MARSHFIELD WITH ELY BRIDGE: **final update**

[retroman]

Thanks for the nice comments .... 37 238 has returned from my workbench to service and is pictured with her English Electric sisters in the exchange sidings at Ely Bridge.

[Infrontcat]

Great stuff as ever Dave. I see why you think that 40 is such a bargain: looks great all 'crapped-up', doesn't it?

Cheers mate

Tim

[StevieDay]

Excellent pictures Dave, your layout is stunning.

[retroman]

Thanks for the kind comments, Tim and Steve, much appreciated.

33019 has now joined the weathered fleet. This is the very nice HELJAN model.



The Crompton rounds the Up Slow near Ely Bridge but is held at the signal gantry.







This is the rest of my fleet, now in works awaiting the grime treatment!

[retroman]

A sequence of photos showing nearly-weathered 25054 at work.

The Rat arrives in Ely Bridge sidings with a short train of coal wagons for the Coal Yard ...





... the loco draws to the end of the headshunt ...



.... before dropping back under the gantry in the yard.





Once the train has been dropped off, the loco is uncoupled and departs.

[champion]

Stunning and excellant weathering on your loco fleet as with good scenics and really sets the scene.Look forward to the weathering on your western and hymek.
richard.

[dagenham]

hi ya
is it my imagination or do i keep seeing the same photos over and over again of the same br blue 37
i know this is a layout set in br blue days but come on how many pics of that 37 do we want to see lol
answers on a post card please
peter

[retroman]

hi ya
is it my imagination or do i keep seeing the same photos over and over again of the same br blue 37
i know this is a layout set in br blue days but come on how many pics of that 37 do we want to see lol
answers on a post card please
peter

Reading back through this page I see a 25, a 33, 2x37 and a 40.

So it is your imagination, or you just can't be bothered to look properly.

No-ones forcing you to read this.

I also note that you don't appear to have many any effort to build a layout yourself, but seem to spend all your time putting up silly comments about other people's work instead.

[50035 Ark Royal]

Wow, Amazing just read this from start to finish.
Absoloutely love the weathering on your locos the 33, 37 and 40 look stunning you have turned the Hornby 40 in to a work of Art.
The steel works is out of this world, you should build layouts or weather locos for a living you would make a mint.
I can not wait to see them Vacs dirtied up.

[Lysander]

Always enjoy your updates - keep posting.

Tony

[Durseytu]

I totally agree with posts made above, the quality of the steel works and the weathering of the locos does look rather spectacular! Keep up the good work.

Cheers,

Stuart

[retroman]

Thanks for the kind compliments.

37207 is now back in action, and is the undoubted flagship of my 37 fleet.

Here she approaches MARSHFIELD on the Down SLow with a train of China Clay.





St Blazey were hoping for their loco straight back, but having dropped off her train at Severn Tunnel Junction, the loco is sent to Ely Bridge to assist with a trip working to the local colliery.



I've tried to be a bit more subtle with the weathering of 207, as compared with 038 and 238 here. I removed the printed nameplate with T-cut and apllied the far-superior etched names: frost grills and ploughs have also been fitted.

[auricom]

That first shot of 37207 is fantastic!!

Hope the camera man managed to jump out of the way before they got run over!!

[retroman]

Thank you, Chris.

Some workbench photos ... 207 is complete now that snowploghs have been added at the coupling end.



The latest through works is my HELJAN Hymek. I have fitted the ploughs, added a crew plus the bufferbeam detail at one end.



Here is the completed model, based on photos of a work-weary Hymek dating from 1972.







Some pictures of the Hymek at work. In Retro's imaginery world the Hydraulics lasted well into the 1980s!

[champion]

Brill updates and fine work on the hymek and glad you have thought of extending the hydraulics life.
richard.