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 Newsletter 18 januari 2018

The G.W.R 2-4-0 3501 Class 
The 2-4-0 G.W.R broad gauge tender engine is build using a kit of the Broad Gauge Society. A very nice kit to build not complicated. The etchings are nickel silver and the castings brass. The wheels are in the S7 standard. I made the axles split to pick up power from the bearings. Use Slater's isolated horn blocks to get these horn blocks isolated from the frame. 

G.W.R 2-4-0T Broad Gauge 3501 Class. Foto CdJ. 

2-4-0T  G.W.R Stella Class. 
This engine is under construction and made progress. I need to finish the inside motion and make the engine run smooth.  There will be a sound decoder in the engine, for the synchronize of the sound  we will use a Hall device. Head and tail lamps with small led’s. Need to finish the working inside motion. The Dean 2500 Gallon tender in the original shape is almost finished. The wheels are S7 and the tender and engine axles are compensated.

G.W.R  2-4-0 Stella Class double frame and driving wheels. Foto CdJ

GWR 2500 Gallon Dean tender. Foto CdJ.

 Single Horse Wagonette.

For the scenery I build a Single Horse Wagonette usable for my S7 Minehead railway. This carriages where used to transport travelers to the hotels or so. A nice little kit bought from Parliamentary Trains. The kit is made of laser cut plastic parts. It fits very well but you need patience to finish the small but nice kit.  A horse man and horse made the coach complete. 

Till next Cor de Jong 

Dutch Scale Seven Group report nr. 19

In November there was a publication in the France Loco-Revue magazine of our performance at the Ramma show at Sedan (france).

Eight pages about the " Tripton by the Sea " scale seven railway of Ton Trip where filled with beautiful pictures and an inspiring text. An include DVD showed a lot of model railway is operation and also the "Tripton by the Sea" layout with running scale seven engines and rolling stock build by Ton Trip and Cor de Jong both from the Netherlands.

Typical English houses build bij Ton.  Photo CdJ

Goods train hauled bij the 0-6-0 GWR Saddle tank. Photo CdJ.

GWR brakevan with external framing. Photo CdJ 

Next show will be in March the OnTrax show in Utrecht. This show will held in the Dutch National Railway Museum. We will set up the Tripton by the Sea railway and operate for 3 days. 

Next project is to build the 2-4-0 GWR Stella class complete with inside motion.

This engine is complicated because the double frame construction and outside cranks for the coupling rods. The scale seven group supplied longer axles to fit in the frame. It will be a nice engine.

Inside motion under construction for the Stella Class. Foto CdJ.

 Till next,

Cor