Captain Kernow's layouts

[Captain Kernow]

I've finished the Midland yard crane now and have planted it on it's plinth.






The crane itself is removable for storage and transport, although the whitemetal upright that it pivots on, is fixed to the baseboard.

 

[Captain Kernow]

Light Railway departure:

 

[Captain Kernow]

On a hot summers day, the yard at Callow Lane is deserted and nothing is moving:

 

[Captain Kernow]

Been doing some brambles and other undergrowth over the last couple of days:

 

[Alan]

Smashing!

 

[Oban27]

Been doing some brambles and other undergrowth over the last couple of days:
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Ah, you can't beat brambles!

Roja

 

[Suffolk Dave]

They look good. I can't wait to try the jam!

 

[Captain Kernow]

Someone has forgotten to shut the door to the shunters cabin:

 

[NHY 581]

A classic example of how to suggest "life".

Top stuff.

 

[Pencarrow]

Someone has forgotten to shut the door to the shunters cabin:
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Superb CK.


Particularly beneficial is the lack of pannier motive power. Well done that man.

 

[Captain Kernow]

Particularly beneficial is the lack of pannier motive power. Well done that man.

That would be easily rectified!

 

[Captain Kernow]

Told you!

 

[Captain Kernow]

View from the roof of an adjacent factory of a Class 22 shunting:

 

[Captain Kernow]

Earlier that day, D831 'Monarch' was working a north-bound inter-regional express from Bristol TM, via the Midland main line, when it developed mechanical problems at Mangotsfield and had to be assisted to Westerleigh Yard by one of the yard pilots. A Hymek was sent by Bath Road to take the train forward and the Warship languished in the yard, until a fitter attended and rectified the relatively simple fault that had caused it to fail.

The yard foreman then 'borrowed' the loco to cover part of a local trip working diagram, before sending it back southwards to it's home depot in Devon, and thus it was snapped at Callow Lane by Dick Wolsley, who just happened to be visiting, in the hope of seeing the Coalville Johnson 2F, that had been rumoured to be working in the area.

 

[Captain Kernow]

 

[Alan]

Lovely work Tim.

 

[Jim smith-wright]

Thats the source of your yard lamps Tim? Are they scratchbuilt?

 

[Captain Kernow]

Thats the source of your yard lamps Tim? Are they scratchbuilt?

Hi Jim,

If you mean the lamp in the photo with the Warship, that started life as a commercial product by RMlectronics (I think that's the name), which I bought a few years ago.

I removed the base, reduced the height, I may have replaced the ladder and then re-painted it.

 

[Malcolmcelyn]

I removed the base, reduced the height, I may have replaced the ladder and then re-painted it.

So, like Triggers broom, five new heads and three new handles. Looking brand new.

 

[Jordan]

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Time to wheel out the usual warning about posting photos of the real thing, whilst claiming it's a model....