JJ73 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Hello Every BodyI have just named my Model Railway :- "Midland Monsal Model Railway" (M. M. M. R.) & why??? B/c as some of you might know, I live nr the Monsal Trail which used to be a Railway Line (until 1968 when it closed 🙁) & was owned by the Midland Railway, hence why I decided to call it "Midland Monsal Model Railway" (M. M. M. R.) - Yes I know, a bit of a mouthful!!! & yes a video is to come aswell, also I have named all of my structures & buildings!!!...Millers Dale Engine ShedBuxton ShedHeadstone TunnelMillers Suspension BridgeHalf view of my Layout...The other Half view of my Layout!!!Thank you 🙂🚂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threelink Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Looking good,JJ.The name is a bit of a mouthful but not so much as that of a former line in my area, The Easton Neston Mineral, Towcester Roade and Olney Junction Railway.Keep up the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Good stuff JJ, maybe Triple M R for short or even 3MsR to save a bit of typing or getting tongue tied on your videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulleidboy Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Looking good JJ - that's a nice space you have for your layout. BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brew Man Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Or maybe drop the word, 'Model' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Or call it the M & M Railway, which gives you the excuse to always have a packet of them handy if you get the modelling munchies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 Hello@ Threelink :- Thank you & yes, I think your former Railway line beats mine hands down, & I thought that mine was "A bit of a mouthful"!!! 😉@ Raf :- Thank you, "Good Thinking Batman"!!! as Robin used to say on that show!!! I'll think about it 🤔I don't think that I need an excuse to eat Chocolate as I am a bit of a Choc-o-holic 🍫 myself, but I might now just get a bag of M & M;'s now that you have said that!!! 😄@ B. B :- Yes That is a nice space I have - Thank you - I use it to make my videos, for example " " Check it out & you will see what I mean!!!🙂@ Brew Man :- Well I could drop the word "model" but some one might actually think that I'm actually talking about either The Real Monsal Trail or the old Railway line that used to run along it!!! 🤔🚂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 @ Raf :- Thank you for your ideas - I'm going to go with "Triple M R" for short - b/c I like that one 🙂🚂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threelink Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 How about just "Monsal Rail", then you can use MR transfers on the locos and stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellocoloco Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Reckon it should be Monsal Midland rather than Midland Monsal.The location tends to come before the direction, if that makes sense, on many historical railways, such as Copper River and North Western, Colorado and Southern, Glasgow and South Western, London and North Western. I would also suggest drop the model. Just the Monsal & Midland Railway. Happy modelling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted June 18, 2022 Author Share Posted June 18, 2022 @ Threelink :- I could do 🤔@ Ello :- I did think about " Monsal Midland rather than Midland Monsal", but that is what I went with!!! That is what Brew Man Said aswell about "drop the model" but as I said above "Some one might actually think that I'm actually talking about either The Real Monsal Trail or the old Railway line that used to run along it!!!" 🤔@ everybody :- My Vid is now ready to view... 🚂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81F Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 I like the way you have used shelf brackets to support the main piers of your grand suspension bridges. Have you thought of modelling a deep gorge/valley below the gaps? You would certainly have quite a dramatic view when sitting on the floor looking up.Not quite the same but have you ever seen the viaduct at Pendon Museum. I hope the link below will show you what I mean https://www.ratedtrips.com/establishments/pendon-museum#&gid=1&pid=5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted June 18, 2022 Author Share Posted June 18, 2022 A Clickable Link :- Pendon Museum | AA RatedTrips.com@81F :- Thank you, Apart from the 2 old Ikea Tables you see on the far side of the room - all the wooden tops are on shelf brackets!!! I'm not really into Modelling like your Lovely folk are (I wouldn't even know where to start!!! 🤔) That is why I went to Boots & got that very large Panoramic View done so it would look like there is a view from the Bridge instead of it just sitting next to a blank empty wall!!! But thanks any way & yes I do see what you mean!!! 🚂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 A Little up-date...I now can 'Officially' call my Layout the 'Midland Monsal Model Railway'...Look what I bought today...🙂Apparently, it used to be inside the Station @ Bare Lane Station, Heysham (well that is what is says on the back!!!) - it's an old Advertising Sign for the Midland Railway!!! 🚂Note to the Mods... Apparently, the seller told me, that the copy right on this, has expired yrs ago, as b/c this is so old!!! That is why you can buy many copies of it on the internet!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topcat2018 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 When I was in my teens we used to take the train from Manchester Central station into the Peak District to go rambling and visit places such as the Blue John Caverns at Castleton and Treak Cliff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Great sign JJ - cracking find.We used to caravan near Buxton. I well remember walking the ridge to Mam-Tor, which was a breeze compared to the 1/2 mile walk from the pub back to the caravan site up a 1 in 6 hill after a good scoff and a few pints. Mind you we are talking several decades ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace2507 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Nice find, I've travelled through Bare Lane Station many times on my way back from Heysham Port, the station building there is now a private house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
What About The Bee Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I think you are fairly safe on the copyright JJ.British law provides copyright protection for artistic works, 70 years after the death of the artist.I found your image as part of the Mary Evans Picture Library, Wentworth Collection, the image dated 1908. That seems about right for a Midland Compound, wikipedia says 45 of them built between 1902 and 1909.So the artist could survive for another 44 years after the painting and for you to have no copyright issues.1908+44=1952Current year less 70 year copyright. 2022-70=1952 Its possible the artist was still alive, yet not probable.Bee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 @ TopCat : I Live quite near Castleton - I've been through that area quite a few times!!!@ Raf :- Thank you - ('Great sign JJ - cracking find.' - Have you been watching 'Wallis & Gromit' lately by any chance???😀) Yeah - I also Live quite near Buxton - I think that I might have cycled along the ridge to Mam-Tor, I cycle here, there & every where when I get on my bike!!!@ Ace :- Thank you - Yeah that is true - well that is what I've read on Wikki!!!@ Bee :- Yep, that is right - I also found copies of it on the Mary Evans Picture Library. I actually have a working Model of the Midland Compound, thank you for the info .🙂🚂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
What About The Bee Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Hi JJThe artistic rendering of arches with proper perspective puts paid to any thought that the artist was a child. So if the artist wasn't a child, then the artist was born possibly as late as 1894, making the artist 14 in 1908. That's still fairly young for a technical illustration, but feasible.Median age of death, per the UK government, for a person born before 1900 is 52 years for males and 57 years for females. Since we cannot assume the artist male, I will use 57 years.1894 + 57 = 1951In, just under the wire!!Of course, oil based artists typically do NOT meet life expectancy norms, falling far short as a function of the toxic materials they immerse themselves in.Bee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 That's interesting - yeah - the perspective of the Loco is wrong - it's too big for the bridge - should have been smaller!!! 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Spare Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 The locomotive depicted is not a Compound but a 4-2-2 two cylinder simple expansion loco, the Johnson 'Spinner' being one of the most well known because one has been preserved and is now at the NRM, York. The Midland had 95 locomotives of this general type constructed between 1887 and 1900, the last, the preserved example, being withdrawn in 1928. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 Oh thank you for that G. S. - my bad - it looks very similar though... 🚂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
What About The Bee Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Well spotted Going Spare! The splasher shape tells the tale!@jj - now you must get the locomotive in the image! Keyser Ks kit 19-042 is a Spinner, per Hattons, in OO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threelink Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Nice find, JJ. Elegant locos, the spinners and indeed all other single wheelers. I think it was the great loco engineer Patrick Stirling who likened coupled locos to "a laddie running wi' his breeks doon". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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