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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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Barry O's Loco Blog

a prototype... diesel

Just to show that I don't always weather my stock..     a Dapol prototype deltic on a modified set of Lima bogies - I know have replacement wheelsets to get it to run on code 75 rail... just need to fit them..
Barry O

Barry O

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My Layout - Fictional 1930s GWR

Buildings at the branch terminus

Buildings at the branch terminus   The signal box was bought second hand and has been weathered with a wash from games workshop. I also added glazing from some spare clear plastic from a Dapol kit.   The platforms are 15mm high strips of 5mm foamboard, just awaiting a surface, which I will put down after ballasting.   The goods shed is also scratchbuilt from 5mm foamboard, and will be clad in stone texture plasticard in the near future.   Could anyone suggest a name for the terminus?
BenHodgi

BenHodgi

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My Layout - Fictional 1930s GWR

First Entry

Just a first 'update' of my layout. Its based on the GWR in the 1930s, and i have yet to come up with a more specific date. The location is a fictional line in South Devon. There is a country through station on a main line down to 'Penmouth', a fictional seaside terminus. At the country station a small branch line joins the main line. I will alsi be modelling the terminus of this branch. I'm sure you can work out whats what from the pictures. (Penmouth is still in the planning stage)
BenHodgi

BenHodgi

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Murder on the Tracks!

Beginning Sleepering

After successfully completing a test section of track, it is now time to embark on the real thing! Unfortunately the process of gluing the individual sleepers one by one to the baseboard is mind-numbingly tedious… There must be a better solution to all of this? Of course there is… And this is how I did it!     Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way of gluing a whole section of sleepers to the baseboard, whilst keeping the correct spacing? Because I’m building to 2mm Scale the spacing of t
iamjamie

iamjamie

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Southern bliss' Blog

More wagons arrived

Received another parcel today. Nine more kits to build over the Christmas break,LMS fish and meat vans,and a string of SR covered vans. Going to have a go at building a cattle wagon with 3D printer .if it works will produce a nice rake of them for my layout.
Southern bliss

Southern bliss

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Up the Line - 1918

Milling machine repairs

I have just spent the last two days in cellar - actually that is not quite correct - the cellar and the tip! Having finally realised that leaving it eight years to unpack boxes after moving is a bit long I got down to it. Well, as I was in the cellar (which along with the junk houses my little workshop), I also got around to (hopefully!), fixing my little milling machine. As I have only had the part two months this is pretty good going. Problem with it was the chucks (two different ones), just w
KH1

KH1

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Heworth Sidings

Heworth Sidings - Update - 18/12/2013

Hi,   When we started considering buildings for the layout, it was decided as a group that we would like to have them scratch built. Initially we hadn't decided what materials we were going to use for the construction other than that the core of the buildings were going to be constructed from 2mm card. Our decisions was to be whether we would clad the card core in printed brick paper, or textured plasticard. To aid our decision process we produced a sample building which was half and half.  
Vonzack

Vonzack

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Cowes & Newport in 4mm scale

Crossing the Medina

I managed to get a few hours in on the layout in the last couple of days. Much pondering of how to approach the crossing of the Medina, and at least one false start. Track coming in at the top of the photo is from the hidden loops. The first stretch of viaduct will be hidden behind 1) Cowes Station approach and 2) Newport Gas Works. The line will become visible as it crosses the twin drawbridges. These were what I had to engineer in order to get the track into Newport. I hasten to add the drawb
ChrisG

ChrisG

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi All.   I am attaching another three drawings.   Did any of you see BBC Breakfast the other morning regarding Yorkshire being the New Hollywood. There was piece on about the making of the Great Train Robbery drama , aired this week.The presenter was on the Keighley and Worth line showing the diesel loco used in the film which he referred to as 105 ton TRUCK. I have just got used to Train Station instead of Railway Station, what next.   Just in case my next post is late.. All the best
derekarthurnaylor

derekarthurnaylor

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

All change – a north eastern perspective

Before continuing with my journey around the layout I thought I would share a few pictures of the Main Junction Station populated with some rolling stock that might have graced the north east of England in the 1960s. Bachmann Mk1 Pullmans, Hornby L1 and Bachmann WD 2-8-0 The original theme of the layout is BR (LMR/WR) perhaps near Chester or there again maybe Shrewsbury or even somewhere further south. However I also have fond memories of growing up in north east England and with the availab
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

On the Trunk Line: More suburban photos from Leipzig

Afternoon all!   As I got my work finished up ahead of time today, I decided to unwind a bit by way of shooting an additional round of photos from the new Central German suburban system – concentrating on capturing impressions from the trunk line tunnel.       I first had a look around Stötteritz Station. There, this sign warning metal thieves of artificial DNA tags having been applied as theft prevention first caught my special attention...         ...while this is a view across
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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cornish trains jez's Blog

Grantham Coaling Plant 2mmFS - Update

Good afternoon,   I managed to get a good modelling session in last night and made a little more headway on the coaling plant.   First off, I finally found a photo on flickr here http://www.flickr.com/photos/40052043@N03/7720626360/in/photolist-cLfeeA which showed the top half of the Eastern face of the tower and once I had zoomed in on it, I managed to make out the two doorways that I thought were there on the middle and top sections. So, I then marked out the locations of these on the mode
cornish trains jez

cornish trains jez

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Heworth Sidings

Heworth Sidings - Update - 17/12/2013

Hi,   With had our last club meeting of the year at the weekend, so it was a good time for everybody to get together and make some headway on the layout.   Bridge   Excellent progress is being made with the Bridge and things are really taking shape now. Brick cladding has been added to most of the main structure and the piers are looking fantastic.       Buildings   We also have a few industrial units and a signal box being constructed. The basic structure of the buildings is bei
Vonzack

Vonzack

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Steve's Secret 7mm Wagon Blog

Mink garnis

With only an hour to spare before bed I put myself to work on the body details.     Firstly, the door frames were glued on. Being cast, they were not totally straight and flush with the body so some gentle persuasion was required. Easy enough as long as it is gentle. I'll glue the door panels on at the same time as the roof. Also, as these wagons will not be gunpowder vans I added the end vents. Gunpowder vans were not ventilated, just in case an errant spark from the loco happened to find
The Nth Degree

The Nth Degree

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Up the Line - 1918

Tenshodo Trouble

My little running (and I use the term loosely!), session yesterday certainly proved one thing - I need to start working on some reliable stock! The only DCC fitted loco I could muster was the sound fitted protected Simplex ' running' on a Tenshodo SPUD. This was one of the first locos I built, probably four years ago now but until now, having only a bit of Hornby set track to run on on the living room floor in true train set style. I t came as a bit of a disappointment then when I found that the
KH1

KH1

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Crawley Yard - N Gauge Modern Layout

Crawley Yard pre Xmas update

Competition over and so back to work on the layout. Here are the buildings stripped back off the model and back in place on the layout. I spent far too many hours doing work on the wiring following the module test, Some of this is now completed but I had the board on its side to do so have all the vehicles and stock off the layout at the moment, makes it seem very barren. Now having a couple of niggles with some points so no stock back until that's sorted.     My plan did work and I was able
GRC

GRC

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Steve's Secret 7mm Wagon Blog

Mink pour deux

Last night I started cleaning up the castings of two Iron Mink bodies. According to the newspaper padding in the boxes these are both kits of circa August 1980 vintage, but are still full of their original detail if slightly blemished. Cleaning up and test fitting took about an hour per van body – gluing took about 20 seconds each, ensuring all corners were square.     Originally introduced at the end of the 19thC with lever brakes on one side, some were upgraded during repairs to more mode
The Nth Degree

The Nth Degree

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Steve's Secret 7mm Wagon Blog

Entré

This is a small blog serving a couple purposes. Firstly, to document building these wagons for my personal use, and secondly to test out the Blog feature while remaining fairly anonymous.   I have a few ABS wagons to build for my future layout – mostly BR period LMS and LNER opens, plus a few BR brake vans. I bought a small collection of pre-war GWR wagons quite cheaply so thought I could test out a few means and methods of construction before I start on my 'layout' wagons.   I never seem to
The Nth Degree

The Nth Degree

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Up the Line - 1918

All Together!

With (hopefully!), the last of the last minute rush sessions over and and with various interested visitors due over Christmas I have turned the studio over to the railway for a bit. I have managed to get four of the five boards in there on very temporary supports (various chairs), I should just be able to get the final board in but will require a bit of junk moving that I was not keen on this morning.     And what's more, I managed to run some trains. Well one actually as this seems to be t
KH1

KH1

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Turin 60's Blog

Good intentions...

I had good intentions of getting on with the final buildings for my 009 layout(?) Wherewithial Quay, however I decided it would be an equaly good idea to complete some of my oustanding projects. Rock & a hard place methinks!   The oustanding projects won. Two of the projects are brake vans (for which I seem to have a cetain affection). First up is a LNWR 6 wheeled affair bought second hand from a member on RM web some tine ago, this I have regauged to EM (in situ!) added a new roof, some b
Turin 60

Turin 60

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