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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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The GC and Met in OO

A little weekend project

I've decided that before I carry on with the rest of my new projects to revisit and perfect an older one.   The first project I described on RMWeb was a hackbash of a Hornby B12 into a C5- compound Jersey Lily. When I finished the model back in January I was very happy with it; but since then I've finished one or two more models and it began to look a little down at heel.   The list of things wrong with it really ran to   - poor cab lining - wheel splashers too thin - buckled handrail
James Harrison

James Harrison

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AllScales' Gerlos Blog

Point wiring complete all done

I was meant to be doing this during the week, but as so often other things got in the way or I just didn't feel like it...   Anyway today I managed to finish my chores on time and as the clouds looked a bit threatening figured I might as well do the point wiring.   Two and half hours later and victory! All points wired and working. The two places where there are two points on one output also looks to be working well (at least upside down). Tomorrow I will flip the layout over again to test i
AllScales

AllScales

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Hydraulic Heaven

50% More Sleep...

...ing cars   The Met Camm SLC is the first of the four coaches built during the cold season to escape from the paint shop and take its place between its two friends.   The build is almost identical to the other two. There are a few minor improvements because I now know more about the real things (and have of course now found mistakes on the other two). I also had a go at doing the roof overhang at the ends which is most definitely absent from the other two. This was done by adding a lip of
D869

D869

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The Cuckmere Valley Railway

A Journey Down The Cuckmere Valley Line - Station By Station

Isfield   The Cuckmere Valley Line began at Isfield, with services departing from Platform 3. Facilities at Isfield were shared with the Wealden (Lewes-Uckfield) Line Station, with A.E Lavender the local coal merchant, also involved with sand, granite and the shingle extracted from Cuckmere Haven. Whilst most passenger trains terminated at Isfield, a few ran onto the Wealden Line, pausing at Platform 1 before continuing towards Uckfield, Eridge (for connections to Hailsham and Polegate via th
dseagull

dseagull

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Phil Bullock's Blog

Dapol Class 22 mods now included

A cracking weekend upcoming!   Off to Thornbury show this afternoon - following a visit to Henley On Thames for SWMBO's quilting supplies   Then over to Ledbury to see Tangmere pass - have a nice phot location lined up   Monday its off to 1062's 50th birthday bash   Phil
Phil Bullock

Phil Bullock

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

GWR HALL 7900 (11)

I have been detailing the boiler, firebox, smokebox unit. It is one of those jobs where you think you are almost there, just a couple of bits to add. A hour later 10 more parts added and the couple you thought you had to do are still undone. So on and so forth.       I think I just need to final fit the handrail, it is not a very straight forward one one these, it has all sorts of kinks and bends. The top feed pipe work was a pain to do, mainly as I want the boiler to c
St Ruth

Licence to Model

Things are pretty hectic right now getting stuff that we have planned finished in time for Railex but here's a little photo taken at a recent meeting.     Those longer in the tooth may remember this loco on our old group layout 'Helsby Tumill and Haddon'. It was built from a Foxhunter kit by the late Phil Kerr, a member of the Midland Area Group, talented modeller and a very helpful chap too. I think that Phil also did the masters for the kit (he definitely did the masters for the A1 kit).
D869

D869

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The Cuckmere Valley Railway

1948 to Beeching and Beyond

British Railways was formed from the Big Four in 1948, with, again, little except signage and numbers on rolling stock changing for the Cuckmere Valley Railway. During the 1950's, the tourists began to drift away - tempted by other parts of the network, with the era of the Holiday Camp in full swing.   Still the little railway soldiered on - but in 1963 came a double whammy which the railway would not recover from - firstly the famous and feared report of Dr Richard Beeching recommended the l
dseagull

dseagull

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The Cuckmere Valley Railway

The Southern Era - 1923-1948

'The Grouping' as it came to be known saw The LBSCR merge with the South Eastern & Chatham Railway and the London & South Western Railway, as well as several smaller companies, to form the Southern Railway, one of the Big Four. For a while, little changed, although gradually LBSC fixtures and fittings began to disapear to be replaced by the roundel of the Southern. At Litlington, a new 'White Horse' was cut in 1924 to replace the original which had become overgrown (1), whilst the Brickw
dseagull

dseagull

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Paternosterrow

The Works - Walls Up

The walls have gone up and after a lot of MacGyvering everything has come square - phew!           The above shots are through a couple of the openings in the opposite wall - these will have either removable mirrors or wall blanks for internal viewing.     This shot is through the left hand door opening on the left hand gable wall. This end has been designed so that the entire wall can be lifted out to provide an unhindered view into the interior even when the roof is on.  
PaternosterRow

PaternosterRow

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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile)

keeping calm and carrying on...

Good evening,   With only 9 days to go, I seem to have found myself in a worse position than in 2010 when I exhibited KIAB   A dose of bad luck in that the laser cutter at work broke (and has just been reinstated today) has meant that a few things won't be done in quite the way I had envisaged them, however am trying my best to get a reasonable display on show.   This weekend when I fly back there to BCN there is still loads to do including finalising the wiring, finishing the fiddleyards
bcnPete

bcnPete

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The Cuckmere Valley Railway

Opening Day To The Grouping

Following the somewhat fractious planning and construction of the line, the route settled down quickly to return a modest profit over the first few years of operation, with the shingle and brickworks especially profitable traffic. For a short time, there were two 'Berwick' stations - before the one serving the main line was renamed Berwick & Selmeston. Services were operated by the LBSCR, who had regained their financial stability by the middle of the 1870's (1), with Stroudley's A1 Terrier,
dseagull

dseagull

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Redgate's Modelling

GWR 4 wheel brake 3rd - 1st side ready for lining

So, the time is almost upon me when I tackle the Bob Moore lining pen!   The first side is painted out, but I won't be putting the pen to this until I've practiced on the as yet untouched sides for the all 3rd       There's still a few bits that need touching up, but I'm hoping the lining will cover most if not all of them, we shall see. The other side is still masked out waiting for the window frames to be painted.   I've also repainted some of the cheapie eBay seated figures ready
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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greslet's Blog

Turnout modification for reliability and DCC

There is a great DCC myth that you need to modify all your turnouts to work with DCC. This really isn’t true, and my Rede Valley layout has been operational for some time using PECO turnouts straight out of the box, mainly because most of the track was already laid before I converted to DCC. [...]   Source
greslet

greslet

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The Cuckmere Valley Railway

1 - Early History

The Cuckmere Valley Railway had a curious history - born from the aspirations of Victorian entrepreneurs in the trying circumstances of the 1860's and the battles between two companies, and ended, like so many rural routes, by the ex-Technical Director of ICI.   The story begins some 20 years earlier. The Brighton Lewes and Hastings Railway built a line from Brighton to Lewes which opened in June 1846. Three years later, this was extended to serve Eastbourne, with the line opening on the 14th
dseagull

dseagull

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The Cuckmere Valley Railway

An Explanation...

Firstly, an explanation.   Since I bought the Iain Rice Book - 'Layout Design' (from the Haynes 'Realistic Railway Modelling' series) a few years ago, I've been keen on some of the ideas included - principally that of the holistic approach to design, rather than my current/previous method of blundering in with an XtrkCad plan and often making avoidable mistakes along the way (ref the Shed layout, where the curves are too tight to run things properly...)   What will follow and will develop in
dseagull

dseagull

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The GC and Met in OO

The shape of things to come

Well, I've managed a few hours here and there in my evenings this week and this is how the Ratio suburban carriage is shaping up....     The eagle eyed will see that I've replaced the Ratio bogies with Gresleys. Let me explain....   Basically, I found a really nice clear image in George Dow's Great Central Album of a rake of GC suburban stock which shows the bogies very well. They are (were) quite hefty, slab sided things. The Midland ones supplied in the Ratio kit, in contrast, are li
James Harrison

James Harrison

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Derek Naylor here. Builder of the Aire Valley Railway. I have just turned 84 and have just been in the internet since christmas so to say the least I am still having problems with this new world. Had great fun trying to get in to this site.I did notice several mentions of the myself and the A.V.R. and before I go headlong into what happened to the A.V.R. and to me post the railway I an just checking to see if anyone would really find it interesting. If there interest perhaps the odd blog or t
The sleepers workspace

4101 Dubs 0-4-0Tcrane project [the truth]

The problems I mentioned in part 4 just compounded, I'd test run the motor at each stage of the build to check everything was free running, when I fitted the gearbox into the chassis I put 2 brass washers as spacers either side of the gearbox to keep it central within the frames. I noticed that things had got a little tighter but put this down to a tight fit of the axle in the frame bearings so I ran the motor for half an hour or so to bed in the components a bit. As I don't have a proper whee
sleeper

sleeper

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Murder on the Tracks!

INTRODUCING THE LAYOUT

The layout will be constructed in four main sections. Paddington Station, London, St Mary Mead and Burgh Island. The track plan above gives a rough idea of what the layout should look like, although there are still a couple of little details missing. The hope is that all the sections will flow seamlessly into each other, whilst also keeping the individuality of their separate locations. The layout will be built across six baseboards with space in the middle for a scenic backdrop. The model is d
iamjamie

iamjamie

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Laser cut buildings - Water tower base

I finally got around to doing a bit of modelling, inspired by a thoroughly enjoyable day on Saturday exhibiting at the 16mm show in Peterborough.   I've been working on drawing up the water tower from Thaxted based on the drawing available from the GERS. Having had lots of goes with the little goods hut I had worked out most of the gotchas with the cutter and so the parts which were cut were pretty much right first time. OK, I'll admit I drew the windows frames too far apart by .5mm so I neede
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Northall

Scammell Scarab

Today I finished the painting and weathering of my first British Railway Road Service wagon. Used just for 4 acrylic paint colors for painting the loading: raw sienna, burnt umber, ultramarine and lemon yellow . Also used some metal gun and black paint and fineliners for detailing the load. Further weathering was done through dry brushing with: dirt grey paint and a chalk pastel mixture of: black, brown and white (my general weathering mixture) Below some picture of the result   Hope you l
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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    • PaternosterRow
      Kyle - an update...and a visit at last...

      By PaternosterRow · Posted

      Hi Pete, excellent entry.  Can’t wait to see more updates.  Nice to hear from you again and note that you are enjoying getting out and about up in Scotland. It’s a beautiful part of the world up there - I spent a summer back in the 90’s walking and camping from Glasgow to John O Groats.  Never got to Kyle as I went up the straight chain of Lochs from Glencoe to Inverness and then North form there etc.  it’s surprising how similar to Scotland this part of world I am now in is - winter here with t
    • Neal Ball
      Autocoach upgrade

      By Neal Ball · Posted

      Maybe with the new bottle, I should have sent it back…
    • MikeOxon
      A Tender for Viper

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      Thank you Annie - I really enjoy re-creating these early engines.  It would have been impossible if the young Edward Lane had not taken a liking to them in the yard at Swindon.  By then, most of them had been superseded by later designs, such as Firefly, but he must have had a sense of 'history'.
    • The Fatadder
      Autocoach upgrade

      By The Fatadder · Posted

      If the IPA is not removing paint, a good trick is to warm it up which makes it more effective.   Though like you say after a number of uses it does loose its potency, I recently had to change mine after it got to the point where it was barely touching the paint 
    • MikeOxon
      A Tender for Viper

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      Thank you Chris - I think it's lovely too!  The Lane drawing was probably made in around 1848, ten years after this engine was delivered and after its time on the South Devon. As my final sentence suggested, I am now looking hard at 'Ajax' which had similar-looking solid wheels.

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