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    Coastguard Creek - 15 months of planning!

    By SouthernRegionSteam

    Hold on to your socks - this is going to be a lengthy one! (In fact it's so long, I've now split it into 2 separate posts - the next will be up soon...)   I think it's fair to say that you are all long overdue an update on Coastguard Creek. Due to other commitments, no real progress has been made since the last post way back in March 2021; almost 15 months ago! If anything, things went backwards for quite a while, as I kept finding more and more inspiring locations that I really wanted
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On The Workbench

On the workbench - Decoupage

Having spent last night drawing up the South wall of the pumphouse - time to get on cutting card!       First, several copies of the wall layers were run off on adhesive paper.   These were then cut out & overlaid on various thicknesses of card, and relevant levels of detail cut from each layer. Crafters call it 'Decoupage'. Glad I make models...   Finally the various layers were assembled together.     All I need to add now is the corbelling & plinth in fine postcard!
scanman

scanman

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Weather me clean.

Hi again all.   In the previous blog entry WillJ commented on the weathering carried out to a couple of the engines used on Ropley during RMweb Live.   Weathering is a subject I have been pondering for sometime, since it is a totally different proposition when modelling a preserved railway to any other era. As can be seen from the top image, steam locos on heritage railways tend to be kept in top link condition, with polished boiler cladding & shiny brasswork. This goes almost totally
TomE

TomE

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nickx's Blog

Great British Locomotive Collection

Can anyone throw any light on the above collection from Amercom please. I've tried constantly for 5 days to speak to their customer service helpline, 2 or 3 weeks ago I was able to get answers to my queries , but having tried again this morning (26th) the phone line is disconnected. On their web page they have issue 1 to issue 16, is that it ? I also received a binder for the mags as if the collection was complete. On the inside cover of each mag there is a list of ''forthcoming '' issues and wh
nickx

nickx

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Fisherton Sarum on tour this Autumn

There are two more chances to see Fisherton Sarum in operation at exhibitions this year, I have timed this post to act a reminder and hopefully give you a chance to include them in your diary. As regular readers of this blog will know I only usually exhibit the layout at three or four shows each year. I am as ever indebted to my parents and fellow members of the High Wycombe and District Model Railway Society for their time and assistance at these shows to enable Fisherton Sarum to be exhibited
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Alight here for Broomielaw

The Prologue. Aka. a prolonged gestation.

If you've stopped by firstly welcome. If you're still reading, thank you and allow me to introduce my small ambition.   My name is Steve. Stephen on Sundays or when in trouble. As a child I was introduced to model railways by my Grandad. My mother rather suspects that the Lima HO set that appeared on a 6x4' board on my Grandparents dining table was the start of a slippery slope as well as my Grandad secretly fulfilling an ambition to "play trains" himself. After all, signals and a signal box s
Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor

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On The Workbench

On the workbench - or 'Reaching the Parts Other Blogs Cannot Reach!

The 'Controlling The Trains' Building will be en route to Didcot Railwayentre on Sunday:-       Which MIGHT mean I'm going to get bored..     but I think not! The next project is taking shape on the computer already. I need some 'promo' structures for the business, and this one (a Victorian Sewage Pumping Station at Farnham) will fill the bill admirably!   I've already drawn up the 'two bay' wall on the right (the rear) of the building. CAD'ded at 1:1, it can be reduced to any
scanman

scanman

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Up the Line - 1918

Still fiddling around

Yes, still fiddling with the fiddle yard - just taken all week, so nothing to worry about! Really don't know why it has taken so long and unfortunately not totally convinced I have even got it right. Have persevered with the Conti board sandwich the principal of which should be evident here;     It is relying ob the slidyness of the plastic facing on the plastic facing. Big advantage though is that it means that the vertical track alignment is spot on across all of the roads - something tha
KH1

KH1

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Feltenham mk 3

It's been awhile...

Hi all, Been awhile since I've done any form of update so here it is haha, Once again I've had a rethink about the layout, and now instead of it being based on feltham it's gonna be an area of my own creation, was a pain in the bum trying to find anything useful for feltham, so instead it's gonna be a lower level station (no idea what it would be deemed as) with the station building above the platforms, a side bay for a push pull branch service, and a non active line acting as a pway siding o
Sr-Dixon

Sr-Dixon

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

A Tale of Two Tenders

I have written before in this blog about the convenience of using tender-drive for small 19th century locomotives, especially for 'single wheelers'.   In my earlier post, I described the conversion of two types of tender kit, both of which represented Dean 3000 gallon tenders. Since then, I've read 'GWR Tenders and all that' in drduncan's blog, which, amongst many other useful insights, showed the close similarity between Dean's 2500 gallon and 3000 gallon designs. He also comments on
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Have I missed the point – CDUs with Peco solenoids

I recently added my two-pennies-worth to an RMweb question about motorising Peco points. As a consequence and after some thirty years of playing with model trains I have now installed a couple of Capacitor Discharge Units (CDUs). What do I think? Well I have mixed feelings. First some pictures (scanned images) going back in time to earlier layouts. Control panels with push buttons Bracken Ridge This was the Bracken Ridge layout from the early 1980s. I cannot remember but I don’t think model
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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Will J's Random Adventures in N Gauge

Just upstream from Victoria Bridge

Just a short entry today, have spent rather too long staring at a screen, here are the results:     A number of people at RMweb live asked if, having 'printed' Victoria Bridge, I could print an Arley station to go with it. One way to find out....!   The drawings in the Wild Swan 'Severn Valley Railway at Arley' have proved invaluable.   It may yet form the basis of an extension to the Victoria Bridge diorama, as country stations go, it gets quite busy, see: https://www.flickr.com/photo
Will J

Will J

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

GWR 850 CLASS (9)

Got some more done.It seems to be coming on nicely.   I think the bunker now looks right. The bunker front has a cut out in in it on the drivers side. Has any one any idea what it is and if there was anything in it or backing to stop the coal falling out.   I have made the bunker removable for painting it will be held in place by two screws, the panniers will be held in place by three. I have fitted some of the detail to the front of the panniers. I think if all goes well tom
N15class

N15class in GWR 850 CLASS

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gc4946's Model World

My OO scale "County" collection - Part 13

East Riding of Yorkshire - latest   I exchanged the wheels on Lima's motorised HST power car for ones in better condition.   Tonight I also rediscovered the YouTube video of a solo GNER power car with a Porterbrook Mk1 barrier coach running through York.     Unlike some other train operators, I don't know if any GNER power cars ever ran coupled back to back.   The only area where a GNER HST (especially a single power car and a barrier coach) and a Pendolino could have regularly met
gc4946

gc4946

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The sleepers workspace

GWR Mink 'G' van 4

I'm sorry this blog hasn't been updated for so long, but work on the house has taken priority, so the only modelling done recently have been a couple of Ratio Vans. 1 is an LMS ventilated van the other an SR 28ton bogie 'B' luggage van and a Parkside Dundas 'vanwide' kit. The two small vans were a doddle and a pleasure to build, the SR 'B' van was a bit of a pig with lots of fiddly bits making up the bogies and I'm not happy that I've got them right even now. Another thing I wasn't happy about
sleeper

sleeper

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Barry O's Weathering Blog

fish and coal! wagons that is!

Been busy but now that outdoor cricket is over I can get back to doing some weathering. I have done quite a bit of weathering recently but haven't had the camera at hand to photograph it. However here are a few wagons to be going on with.. First up some Parkside 21T fitted minerals:     I have been experimenting on these after a conversation with Stationmaster at Swindon (STEAM) show as we are trying to get the crusty rust/coal look on teh inside walls of the wagon.. this had got to ...  
Barry O

Barry O

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Fourgig East

Details, details ....

Ahead of the Wycrail Show I have been adding more details to the layout. First off I've made some flower tubs from the cardboard tubes you get round the business end of a new spark plug cut in half and painted white. The flowers are from www.themodeltreeshop.com and come ready to "plant" - a bead of PVA run round the inside of the tube and the flowers just popped in       Next that very nice man Jon Fitness sent me a spare length of ladder which duly painted sits very well against the y
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Getting to the point

Hi All.   As a break from mass tree production for the embankment, the last couple of days have seen attention turn to point rodding.   The original intention was to use the 2mm Scale Association etch for the rodding, however having received a fret a while ago I felt it was a little too thin when compared with the appearance of the real thing. After seeing Julia's rodding for Highclere, I purchased some of the same .4mm square section from MSE and although intended for 4mm scale, I don't t
TomE

TomE

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Morgan's Workbench Blog

Small loco detailing parts (LNER Cabside Screens)

OK so it has been a very long time since I posted anything on here but I have a couple of things to post in the coming days.   Firstly, readers of the "Wright Writes" thread will be aware that I planned to produce some small etched cabside screens for use on Hornby LNER locomotives. This morning the postie delivered my etchings and I now have two designs of fret available to purchase. Whilst these items are primarily designed as replacements for the Hornby plastic screens there is nothing to s
45609

45609

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Cowes & Newport in 4mm scale

A testing time at Newport

This has been a long haul, but finally approaching the point where I can remount the individual boards which make up Newport. All the track is laid, and wired, the pointwork motorised, the control panel built, and each board has been fully tested in its own right. All that's left now is to test the boards in combination, as any faults will be more easily rectified when the boards are unattached to the layout. I don't fancy any upside-down soldering!   So, here are the two boards for Newport No
ChrisG

ChrisG

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SRman's Workbench Blog

Lighting a Bachmann disc headcode class 20

I have spent some time over the last two days fitting a lighting kit to a Bachmann class 20. The wiring up was complicated by the fact that it has sound fitted (reblown by Howes), a bass enhanced speaker and a pair of wires leading to a two-pin socket which allows a second, de-motored class 20 with a larger bass reflex speaker to be semi-permanently attached.   The lights include separately wired marker and tail lights at each end plus a cab light. The sound decoder is an ESU LokSound with onl
SRman

SRman

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Goosehill Central

Inspiration for Goosehill

Inspiration came from 2 places, 1) Scale station in the Peak District which provided the rough setting for the layout and 2) Bodmin Station, on the Bodmin and Wenford heritage railway in Cornwall. It gave many ideas such as the platform encasing the track, making it at the end of its line. Although an ex LMS area, it has taken inspiration from places up and down the country. As well as some ideas of my own- which have come about from my requirements of the layout, such as a station terminus and
misterscrubb

misterscrubb

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BRM Blog

The Yellow Peril (Part 2)

Well, RMweb Live was a good chance to work on the Road-Railer project and make some progress. It is now in the state as seen below:     The show was one of the best I've experienced for engaging with the public on a more one-to-one basis, and the project certainly created some intrigue amongst many who passed.   An explanation of the work carried out so far, along with details on the prototype machines and Phil Parker's Road-Rail trailers can be read in the November 2014 issue of BRM, o
Howard Smith

Howard Smith

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On The Workbench

On the workbench - or 'Reaching the Parts Other Blogs Cannot Reach'!

Not all of my modelling is railway related - and some of the projects (like this one) are of buildings that do not exist yet!   The Swindon Panel Society' was formed to preserve the signalling panel from Swindon 'box - which was originally built in the early '60s. Also in the Society's mind was to preserve whats left of the panel display from Bristol East Box. At the same time Didcot Raiway Centre wanted to create a display of signalling systems from the earliest to the present day, and we
scanman

scanman

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    • Yan
      Post Scaleforum 2024

      By Yan · Posted

      Thank you for leaving the comments and thoughts guys, much appreciated.   Both Butley Mills and Ditchling Green are with new owners that are currently refurbishing them. Even the modelling skill and composition still shine through, so they were both well worth seeing in the flesh. One of Iain Rice's layouts I'd like to get the opportunity to see is Trerice.
    • BarryP
      Post Scaleforum 2024

      By BarryP · Posted

      It's good to see so many positive reviews of a model railway exhibition. I did dabble in S4/P4 way back and Iain Rice's writings were inspirational. I saw Butley Mills when it was first shown at Scaleforum in 1987 and I loved it. Gordon Gravett's models are fabulous and I would love to see them in the flesh, as it were. I did visit two shows specifically to see the magnificent "Pempoul" layout that the Gravetts built, that was the finest I've ever seen. I'm dabbling in "O" Gauge and an opportuni
    • Keith Addenbrooke
      Post Scaleforum 2024

      By Keith Addenbrooke · Posted

      Good to see it was a positive experience - and really nice to see a couple of photos of Ditchling Green (I didn’t realise it was still around).  Always struck me as a lovely layout: an early example perhaps of the ‘less is (so much) more’ approach to railway modelling that is now widely appreciated.  Keep up the good work, Keith.
    • Mikkel
      Post Scaleforum 2024

      By Mikkel · Posted

      The layout and info display looks very good. Thanks for posting photos of the other layouts, always a gift for those of us abroad - especially when they are this good.   Imposter syndrome is common I think, it can hold us back but on the hand I'll take that over bragging anytime.  
    • Mikkel
      Netherport and Basuto Quay Chronology

      By Mikkel · Posted

      That sounds like a good approach Nick, thank you for clarifying. A sense of space is so important, less is more and all that.   The Penzance photo shows unloading of flower traffic from the Scilly Isles (no date). It features on the front page of this volume by Tony Atkins. The book is perhaps not unexpendable and a tad dry, but it is informative and some of the photos are lovely.    

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