PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 5th Jun 2017 1:58pm
Hi all on a very wet Monday,
Indoor hobbies do have their value on wet days like today.
I have added sequins, acting as lamps to some of our semaphore signals. They are not perfect, but better than anything that I have tried so far. In the past I have used wired grain of rice bulbs, as well as optic fibre, but they are quite complex & problematic. The sequins reflect the light so at the correct viewing angle look as though they are lit without any complications.
In reality, the BR semaphore were back-lit using an oil lamp. A magnifying lens focused the flame light so that its field of view was very narrow, virtually invisible, unless you were on the loco footplate. Hope you like. As said, not perfect, but give an impression of a light being there.
Even where a modern failsafe electric light is added to replace the oil lamp as in this picture, just before sunset the light is hardly a search light.
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Dreamtime
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Tue 6th Jun 2017 4:13am
Looking great Philip as always, and looking at your latest pics. I can't see the difference between the models and the real thing. What's in store I ask myself? |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Tue 11th Jul 2017 1:52pm
Hi all
Whilst I was laid-up last week with a bit of knee-gip, using my swivel chair almost as a wheelchair, I assembled ten tree kits that I ordered from China last year. Today, I have placed them in and around Longford Park. I do hope you like. I have ordered more of the kits, a fraction of the UK prices.
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Tue 11th Jul 2017 2:41pm
There'll be "leaves on the line" come autumn! |
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Tue 11th Jul 2017 2:58pm
On 3rd Jun 2017 12:53pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
Hi all
Pam's belated birthday present has arrived today, in fact it was only ordered at 1pm yesterday. A Hatton's supplied ex-works condition Class S15.
It is seen waiting at Hounds Hill starter signal, for the high-sighted repeater ground signal to clear, so as to gain access to Longford Park wharf yard.
Pam is beside herself!!
Wow Philip! You certainly know how to spoil a girl, don't you. |
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Dreamtime
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Tue 11th Jul 2017 2:59pm
How lovely now it looks. Falling leaves, a small price to pay for lovely greenery Philip. |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Tue 11th Jul 2017 3:40pm
Hi all & thank you for the comments.
I wonder who does the gardens in Park Avenue? They all look so neat.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Wed 12th Jul 2017 7:34pm
Hi all
Natural daylight where we have sun, cloud & patches of blue sky, make such a difference to the outcome of a picture. I don't pretend to understand it, but it is a good test of the colours that I have applied to our model. This picture is looking into the railway room, showing most of the now completed Longford Park goods wharf. Even I like it.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 25th Sep 2017 1:45pm
Hi all
I have added this "Severn Valley Railway" video to our model railway thread, simply because it is about the most perfect example of the kind of historical activity associated with a busy end of line branch station. It is action packed with the kind of stock shunting that is a thing or the past nowadays.
Severn Valley, Kidderminster Sept 2017
To add interest we see the Worcester to B'ham mainline trains running by too.
I can recall so many sites, where as a train-spot-child I so loved watching this kind of activity, whether at Bournemouth West, Ilfracombe or Fort William.
The video is over half an hour long, but for anyone that enjoys model railway operation, this video has to be the best that I have ever seen. The camera-man occupies a tower position throughout.
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Dreamtime
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Mon 25th Sep 2017 2:07pm
Thanks Philip, I can well understand why little boys want to be train drivers when they grow up. Even to this day I find riding on a train is magical.
10/10 for the video. |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 25th Dec 2017 9:43am
Happy Christmas Day all
I had my first Hornby Dublo train set on this day in 1953. Duchess of Montrose 46232, along with two Stanier coaches. So started a hobby that I still adore.
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Mon 25th Dec 2017 10:35am
Me too - same day! Mine was a Triang set with 46201 "Princess Elizabeth"
No doubt Philip will run his layout during the day - wish I had one
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Rob Orland
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Tue 26th Dec 2017 9:49am
By coincidence I bought an old Triang 46201 Princess Elizabeth engine from eBay for our kids' train set a good few years ago. It was a maroon colour.... wasn't your old one, was it? |
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Tue 26th Dec 2017 2:15pm
No, mine was black |
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Rob Orland
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Wed 27th Dec 2017 10:12am
Ah, I had a virtually identical black engine, but marked "Princess Victoria" - probably from the same mould though. |
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