The space available for a battery in a Manning Wardle Class K has proven to be too limited so it is reverting to DCC and thus pickups will be required. Unfortunately the perfectly good OEM ones were removed and have gone astray so some new ones will need to be fabricated.
Andrew N turned up with a couple of items for Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae – a gradient post showing how the line climbs from the valley floor towards Caerphilly and a milepost in true B&MR style denoting 5 3/4 miles from Bassaleg.
Also from Andrew, but not photographed, were some components for the Facing Point Lock.
Elsewhere, out of shot, Rhobat continued with the yard crane and LBH wired up the west fiddle yard.
MrChairman worked on the cabling from the control panel to the Alex Jackson coupling magnets.
The relative simplicity here contrasts with panels 20 plus years ago when one could hear the phrase “knit me a control panel, Nellie” when work was in progress.
A bit more linesidary sprouted up on Tuesday, in the shape of a fixed lamp, that was installed at the halt to show drivers where the halt was in the hours of darkness.
Fred produced a running-in board for the halt, setting it off well.
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Looking West
Looking East
A lone Bedwas coal wagon, not far from home, poses in a couple of locations in front of the backscene.
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Paul🥇has finished building and fitting the lighting enclosure. Now LBH needs to wire it up!
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Regular readers may have noticed an empty area in the east (Right-hand) end of Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae, this is the space that has been set aside for the Goods Shed.
TAFKATYS is casting it and here is the progress so far.
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Here’s the aluminium frame in pieces, on the left and below (I hope) erected.
Wagonman’s progress is unrelenting – he has just started on an ex-NER Passenger Brake Van based on a D&S kit.
Tke long-running saga of the Tar Works wall is approaching its denouement having been stuck down. We probably need a little more to show of the works itself now. Out of shot Paul 🥇 was painting the fascia, MrC was assembling cassettes as well as continuing with the GBV and Luke was preparing the name baord.
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He also completed assembling the ground frame (although he managed to break one of the levers). Need to paint one lever blue and one white now.
Progress with the ADR goods brakevan.
After a few failures it was possible to bend the handrails reasonably accurately and solder in place.
Later on the duckets were fitted and all handrails too. That leaves door handles on the sides and lamp brackets on the ends
A quiet night in terms of numbers attending but nevertheless good progress made. MrC worked on a Goods Brake Van in Scaleseven (really enjoying all those handrails) and our Wizard painted the sleepers and chairs on the new track for the Goods Shed. Fred uses a combination of four colours (in this instance) to get the variations in hue found in chairs – a tin of ‘track colour’ is not the same thing!
Elsewhere LBH worked on a ground frame for Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae and Andrew J on a signal box for Lyne Road
Things are leaping forward apace with Paul getting the lighting enclosure fixed in place.
Meanwhile Rhobat made what we believe to be his first foray into 7mm scale building a kit for yard crane for (betcha can’t guess) Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae
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