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Bob Symes and Dave Lowery
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Gloster
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It looks more like 00: the platforms units look like standard Triang ones and the depot at right was, if I remember correctly, also from them. I suspect you are going back a couple of decades or more.
Yes that’s the old OO gauge Hornby diesel depot on the right. I had a couple of those over the years.
nlogax
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It was one of Dave Lowery's earlier efforts to demonstrate to beginners in the craft that anything is possible even when built purely with off-the-shelf elements.
Scotraveller
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I know it was OO just thought it would be good for a TT project with Peco setrack !
So nobody got any idea where the track plan was published. A Dave Lowery search revealed nothing. Perhaps the man himself will see this?
So nobody got any idea where the track plan was published. A Dave Lowery search revealed nothing. Perhaps the man himself will see this?
StripeyNick
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I believe he passed away a few years ago now
GatwickDepress
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Might be worth asking on RMWeb's Layout and Track Design subforum if you haven't already. There's some boffins on there with an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of track plans; published or not.
hexagon789
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Still listed as a regular contributor at the beginning of the most recent issue of Model Rail?
Gloster
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Bob Symes(-Shutzmann) died in 2015.
StripeyNick
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Ooops......I must be thinking of another Dave that was a Model Rail regular.....the chap that had the Tetley Mills layout
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hexagon789
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Oh yes, I know who you mean - Dave Shakespeare. I believe he passed away from cancer in ~2014.
StripeyNick
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That's the one!!
A fascinating man. Many decades ago I recall he modelled a functioning diesel (or possibly petrol?)-electric in a large scale. Maybe based on a 47.
Around the same time I’m sure I read that he’d attempted a functioning hydraulic transmission loco but it couldn’t contain the working pressure it created?
I remember it and yes it was indeed an excellent model of a class 47. If you scroll the video forward to just past the 3 minute mark he explains how it works.
4COR
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Very impressive stuff - the LMS Coronation class piling around with load 12 on particularly so. How would one go about slowing it down or stopping it though? Wait for it to run out of steam?
hexagon789
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Would there not be some form of control in the cab? A lever forming a basic regulator for one, so you could "shut off steam" by flicking it.
(I have no actual idea BTW, just a suggestion on my part based on having seen similar on current live steam models and assuming you'd incorporate at least that basic a form of control.)
Ashley Hill
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That class 47 is clagging like a Deltic!
DJ_K666
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I met Bob Symes once. Once of the nicest people you could ever meet.
They sprint alongside reaching for the regulator!