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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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Engine Wood

Hornby Sentinel converted to P4

A couple of weeks ago - or thereabouts - I noticed on the Ultrascale website, that they were developing a drop-in conversion wheelset for the Hornby Sentinel, in both P4 and EM. One of the features of both P4 and EM sets was the fact that narrower than normal/scale wheel treads had been used, which enabled the drop-in sets to be used without having to remove the outside frames and create more space.   For some reason, I read into their wording that these wheelsets might be available already, s
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Controlling Interests #7 Fiddle Yard exit power

Although I have been exhibiting Fisherton Sarum since November 2006 feedback from my operating team has resulted in suggestions and ideas for ways to continually improve the way we operate and exhibit. The main and largest change to date was as reported in my Controlling interests #1 post that added a third controller to enable independent up and down main line operation whilst still allowed movements to carry on in the shed area.   We now operate with each fiddle yard operator driving trains
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Al Reid's Blog

Model Rail 2014

Was this show the best ever. Hard to say but there was a great range of layouts of all sizes and of all eras to suit everyone's taste. I spent the day there on Friday with my great mate Julian Andrews and a further three hours yesterday, with a few more today The best in my opinion was Fence Houses. Awesome and at a great viewing height too. That circular patch of burnt grass sheer brilliance. I took a photo of the tress and my wife thought it was real life photo. The way the river bled into the
Al Reid

Al Reid

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Up the Line - 1918

Not Missing the Point

Half term and not a lot has happened - well not on the railway anyway! Lots of entertaining little person which included Zorbing on a pond, a fruitless search for the crash site of a B17 and (although were weren't going anywhere!), a few nights in a lovely cottage right in the middle of Hay - on - Wye with all it's bookshops.   In my one chance to get anything done I am afraid I got completely bogged down with a single tarpaulin - will recount this soon. For now though I will share with you th
KH1

KH1

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4mm scale agonies

One week to the show

One week to the Granite City Train Show. There hadn't been much progress over the past few weeks. The Winter Road Rally season had been in full swing and the wife and I had been competing and organizing around Minnesota and Wisconsin. Highlight of which had been sliding into a snow bank on a forest track that when I got out to push turned out be a three food deep ditch full of snow! But I digress... Today I was lucky enough to be able to devote the whole day to working on the layout. The impor
Ian Holmes

Ian Holmes

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greslet's Blog

Mallard 75 The Great Goodbye

Mallard 75 has brought together the 6 remaining LNER A4 pacific locomotives. With two of these set to depart to North America, all 6 are very unlikely to be seen together again and over the last week (15-23 February 2014) The Shildon Annexe of the National Railway Museum has hosted the Great Goodbye. I took […] The post Mallard 75 The Great Goodbye appeared first on Rede Valley Railway.
greslet

greslet

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greslet's Blog

Mallard 75 The Great Goodbye

Mallard 75 has brought together the 6 remaining LNER A4 pacific locomotives. With two of these set to depart to North America, all 6 are very unlikely to be seen together again and over the last week (15-23 February 2014) The Shildon Annexe of the National Railway Museum has hosted the Great Goodbye. I took […] The post Mallard 75 The Great Goodbye appeared first on Rede Valley Railway.
greslet

greslet

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greslet's Blog

Mallard 75 The Great Goodbye

Mallard 75 has brought together the 6 remaining LNER A4 pacific locomotives. With two of these set to depart to North America, all 6 are very unlikely to be seen together again and over the last week (15-23 February 2014)…<p class="more-link-p"><a class="more-link" href="http://www.railwayblog.kevinappleby.co.uk/mallard-75-the-great-goodbye-1210/">Read more ?</a></p>   Source
greslet

greslet

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The Cuckoo's Blog

Trackwork for Radleigh

Here are the results of this afternoon's experimentation with the airbrush. The picture is perhaps a little harsh as to my eye it looks 'browner' in the flesh. Still all up in the air, still all very much experimental, but I'm reasonably happy so far. Lots of bits where the masking got in the way and protected the ballast rather than the rail, but hey-ho I'll have to do something about that.  
TheCuckoo

TheCuckoo

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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Tracklaying

Since the last report, work has progressed on Fredrichstrasse. Now we have the first circuit of track laid out.   The station area will be a four-track line, reducing to double-track on the side boards leading into the fiddle yard. The first track to be laid is the outer line; track 1. There will be a platform between this and track 2; likewise between track 3 and 4. In addition, there will be two S-Bahn lines forming the innermost tracks.   Jumping the gun a little perhaps, but a hasty r
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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Northall

L shape design

I have created the solution of the L-shape design I described in one of my earlier entries.   The yellow ware house has disappeared. I build a new warehouse for the builders merchant. It’s a pity, because I still like the yellow building. For those who didn't read my motivation I described in an answer on a reply of Mikkel:   “Let’s have a look at the colors: grey - roofs, road and sky dark brown - the building behind the cottage and the building with the Morse ghost sign "red/yellow" - the
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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Buckjumper's Blog

Grotbags - a PLV also available in green.

Here is a broken record of the construction of a Slater's Southern PLV. Or is it a PMV? I was asked to paint it malachite, and although I don't want to start a bun fight, I'm sure it looked fine to whomever was drinking Elixir Végétal de la Grande-Chartreuse at Southern HQ at the time   The Slater's kit is rather lovely, and the parts fit together exceptionally well. The instructions cover an awful lot of variations, some of which aren't catered for in the kit, so I went through it with a mal
Buckjumper

Buckjumper

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Bodmin Bob's Blog

Maunsell Coach advice

Can any fellow Southern followers help me.   having recently purchased an O gauge Westdale Restriction 4 Maunsell 'high window' 1929 composite coach on Ebay for a very reasonable price and having now successfully built it, it is now primed and ready for painting and numbering.   I am looking to run it as a loose CK alongside a 3 car Bulleid set that I have previously built.   However having done my research (rather late in the day), David Gould's excellent Maunsell Carriage Stock book ind
Bodmin Bob

Bodmin Bob

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Barry O's Weathering Blog

Dirty Diesels...

Recently been working a on a couple of regauged (to EM) diesels.   Both have been fitted with Legomanbiffo sound chips (a simple plug in with some metal bashing mods for the speakers to fit..)   The locos are not to be filthy just a little bit dirty..   first up the Type 2 (Class 25)     with a bit of extra diesel exhaust crud on the roof...   and then a Type 4 (Class 40)     and a roof shot..  
Barry O

Barry O

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barrowroad's Blog

Bristol Barrow Road - Roundhouse Ventilation

Roundhouses used a variety of smokehoods for smoke ventilation and Barrow Road was no different. In Midland/LMS days these were made from timber and at number survived late into the BR period. However these were replaced by asbestos/concrete units which lasted until the end of the steam period.   Timber Smokehoods inside Barrow Road   Smokehoods - Roads 11 to 16. Note that roads 12 and 14 retain the timber version.   My friend Morgan kindly produced a CAD drawing for the later version
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Buckjumper's Blog

That's some gestation; SR van no.2

OK, so I said I'd post this after the weekend and nine months passed instead. It's the result of a concatenation of events including trying to move house, hospital wards (not me) and culminating in being flooded out in the winter storms. We're still reeling from the last one which wiped out my workshop and everything in it as well as half the ground floor of the house.   Fortunately the ground floor is on two levels, and at its worst the water was within a gnats of flooding there too. Main thi
Buckjumper

Buckjumper

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ess1uk's Workbench Blog

Weathering Wagons part 3

I've had another couple of hours free so I got the paint out and had ago on a couple of wagons.   Before Hornby 8 plank wagon.   After With a dirty wash and stippled with rust.   Before Hornby OAA   After some faded red added and a couple of planks painted different shades. this still needs some work. some more grime is needed and will be added once this paint has dried.   inside painted.   real coal added to the 8 plank wagon
ess1uk

ess1uk

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Jock's Blog

Phil Parker's thread.

Sorry but hospital trip caused me to miss a few days ad I don't know if Phil or anyone answered my query about Peco electro frog point wiring? Kin regards, Jock 67B
Jock67B

Jock67B

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AllScales' Gerlos Blog

The Gerlos Bahn acquires its first locomotive

The Gerlos Bahn is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with the Ffestiniog railway to take delivery of one rebuilt Funkey diesel with an option for a further two locomotives should the first prove successful.   "AllScales" managing director of the Gerlos Bahn says: "The introduction of these exciting near new diesel engines will allow us finally take control of our high speed, 30 km/h, passenger services without having to rely on external parties for our prime motive power."  
AllScales

AllScales

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Northall

Personality 2

The girl as posted in my last entry.     I have learned again. After reading the replies I tried to make the figure look “better”. After working on it I decided to give it a light coat of matt varnish using a spray. When the varnish was dry I screamed : HELP. It became very glossy.   Then I tried something totally different to see if I could correct it. I used pastel pencils, a pastel pencil eraser and paper eraser. I liked to work with pastel pencils on the figure for detailing. The on
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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gc4946's Model World

Another complete (in itself) loco collection possibility now - part 8

The final piece in the jigsaw arrived this week - a LNER J11 representing the ex-Great Central.     Originally I was planning to wait for Bachmann to produce the J11 in Great Central lined black. However, at the Pontefract model railway show, I tracked down and bought a copy of T.B. Maund's "The Wirral Railway and its predecessors" published by Lightmoor Press.   On reading through the book, I found I could bring forward the timeline of the Wirral Railway livery well into 1923. Page 132
gc4946

gc4946

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Harton and Hopeguard BR 1960's Layout

Feb 2014 Half Term Update- Hopeguard and Harton BR 1960's themed layout!

Finally I have been able to get on RM web and I would like to introduce you to my layout called Harton and Hopeguard. The Layout is located in my basement and has two fictional stations. One- Hopeguard is 'set' as a medium sized port terminus between Chester and Holyhead. Harton on the other hand is meant to represent the entry to the LMR, either near Chester, or towards Birmingham. There is then a fiddle yard, which represents all other destinations. I think its probably easier to view the yo
danstercivicman

danstercivicman

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    • 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.    
    • WFPettigrew
      Post Scaleforum 2024

      By WFPettigrew · Posted

      If only you'd brought some crossing timbers, we could have had them down too 🤣. It was a pleasure to be able to help!   All the best   Neil 

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