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  • SouthernRegionSteam

    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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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Weyford-on-Sea

Time for another update...   Following the mad rush of February, we now have a period of calm, where none of the club's layouts are due to be shown for a few months. Yamanouchi Oshika is back from two very successful shows - Alton and Midhurst - and has now been stored so that work can continue on Weyford, our 00 layout. Last club night was spend erecting Weyford, and hopefully it will be ready to run by next Friday...have been instructed to bring lots of toys to play with!   Work has not
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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CHRIS WORKBENCH.

D16 Claude Bash

Hi Folks,   Some of you may remeber that on the old site I started a D16 bash using an older B12 body and chassis. well Ive made some progress using the locomotive body but using a Dapol 2P chassis and tender drive ( I know it not Ideal ).     Im using an LNER group standard tender now weather the D16 ran with these Im unsure maybe some of will know if so give use shout, but anyway its the only suitable tender I have that the drive will fit in.     This is a photo of it just placed
CHRIS LNER

CHRIS LNER

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Fen End Pit's Blog

planted signal, with bounce

Well the bouncing signal got painted and planted, at least temporarily. I've still got to 'matt it down' a bit and add the green spectacle glass.   I've slowed the bounce down from the first attempt on the starter, the shunt signal is still a little on the fast side.     David  
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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The Farthing layouts

The Remains of the Day

While researching a book on the real Farthing station, I recently acquired a set of photos from the 1900-1910 period that I thought I would share here. My sources in Farthing have been able to provide a bit of background on some of the staff featured in the photos. Above, we see the bay platform at Farthing, with station staff in attendance. The stationmaster Mr A. Woodcourt is seen second from the left. The stock presents something of a mystery. While it has been known for some time that loco N
Mikkel

Mikkel in Stories

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vulcanbomber's Blog

Tunnel Module

A lot of the scenery work is done by building modules in the garage and then adding them to the layout, it reduces the amount of mess and keeps my wife happy   This is the tunnel module, which sits in the corner of the layout, it hides the exit for the shuttle train which runs back and forth to the station, on the branch line       The pub on top of the hill is a wills craftmaster kit       The next two pictures are how it sits on the layout, the walls are made using wills coarse
vulcanbomber

vulcanbomber

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road Roundhouse Update 1

I have added the rest of the templot track plans and added a few locos for atmosphere - most of them are still in RTR state and will need chassis conversion to P4. The templot is in need of some tweaking as it was done with a 55ft turntable inside the roundhouse before I discovered that a 60ft Cowans Sheldon unit was installed in 1927.         The Jinty on road 8 is a P4 converted Bachmann as is the WD on the exit road. All the rest will need converting.  
barrowroad

barrowroad

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

OOn3 Ruston 48DS - chassis part 1.

A number of Ruston 48DS locos were built to narrow gauge, mostly 3'6", 4' or metre gauge. All went overseas except one which was built to 3' gauge and was sold to British Railways for their Beeston sleeper depot and was numbered ED10. BR sold it in 1965 to TW Ward who passed it on to Cleveland Bridge and Engineering, being used on the Tinsley Motorway Viaduct near Sheffield. It went to Shepherd and Hill in 1969 and then to Trackbed Hovercraft where it was fitted with rubber tyres and outriggers
halfwit

halfwit

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Ragtag's Workbench

GNER's Badger - Part 2

I had a nice long post typed out but the forum ate it and I'm tired so, in a nutshell: a little more filling and sanding before detailing work begins on the nose, and I decided to fill the centre join and sand off the raised line along the bodyside. I think it is starting to take on the right sort of shape though.      
Ragtag

Ragtag

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Neb from downunder N gauge Blog

Luggage Van

Well I've dived off into the deep end today! After yesterdays playing with the forthcoming Manor, it was straight out to the garage today, in between nappies and bathing and burping. I recently purchased a kit for a Maunsell 51ft SR bogie gangway luggage (GBL) van from Ultima Models for inclusion in my Pines Express. I've never fully attempted a brass etch kit, but you have to have a go some time, especially considering I've been stockpiling them for the last couple of years. So here is t
nebnoswal

nebnoswal

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Somewhere in Germany

The trains of Steinruecken

I had initially intended Steiüuecken to be set in 1999, but having kept coming across information relating to 2001, I decided that this would be the year for me. The downside is that there would be a slightly lower amount of pre-DBAG liveries, but nonetheless there was still a lot more variety than the present day.   From the Fernverkehrsseit came long distance train carriage formations and timetables, as well as loco diagrams which I spent some time today decoding. The February 2001 issue of
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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Hammer's Blog

What To Do With The Inglenook?

More then two years after putting together my baseboard and after many false starts, I've finally laid rail-to-cork-to-glue-to-wood.     I don't have massive amounts of space to play with, so it going to be largely flat. with maybe a slight slope coming from the right of the phone to break the billiard table look.   But what else to do with all of that? After all, an angled inglenook in the middle of nowhere (the track at the bottom runs right across the broad to allow for posing big en
Hammer

Hammer

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Paxton Road

Today, 10 years ago...

Things have been quiet up at Paxton Road recently. Just mundane 66s working in and out of Worthy Down.   Whilst digging through a box of old photos I found this shot, taken roughly 10 years ago in 2000. 37013 had just arrived with the MOD vans from Didcot and was preparing to shunt them into the MOD sidings.     How times change - but surprisingly the venerable EE Type 3's live on with DRS and Network Rail (along with WCRC too). What will we remember in 10 years time? Perhaps it is wort
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Paxton Road's workbench

I smell something fishy...

I spent a cold evening earlier in the week gluing my fingers together...   Exactoscale do some nice moulded plastic fishplates. When I placed my P4 order a few months ago I picked up an extra pack to use on Paxton Road. I finally got around to fitting them this week and after a dab of paint to blend them into the existing trackwork I grabbed a few snaps.     I think they are really effective and it does go to show that with realistic weathering and extra detailing you can make Peco Co
James Hilton

James Hilton

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vulcanbomber's Blog

Barkham Green Introduction

The layout is in a bedroom which used to be part of the attic, which the previous owner had installed. When we first moved into the house, my wife also had her piano in the room. This restricted the space available and I to build the storage loops under what used to be the eaves. Which mean the layout was about 2ft off the floor and I could only have 3 storage loops. I have since negoiated to have the piano moved out on to landing and now have the room to myself other that for an old settee,
vulcanbomber

vulcanbomber

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph - Electrics - first test

Powered up the wiring of the first board using various jump leads to connect 16 V AC, a hand-held Pentroller and a second controller to swith the point motor. Ran my part finished Ivatt Cl 2, 2-6-2 tank up and down the platform road, then transferred everything to the loop road. This has a point giving access to the siding which runs along the side of the goods shed. Was able to switch the point using the second cpntroller and found that by chance, I'd wired the route indicating LED's correctly
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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Neb from downunder N gauge Blog

Ixion Manor down under

Have been fortunate enough to have 1/3 of the Ixion management staying with me this evening, on the way to the Sandown Model train show here in Oz. Luckily he had some Manors with him, both the polite ones and 4-6-0 variants. I was given the opportunity to put a Manor through its paces on my Sturminster layout. This Manor is the third EP (Engineering Prototype), rather than an actual production-run Manor Let me first start by saying that I'm most impressed, and my loyalty has a strong Stan
nebnoswal

nebnoswal

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Muhlland Sumpf

Progress of a sort

The space available turns out to be quite a bit more than the original plan so we have 2600 x 500 which should allow for some modelling of the "Iron Curtain". A 3 section baseboard has been constructed and the necessary 3 left hand points purchased, not Lenz, but Peco.
Wintonian

Wintonian

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the penguin of doom's Blog

Stanier Diag 2117 coach conversion.

Hi all.   I posted an entry in the questions section re this, (check it out before you ask why I didn't use the comet sides....), but basically found an Airfix corridor composite in the loft and so thought I'd try to upgrade it to the standard of the recent Hornby ex LMS coaches. I don't intend it to be an exact 100% representation, but more something different to run in the rake.   Whilst researching, I found the Diag 2117's lasted till 1967ish, so would fit with my period, but would need s
the penguin of doom

the penguin of doom

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - Dapol Body Almost Done (2)

One side done, ready for handrails and varnish     Bit of a disappointment that the Fox nose plates (the ones under the fake headlamp) are too long for the Dapol body, not sure who is at fault, but I've had to trim the "The" and "Ltd" off the ends to get them to fit   Hand rails are going to be made from Hornby steel handrail wire, I'm going to have to fabricate some form of jig/gauge to make sure they are all the same length (two sizes), b ut it's getting there     EDIT: Both si
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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ewsjo's Blog

Lift Support

Well, yet again, I start by realising how long ago it was I last updated the blog. Come to think of it, how long ago it was I last did some proper modelling! At Warley I picked up a Kibri kit for a rail crane. Although not a design in use in the UK, it's similar to the large Kirow cranes in use on engineering work over here. It is an expensive kit (the £29.95 I paid was a knock down price, some websites list it at up to US$130!!!) but does go together well. I plan to paint it up in Grant Rail
Steadfast

Steadfast

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RJRs Branch Lines

new wagon

Tonight I decided to have night off from buildings, and constructed another wagon, after all you cant have shunting puzzle with nothing to shunt.   This is what's underneath the short wagons, a single LGB twin axle bogie. which has a plasticard base built on top of it to support the wagon body. The couplings are fixed to this base as well.       Then a neater frame is added round it and painted black.     Next the body was built from balsa and plasticard cut into strips.    
johnteal

johnteal

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    • MAP66
      Episode 8: Am I 'brave' enough?

      By MAP66 · Posted

      Hi Keith,   Well done for persevering over the past few years with your ideas and above all keeping your dreams alive and I’m glad that my thread has kept you entertained along the way. The very best of luck with your upcoming house move and hopefully once settled in, the creative thinking processes will kick in, swiftly followed by some modelling magnificence.   Best regards, Mark
    • LMSfan72
      Class 73/9 - development of a body shell or kit......

      By LMSfan72 · Posted

      Taken a while to get here with this one as I decided to go full function lighting which meant a complete rewire of the chassis and the body. This has day, night, tails on both ends which can be also switched on and off on end at a time. I also added an EOT lamp.   Ready for decals and bogie paint:  
    • ian
      Episode 8: Am I 'brave' enough?

      By ian · Posted

      Small has a number of advantages when you are plagued by the usual problems of space, time, funds, deciding on a prototype/layout style/theme.   You can build and get to a 'sufficiently complete' stage to scratch that particular itch fairly quickly and if you decide it isn't what you want - or you have taken it as far as you want to go - you can move on to something else.   I look forward to seeing what develops.
    • Keith Addenbrooke
      Bourneville MRC Industrial & Narrow Gauge Exhibition - TODAY!

      By Keith Addenbrooke · Posted

      Hope it goes well: definitely an exhibition I’d be interested in if I was still in the area.  Many, many years ago now I did my School work experience placement at the Longbridge works - it was a very different world in those days, Keith.
    • Dave John
      A North Staffordshire Railway D9 van.

      By Dave John · Posted

      I have tried to discover why the later vans may have had black solebars.   Looking carefully at the 51 L model I note that the W irons do not have crown plates or side washers on the legs. The excellent model by Airnimal of an earlier version does have them.    Perhaps I am totally wrong but a theory. If the later D9 lacked crown plates that would suggest a wagon with flitched frames.  If so it would be metalwork not woodwork and painted black.    My researches have

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