O/T Model Railways...

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I'm a regular visitor with my lad to going loco

 

Where?

 

Edit posted, trigger fingered first time lol

 

Have you got a collection?

 

My advice would be start simple, and wait for the bug to bite. If it doesn't, you've had minimal loss. If it does...

 

Turned to model railways after packing in watching match, it allows me to spend more quality time with my lad as he had no interest in football but loves trains so it was an easy path, it can get very expensive as hobbies go but suppose it only as much as you want to put into it really, I've loved learning new skills and now save money by scratch building some of the items on the layout

 

Yes and it's getting bigger all the time, layout comprises of a mixture of industrial to rural, I've recently added a central canal and viaduct both scratch build, still struggling with ballasting though and don't get me started on fences lol

 

One of my big regrets was putting aside my hobby when I started college. I'd be proud of the N Gauge layout my Dad built now.6 through platforms. Two bay platforms. 4 road Engine shed and turntable. Freight avoiding line. Covered in station with full ratio canopies. Homemade station building with stair access to platforms. Metcalfe town buildings and factory scene. Retaining walls either side of main station. Access from line 1 to line 4 and back again. Two way running on all lines. Isolation switches to run around trains in the platforms.

Br Green dmu's 4 A3's, 3 Duchesses, 3 A4's, J39's 2-6-4's.

 

ALL ABOARD

 

Was just going to mention that shop too !

Also, I live a mile away… going towards Wrenny

 

I've (very) vague memories of dirty, black, clapped out steam engines pulling coal trains along the line through Wombwell (the old Great Central line). Anybody know what type of engine they were likely to have been?[/QUOTE]

 

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WD 2-8-0 Austerities.

 

Imagine the smoke box burnt out and all the shiney bits rusty or covered in oil and coal dust and they could have been them.

 

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Over the last year I've been doing some family tree research and turns out one of my 3x great uncle was Sir Edward Watkin who was chairman of the great grand Central railway among 8 other railway companies he ran so as such was instrumental in the creation of that line back then it would probably have been the MSLR (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway) which he also ran
Bachmann make a model loco in GBRf livery in OO gauge which carries his name, I'm hoping this year to pick up

 

Over the last year I've been doing some family tree research and turns out one of my 3x great uncle was Sir Edward Watkin who was chairman of the great grand Central railway among 8 other railway companies he ran so as such was instrumental in the creation of that line back then it would probably have been the MSLR (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway) which he also ran
Bachmann make a model loco in GBRf livery in OO gauge which carries his name, I'm hoping this year to pick up[/QUOTE]

Pontefract Baghill was originally a Great Central station.

 

Pontefract Baghill was originally a Great Central station.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the info, now I know of Edward Watkin I'm going to be delving more into his railway exploits, which in the little I've found out so far are fascinating, like he was the first to propose a channel tunnel in the 1880's and actually got 2 miles under the English channel before central government stopped the plan in fear of invasion from the continent, his tunnel was actually drilled into when making the euro tunnel and was found to still be dry, the Great grand Central was part of his plan to run a direct railway from Manchester to Paris.

 

Thanks for the info, now I know of Edward Watkin I'm going to be delving more into his railway exploits, which in the little I've found out so far are fascinating, like he was the first to propose a channel tunnel in the 1880's and actually got 2 miles under the English channel before central government stopped the plan in fear of invasion from the continent, his tunnel was actually drilled into when making the euro tunnel and was found to still be dry, the Great grand Central was part of his plan to run a direct railway from Manchester to Paris.[/QUOTE]
George Dow did a 3 volume history of The Great Central Railway - very detailed.

 

George Dow did a 3 volume history of The Great Central Railway - very detailed.[/QUOTE]

I'll add that to the list of literature to look into, thanks