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Tewkesbury MPD - S7

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Slowly tracking progress

Posted by Adrian , 06 May 2010 -

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As can be observed from the deafening silence, things haven't progressed as quickly as I'd hoped. I've done the usual trick of offering to help on numerous things, not thinking that all of them would be taken up. How wrong I was! Fortunately some of them are modelling related so I'll report back on those once I've sorted them out....

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Death by a thousand cuts.

Posted by Adrian , 04 January 2010 -

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track, track, track

Finally started to cut metal for this challenge, well plastic if you want to be pedantic, and 1800 cuts to be precise.

I walked away from the Wigan show with various goodies from Exactoscale. So the few spare minutes over Christmas was spent cutting various chairs...

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Prototype photo's

Posted by Adrian , 24 December 2009 -

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tewkesbury prototype

Many of the photo's published have come from various collections, a few of which are available for purchase. I've collected a few from The Transport Treasury and from the HMRS Photo...

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Bibliography

Posted by Adrian , 04 December 2009 -

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prototype

Over the years I've slowly collected bits of information about the Tewkesbury Quay Branch. Various articles and photo's from several sources. As part of the project I thought a bibliography might be of interest for the scholars amongst us. So with out further adieu and in no particular order:

LMS Engine Sheds -...

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The trackplan

Posted by Adrian , 03 December 2009 -

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map templot, map templot and 4 more...

Hopefully I'll get the copyright issues sorted out soon then I can publish a couple of photo's to show what I'm trying to capture.

In the meantime I have the OS maps and the beginnings of a templot plan.

On this map the goods yard, mainline and station are off to the right. The shed is to the left of the...

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Project Plan.

Posted by Adrian , 02 December 2009 -

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plans

Well this it, in with both feet for the 2010 challenge!

As indicated by the title, the intention is to have reasonable stab at modelling Tewkesbury MPD in Scale7.

The background

It all started with picking up the Wild Swan book LMS Engine Sheds - Midland Division. There buried towards...

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Index

Tewkesbury MPD

The trials and tribulations of building my 2010 challenge entry.

The project.

Project launch - do I really want to read this in a years time?

The prototype.

OS Maps with preliminary Templot design.
Prototype photos
Bibliography - my research material.

Baseboards and track.

coming soon!

Loco's and rolling stock.

tbd

Control system.

details of MERG CBUS to follow

Scenics.

new territory for me!