industrial railways

What better way to recover from hospital surgery than a new layout. It beats any medicine hands down, in my opinion! Bank Top Yard will be a shunting layout, used for slow, realistic movements of wagons around the yard to a fiddle yard off scene. There will be no run round loop and any run...

My first recorded visit to an industrial railway system was in August 1958 to Penrhyn Slate Quarry in North Wales. In the late 1950's to early 1960's much of the school holidays were spent with a like minded school friend exploring the railways of North Wales, travelling on many of the BR lines...

With the usual caveat that this may or may not happen, though we are (finally) in a position to have a house - and thus walls - of our own and I have one, and possibly two, walls of the end of garden office (10' 6" x 10' 6"). Going all the way round is out and I want to do something that will...

Hello everybody, Hopefully you don’t mind me jumping straight in here, rather than heading through the new members section, but it made sense to keep everything in one place... so by way of an introduction, I’m Chris, half of the double act that put together the various bodgings that appear on...

Just stumbled across this rather wonderful bit of film that @Osgood and @Neil might enjoy (as might you all), showing the end of steam working at Yates, Duxbury paper mill at Heap Bridge in 1974. It's fair to describe the condition of the Barclay saddle tank as 'sub-optimal', but well-polished -...

One for @Simon, and anyone else with a soft spot for tiny standard gauge Rustons. DS1169 was a peripatetic beast, a 48DS which spent its career in service with the Bristol Aircraft Co. and latterly, with the Southern and Western regions of BR. Given that it spent its career away from the public...

My interest in european railways has always been strong and I have always liked the more rural and less mainline types, some how I ended up being interested in German narrow gauge. I also have a very strong interest in industrial railways. So I am building a lot stock for a 7mm scale German...

I haven't being doing much serious modelling for ages (if you can call this serious) and I bought this kit at Cleckheaton this year as a back up locomotive for a proposed industrial shunting layout set during WW2. I shall also be installing an ESU Loksound mini sound decoder using their VW...

This has been built for a while but I did take some shots of the build... The prototype locos were built for BSC at Templeborough/Rotherham and there were 6 in total to replace some ageing Fowler 0-4-0 diesels. They have 400hp engines (not sure of the type). Once the steelworks closed some...

Anyone here converted their Hudswell to S7? I've not had a chance to pull mine apart yet (still hiding it from the boss:rolleyes:) and I was wondering if the wheels have separate tyres on plastic centres like the the Fowler? As I am latheless the possibility of re-gauging the Hudswell in the...

I'm in the process of developing a layout in 7mm based on Mountain Ash in the mid-late 70's, and there are a few essential members of the loco fleet that will lead to kit-builds - pannier 7754 is easily covered by JTLRT, I plan to alter the forthcoming DJM ready-to-run J94 to represent No. 8...

I'm Dave and I'm an industrial locomotive kit addict... :confused: I bought another one, another Peckett. I really shouldn't be building soft southern engines, being Leeds born Iought to be building Hudswells and Hunslets, but I couldn't help it. The kit is from Agenoria and builds Henry...

Hullo Does anyone know of any published drawings of the 1879 Beyer Peacock 0-4-0 no 1827 and where I could find them please? (Image from : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/foxfield/beyer_peacock.htm courtesy of google) I'd like to attempt to build an S7 model of it, I came across it whilst...

Here's an interesting job, makes a change from scratch building:rolleyes:. A F/S Ixion Manning Wardle 0-4-0st to be converted to S7 and then painted black and weathered heavily:D. I'll post the process of conversion, including wheel turning etc and what ever else needs attention in due...

The Sentinel build is on hold at the moment as I am awaiting the milled parts, so here we have another one to keep me amused for a couple of weeks. Peckett X2 class 0-6-0ST. This is the largest loco I have built to date and although it's far too big for Bury, Thorn & Sons I just wanted one so...

I thought that it was time to keep Jerry company and start a thread on here featuring various 2mm models, and maybe even a layout (eventually). I'll start off with my Newcastle Quayside ES1 which has been retro fitted with a DCC chip. Alex.

There's nothing special here, or anything you don't already know about building brass kits, but I'm posting this simply to prove that I actually build the stuff I post in the gallery and that I don't have someone build it all for me (I wish I could afford to!) or have the magic loco kit fairies...

Well, a Thomas Hill at any rate. The real things were developed from the 0-6-0 version of the Rolls Royce Sentinel DH (itself developed from the chassis of a steam design produced for Dorman Long*), but with a better, taller cab and improved access to the 350hp Rolls Royce engine for...

Recently Steve at Narrow Planet introduced this delightful mixed media kit of a loco introduced in the 1980's for use in RNAD munitions depots. Here's the link to the Narrow Planet website giving more information on the kit. I have no links to Narrow Planet except as a satisfied customer...

The Peckett of Bury, Thorn & Sons Ltd. blotting out the sky next to the maintenance workshop, July 1964. Working back to shed from the railtank loading siding. The reality...