Welshpool and Llanfair

PWHolmes · Post by **PWHolmes** » Sun Feb 16, 2003 11:04 am

[<IMG width="640" height="480" SRC="http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic.php/46253/The Earl on the Canal Bridge (1).jpg">]

[<IMG width="640" height="480" SRC="http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic.php/46253/The Earl on the Canal Bridge (2).jpg">]

I dunno if this is going to work, but if it does, that above should show two pictures of my on-going MSTS route, the Welshpool and Llanfair. Don't hold your breath for the rest, it has taken me weeks to get from Smithfield to here (about 300 yards), and there's another 10 miles yet.[/img]

PWHolmes · Post by **PWHolmes** » Sun Feb 16, 2003 11:06 am

Ah no, it hasn't.

Can someone at Atomic Systems tell me in ENGLISH and not computergobbledegook how I add pictures to this posting. I have added them to an album and folowed the instructions.

As if it could be that simple..... silly me.

asalmon · Post by **asalmon** » Sun Feb 16, 2003 11:18 am

I am not someone at atomic, but can tell you how to display pictures.

You have mixed two ways - you want either [ ] or < > but not both.

However, your pictures do not even work in the album, so I think the problem is with the brackets and spaces in the filename. - either that or the fact that they seem to be missing the .jpg extension.

My advice to you would be to upload with a shorter filename, eg EarlCanal1.jpg and EarlCanal2.jpg and then use the "album" tags

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Note that the album system is case-sensitive, ie in my example the filename must have capital E and C for the link to work.

The longer-winded way is either

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<IMG width="640" height="480" SRC="http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic.php/46253/EarlCanal1.jpg">

or

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[img]http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic.php/46253/EarlCanal1.jpg[/img]

Hope this helps. I can't actually test it as the picture doesn't exist, so may have made a mistake somewhere.

-Alan

PWHolmes · Post by **PWHolmes** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 1:07 am

[album 46253 The Earl on the Canal Bridge (1)]
[album 46253 The Earl on the Canal Bridge (2)]

I'll try again

asalmon · Post by **asalmon** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:20 am

You can't have spaces in the filename when using the [album] tag. And I'm almost certain it is not working because there isn't a .jpg file extension on those pictures - if you go into your own album you will see they don't work there either - so they'll never work here!

-Alan

PWHolmes · Post by **PWHolmes** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 8:03 am

Thanks, Alan.

I'll try again afresh later this week when I have more time.

Paul

TomGreen · Post by **TomGreen** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 10:56 pm

I think this is what PWHolmes is trying to show us

PWHolmes · Post by **PWHolmes** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 1:19 am

Right... I've re-inputted the files with simpler names AND the .jpg extension. If I go into the photogallery I can see 'em so let's try again.

Here goes....

Let's see if that works!!!

Paul

PS Hoo-bl**dy-ray!

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 1:15 pm

Excellent! Now that is real canal water colour! Looking verrrry nice.

Rfairlie · Post by **Rfairlie** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:36 pm

Looking good. Is it going to be in the preservation era or in GWR or Cambrian days.

Tim

gopher · Post by **gopher** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 9:17 pm

Marvellous stuff Paul. Worth the wait for the pics. The canal is excellent.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 11:03 pm

Sticking my neck out and probably going to get a slap, but the graphic of the water over the overflow weir looks a little cheesy. May I suggest modelling the weir with low water so there is no flow (unless you are clever and want to build an animated model of some flowing water...???).

PWHolmes · Post by **PWHolmes** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:03 am

Thanks for the compliments, guys.

Regarding the water in the overflow weir... it isn't an overflow weir!!!

This is the Lledan Brook that flows down from the Golfa, is the origin of the name "Brook Street" and was culverted under the narrows. hence, unless the brook runs dry, it always flows. I agree that it looks a bit "cheesy", but I had spent so long doing the culvert through which it flows that I was getting a bit bored (Cheesed off??) and needed to move on. It is a future "area for improvement" and that may include animation, I don't know.

As fo era, well, I want it to be "all things to all men (and women, I suppose). I have been thinking of an imaginary scenario where the GWR didn't withdraw passenger services in 1931 and the original coaches were not scrapped. Passenger services would then have continued into BR days and the WLLR would have become an eastern Vale of Rheidol, being taken over by the existing preservation company, complete with town section, in the mid 1960s.

To complement all of this, I intend (eventually) to complete "The Countess" in GWR green and Pickerings coaches in Cambrian Green and Cream, GWR chocolate and cream and (wait for it) a ficticious BR maroon.

Hence it could be any time except for the Cambrian era. The locos originally had smaller cabs and stovepipe chimneys and, to be honest, I think I have set myself a big enough task as it is.

To fill you in, I have so far built:

Smithfield Cattle Market
Welshpool Main Line Station building
The Cattle Transfer Dock
WLLR Goods Shed
WLLR Transit Shed
WLLR Loco and Carriage Shed

plus the canal, Lledan Brook weir and culvert, and canal bridges you have already seen.

I intend to release the town section when it is complete but am having all sorts of difficulties in researching the town section. There are literally tons of pictures of Smithfield, Church Street crossing looking east. the narrows and Raven Square, and I have found one video image of the section beneath Bron-y-Buckley estate between Brook Street Crossing and Raven Square. I have every book and video with me here in Taiwan of the WLLR and have scoured the internet for other pictures.

I have found absoultely NOTHING on the canal to Church Street section exept for a picture of the crossing looking towards Smithfield taken shortly after closure and some pictures taken on the canal bridge towards Smithfield.

So if ANYONE has any ideas on how I can get this info, PLEASE let me know.

Paul

sp762 · Post by **sp762** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:11 am

There were some old photos in a magaizine last year - BR times - and one showed a short train crossing a street - I'll see if I can find it over the weekend.

Mike

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 10:47 am

Paul, your alternative history sounds completely plausible and is quite a brave thing to try. Many modellers I speak to in the 'real' modelling world seem to think that this alternative history stuff is just a cop-out for those who don't have the inclination to do it properly. But on the other hand some classic models like Buckingham or Portreath or most of Iain Rice's work is based on semi-fiction and plausible alternatives so I say press on! The idea of choc/cream or BR red coaches is great.

When (huh) I finally get going with the M&SWJ I am thinking of a possible alternative post-grouping scenario in which the line wasn't placed into GWR ownership but instead enjoyed joint SR-LMS control like the S&D did. I wonder what sort of locos, stock and traffic the line would have seen, and how much longer it would have lasted like that.