Down at the Club today...

[Bob G]

Down at the club today I made some more new friends.

I have now found someone local to 3D print some modified driveshafts for my 63' chassis (ex China class 158) used under my SR multiple units.

This is the joy of club membership. Plus there's a fantastic chip shop nearby  

Oh and a couple of my earlier models made it onto the N gauge sea wall layout. Sure they would never have been seen there, but it's all helping me get my mojo back.

Below a brass 07 shunter on a Farish 04 chassis (Etched Pixels) and a resin ex LMS jackshaft shunter on a Minitrix V60 flywheel chassis (Parkwood), from when I was a modeller and not just a collector!

Enjoy!

[Newportnobby]

Good to hear you're enjoying 'club life', Bob

[Nbodger]

Good to hear you're enjoying 'club life', Bob

Sounds like he is enjoying the fish and chips more

[scottmitchell74]

Sounds fantastic.

I live in BFE: so a weak poorly attended club and no shops for 150 miles... and obviously no British N Gauge.

[Bob G]

This one never made it to the club today. It needs some acetate sheet windows added (called DS74 on the books, it never had any markings or numbers applied to it, so that's a win!)

The first ever (750V DC) electric Bo-Bo shunter, a Drummond 1899 design for the Waterloo and City (so to Underground height clearances) but used at Dunsford Road Power Station Wimbledon until 1965.

Its a @JimSan 3D print on a 3V TGW Tu-16A Bo chassis, with fake bogies and wheels on the 3D print, as you can see when the shunter is upended. The Van gives some idea of the size of the loco.

It's such a small loco, even the OO kit of this loco has non-operating bogies.

[Newportnobby]

Good to hear you're enjoying 'club life', Bob

Sounds like he is enjoying the fish and chips more

His missus will soon put paid to that!!

[Bob G]

More like down in the weathering works this time.

@Ensign Elliott has done a splendid job on these steamers, both renumbering and weathering, getting Bishopstoke ready for the 1960s era.

All of these would have been seen together around the former LSWR in the Eastleigh/Southampton/Lymington/Bournemouth/Weymouth area:


The Standard 4MTs were the last tanks to run the Lymington-Brockenhurst Branch, after M7s, Ivatts, and Standard 3MT tanks.

The Standard 4 moguls were usually seen on the Southern with tenders of higher water capacity, but by 1965 almost anything was acceptable. This one was the last mogul on the Weymouth line in 1967.

The Standard 5MTs also generally had the larger water capacity tenders, but not all did. With careful research, this one cropped up in the 1960s.


The 9Fs were used on the Fawley oil tank trains in the early 1960s, and this one was based at Eastleigh in this condition at that time.
 

[Bob G]

And while he was at it, I had my early Electro Diesels renumbered and weathered too.
So there is a reason for buying two of everything after all
All of these EDs could have been seen together, so despite the run down of steam in the 60s, the new guard electrics and EDs were brightening things up a bit.


E6002 started off as the Signal Box MU Stock Green version E6003. It was not right livery wise for either its 1960s condition or 1980s condition. So it became E6002 which did have a small yellow panel.


E6003 and E6004 are Gaugemaster versions without yellow panels.


E6007 and E6009 are Dave Jones commissioned early blue versions with lower stripe. Only E6007 - E6013 were done like this.


E6035 and E6039 are Gaugemaster commissioned models of the early blue with white roof livery. All of the last batch of EDs wore this livery before the 1969 mass repaint into BR banger blue with full yellow ends.