Ruabon Bala is going west. Barmouth here we come

gopher · Post by **gopher** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 10:43 pm

Check my website at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.mack/ where there is a page called "Barmouth Extension news and screenshots. I have changed my mind about doing the Rhyl branch next. Having just been on a recce around Barmouth, I popped along the valley from Trawsfynydd to Bala to have a look at the "Railway in the sky". It was even higher than I remember it. So thats the next extension, Bala to Blaenau. I will be resuming CD deliveries in a day or two if UKTrainsim are still not shipping CD's

Cheers

Gordon

Post by **NeutronIC** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 6:30 am

We have an order of raw materials (blanks, labels etc) on the way and as soon as they are here we'll be shipping out

Llangollen will be going on the cd ordering system at some point today.

Matt.

alisterbetts · Post by **alisterbetts** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 5:50 pm

Gordon, this is great news... more quality route on which to run some quality diesels.......!

JohnEyres · Post by **JohnEyres** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 6:19 pm

Good route building. I have seen all disused parts of the whole route in real life over the past 5 years Read books on what it was like in steam days and the comparison from what the trackbed is like today to what it was like then is amazing. You can just envisage it there and then. Same with the screenshots. Drws y nant is good, just how it was. Now the road runs on the track!

miketrak · Post by **miketrak** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 7:20 pm

Excellent news! I have walked the viaduct above Tryweryn, and is a spectacular view towards Trawsfynydd. It'll be nice to stop at Capel Celyn, and reflect on the time before the Liverpool water board

flooded the valley, and forced people to leave their homes.
I'll look forward to the release of that!!

Mike.

gopher · Post by **gopher** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 11:09 pm

Hello Mike

Yes Liverpool water board has a lot to answer for. But never mind, it's a scouser rebuilding it!!

Hello John

Love the route. What, not raining at Bank Quay. Your not from this neck of the woods, are you?

Hello Alister

There a little known trick in MSTS that lets you look at a loco's ENG. file before letting it run. Going to disable diesels. HE HE.

Cheers

Gordon

JohnEyres · Post by **JohnEyres** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 11:26 pm

Not from where?!! No guesses from where I'm from but I have a lot of knowledge of the line you are modelling. I have read many books on the route plus have had been involved with the Llangollen railway in the past. My father has shots from the 80s of 37s along the main Cambrian route which I am very fond of. I have relatives that volunteer on the Talyllyn railway so I'm never too far away from Cambrian metals.
Always there when anything special comes up there including 37s on a ballast to Barmouth Jnc last year where a cab ride was obtained! Oh, and it was 03:30 in the morning!

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 12:54 am

alisterbetts wrote:Gordon, this is great news... more quality route on which to run some quality diesels.......!

Gordon, this is great news... more quality route on which to run some qualitysteamers.........

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 12:57 pm

Just been looking at the screenshots .... brilliant .... have to get this route

MartinH · Post by **MartinH** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 3:45 pm

Excellent news. You might recall that I asked you whether you were planning to extend to Blaenau when the route first came out and I have to admit that I was disappointed when you said that you weren't. Big smiles in Slough this afternoon.

Martin

gopher · Post by **gopher** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 4:57 pm

Yes Martin, I remember. Drove down the valley a couple of weeks ago. Seems to get higher every time you see it.

Post by **NeutronIC** » Tue Sep 10, 2002 2:17 pm

Gordon, you'll be happy to hear that Llangollen went down *REALLY* well at the Ipswich exhibition - it got a good few hours airtime on both days of the show. We even had one person come up, tell US what the route was and that he recognised it since he'd been there and done a load of research on it himself, in fact his model railway there at the exhibition was based around that area too. He was supremely impressed with the route and even those that were not familiar with it were impressed with the visuals.

On a CD distribution note, the Llangollens are all burned and we are aiming to get stuff in the mail starting tomorrow (fingers crossed).

Matt.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Tue Sep 10, 2002 2:28 pm

Sounds great Matt - THIS is what the UKTS road-show is all about. Proving to the model railway guys that the simulator can do serious actual historical route modelling. Congrats, Gordon, you'd better get the top halves of your doorways widened!

Post by **NeutronIC** » Tue Sep 10, 2002 3:08 pm

What was quite amusing is that I wrote four simple activities so that people could just sit down and drive in a more real environment, literally threw them together without any care or consideration for the 'real world' - the point being to get people in as quickly as possible and for me to be able to get them done in one evening

The same guy that recognised the route was watching as I drove a Dean Goods in to Bala from [one of those stations to the right

], as I came in to Bala he was commenting about how close it was and then as I came out of Bala heading towards the yards and Bala Town I had a Pannier with 2 coaches sitting there waiting for me to get out of the way so it could go through - and his comment was "oh, excellent, the Bala shuttle is sitting there too"

At some point i'll get the activities uploaded and get some more done for the shows - they're all 15-25 minute and nothing complicated. Need to get some done for Skipton as well.

I'll try and get the show report up tonight, we tried out some new things this time and they all worked very well (including what you were saying about us facing the audience, not the screens).

Matt.

gopher · Post by **gopher** » Tue Sep 10, 2002 8:47 pm

Cheers Matt. Nice to know my works appreciated. Have to get down to one of these shows but probably will not be until Christmas, just too busy. Have to load up some of these activities, only tried one so far. Now where did I put that ten gallon stetson?

Congrats, Gordon, you'd better get the top halves of your doorways widened!
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Ruabon Bala is going west. Barmouth here we come

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