At last- progress to report.
After a busy couple of months marking exams on line- plenty of unrepeatable howlers to keep me awake- it is time to get some progress made on the railway.
First progress- the Dapol Hall has arrived. This will look good on Parnhams in September pulling the Inter-Company train, despite the fact the GWR didn't have running powers to the vale of Belvoir.
Second progress- the car has been changed. now with a Grand C4 Picasso I've room at last to cart a railway around the country.
Third progress- the railway shed has been ordered for delivery later in August. A 16 X 10 foot railway room all of my own. That should take a workbench and enough room for a 12' X 2'6" exhibition layout to be made. Next stage is to plan it out......
Cock O'The North on Farndon Road
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Idiot Software
I've just spent a very frustrating half-hour trying to publish that last post. On my desktop machine since I updated Internet Explorer there are certain buttons that just don't work no matter how many times you push them. Microsoft at its best, no doubt. Every update seems to add new bugs. Very frustrating!
Thank heavens for backup laptops.
Thank heavens for backup laptops.
June already?
I always thought that retirement meant more time to keep up with the hobby. WRONG!
Cotgrave show went well, though didn't get enough people through the door. We must do better next year. One thing that has come out of it is that the N-gauge Society AGM is to be there next year.
On the railway front I've been looking at what I need in the way of stock and getting rid of some to fund their replacements. basically I need three groups of stock- for Farndon Road (Eastern Region- about 50 locos in all), For Parnhams and Seldomseen (the new one when I get it started)- about 20-25 locos LNER mainly but some LMS until Trev sells Parnhams off, and for the small German layout, provisionally called Gundelfingen- unless there actually WAS a railway there!.
More later- Gundelfingen will start later in the year when I get the shed up and running, and Seldomseen will follow it.
Cotgrave show went well, though didn't get enough people through the door. We must do better next year. One thing that has come out of it is that the N-gauge Society AGM is to be there next year.
On the railway front I've been looking at what I need in the way of stock and getting rid of some to fund their replacements. basically I need three groups of stock- for Farndon Road (Eastern Region- about 50 locos in all), For Parnhams and Seldomseen (the new one when I get it started)- about 20-25 locos LNER mainly but some LMS until Trev sells Parnhams off, and for the small German layout, provisionally called Gundelfingen- unless there actually WAS a railway there!.
More later- Gundelfingen will start later in the year when I get the shed up and running, and Seldomseen will follow it.
Friday, 29 April 2011
Cotgrave Show
Setting up today for Cotgrave show. I've just collected a long wheelbase van and put an inordinate amount of diesel into it. Breakfast next then off to Kirton to pick up "Holcome Brook", then back to Newark to pick up "Armathwaite". Then off to Cotgrave to arrive by about 2.30 with a little bit of luck.
Hopefully we've sorted the electrical problem on Parnhams and won't need to double up the B17s again.
Saturday, 16 April 2011
Free at last
-- or at least getting cheaper by the day? Finally reached the end of term and early retirement. Next job is to get my strength back and tackle a backlog of UFOs (unfinished objects) on the shelf above the computer. Stocklist is shrinking at the moment- I'm getting rid of a few LNER pacifics and other types so the survivors can all get into the stock boxes.
Monday, 28 March 2011
better than a B17...
Parnhams at Nottingham had an electrical fault develop over the weekend- nothing serious but we couldn't run two trains out of siding six. This meant combining them to make an 11-coach mega express hauled by a pair of B17s (one alone couldonly just manage seven as the exhibition floor wasn't quite level). Looked very impressive End of March already...
More work and not enough railway modelling, same old story. Nottingham exhibition has been and gone. Successful weekend except that we had a high casualty rate. Alberta has done another stand-in stint, not bad for a 30-year old Peco loco. 
Parnhams got a good crowd all weekend. A lot of people also took away with them fliers for the Bingham show at Cotgrave on 30th April and 1st May. Cotgrave will be without Farndon Road unfortunately- more technical problems mean Parnhams will have to substitute. Never mind, there's always next year. In the mean time I'm going to upgrade as many of my FR locos as I can afford to do. The WD has gone- though the Royal Mail took sixteen days to deliver a first-class packet AND delivered it at 6pm on a Friday evening!!!! One A1 (the one needing a repair has gone, with the Grafar-chassised one to follow (Abbotsford). Two A3s so far with a third up for auction, and one A4 with one waiting. I've also sold a spare 04 diesel (three are too many) and from the Parnhams fleet a director, a J39 and the N7 are going shortly, together with Trafalgar when fixed. Replacements will be fewer in number and better in quality.
Parnhams got a good crowd all weekend. A lot of people also took away with them fliers for the Bingham show at Cotgrave on 30th April and 1st May. Cotgrave will be without Farndon Road unfortunately- more technical problems mean Parnhams will have to substitute. Never mind, there's always next year. In the mean time I'm going to upgrade as many of my FR locos as I can afford to do. The WD has gone- though the Royal Mail took sixteen days to deliver a first-class packet AND delivered it at 6pm on a Friday evening!!!! One A1 (the one needing a repair has gone, with the Grafar-chassised one to follow (Abbotsford). Two A3s so far with a third up for auction, and one A4 with one waiting. I've also sold a spare 04 diesel (three are too many) and from the Parnhams fleet a director, a J39 and the N7 are going shortly, together with Trafalgar when fixed. Replacements will be fewer in number and better in quality.
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