. Now go and get the big truck like I said ..." :D

Great modeling as always Rob! But it might need dirtying - I seem to remember every colliery I visited in the seventies was ankle-deep in black slurry when it rained, and black dust when it didn't!


Liked your reply to Suffolk Dave!
Thanks Howard. I’m working from loads of coloured photos in 3 volumes of the last days of mining in Yorkshire and South Wales. There are ‘clean’ areas but also the black slurry. To the right of the stock yard I intend to do some slurry but I’m running out of room! Might apply for planning permission for an extension or if time permits start another mining project.

Allan Goodwillie wrote:Hi Rob, :D



Interesting and a lot of work I am sure in the detail. I am also sure the men would figure a way, it reminded me of something I saw in Goose Island in Chicago when watching movements in a steel company's yard where gondolas were being shunted very roughly by the yard crane, which was on bogies and bucking like a bronco. There was no way to couple the vehicles. Similarly an interesting hour in a scrapyard near Thornton where ex-NCB locos and Wemyss engines were sent after their useful life. There had been heavy rain in the morning and the yard was like a quagmire and scrap was being manoeuvred using a large lorry driving on its back axle - no tyres! You can imagine the churning muck!

Scratch building a couple of very unusual well tanks at the moment.
Allan :)


Hi Allan, hope the long Covid is getting better.
For me I enjoy doing the detail. Liked your stories about Chicago and Thornton

Rob

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:33 pm

About time for an update on the colliery.
My other passion is for model engineering which I started back in the late 1960's. In the mid 1990's, a move of house and no where to have a workshop which would accommodate the large machinery especially my huge Victorian lathe so the model engineering was put aside. Last year I decided to spend the kids inheritance and invested on setting up a workshop, initially with modest size machinery in the modelling room, then as the live steam modelling progressed I wanted to build larger models so bought a much larger lathe which lives in the garage.Winter time and far too cold in the garage so back to the colliery.
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All the buildings have now been completed and a back scene painted.
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Still have the ropes to fit on the downcast headstock, more figures to add, more colour adjustment and more rolling stock to add. This will be done alongside the model engineering with 2 more projects in the pipe line.
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Le Corbusier » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:40 pm

Lovely stuff Rob .... and love the steam engine. :thumb
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:32 pm

Thanks Tim, what have you been up to, not seen any further on Monsall Dale.
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Le Corbusier » Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:39 pm

Hoping later this year to get an area for some track and potentially get back into some modelling ... in the meantime work has somewhat got in the way. :?
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:13 pm

Tim, waiting patiently………
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby RobM » Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:24 pm

Time to update my avatar.....have aged a little since the last......

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Paul Willis » Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:38 pm

Le Corbusier wrote:Hoping later this year to get an area for some track and potentially get back into some modelling ... in the meantime work has somewhat got in the way. :?


I know that feeling... A heavy 22 month stint comes to an end this Thursday.

Hopefully you'll have some free time yourself soon, as the regular Midland chit chat has been much missed!

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Suffolk Dave » Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:14 am

Rob, for a moment I thought your stationary engines were for the colliery pump house and then I saw the three-pinned plug! Nice work all the same.
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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Allan Goodwillie » Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:04 pm

Hi Rob, :)
Good to see some more progress and the engineering is lovely, As to the loads - I can't remember if I mentioned this but as a young lad I was at Kingmoore shed watching the comings and goings and the Yorkshire Engine Company had been trialing a new 0-8-0 shunting engine called Taurus - probably in Carlisle New Yard. They had brought it down to the main shed to be put on a road trailer. They lined everything up and the locomotive was run of the rails at the end of the siding up the temporary track on to the trailer, when the trailer promptly sat down through the tarmac and ended up with the axles buried in the roadway. Great consternation and discussion! (and some very bad language!)

Unfortunately I never found out what they did to rectify the situation as I was to make my way home later on in the day - as I passed on a northbound train everything was just as I had left the scene some hours before. Sorry I have no pictures as in these days it was often a choice between taking photographs or paying for travel.

Sorry I have not posted much in the last couple of years as my long covid keeps on giving - having some problems with walking recently. However I did manage to get the well tanks built and they are now performing on Garlieston, the West of Scotland 4mm group layout - I also built some cottages for the layout and an industrial engine shed for the colliery section of Calderside - all of which has been keeping my hand in.

I have also had to give up doing the Scalefour section of the Perth Model Railway club show, which I have been helping to develop over the last eight years or so and have asked my friend Fergus to take over from me this year. We have a larger area this year given over to Scalefour and I am sure it will prove a great hit with the public and S4 members alike. I am still helping ease Fergus in in the background as most of the basic groundwork was done last year - still he will have plenty to do and I am sure he will do an excellent job.

In recent months I have been rebuilding my Grayrigg layout - it was damaged before Covid, but I have not had the enthusiasm or strength to be able to repair it until a few weeks ago, however I managed to strip it down to bare baseboards, lifted the track and foam underlay which I found caused intermittent problems and have now re-corked the lot, done new earthworks and have been back laying track again. I am taking photos as i go along, but it will be a couple of months before I can do any postings. Dave and I are going by train down to York on Monday to see the show, so I am sure I will be re-inspired and keen to move on with my own Scott's Road as I am determined to get it finished. So it is good that I am beginning to feel better and able to focus in a way that has not been possible for the last couple of years.

All the best :thumb
Allan

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Re: Arlington Colliery

Postby Terry Bendall » Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:55 pm

Some brilliant work on the model engineering Rob and on the colliery layout. :thumb :thumb

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