A Midland Railway Centre Turntable for Hawick

[TomTom]

Excellent work and a very useful guide to putting it together, thanks. I recently built a London Road Models kit of a 50' table that uses a preformed plastic well, and was going to do a 60' Metalsmith one for another station, but hit the problem of cross members as well. Unfortunately it proved impractical to go ahead with this so the build was abandoned while an alternative solution was thought of.

[Ex-Pat]

Thanks TomTom - I wasn't aware of the London Road Models kit - otherwise things may have been different!

For those who don't know, the Metalsmith business was carved up into Metalsmith (continuing to supply metals), and Midland Railway Centre (supplying the turntable kits).

(You must have some layout with 2 turntables in mind?)

[nickbrad]

Some incredible engineering involved with that, a bit more complicated than a basic Hornby jobbie

[TomTom]

Thanks TomTom - I wasn't aware of the London Road Models kit - otherwise things may have been different!

For those who don't know, the Metalsmith business was carved up into Metalsmith (continuing to supply metals), and Midland Railway Centre (supplying the turntable kits).

(You must have some layout with 2 turntables in mind?)

A layout based on Thurso and one on Helmsdale - shoehorned into a small attic. Both started off with 60' Roco turntables but they were so continental in outline and in the terminus's case too large, that I eventually built replacements. I was going to use the smaller Metalsmiths one but came across the LRM kit and found a thread build of it so decided to give it a go. It certainly looks the part now - the other one I eventually just added side panels which made it passable as a post war table as fitting the Metalsmiths base would have involved tearing apart almost the whole station.

[Ex-Pat]

Some incredible engineering involved with that, ...

If you think that, then you should see the London Road Models kit. I managed to find the thread on it, and it's almost totally etched construction, resulting in a lovely model.

[Daniel]

E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T thread, Ex-Pat!

Daniel

[Ex-Pat]

Many thanks Daniel.

I wonder if anybody has bought one as a result?

[Peterm]

I've just seen this thread for the first time and most impressed I am. Patience is definitely a virtue.

[Mountain]

That turntable looks grand. I somehow have missed this thread. I am enjoying looking at the pictures.

[Bufferstop]

Yep that's the sort of thing my dad would have called a proper job!

[Ex-Pat]

Many thanks Peterm, Mountain & Bufferstop - one of these "days" I really must get down to applying the stop indexing.

(Peterm - did you ever get those Western grilles?)