Hadleigh's Ltd. Sevastopol Works

[Dave]

I forgot to say that I got the traverser locking done. No picture because it looks pretty much the same as it did but with some tubes soldered on and a bent length of brass rod.

To store wagons at the sector plate end I made a shelving thingy to store them in.

On the baseboard face I have added pockets to hold the wagon cards. I have since added the siding location/names to these.
The pocket on the left holds the pack of cards, from which are drawn 7 to make up the train. The train is run out to the weighbridge loop, where the cards are held in an ARRIVALS pocket. As each wagon is moved to its destination, its card is removed from ARRIVALS and deposited in the location pocket e.g. Boiler House.

What I haven't yet worked out is when and which wagons should be gathered in and have their cards put into the DEPARTURES pocket to make up a train go back to BR. Or when to run an internal only train. Dice?

 

[Dave]

More wagons.

Five-plank Ex-PO and former GWR Diag. 030.


Former GWR Open C.


Brush-Beyer Peacock 200HP Diesel-electric. The Controller has traded in his sidecar outfit for a brand-new baby Austin.

 

[hrmspaul]

More wagons.

Five-plank Ex-PO and former GWR Diag. 030.
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Unusual to see the steel O30, I suspect few knew they existed. I have posted a Tony Dyer photo of one of these Tony Dyer Collection | W124189

I've never compared it to the 13T minerals being built for Private Traders at that time. A wagon type long overdue for a RTR model.

Paul

 

[Dave]

The very last area of bare baseboard has now been covered. I am in the process of making a chain link fence around the area.





The rails aren't connected to anything, nor are they live. If I had thought about it before ballasting I could have wired them up as the program track for the DCC system.

 

[Dave]

Looking along the layout, from the FY.



The entrance to the FY at the other end.

 

[Dave]

I have made no progress at all in finishing off the layout. I have been running it and have added some new rolling stock in the form of slag bogies. These are RT Models kits that had already been built by someone else. All I did was to tidy them up and repaint/weather them.
They are very heavy, being made from white metal, and of course don't run on pinpoint bearings and so none of the RTR locos are capable of taking them up the steep bank between levels.

Fortunately, one of my scratchbuilt Manning Wardles is up to the job. This engine is closely based on W/n 1802 that was built for Vickers, at Barrow In Furness, where it was named Cyclops. The prototype is extant, in Australia, where it was sold to and worked at a steel works there. It was renamed Possum and is a static exhibit in a park. The model weighs in at 320g, which is about 2 1/2 Hornby Pecketts.

 

[Osgood]

Fantastic ladle weathering!