G'Day Gents
Since some of the earlier pics (taken Oct-April) I have been concentrating on cleaning and repairing loco's and wagons that have been in storage for about 15 years, and has taken quite a while to get them back to a reliable condition, 4 XO4 motors have failed totally, luckly I had spares tucked away, but two J72's are going to need a bit more work, as the wheels and axles have parted company! A LNER (ex GN) O1 2-8-0 that I built about 25 years ago had it front end fall off!! and I also had to rebuilt the cab of my J5 as the cab had been crushed, Well that little list has kept me very busy.
To take my mind off of my own little 'Barry scrapyard' I've also converted a Hornby cl.25 into a cl 24 (most of my loco's are about 25 years old) and have fitted a old Lima Deltic chassi under a Hornby 37, the nose detail has been removed and brass doors and split headcodes to be fitted. A Mainline cl 46 will be next on the list.
Many old wagons have been cleaned up and repainted, including some very old 'Peco wonderful wagons' from the 60's, good runners though!
Coaching stock is mainly Hornby, but there a couple of others of mixed origin, including Ian Kirks, I still have a Gresly artic twin to make
So with all that done not a great deal has been done on the railway, although with regular running the track and electics are proving themselves to be reliable, the track has been down now for 9 months (even though some of it is almost 40 years old) only two points have failed and been replaced with points of a similar age! All electric switches are new! althouth the wires (ex telephone wire ) are s/h, so it is almost time to start ballasting (groan)
Edgware, if you look at the picture above, only has a couple of buildings, a large Goods shed, water tower (in brick) the station buldins and a large black factory? in the background, and what looks like a house of to the right! The biggest problem is that the old GN liked to use 'Yellow brick" so I'll have to build them
The only other large thing that will be seen to be done is the backscene, buildings will cover some some of the bushes??
I've had to delet some of the earlier posts pictures as there seems to be a limit of 12 pics, looks like there will be a constant turnover
manna
EDGWARE GN. Steam in the Suburbs