Dave S. has recently been in touch with some photographs of the newly fitted cleading to his ‘Dholpur’. A very painstaking job to get it to look ‘just right’ (which I am sure you will agree Dave has succeeded) & not without some tribulations. ‘At last I am pleased to report the boiler cleading has Read more about A Cleading ‘Light’….?[…]
The Bathgate Locomotive Works have been busy utilising the services of their in house joiner & glazier to make the cab windows. A lot of people seem to prefer not to glaze their cab windows for some reason, but in the editors opinion this rather spoils the ship for a ha’porth o’ tar. Down in Read more about Through The Window Clearly[…]
When building a model there are certain features that have to be just right visually, otherwise they stick out like a sore thumb & spoil all the effort that goes into the rest of it. If you have been following this series of articles then you will be aware that Robert has had just such Read more about Getting It Just Right……[…]
Track activity since the easing of the lockdown rules has been limited to boiler testing (by appointment only), test running of rolling stock after brake modifications & the endurance testing of battery electric locomotives. Hopefully the situation will have improved for 2021 & we can get back to club running. Meanwhile, here are some photos Read more about Limited Track Activity……[…]
Over the past few weeks with the easing of lockdown restrictions (although these could change in the light of current developments) some construction activity has returned to Almondell. Care has been taken to ensure Social Distancing, but a combination of an 11 acre site and staggering of working party days this has not been too Read more about The Loneliness Of The CoVid Worker…..[…]
ESME has shown itself very capable of recycling all sorts of materials. Andrew has excelled at this, as over the last few months he has been working mainly in solitary repurposing 300 million year old Sandstone to form the portals to the Wallace Bridge. Andrew recounts the story behind the headline: ‘Let’s start with a Read more about Recycling Old Sandstone……..[…]
The news on the BBC the Friday morning, 28th August was full of the flooding at Broxburn yesterday afternoon. Broxburn is two minutes from our Almondell site. James was still on site & sent the newsdesk this report……. ‘I was washing the digger and tractor (!!) with Andy when it became really heavy around 5 Read more about Rain Drops Kept Falling On My Head……[…]
Andrew N. dropped an email to the Newsdesk informing us why the car park at Almondell suddenly had pallets of used mono-blocks….. ‘The origin of this story was that James said the committee had decided to lay a second platform with mono blocks to match the other one. We won’t mention the false start with Read more about A Chip Off The Old Blocks……?[…]
Work in the Bathgate Locomotive Works continues apace, although a slight diversion during ‘Storm Francis’ to deal with a leaky Porch delayed work for a while. The latest photographs show progress with the cab beading & the completion of fixing the smokebox door to the smokebox: ‘Pleased to report that the milling of the Read more about Another Tricky Job……[…]
Another boiler test undertaken, this time a lovely Great Eastern liveried 2-4-2T built by Maurice P. This is based on the LBSC 3½” gauge ‘Petrolea’, but unusually finished as a tank locomotive. Unfortunately Maurice (on the left) didn’t bring along his driving truck which meant that he didn’t take her for a canter around the Read more about A Great Eastern ‘Glasshouse’…….?[…]
