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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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Granddad gnome's Blog

A small trip round the train room.

If we start at the station heading north we will come to the Gnomezade Bottling plant in the corner. This occupies the same small spur as Mr R. SOLES Footwear warehouse. And right up the end is the Gnomezade bulk storage facility at the moment I have missed placed the photo so will post it next time if I find it
Granddad gnome

Granddad gnome

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Bill's Blog

Welcome to Bill's Blog

Welcome to this blog all about the delights and trials of ready to plop modelling in 00 gauge. I live in Canada so this takes on an added dimension to do with the wonders and failings of the existing international postal services.   The main focus of my interest is the Southern Region during the 1950's - however from time to time I suffer from strange and uncontrollable enthusiasms which have resulted, for example, in a growing modern fleet class 66's and appropriate rolling stock, as well as
Bill

Bill

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Glasburgh Loco Depot 1981 (Tay Bridge)

Another case of works going over budget!

Hi   Well, the 'rip it up' has expanded a bit. I have got ripped in to a fairly major re development. It started off as re doing the concrete hard standing but has ended up much more. I flogged my Class 50 DCC sound loco to pay for some of it. I have bought the Bachmann Diesel maintenance depot to replace one of my Peco engine sheds. It is a superbly detailed resin casting. They are worth the £50 they cost. Great roof detail.I have also bought the Bachmann carriage shed. It is a much simple
Tay Bridge

Tay Bridge

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The San Miguel Central RR

Part 23: The finished SW 7

Hi all, I took some new pics of the SW today. It is always hard to photograph black locomotives, but outdoors with some reflector screens, it works quite nice:     The rust on the sideframes with the soaked in oil is something I think worked out really great.   The custom made heralds is very nice to work with, really good quality! (thanks Jack)   All in all, I´m really happy with the result!       I have bought some figures for the layout: It was some need for
M Graff

M Graff

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Granddad gnome's Blog

The start of The Gnome Valley Railway.

It all started one evening in the summer of 1999 when a knock onmy workshop door revealed a small 10-year-old boy by the name of Michael, theson of a neighbour. With a large smile and clutching a tatty cardboard box,which I ascertained later contained the remnants of a old, battered TriangGoods Train Set, he said to me “ Do you think you could help me put my trainset on a board and get it working againâ€. Well me being me settled down withMichael and over a few weeks and more than a few visits
Granddad gnome

Granddad gnome

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

An experimental week at Honley Tank

This week Honley Tank had a day’s visit of two of the ‘Bodgers Brow’ group, Arnold and Arthur, who had a good long shunting session on ‘Wheegram Sidings’ and happily for me, it performed better than I expected, even though that red button problem on the mimic (see an earlier post), did cause one or two hiccups!   I think the “S4†and the DCC perhaps frightened them away from ‘Birch Vale’ and from ‘Bowton’s Yard’ because neither had a shunt on those two.     After
Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Double Triple-One

...or two class 111 electrics going about their daily business at Frankfurt's Central Station this afternoon, as peak traffic was just getting into gear...         111 028 from the Trier depot – fitted with DBS 54a diamond pans – was departing with the RE 12990 semi-fast to Koblenz...         ...while 111 194 was shunting around on the south side of the station.
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Ben Alder's Blog

A Caledonian duo

Following on from my completion of the Highland 0-6-0's my attention turned to a pair of engines that became a trademark of much of the Highland section in its latter days of steam- A Pickersgill 4-4-0 and a Macintosh 0-6-0, both of which proved very useful additions to the motive power department and which stayed till dieselisation.Once again, these are venerable white metal kits from Nucast and DJH respectively, and have been unavailable for some time now, but were part of my strategic reserve
Ben Alder

Ben Alder

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Chris's Blog [ oldtrent ]

First Buildings

Hallo again.   If you think you saw this thread already today well you did, but in trying to replace an incorrect photo I somehow managed to delete it! Anyway, I'll try to remember what I wrote before...   I have now completed wiring in the point motors on Little Midland, and the buses are in place and I just need to cut through the brass sleepers at the ends of the layout before I can try it out. All points are switching, which is encouraging.   I have also been having a go at a couple o
Chrislock

Chrislock

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Redgate's Modelling

Duke Chassis Progress

Not much to show really since the last update - although a lot of thought and planning has been done   here's the Caprotti gear with plasticard slivers epoxied to the backs of the lubricator castings. These will fit into the slots in the cast lubricator mounts on the chassis. The rear mounting points will be bonded to the already fabricated rear bracket.     The seconds shot shows the Hornby cylinders modified with the GA castings. The tops of the cylinders were cut away with razor saw a
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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work bench

Junction Finished

Tonight I finished the Junction, I fitted the tiebars and gave it a thorough testing, a couple of minor tweaks were needed, mostly to open up the check rail gaps a fraction.     Testing is a bit Heath Robinson with wires crock clipped to the rails.     Photo of it in 2 parts, thankfully it fits back together.   Now to get out the sleeper stain on some Brooke Smith ply sleeper strips
hayfield

hayfield

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Chris's Blog - 4mm Weathering & Detailing.

Dutch Syphon

Having had a few month's of solid coursework in the lead up to finishing secondary education, its been refreshing to pick up a few modelling projects to complete over the summer break. I've returned to my previous efforts in detailing and weathering this 37; coupled with a fresh set of tools and idea's in order to enhance it further. I apologise in advance for the poor quality photo, it was only taken on my Blackberry!. I'm planning to compile a short evaluation of the work carried out and a se
Chris56057

Chris56057

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Betehumane's Blog - St German's Quay

That's one small A5 turnout for a man...

I'm sure there have been thousands of these things built, described, photographed, analysed, discussed, praised, dismissed, rebuilt, relaid and thrown away by the good members of this fine community and the great wide world of railway modelling beyond.   But none until now were made by me and I'd be lying if I didn't admit to a huge sense of pride and achievement in finally being able to say "I've built some of me own track". Not to mention relief.   So here it is in all its glory, one down
betehumane

betehumane

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Class 73s, 33s and more

I am really starting to hate being away from home (I am currently half way through a six month placement with our corporate jet production business up in Broughton). Apart from being away from Helen & friends etc and the 3 and a half hour commute back to Bristol each weekend, it means I cant do any modelling when I want to!   So to at least feel like I am making some progress on the project I have been researching underframes, and shopping for components   I think I know know what I wan
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Trefallion - P4 GWR Branch Terminus c.1905

Trefallion - Progress (finally)

So far my blog contained pretty much the layout and it's ancillary items as they were when I was last Railway modelling back in the late 1990's. Over the last couple of days I have been tidying the 2 station boards up, and getting them connected and installed in the loft. A couple of photos below show the full extent of the trackwork constructed so far, and give the overall impression of what the station layout will eventually look like.   I have also begun the construction of the retaining
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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Southern Electric workbench

Warship front end work

After some thought, and a few minutes with a file I've carefully reshaped the "brow" over the windows.   I think it now looks a lot more like a Warship, although the front is now looking a bit sorry for itself with various splodges of copydex and filler. This is the current state of play after a couple of hours work tonight.   New handrails (the ones under the window now have the central pillar), replacement lamp irons (Shawplan) and beefed up headboard clips (plastic strip). I also re
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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4mm rolling stock

Not one but two finished coaches. GWR C54 and SR Continental

The Comet GWR C54 third and Worsley SR Continental 3rd are now complete.   I couldn't find a decent photo of the compartment side of the C54 in 1930s livery, so for now it's missing the various smoking/no-smoking signs. Not that any of the passengers are likely to smoke, being a mix or plastic and whitemetal....   The Continental is finished in late 1940s condition. As an experiment I used Humbrol acrylic Malachite green, which seems slightly darker than the Precision equivalent but isn
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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Blacklade Artamon Square

Route One

With DCC Installing the point motors and decoder isn't necessarily the end of the story. Yes, it gets the points working , but more than just that is possible, and yesterday I took the final steps in commissioning the installation   Working the points one by one through the handset is a little slow and clunky . Probably no slower than flicking a set of switches on a DC panel, but just as liable to operator error. I suspect that one of the major causes of derailment and intermittant running on
Ravenser

Ravenser

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