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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2008 19:42:33 GMT
Thanks for the long explanation mikkel, very interesting, and would love to see some photos of the inside of that signalbox, must be quite a challenge photographing it though! ;D
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Post by mikkel on Aug 17, 2008 23:01:49 GMT
See what I can find Dag.
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Post by mikkel on Aug 31, 2008 20:12:11 GMT
Taken today at Prickwillow, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, and a bit too early pressing the shutter to capture, LMS 'Duchess of Sutherland' in Maroon and while on route to Norwich.  |
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Post by DAG on Sept 1, 2008 7:45:15 GMT
;D Sounds like my old camera, by the time the picture had taken and you press the shutter again, the train had already gone! ;D That's life!
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Post by mikkel on Sept 3, 2008 21:26:41 GMT
Dag I have found some information about the railway reaching Southend.
From Fenchurch Street and what we knew as the LT&SR line, it finally opened what is now Southend Central on 1st March 1856. The time taken for the journey back then from Fenchurch Street, via Tilbury then "the well known watering place and steam boat station" as Southend was then known, took 2 hours 6 minutes. The fares for the 42 1/4 miles was First Class Single 3s.6d., Return 5s.10d., Second Class 2s.6d Single and 4s.2d return..
Imagine it taking the same time these days? The punters would be even more miserable.
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Post by DAG on Sept 4, 2008 7:44:58 GMT
Oh thanks for the info mikkel.
I am surprised about the date, I thought that line was not completed until about 1886.
Regarding the name, before it was developed there was nothing there except the shore and it was apparently known as the 'south end of Prittlewell', Prittlewell being the nearest place.
Before that, the stage coaches only ran as far as Rochford, about another 3 miles further north. I believe the stage coach journey from Rochford to London was 8 hours, so they only averaged 5 miles an hour! ;D As each stop was at an Inn/pub, I think that says it all! ;D
The other line from London to Southend Victoria was not completed until about 1916 due to years and years of delay getting the required approval from parliament. This was due to the fact that the original route would have meant running the tracks in parallel with the Fenchurch street line through the newly built up areas of Leigh, Westcliff and Southend, and in the end it was only approved on the basis of approaching Southend from the north with a large sweep around the countryside, one of the stations being in the area that I live now. ;D
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Post by mikkel on Sept 5, 2008 19:05:10 GMT
Going to yet another Model Railway Club Open Day tomorrow. Extortionate price to get in, so I hope it is worth the £1 they are charging? ;D
It is our neighbouring Club and from what we have heard, they have a few problems and so I am going to verify the facts with them and if possible help them out.
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Post by Admin on Sept 5, 2008 21:09:17 GMT
mikkel, I hope that is just technical problems and that the tea urn is working properly! ;D
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Post by mikkel on Sept 7, 2008 12:00:35 GMT
mikkel, I hope that is just technical problems and that the tea urn is working properly! ;D Certainly worth the pound to go in. As for the problems they supposedly have, they were rumours and No truth in them. I spoke to their Chairman personally and told him what I had been told, then he assured me they have no problems at all. They did have one or two minor technical problems with crossovers (points). Below is a town centre of an 'N Gauge' and just look at the detail. On the back and just behind the red car, is a pushbike. The cars were no more than 1cm in height.  Trust me to get the size of a vehicle wrong? Had the cars been 1mm as originally stated, you wouldn't be able to see them. ;D |
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Post by kedigato on Sept 7, 2008 12:51:22 GMT
What a charming town center.  Seeing it, I think I could even get interested in model sets.  |
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Post by DAG on Sept 7, 2008 16:00:19 GMT
Charming little scene mikkel, I can't remember N gauge, is it about half the scale of OO gauge? I think there used to be a OOO gauge that was about that size?
If I try and get the old grey cells working hard after about 60 years, I think O gauge is 7mm to the foot, and OO gauge is 4mm to the foot? Now tell me that I am miles out! ;D
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Post by mikkel on Sept 7, 2008 20:47:48 GMT
You left out TT & Z. TT stood for Table Top, produced by Triang and was between OO & N. Z is the smallest you can get. OOO was about the same size as what is N and produced by Lone Star. Strange though, they only ever produced their rolling stock based on American railways and similar to what we knew as Santa Fe' from what I remember.
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Post by DAG on Sept 7, 2008 21:29:36 GMT
Your right, I can't remember those gauges either.
So if that means that N gauge is about 2mm to the foot then a bus or coach would be about 2 inches long?
Such tiny detailing in that scene above seems all the more remarkable on realizing just how small the whole thing is!
If I was young again I would like to have a go at that, but .................. will just have to be content with poking keys on the computer instead! ;D
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Post by mikkel on Sept 7, 2008 21:36:05 GMT
Not quite right Dag. The N in 'N gauge' is for Nine mm to the scale foot. I may have a certain amount of knowledge as well as a vast interest, but even I don't know everything there is to know about either real or model.
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Post by DAG on Sept 10, 2008 6:46:16 GMT
;D ;D Oh, sounds like it must be a big bigger than O gauge then, would that be 1 Gauge? Anyway somewhere between O gauge and 3 1/2" gauge. ;D mikkel, I didn't manage to get up to Chelmsford to see the 'Oliver Cromwell', but I did see it on the tv news last night! |
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