Talk Morgan Forums Community General Photo Gallery DaveW's Railway - Update

I've posted railway bits and pieces over the years, but to be honest, since I got a Morgan, the railway has taken second place. But the benefit of railway modelling in the loft is that you can leave it for long periods, and then get back into it as and when. This year I resolved to get more landscaping sorted out. Ballasting in particular is very time consuming, and requires gymnastic contortions to get into very tight and fiddly spaces. Anyway I've made a huge leap forward at hardly any cost - miniature stone chippings come cheap! So today I took a few updated photos. There's still a huge amount to do on the other side of the loft, which is un-ballasted and without scenic additions so far. I won't bore you all with captions, but just let me know if you have any questions. The location is loosely based in North Devon with a mix of Western Region and Southern Region motive power, and obviously long distance Midland trains - in the style of Exeter in the fifties and sixties.

You must be a Rod Stewart fan hope you dont have his other hobby. Just reminded me of our friends in Germany . Erika's father had worked for the railroad all his life in his huge cellar was a scale system of a railway. I never saw it when over his son in law could not keep out of the pub used me as an excuse, but its still there the railway not the pub .

Dave you need to get some miniature cameras embedded in the carriages and the loco - to film passenger and crew view points on the move, think of the strangely beamed world that they live in.

The advantage of "N" though, for those with a four seater and no loft to convert, is that you could have a half decent layout in the back of the Mog.

I am currently a "resting" OO modeller - got a few bits from days gone by, but nowhere near enough house pionts to suggest that bed 2 becomes railway room 1. Loft is already bed 4.

Cheers

Fantastic.


A very dear late friend of mine Graham Jowett-Ive had a layout called Hannem Central. It was in a room over his garage.
His paint spraying "booth" was a large cardboard box which he placed on the cooker hob, using the cooker hood as the extractor!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsE8QeHMbk4

Think of the railway you could get on the narrow boat?

Still working out how to get the Mog onto the bow at the moment Roger.

Excellent Dave!
The left hand road in photo 3 looks like a proper little used branch line