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The Gingerbread Line: June 2014
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Wednesday, 4 June 2014. A West Country Diversion. The genesis of this project can be seen in my post on the Wealden Area Group blog. In order for me to get it to Uckfield, it needed to be highly portable, so I went with the "layout in a boxfile" concept - though it inevitably expanded to become "layout in two or three boxfiles". Further research revealed a few problems:. Milverton station buildings were built in brick, not stone. Even without the brick v stone problem, the layout of the buildings was act...
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The Gingerbread Line: May 2014
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Friday, 30 May 2014. I will need some North Staffordshire Railway ("Knotty") wagons for the traffic between the Potteries and Market Drayton. I also have a part-finished scratchbuilt 10-ton brake van, based on drawings from "North Staffordshire Railway Locomotives and Rolling Stock" by R.W. Rush (The Oakwood Press). Running down my current models:. There is little detail available for the cattle wagons (the Knotty had about 100 available). There are photographs for a medium-size wagon (15'6" long, ra...
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The Gingerbread Line: Introduction
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Tuesday, 24 September 2013. This is an updated version of the introduction to a blog posted on RMweb here. For a variety of reasons that blog died about 18 months ago. I intend to continue the story here, probably without reposting any of the early material, other than this introduction. I acquired two good sources for the area - "By Great Western to Crewe" by Bob Yate and "The Stoke to Market Drayton Line" by C R Lester. From these I could put together a reasonable picture of the traffic through Mar...
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The Gingerbread Line: Knotty wagons
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Friday, 30 May 2014. I will need some North Staffordshire Railway ("Knotty") wagons for the traffic between the Potteries and Market Drayton. I also have a part-finished scratchbuilt 10-ton brake van, based on drawings from "North Staffordshire Railway Locomotives and Rolling Stock" by R.W. Rush (The Oakwood Press). Running down my current models:. There is little detail available for the cattle wagons (the Knotty had about 100 available). There are photographs for a medium-size wagon (15'6" long, ra...
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The Gingerbread Line: A West Country Diversion
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Wednesday, 4 June 2014. A West Country Diversion. The genesis of this project can be seen in my post on the Wealden Area Group blog. In order for me to get it to Uckfield, it needed to be highly portable, so I went with the "layout in a boxfile" concept - though it inevitably expanded to become "layout in two or three boxfiles". Further research revealed a few problems:. Milverton station buildings were built in brick, not stone. Even without the brick v stone problem, the layout of the buildings was act...
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The Gingerbread Line: 3d printed GWR wagons
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Sunday, 1 June 2014. 3d printed GWR wagons. I put this project on one side (along with many others), and moved onto other things. Recently a change of policy at Shapeways has removed these items from sale to third parties - purportedly they can't be guaranteed to print properly. So Ian has now put on a shopkeeper's hat, and is accepting orders for wagons which he then gets printed for himself and distributes to would-be purchasers. There have been reports of painting difficulties for this material ("Fros...
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The Gingerbread Line: September 2013
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Tuesday, 24 September 2013. This is an updated version of the introduction to a blog posted on RMweb here. For a variety of reasons that blog died about 18 months ago. I intend to continue the story here, probably without reposting any of the early material, other than this introduction. I acquired two good sources for the area - "By Great Western to Crewe" by Bob Yate and "The Stoke to Market Drayton Line" by C R Lester. From these I could put together a reasonable picture of the traffic through Mar...