Hi to all modellers out there and just a little about my layout.Retired due toinjuries at work in 1990 at the grand old age of 47 but I hve a good pension??luckily???Decide our loft at our bungalow needed a model railway so what a job.A series of 4x2 timbers across the roof space on which the boads were rested and the frmework completed .May 1958 was the year i chose to base the models on (with some license should I feel so enclined) and south east london covering southern(BR) using charing cross  Victoria cannon street and Blackfriars.this included EMU,s diesel and steam locos and latterly the Bulleid bolsters?? The layout measures nearly 10ft width and 36ft length  with terminus Cannon Street ,with the old glass canopy(From a photo) 4 platforms ,a four platform through station  and a further terminal station.The first is on high level with the other two on low level.Ther is one anti clockwise track from low to high level and one clockwise track from high to low The layout is analogue .There are 72 electrically operated points and track Peco 100.I love Bulleid locos and have many hornby Pacifics fit for 1958 including 35028 and 35001 both 73A also many of the light pacifics both spams and rebuilds.I built 2 Millholme MN locos some time ago which ar great to use but will have to be adjusted to. other ones as 1 and 28 are hornby now,unrebuilt.Two standard class 5,s 73085 and 73087 which I regularly saw at Bickley ,one I built and on RTR.I have built quite a number of locos for the layout N1(73C)  C 31788 photographed at Tonbridge in the 50,s bolster 20003 which used a spare RTR chassis and Worsley works made the body parts which i joined.20001/2 are already on the layout The works also made the body for a Hastings 6 car unit (1018) for which Bachmann very kindly sent me the chassises and motor units as used in their thumper units,which are the same.Thumper units 1108,1114(3car) 1118/21 (marsh line units) are also there.Cut and shut using branchline/roxey coach kits abound for I believe seven push /pull units including 481/482 used on the Westerham branch.I used these when visiting my uncles farm near Sundridge in kent.I also adapted a bacmann 08 to form a Bulleid diesel 15225?  which I got measurements from on the Spa railway some years ago and also the basis for the `Maunsell 0-6-0 15202.Many BR southern EMU,s are on the layout fromSRG Bachmann and roxey kits but again some cut and shutting done .One is a LSWR 3 car which ahd a augmentation coach fitted eventually again bodily supplied by Worsley Works.I was fortunate enoughto speak to the owner of No Nonsense Kits who had bought MTK.During our chat he mentioned he had the prototype BR southern Double Deck EMU kit from MTK .£28 and it was mine.I know MTk had certain nicknames for their kits but when I finished the size was spot on in every way.The sides and roof were one piece of thick brass for which I made a hard wood mould………which worked??!!I used a converted triang dock shunt motor with smaller wheels and new side irons .The total weight with seating and stairs(made from 7 ply wood) was just over 3.5 lbs.The motor is stll. in it and goes like a rocket,if I let it.But now KR are bringing out their version of it which is on order to finalise the pair of them.EMU,s include 4 2LAV units including 2697 4SUB 4358 or 9 4508 5019 2 times 2EPB,s 2x 2NOL,s (photographed on the dartford loop line at hither Green) couple of 2 HAP,s 56??? £ of the old Triang L! locos were repainted,fitted with a DJH motor system and fitted with a N class straight sided tender  with the chassis altered to take the new motor. They also have Markits wheels and axles.All good A Djhclass L is also used Several Q1,s,Q Hclas P/P,s Z class H16 (30517?)but the biggest job DJH crosti boilered 92028 which visited brighton on completion but was not allowed in the shed.I have been trying to finish a W class 31922 but have had problems so it is to be sorted???Last but not least The TItfield is here and thriving.Diorama ongoing with sids traction roller Squires Cowley and Crumps brick lorry I What i won,t go into are the Australian locos I have (HO) U boat Red rattlers etc All the best Ron Robinson REJROB

Wow Ron!  Quite a project you've got yourself into.  I am sure that there are plenty of folk on here keen to see a trackplan and learn more.

Hi Ron,

I thought I was brave picking a year (1963) for Wombat Creek. You have picked not just a year but also a month!

I think we are all waiting for photos.

Cheers,
Claus

  Ron and  

Your layout sounds fantastic, we'd love to see some pictures.



Ed

That sounds like some layout Ron - one certainly worth photographing and posting on here !!

As Claus said, a brave man to pick a specific month - any particular reason for that ?

I had a decent size to attack in my last layout but, having moved house, my space became smaller as I got bigger !!

With 4 London stations to model, it's going to be quite something - never mind wiring all those point motors - solenoid, slow motion or servos ?  Sounds like a dream job for the likes of Megapoints !!

Looking forward to the pictures ……………………………..

Petermac said

That sounds like some layout Ron - one certainly worth photographing and posting on here !!

As Claus said, a brave man to pick a specific month - any particular reason for that ?

I had a decent size to attack in my last layout but, having moved house, my space became smaller as I got bigger !!

With 4 London stations to model, it's going to be quite something - never mind wiring all those point motors - solenoid, slow motion or servos ?  Sounds like a dream job for the likes of Megapoints !!

Looking forward to the pictures ……………………………..

From “Post #292,116”, 26th April 2025, 3:59 pm

Hi all and firstly thankyou for the comments.Picci,s downloading  and publishing are not my best subject but will give it a try very soon.Only recently found that the class 24 ,s were on the sr prior to the 33,s so D5000 and D 5013(changed from D5061 ). now installed although I cannot get the directional lights going on the ex model zone D5000 and the body is catching on something near the middle so no body removal.The layout originally had a 6 exit turntable but as the controls are one end and table the other it was changed so a triangular reverse system is used.I was fortunate to contact the owner of the best card building company near its onset and bought sufficient kits to build a 8 lane loco shed holding 3 loco,s per lane inside the shed, all individually isolated and a further 1or 2 locos outside per lane.little extra,s like a set of outside toilets(as per a picture of the one at Eastleigh at its loco end?Tender coal filler similar to Hither Green,EMU shed which at present has no EMU,s as they are having their turn at being used.so wagons take over.Now the Aussie units.For my seventieth birthday my super wife bought me a 3 car Australian Triang Red Rattler unit still with its triang motor?? which by the time I had finished with it had directional lighting, seating,correct overhead wire contacts and seating and correct numbers for the preserved unit.THEN found a cheap 2nd set of three cars  which joined the others.As all the cars are similar one of these made up the fourth car for my first unit.Although HO size they were the correct )) size scale wise.I then purchased 2 double deck cars and these were placed between the remaining 2 Triang cars making a further 4 car rattler unit.They run as a complete train when used.I also purchased an Aussie kit of the NSW EMU called a U boat.Horrible??? Plastic with not a straight edge anywhere.The elevated roof sections were taken off and sections of the universal roof from Branchlines were implanted Super as I have used these roofs on coaches I have made in the past.Somehow it got finished not too badly.A couple of late 50,s diesel's also make an appearance sometimes .Reason for the excesses; MY youngest child ,my boy was born on May 8th and he is a top Paramedic in Sydney and ahas been there for nearly 18years.He,s my mate and nothing gets to me more than when he is here with us.He is a super duper person in every way .The year 1958 to me still retained a lot of the type of trains of style and variety,I believe missing these days.When far younger  we had a school excursion to Ashford loco works(still have some swarf from a wheel being turned)which was recorded for BBC,s Children's Television News.,also prior to this I started building a 3.5 inch gauge  of Canterbury Bell which stopped when girls came on the scene  My father had already built a 3.5 0-4-0 tank; Bulleid light pacific for the railway round the garden in Sidcup Kent,then onto a 7.25 inch 0-4-0 tank and finally a black five,a beast.All these locos were eventually sold near the end of his life .but locos were in the blood.also in the 50,s being at King Georges Fields sidcup at 7.25 in the morning to see the only steam passenger train go through(have 1 pick of it)always with an Class loco with 4 or 5 up.Hope I've explained a bit more and pick,s will come ?? TTFN