Georgeham platform light

Well at last an evening at home transpired to allow me to do some modelling. Whilst recently surveying in Ireland and also across Exmoor I decided to finish off two jobs. The first was the ill fitting class 121 body, due to the express models lighting kit. The offending lighting unit was cut off, cut down using a dremmel and resoldered together. Several attempts were made before it was successfully resoldered together. However, it all now fits happily together and hopefully looks the part.

In summary and with this project now definitely finished, it should be stated that the running qualities of the hornby motors on this class 121 are awful!! I have the second one waiting for a repaint and fiddled about with decoders tonight between the two class 121 motor units. Suffice to say, little improvement was made between either chassis on either DCC or DC control. A quick internet search has revealed similar issues for others. Next time I am going to replace the motor. If anyone has a suggested replacement motor power unit I would be delighted to hear from you...

Evening Exeter bound DMU

The second quick job was to rig up the platform light. This was simply connected to a little square battery and hey presto it all works fine. In the fullness of time I am going to put a proper battery terminal and switch in.

Class 121 with ill fitting body shell cured

Life is very busy at the moment, but this leaves little time for any modelling. Updates for the next month or so will be sporadic at best.

Class 121 entering Georgeham halt

Georgeham nearly finished

Tonight I dragged the Georgeham test track into the lounge to finish off some of the detailing. Quick and easy detailing including topping up the static grass in places, resetting the lamp post and checking all is working with the a battery (it is yet to be wired up) and finally adding a name board for the platform.


Class 25 pulling into Georegham

The name board was easily made from a home printer, mounted on some card and glued onto a cocktail stick, coloured black with a permanant marker. Easy and quick and looks ok to boot!! A quick evening of modelling in an otherwise hectic work schedule!


Only hauling a solitary brakevan


That's it for Georgeham then, the lamp will be wired to a battery and switch and then that is it. Not yet sure what I am going to do with it.....it has been a good test bed for building a platform and using static grass for the first time.....but what to do with it now


New name board