G'Day Gents
I do have a J3, a K's one but still under construction, the one in the pic is a J5, most of them spent most of there lives at Colwick, but one was allocated to Hitchin in the early 50's, so it's not unreasonable to think that it worked up the branch to Edgware on a coal train, that is also the way I'm thinking on the rest of the loco's, if they worked or there was a chance they worked on the branch they'll be included, ie N2, N1, J1--J6 etc. And around KX in general
The mix of loco's and stock is as you've gathered is a period change, 20-30's then 50-60's so there are a few diesels that will drift in at the end of the 60's.
Edgware was a dead end station, so the line going off to the right is pure fiction, it go'es to London Colney??? or in reality to the fiddle yard and gives me a curcuit, as you can see from the plan, there was a loco shed at Edgware but it was blown over in a storm in the 1880's and never rebuilt but on my layout it was rebuilt by messers Airfix & Co, I don't think any photo's are know of this shed so it will have to do! I am fairly luck as there are only a few building, Station building, Goods shed and a large 'black factory' in the background.
Train service's consisted of 26 trains a day, mostly shuttles to Finchley, but there were a couple a day that started at KX, or terminated at KX, there is also a possiblity that North London trains worked through to Edgware from Broad St, hence my intrest in the 'Jinties' and there time frame, ( one's been order! just in case???) I've also streched the bounds a little, by allowing GE loco/trains on at weekends to haul specials to Southend-on-Sea (B17 and blood and custard coaches) Goods traffic 5 trains a day, coal and building supplies, 14 wagons max, my longest siding will take that so full lenght goods trains are the norm
The models--- The J5, to go back a bit, is made out of a bike pump, and plastic card and sits on a Hornby-Dublo R1 chassi the wheelbase is pretty close, the tender is borrowed from the J3.
The J3 a sorry kit, if ever there was one, wobbly wheels and a motor that will just about pull itself along!!
All up there are about 30 loco's, mostly GN/LNER/BR that were used in the area, including Gresley, A1's A3's A4's V2's B17's and a K3 there's also a Peppercorn A2 (Trix body on a Brit chassi) plus the usual N2's J50's and J52's the rest you'll see in time.
Picy time, manna
EDGWARE GN, Steam in the Suburbs.
the platform has also been extended to 1.7 meters and actually joins up with the Goods shed, I also know now where the cattle and end loading dock will now go.
and today the 'Teddy bear fur' was finished on the embankments and the cutting, but only to the fence line, it's a bit darker than I wanted, so it looks like I'll have fun trying to make it look like late summer grass.
so now it's time to take a bit of metal off the back end of the chassis to get it to fit, if you look inside the N2 body you will find a couple of of bits of metal sticking out, these are the bits that will be resting on the chassis (see picture) Now I took an Angle Grinder 