Re: Chemin de fer du calvados
David,
'Calvados pour les Petits Trains' is A4 and has 175 pages, most with at least one illustration (there is a lovely double-page photo of Caen's place de la gare with standard and narrow gauge stations either side). St Pierre is there too, in fact there are several
illustrations of the area because of the electric tramway.
I came across the railway when visiting the D-Day museum in Bayeux, where I notice a picture of British troops walking along a narrow gauge railway. A few years later I discovered that moving Pegasus bridge (the construction of which in 1923 severed the CFC's
link beyond Salanelles) destroyed the last surviving bit of the trackbed. I can't say how dismayed I was!
A couple of years ago I entered a diorama of the halt at Hermanvilles, on the afternoon of D-Day, in the Dave Brewer Challenge at ExpoNG. One of these days I'll finish it. Which reminds me that some of the line can be explored online via the Imperial War Museum's
photo collection and the Canadian government collection (depressing, as Canadian troops pulled apart the carriages they found to use as fuel). There won't be much of Caen St Pierre, as the fighting devastated the whole city.
One of the Norman-style stations survives at Le H?me-Varaville, and last time I was there the postmaster was, I believe, local historian Jean-Luc Kourilenko whose collections of photos have been published by Sutton and include 3 volumes on Caen which might
be of help.
Now to search for the other book you mentioned ...
David H
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Hi David H, thanks for replying. Does the calvados book have good photos and so on. And does it mention the gare caen st pierre??
Yours David
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Re: Chemin de fer du calvados
Hi David H, thanks for replying. Does the calvados book have good photos and so on. And does it mention the gare caen st pierre??
Yours David
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Re: Chemin de fer du calvados
Does Alain’s book have any drawings? I’d love to model a 60cm-gauge steam tram loco, and the Calvados enclosed 4-6-0ts would fit the bill nicely.
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On 10 Jan 2020, at 19:05, ezeebob@... wrote:
?Hello, I'm new to saying anything here but I've been tempted out of silence by the calvados tramway. It's driving me mad. I've seen 2 french books, one by Henri Domengie and the other one by Alain de Dieuleveult. Funds are tight so it's either/or not both. Anyone know which is the better book??
?I'm especially interested in the gare caen st pierre the photos of it I've seen of it just look great. I've tried to find a map of it but no luck. Anyone out there know more?
Yours
David
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Re: Chemin de fer du calvados
Correction: �40 from La Bouquenerie via Abe Books.
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Hi David,
Welcome to the Group.
I've got Alain's book 'Calvados pour les Petits Trains', and love it. It took me a while to find one at a price I was willing to pay, from a French seller on eBay (?35 IIRC). I saw a copy once at an exhibition in Southampton but dawdled before buying and was
beaten to it.
I can't comment on Henri's book.
I have joined a French Facebook group 'Le Calvados autrefois' which shows the area in old postcards, and CFC comes up from to time to time. There is also a French auction site delcampe.net which is searchable by location which might help re Caen.
Best wishes,
David H
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Re: Chemin de fer du calvados
Hi David,
Welcome to the Group.
I've got Alain's book 'Calvados pour les Petits Trains', and love it. It took me a while to find one at a price I was willing to pay, from a French seller on eBay (?35 IIRC). I saw a copy once at an exhibition in Southampton but dawdled before buying and was beaten to it.
I can't comment on Henri's book.
I have joined a French Facebook group 'Le Calvados autrefois' which shows the area in old postcards, and CFC comes up from to time to time. There is also a French auction site delcampe.net which is searchable by location which might help re Caen.
Best wishes,
David H
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Chemin de fer du calvados
Hello, I'm new to saying anything here but I've been tempted out of silence by the calvados tramway. It's driving me mad. I've seen 2 french books, one by Henri Domengie and the other one by Alain de Dieuleveult. Funds are tight so it's either/or not both. Anyone know which is the better book??
?I'm especially interested in the gare caen st pierre the photos of it I've seen of it just look great. I've tried to find a map of it but no luck. Anyone out there know more?
Yours
David
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Re: Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling REVIEW
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REVIEW 121 is now at the printers for distribution later this month. The contents are:
- Hulme End in O17·5 - Part 1 - Leek & Manifold 7mm scale excellence by Paul Holmes
- Melin Dolryhd - Stuart Taylor describes his characterful 4mm scale W&L set-piece
- Fayle’s Tramway Lewin Locomotive ‘Tiny’ - Research and scale drawings into an unusual?3ft 9ins gauge prototype?by Stuart Baker
- Bridport & Charmouth News - Part 4 - David Taylor describes his 'Foxdale' coach conversions
- W G Bagnall - Standard Locomotive Livery Archive material
- A Swedish Narrow-Gauge Austin 10 Draisine in O Scale - George Morris tells readers how he made his railcar model
- Swedish Three Foot Gauge - A brief introduction by George Morris
- Tar Boilers & Bitumen Sprayers - An unusual prototype feature
- Plus the usual reviews, jottings and letters
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When exhibitions are being attended in declining numbers, it doesn’t hurt to spread the word through new and different means. Particularly when attracting the next generation.
There are those who use Facepest who may never think about using other platforms, online forums, or the ukmodelshop website. Have to admit that I never think of looking on the latter.
Andrew
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One advantage of having a Facebook group dedicated to exhibitions, is that those who attend can post videos of those events and you end up with a record spread over a number of the exhibitions over the years.
Brian
Rawbelle County Workshops
Qld. Aust.
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-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Staddon via Groups.Io Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2019 8:20 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [o14] Exhibitions John and all, Am aware of UK Model Shops site. as secretary of EXE Model Railway Society our show is listed there, along with many others. Just thought it was something that wouldn’t go amiss on Facebook. Kev S -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
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John and all,
Am aware of UK Model Shops site. as secretary of EXE Model Railway Society our show is listed there, along with many others.
Just thought it was something that wouldn’t go amiss on Facebook.
Kev S
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I think that's a good use of face book,? I am alresdy planning a long weekend in Germany after seeing an exhibition advertised in March, thanks.
Regards, David
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Hi Frank,
Whilst I use UKMD almost exclusively we can't ignore the fact that it's old school (email and? the website non reactive so doesn't work well on mobiles) and large swathes of the population use social media for everything. Perhaps Kevin you could collaborate with Adrian Hall?
John
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Kevin,
Isn't this unnecessary duplication of the very good service provided by ukmodeldirectory? Exhibition managers have at least 3 magazines to notify, UKMD, and we'd hope the 7mm exhibition list for Narrow News.
Frank
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Staddon via Groups.Io Sent: Monday, 23 December, 2019 10:09 To: [email protected]Subject: [o14] Exhibitions Folks, Don’t know haw many of you do Facebook? I have created an Exhibition group The idea is to have somewhere to advertise exhibitions worldwide by way of displaying / uploading posters. Regards. Kevin Staddon UK www.exemrs.co.uk
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Folks,
Don’t know haw many of you do Facebook?
I have created an Exhibition group
The idea is to have somewhere to advertise exhibitions worldwide by way of displaying / uploading posters.
Regards.
Kevin Staddon UK
www.exemrs.co.uk
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I'll watch this with great interest having had a good look at one recently. Are you building in preserved condition or original working condition as in South Africa? Although having seen? no 138 it was surprisingly scruffy and worn in places which is perhaps not surprising given how hard they need to work.
John
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Hello Fellows,
I have been working on building my BWM NNG 16 kit and have added a few more photos to my album. I have made up the cab roof to more closely resemble the drawings and also done a lot more work on the main assemblies.
I will soon begin the task of adding various pipes and details. However my intention is to build all these components as subassemblies so that I can paint the loco before final attachment.
As of now, I am waiting one more major set of parts and this is the valve motion that was offered by EDM. Once these parts arrive, I will build the running gear up and test run the model. The loco be using a battery system as I do on all my other locos on my On3 layout and will install it and the radio receiver also before painting and then remove it all once I am happy with the locomotives performance.
My long term plans are for a portable layout that I can take out to local shows.?
Regards,
Keith Stamper
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Keith Stamper
Port Colborne?
ON Canada
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Re: Ballast - Suggestions
I know that the Green Scenes ballast is from nut shells as my friend Roger Brown put John Lloyd onto the stuff years ago.? John used
to colour it with household paint in a food processor but I don’t know if he still does it this way.? The stuff I had felt a lot lighter than the Woodland Scenics ballast that I used on Tony’s Forest but it might just be that I was using much smaller ballast
so the density would have been higher for a similar sized bag.? I think I found that the Green Scenes ballast discoloured slightly when I glued it with pva.? I switched to Green Scenes matte medium when I did Tony’s Forest and had no problem.? I also used
Mod Podge diluted by about 4 to 1 with a drop of washing liquid to reduce the surface tension and again had no problem.
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Cheers,
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Robin
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After a bit of googling I think Woodland Scenics ballast is made from ground walnut shells - probably coloured to suit. The raw material is readily available in different grades as a shot blasting material:??ohn
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Re: Ballast - Suggestions
After a bit of googling I think Woodland Scenics ballast is made from ground walnut shells - probably coloured to suit. The raw material is readily available in different grades as a shot blasting material:??ohn
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Re: Possible Tal-y-llyn rly layout
Its a long shot, but you could try contacting Adrian Swain (ABS) he may still have a few Dolgoch kits knocking around.?
Steev
On Saturday, December 14, 2019, 01:18:47 PM GMT, Marc Dobson <marcbobdobson@...> wrote:
I was thinking of start loco building with the peco Tal-y-llyn then scratch building Dolgogh as there is no kit anymore.
Marc
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Re: Possible Tal-y-llyn rly layout
I was thinking of start loco building with the peco Tal-y-llyn then scratch building Dolgogh as there is no kit anymore.
Marc
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