Dutch Scale Seven Group Newsletter 23 december 2019

In the weekend of 7 and 8 December we presented the S7 layout "Tripton by the Sea " build by Ton Trip at the Modelling Exhibition in Gangelt  Germany.

The show was very busy and a lot of people visit the layout and talking with us about modelling railway models and the S7 standards.

We ran a lot of different GWR models build by Ton en Cor. After some little problems the railway was operated for two days. Also we provided shunt movements and made a realistic way of running a model railway. All the engines where equipped with DCC decoders and we had radio controlled handheld controllers so we could walk along the layout talking and operating.

Some pictures of the layout.

0-6-0 Saddle tank 2028 waiting with a goods train.

The farmer brings the milk to the station.

Travellers waiting for the next train.

Sealor went home. 

Goods train with the 6 wheeled fish wagon

Waiting for the milk train at the loading dock.

The coal trader picks his stock for the coming winter. 

Auto coach passed the viaduct. 

Auto coach with pannier engine arrived at the station. 

Till next Cor de Jong.

Dutch Scale Seven Group Newsletter 6 September 2019

EXHIBITION NEWS.

At Saturday 30 November and Sunday 1 December 2019 there will be a modelling show in Gangelt Germany.

More information at the website

http://www.mef-gangelt.de/gangelter-modellbautage/

At this show we will setup the 1:43,5 scale seven layout of Ton Trip "Tripton by the Sea"  this 9 meter (30 ft ) long  layout will in operation with rolling stock build by Ton Trip and Cor de Jong both promotors of the scale seven standards of modelling.

It's the first time this beautiful layout will presented in Germany. Scale seven is not a well-known way of modelling in Germany so we promote scale seven for the German gauge 0 friends. We have a broad collection of rolling stock engines, coaches and wagons to run at the layout. There is no timetable but we run while we are talking with the interested modellers.

Train with coaches arrives in the station. Foto CdJ.

The layout is designed for a point to point operation so trains arrive in the station and after shunting they leave in the opposite direction. A push pull train with an Auto coach is typical for a GWR branch line and will regular run with a Pannier tank engine. A GWR Dean Goods serve the goods trains with different wagons for coal, parcels, livestock, fish and so on.

GWR 0-6-0 Dean Goods. Foto CdJ.

It's interesting to see and feel the English way of modelling and operation.

Cor de Jong

Dutch Scale Seven Group report nr. 18

Dutch Scale Seven Group report May 2015.

In the last weekend of February, Ton Trip and I were at the 2 day’s model railway show in Herwen, where Ton set up his “Tripton at Sea” railway. On Saturday, we operated the layout with his engines A Pannier tank and a Metro Class and on Sunday, I took some wagons and my GWR 0-6-0 Saddletank and GWR 0-6-0 Dean Good to let them run at the layout. My Dean Goods made its maiden trip on this fine detailed layout too. The engine ran really well as it comes complete with ESU DCC Sound decoder, inside motion, and ABC gears. The chosen 1900 colour scheme looks very realistic. The Saddle tank also gave a great performance. At the show, we promoted the ScaleSeven standards and way of modelling, which resulted in interesting discussions around the model railway and the ScaleSeven models.

Sunday at the Herwen Show in the Netherlands Cor's locos at work on Ton Trip's layout Tripton.

GWR Dean Goods cab details.

Last month I finished a GWR “Tadpole”, which is a very fine wagon with 3 axles and a outside break compensation system. A WEP models kit was used and I added more details. In order to do that, I mounted CPL buffers and couplings and put the vacuum and steam pipes under the frame. The spring hangers are modified and parts of CPL springs are used to get the correct detail. By the doors I mounted small chains for a more realistic look. These are so small, you need a magnifier to mount them.

Cor's 'Tadpole' fish truck built from a WEP kit with extra embellishments.

The GWR “Scorpion” is also finished.  This model is built with a D&S kit as the base but a lot of details are added. There is a good picture of the real wagon which we used as a guide.

I made some extra parts of brass and added extra details to the break system. Steam and vacuum pipes are completed under the frame so the frame is packed to show great resemblance to the life size model.

The complete building proces at Building a 'Scorpion'

A close-up of Cor's 'Scorpion' open carriage truck built from a D&S kit.

Cor's  'Scorpion' doing what is was build to do ...

GWR 'Scorpion'  ready to take a load.

Next job will be the GWR 2-4-0 “Stella”  class. This engine will be build as it looks in 1900 - 1910. I am waiting for the extended driving axles because the Slater’s are too short for ScaleSeven.

We hope to get an other opportunity to promote ScaleSeven in the Netherlands. Perhaps at the end of the year in October Ton will setup his ScaleSeven layout in Sedan (France). When everything goes well I will go there to operate the “Tripton at Sea” layout and promote ScaleSeven again.

Activities for the coming months will include building points and tracks for the “Minehead 1900 -1910 “ railway. A face book page of the Dutch Scale Seven Group is online and reactions continue to come from modellers in different countries and I encourage you to take a look too.

For Facebook look at  DSSG Facebook page.

All pictures C de Jong.

Till next time, Cor