Longdrem & The Pinkhill Branch

52D · Post by **52D** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:23 am

Hi two little projects that are not too far away from your area smokey joe is part way through being LNERised as a St Margarets Y9 and the N15 is due to be renumbered to 9911 soon. Sorry about camera quality its off my phone.

60027Merlin · Post by **60027Merlin** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:30 pm

Good work 52D. Always great to see local types being modelled.

It's a great pity that a Y9 has never been produced in kit form.

60027Merlin · Post by **60027Merlin** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:12 pm

The North East model railway show at Blyth last weekend was, as usual, up to its usual high standard being well organised in a friendly atmosphere making for a most enjoyable visit.

I attach a few pictures of their local pacifics from Gateshead and Heaton. These locos and the others from these sheds were regular visitors to Edinburgh and were well known by the spotters there.

auldreekie · Post by **auldreekie** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:57 pm

Thanks for this. Splendid to be reminded of your superb model(s).

I've recently rather lost touch with this side of my interests, having found that getting a narrow gauge layout - notionally and fictionally set in the Lothians (East and/or Mid) - up and running is more of a task than expected. (Also more fun.)

But I have not forgotten. Some twelve gables for a cut-down Haymarket depot still languish awaiting further attention.... (That was too much of a task to leave the pieces in their present unused state - 24 arched windows, 12 circular ventilation holes. A h*ll of a lot of 80thou plastikard, and some very sore fingers....)

Meanwhile, MUST remember to keep tabs on your layout...

auldreekie

52D · Post by **52D** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:44 pm

Excellent a model of Sunstar a Tweedmouth pacific for a while circa 63 I think.

60027Merlin · Post by **60027Merlin** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:21 pm

52D wrote:Excellent a model of Sunstar a Tweedmouth pacific for a while circa 63 I think.

A Tweedmouth example as you rightly say.

This one is not mine, a friend asked me to re-name and weather it along with a couple of others and they are now back with him. I chose a Tweedmouth one for a change. It's always a novelty running someone elses locos!

60027Merlin · Post by **60027Merlin** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 11:26 pm

An alternative Great Gathering - Haymarket style.

auldreekie · Post by **auldreekie** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:12 pm

Lovely stuff. As ever.

(I've not given up on Lothians ECML, although marking time as yet. Although I couldn't even aspire to emulating Longdrem, it's splendid to be reminded of it from time to time.)

auldreekie

60027Merlin · Post by **60027Merlin** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:25 pm

Days out with the Haymarket number 2 link.

60027Merlin · Post by **60027Merlin** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:27 pm

auldreekie · Post by **auldreekie** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 10:23 am

Super. Thank you.

auldreekie

60027Merlin · Post by **60027Merlin** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:33 pm

Just been able to figure out, yet again, how to transfer photos!

Here are the last four in the number series for the Haymarket A3s.

60027Merlin · Post by **60027Merlin** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:50 am

I have not posted for some time as I could not figure out how to resize photos to below 500 as having a few failed attempts found that it was eating into the modelling time.

Hopefully this will work out!