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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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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

MORE GOODIES

Finally I have some good news to report.   Work is going to be starting again soon. I had my wheels turn up from the UK. They finally arrived after almost a life time in Brazil. I had sent something like 30 emails to the post office here.   There is enough here to keep me going for a while.   Here is what I got. Something nice for you GW fans. Looking at the photo, at the top we have the loco wheels for the 63 mogul. In the middle are a set for an 850 pannier tank, and at the bottom is a p
N15class

N15class

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Paternosterrow

Great British Locomotive Magazine Models & The Shadow Box Roundhouse

These models are more than a bit naff, but for the price they are great for static displays. I had to strip down the Mallard one and reglue the wheels straight and rejoin the wobbly bottom half of the tender. I also did a little bit of weathering on the Mallard. You know I often wonder why Airfix/Dapol never made these part of their plastic kit range.           I've only bought the Flying Scotsman and Mallard issues and now wish I'd have purchased at least six of the Mallard one
PaternosterRow

PaternosterRow

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Clachbeg: trackwork

Building the stonemason siding and turnout

The stonemason siding is just 18' long, straight, and is made of 9' lengths of 12lb/yd rail (salvaged from the original mine tramway). It will have a wooden buffer stop, and be faced by the stone platform of the stonemason shed. It holds two short wagons.   The stonemason turnout has the curving road as the main line and the straight road leads to the siding. The curve radius is 33', and the turnout is curved through the 1:3 crossing vee. As with all the CMER turnouts it has loose-heeled switc
Richard T

Richard T

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Up the Line - 1918

Where to get 9mm NON insulated wheels

My plans for building the ultimate pony truck for the (and all the others that are to follow!), Baldwin has hit a snag - the wheels are insulated from the axle thus making split chassis pick up a bit difficult. I know it is possible to add a bridging wire to the axle but as the axle is only 2mm that could be interesting.So, does anyone know where to get non insulated 9mm wheels? Another though I had was to just drill out the wheel to accept the bearing and then mount them on a stub axle but I th
KH1

KH1

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drduncan's workbench

The locomotive shop - Armstrong Standard Goods no 788

As I discovered I had run out of crank pins a pause has been forced in 2811's progress. So I decided to have a renewed crack at the Nucast Armstrong Standard Goods.   Russell's locomotives of the GWR gives 2 nice pictures of 788 in pre 1906 livery - all glorious lining and indian red frames etc. Also 788 has a belpaire firebox which might give an extra mm to hide the motor and gearbox, always a problem with wasp waisted Victorian or Edwardian locos!       The original Nucast kit had a
drduncan

drduncan

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Clachbeg: trackwork

Fishing the bridge and turnouts, and installing the loop tracks

The template with the entrance and mine turnouts had been glued in place onto the baseboard but was still not fished together with the existing track, so this was a satisfying task to tackle. At the same time I decided to place the bridge in place definitively, and lay the loop track sections, so altogether I needed to fabricate 64 fishplates and then use 128 nuts and bolts to fish the various rails together.     This is the joint from the branch line onto the bridge.     This shows th
Richard T

Richard T

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bgman's Blog

Box Signal box

Good evening all, Does anyone know what was on the Up signal box name board at Box Station ? Was it "Box Signal Box" or purely "Box" as I'm uncertain about this matter and would be very grateful for any help please.
bgman

bgman

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The Farthing layouts

Flight of the bumblebee

I’m building a traverser of sorts for the fiddle yard of my little goods depot layout. From an engineering perspective it’s a bit dodgy - yet somehow it works, so I’ve dubbed it the bumblebee.   My original plan was to have a fiddle yard with points, but as space is becoming an issue I decided to go for a traverser instead. Trouble is, my engineering skills are equal to those of the common earthworm.   So I’ve been putting it off, until I came across some bits and pieces in t
Mikkel

Mikkel

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garethashenden's Workbench

517 the First; Part 1

Being a student, funds are tight. Small bits can be acquired here and there but complete locomotive kits are out of the question. So when Empire Mills received a donation of a Hornby GWR 1400 I took the opportunity to do something with it. After letting it mature for about 18 months I decided the best thing to do was cut it up and make a 517 instead. This fits well with the Edwardian era china clay layout that will be Empire Mills' next incarnation.   After studying a number of pictures and dr
garethashenden

garethashenden

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The EMpire Project

Empire Mills - come see us in action at the MRC open day 11 May

Come see Empire Mills in something approaching glorious Technicolor and almost Dolby stereo quality sound at the Model Railway Club's open day on Sunday 11 May, 11am to 4pm!   We will be running (hopefully) Western Region diesel hydraulics (and Gareth's class 25 interloper as well as my 08 if the wasp stripes are done), BR china clay and mineral wagons.   If that's not enough to tempt you to come along, also on show at the open day are: Lacey Dale, the MRC's new N gauge layout. Happisbu
drduncan

drduncan

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BRM Blog

Layout videos make a difference!

The printed edition of BRM has now been going since 1993. Over the years it has evolved and continues to do so, in-keeping with the times and the readership's demands, needs and wants. What it can't offer you though is movement. Plain text and static images often leave the layout to be 'imagined' as a whole by the reader and in today's world where an increasing number of layouts are being operated by DCC with sound and lights, it just seems a shame to neglect these aspects. This is where video
Howard Smith

Howard Smith

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Northall

Ince & Mayhew’s factory – part 3

Next step is to weather the front of the factory before starting with the windows. For weathering I used the following materials for the factory: · Soft pencil pastels of Caran d’Ache. This on advice of an art shop in Nijmegen. They told me that these pencils had the most pigment. In the past I mostly used a mixture of a what dark pigments. On their advice I used this time some different shades of grey and grey/blue. But every other good brand will work too. · Coloured pencils for detai
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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Sylvian Tennant's archive of pants!

Hartburn Junction

Hello again you men and women and cats and dogs and all sort of other people.   You've heard me bang on about it enough time already. I just thought I'd share with you all some quick photos I took tonight on our exhibition layout in progress "Hartburn Junction".             It is now running and will be at the Middlesbrough Model Railway Exhibition on the 17th & 18th May, we have unfortunately had a few set backs which has hampered total completion of the layout in time fo
Sylvian Tennant

Sylvian Tennant

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Empire Mill - long time no blog - lots to catch up on

No blog entries since February, too much going on and now so much to catch up on. Get a cup of tea, this could be a long one.   First up I've been working on rebuilding the lever frame from Empire Basin to fit Empire Mills. The revised track plan calls from more levers and so an extra Shropshire and Herefordshire Area Group frame was ordered from the Scalefour stores. This takes the frame up to 25 levers. The frame was built as per the instructions except for the addition of a locking 'tab' wh
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Up the Line - 1918

Even more wiring

I wouldn't actually have thought it possible but I have found even more wiring to do. Admittedly it is just a bit of tidying up and making a few things that were using test leads a bit more permanent. At long last I seem to have fixed the leaky roof in the studio which was letting copious amounts of water in along most of one side of the room every time it rained. It turned out to be one single roofing nail which was not hammered fully home but I had to dismantle most of the roof to find this wh
KH1

KH1

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Hens Teeth – Replacements for Hornby Cab Deflectors

I have been busy buying some more ‘excellent’ items, you know, the ones that drop through the letter box with broken parts or bits missing.   The cab wind deflectors which are featured on a lot of Hornby’s newer models seem to be particular problem. Hens Teeth – Genuine Hornby cab wind deflectors Note that the spacing of the fixing spikes is greater than length of the protruding deflector When I spoke recently with the Customer Service Department at Hornby I was informed that the cab defl
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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Hallatrow - an 18.83 Challange Layout

A Type 7 Signal Box

Although it has been quite some time since I have not posted anything, things have progressed. This winter I decided to build the signal box.   As my model of Hallatrow depicts the station before the footbridge was built and after the re-modelling, i.e. late 1909 - 1910, the type 7 box is required. As I don't have a plan of the box I did not fancy counting bricks but the is a plan of the Bishops Lydeard in the book on the West Somerset Line - "The Minehead Branch".   The plan was re-scaled
dave k

dave k

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garethashenden's Workbench

Garethashenden's Workbench

Following yesterday's accusations that everything was my fault I must insist that actually, it's Duncan's fault. We started building the layout, then he moved to Portsmouth. I should probably clarify that my primary interest is in the Boston & Maine railroad c. 1950. So saying I know very little about EM gauge is an understatement at this point. But none the less, here I am in charge of an EM gauge layout with not much more than a vague idea of how to build it. So it is, as you can see f
garethashenden

garethashenden

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Is “Maintenance” spelt “Frustration”?

The C13s are in the “Wait till Autumn,- Dave” box but I decided to get down to solve the J10 hiccup running   It was indeed the split axle that had failed so a new one was made but when back to trial running stage there was still a tiny jerk when slow running. Not only that but occasionally there was a short which shut down the DCC – Bu****!   In fact it was the shorting that gave me the answer, because while looking for were this occasional short circuit could be occurring I noticed some b
BRM Blog

Replacing Darren's Moggie

In his thread "Layout Damaged at Open Day!", Darren described the damage sustained by "Torrington" at a recent event. Part of this involved a car going missing from the scene. While I'm sure all RMWebber's will sympathise (many already have on the thread), there's not much we can do to help remotely.   Except to replace the missing car.     The car in question is a Morris Minor - normally nicknamed a "Moggie". I dropped in to my local model shop and rooted through the selection of Oxford
Phil Parker

Phil Parker

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Sylvian Tennant's archive of pants!

Spring Time for...

...oh I forget his name.   But what I have remembered is I forget to try and not be funny. Then end up not being funny, tragic really.   In other news I have been modelling, alot of modelling to be done in preparation of our next long anticipated exhibition at Middlesbrough within the fortnight.   So, understably I have been rather busy.   First up are some little bits for the layout which included updating this fine beast of a water crane, originally of Hornby decent and now looking mor
Sylvian Tennant

Sylvian Tennant

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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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