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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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Latest on the South Coast

Latest on the South Coast

Much work has been carried out recently on the station with a few new lights replacing a couple that have been causing a few problems and at the moment I'm still in the middle of creating some good old fashion station signs. Being a South Coast layout, I'm always extending my Bulleid light pacific fleet so I have been getting more SR Battle of Britain's to add to the collection - just so happens one of them has a Dover shedcode which fits in very well! I have been very lucky with an old but fant
StuMN35005

StuMN35005

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Barry O's Weathering Blog

Sometimes you win .. sometimes you don't

One of the best things about using the ink and water technique for base coat weathering is I can do it most of the year. As mentioned in one of my earlier blogs I had a problem with it being too warm to get the ink to flow where I wanted it to. On reflection it wasn't the temperature it was the humidity ( or lack of it) No problems this week - just a bit dark to take photos.   I will try and get some shots of some coaches currently being weathered as well as a couple of diesels. For these I us
Barry O

Barry O

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Up the Line - 1918

It's got legs!

Although I have some cheap B+Q trestles to use while working on the boards I wanted to get the design for the proper legs sorted. Took quite a lot of thought but just an afternoon in the end to do. I used 2x1 (which of course is nothing like!), which fitted neatly into the gap between the ply sandwich. The legs straddle the baseboard joint thus giving support to two boards in one go. I fear I have made the protruding tang to long but this is easily sorted out.   The big controversy however is
KH1

KH1

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Up the Line - 1918

Points ready to go.

Three points ready to go.   One of the supposed advantages of the Peco points was that they are ready to go - Hmmmm..... Well I guess you could use them straight from the box but as I am placing such a high priority on good running I have followed the advice in Brian Lamberts excellent web site (http://www.brian-lambert.co.uk/ ). I am looking forward to the results but I have to admit to a bit of nervousness about hacking about perfectly good brand new points. Perhaps I am getting wise in my r
KH1

KH1

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Up the Line - 1918

First Track

First track is down and as you will see it is not on a traverser as intended. Couple of reasons for this; Firstly I realised that without some real mechanical engineering I would not be able to operate a traverser by myself from the other end. Secondly I had all the bits made up for a fourth standard baseboard so seemed silly not to use them. I will have to tackle a traverser for the steam end though. I could get away with plain sidings at the tractor end as most things will just go straight in
KH1

KH1

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The Cuckmere Valley Railway

Yet another variant - or two...

As mentioned in the last post, I'm still fiddling with the trackplan. '3' was definatley my favourite - until I considered changing the orientation of the bottom set of points;   That resulted in this - 'Version 3B'     Whilst fiddling with that one, however, and having a re-read of the A.C Elliott 'Cuckoo Line' book, I noticed from the plan of Hailsham that the Cattle Dock was behind the platform. I still liked the idea of the Engine Shed as a view block though, so after much moving arou
dseagull

dseagull

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Up the Line - 1918

Peco wins!

Peco and O-16.5 it is then.   I laid a short section, sprayed it then did a couple of tests with ballast and thought if it looks this good I can live with it! I can also live with the ease and speed of laying and hopefully the reliability. The cost is not so good although I do have sufficient plain track in stock but six new points were ordered.   I have used plain old earth from that garden as ballast which judging from most contemporary pictures usually covers the sleepers and sometimes th
KH1

KH1

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Up the Line - 1918

I've got some baseboards!

I am feeling rather proud of myself! OK, it has taken me a week but I now have three (out of five!), baseboards. A big thank you to Wriggly DIY in Stourport of a) supplying the wood at a fraction of the B+Q price and b) cutting it for me. It took a pretty long day to make up the girders and an emergency trip to Screwfix for more screws and some proper hole saws (found the sort with the series of removable blades to be useless), but then had a good looking kit of parts. I made a sandwich of 6mm p
KH1

KH1

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi again. The layout and buildings. I'm sure it would be just a bit boring to go into a lot of depth on this subject so I have selected items I hope might be of interest. I;think the clinker block works ;might be a good place to start. It's a poor man's crib on John Ahern's brick works. A couple of reasons. One, lack of space for a brick works. Two, it added another dimension to C-Oil. creating further rail traffic between the two works. Construction was a bit odd in using a complete alarm mech
derekarthurnaylor

derekarthurnaylor

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Up the Line - 1918

Design Criteria

A little bit about what I hope to achieve is in order I think. There are some very good WDLR layouts about (Willesdon Junction for example), but, in my humble opinion some real shockers! Over busy, unrealistic and just downright improbable. What I hope to achieve is a good representation of what life was really like for a Light Railway. Basically they were there to do a job and that job was to shift vast amounts of freight. The problem here comes of how to make this interesting for the viewer an
KH1

KH1

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What's new at Furness Wagon Co

New Models From Furness Wagon

It's been a while since I added any thing here and many things have changed since my last entry. We have expanded some what. This years kit list.   Cleckheaton NER/LNER/BR DiaC2 4 plank Open GNR/LNER/BR 4 plank open S&DJR/MR/LSWR/SR/LMS Large Cattle Van MR/LMS Medium Cattle Van S&DJR/MR/LSWR/LMS/SR/BR Road Van (re-tooled) MR/LMS/BR Banana Van MR/LMS/BR Tariff Van (Re-tooled) Lincoln Wagon Co 4 Plank Private Owner wagon with raised ends LBSCR/SR 3 Plank Dropside LBSCR/SR 5
MarcD

MarcD

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Murder on the Tracks!

Introducing Section 3 - St Mary Mead

It would be hard to create a Agatha Christie themed layout without recreating the home of Miss Marple. St Mary Mead. St Mary Mead is the quintessential English village. Quaint and sleepy, the village is supposedly located 25 miles from London. Murder at the Vicarage is the first book set in the village but it is also mentioned prior to that in The Mystery of the Blue Train (which ties in nicely with this layout!).   The village of Hambleden has been used for several of the recent Marple and P
iamjamie

iamjamie

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The sleepers workspace

4101 Dubs Crane part 5 ( the resurrection)

Hi everyone,   Some time has passed since my last entry mainly due to waiting for replacement wheels, the arrival of which proved too much for my computer which sadly passed away despite desperate attempts to revive it. I now have a new little notebook, I chose this because hopefully being much smaller dimension wise might follow through on the problems front, wishful thinking I'm sure. The said notebook is French of course as that's where I'm based, French computers don't have qwerty keyboar
sleeper

sleeper

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Buckjumper's Blog

EWS Queen Mary brake van

It's been a very busy few months in modelling and non-modelling terms, but now as things are calming down a little I've got time to download and sort through some of the photos stored on my camera from the various building and painting commissions.   Jim McGeown of Connoisseur Models asked if I’d decorate a Queen Mary brake van he'd built in the EWS livery as a counterpoint to the predominantly 1940s/50s stock he already has on display on his exhibition stand.     Following the brief, in
Buckjumper

Buckjumper

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Up the Line - 1918

Welcome to 'Up the Line - 1918'

You know in job adverts when it says 'need someone who works best under pressure and to targets and deadlines' - well that is me. Amongst several other directionless projects I have been gradually building War Department stock with the eventual aim of building a layout. For anyone who might not know there were extensive 60cm narrow gauge systems in use by both sides in the First World War. In February I noticed a request for military layouts to display at a special event at the Apedale Light Rai
KH1

KH1

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julescapri's FYN Yarmouth Station

FYN Yarmouth Station

Hello everyone, just a short introduction - I am the pround new owner of FYN's Yarmouth Railway Station.....It has been 60 years this month since it was last used as a station, and most recently it was a Youth Club run by the Isle of Wight Council.   Our plans are to return it to looking something close to what it was in its heyday, but with a new purpopse: A restaurant/tea room, with cycle hire right on the platform. We love the area, and the building has beautiful views over the marshes to t
julescapri

julescapri

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Barry Ten's Blog

Nearing the finish line - toplights and bow end stock

The last job on the toplights prior to weathering and final detailing (bits that have fallen off in handling, etc) was to add numbers, so with my transfers sheets out I decided to complete the same task on the Hornby bow-end stock I covered earlier:   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/63159-bow-ended-stock-roof-handrails/   While I had the bow-ended stock out on the workbench again, I decided I couldn't live with the visible seam between the sides and end of the brake, so (as
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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Eric J Alderson's Blog

Pictures from my work in Seraing this Week-End

Hi everybody,   Here are some photographs from my club's stand in an exhibition in Seraing (Liège) this week-End.   We'll start with some pictures of a club member's layout : First, a tunnel portal. This is a reproduction of a real tunnel portal located in Chaudfontaine, on the line from Liège to Cologne. This is a scene from the village, with the detailed and lighted pub (the name, G + Soif, gives the phonetic expression "J'ai plus soif", translated in "I'm not thirsty anymore"... )
alderson.eric.j

alderson.eric.j

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Steam in the Hessian Suburbs

Afternoon all!   I didn't have too much time for trainspotting in recent months due to my exam preparations, but having successfully completed these with an A grade, I was delighted that in spite of a somewhat ambivalent weather report, this Whitsun has turned out fairly sunny thus far. I therefore paid a visit to the Whitsun railway festival taking place at Königstein – a town in the northwestern suburbs of Frankfurt, set on the eastern flank of the Taunus Mountains. This town also has its ow
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

Joined Up Thinking

A lack of posts over the last few weeks has been down to a lack of progress worth sharing. I've spent quite some time trying to get a system of operating the TOUs going over and over the options, trying and failing and re-thinking.   Initially I used wires linked directly from the switches to the TOUs and when these were removed in favour of the lever frame I intended to use some kind of mechanical system and installed a crank arrangement to lead out from the frame.     Servo arms were
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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Will J's Random Adventures in N Gauge

Rolling Stock for Victoria Bridge in N... and the T Gauge 'Bubble'

It suddenly occured to me I hadn't posted very much for a while, been a bit busy out there in the 1:1 scale world, not least with my 1:1 scale railcar projects..   I have achieved a small but significant milestone, a wholly kitbuilt carriage. As you may know, the Severn Valley Railway has a fine (unique?) rake of LMS designed carriages in everyday use, a must for Victoria Bridge in N. Among these are some BR-built 'porthole' carriages which are painted to match their earlier counterparts. So f
Will J

Will J

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