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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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'Heyside', 7mm Scale Layout, BR Late 50s/Early 60s

First Running Session

Hi   Monday's first running session went very well, and a great time was had by all. Everyone was able to see their models run properly for the first time on meaningful trains, and there were a number of very broad grins on display. Tim also brought along his DCC controller and a sound equipped Hymek, but it wasn't on long enough for me to grab a photo (sorry Phill). The layout behaved very well considering that it had just been bolted together, and none of the rail ends had been fine-tuned be
dikitriki

dikitriki

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DRAG TT2 progress

The end for TT1

Last night also saw the final outing for TT1 before salvaging anything of use and scrapping the rest. So no more running until TT2 is operational (provides incentive!).   Here's the last set-up showing both TTs together       The end for TT1 was marked firstly with an enthusiasts' brake van special       And finally by an 08 with single brake van to collect the station furniture and any other bits and pieces     RIP TT1!     Captain Kernow additional comments on 29/12/
10800

10800

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DRAG TT2 progress

Partial set up last night

A diminished attendance at DRAG last night saw much of John's progress on about half of the boards and enabled a bit more track to be laid.         Here is the current stub-end on the two superelevated tracks     And Pete meanwhile has been making excellent progress on the master control panel, complete with automatic blanking out of DC power when DCC is plugged in and lots of indicator lights which the rest of us don't understand yet .  
10800

10800

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Neb from downunder N gauge Blog

Sturminster Newton

I don't seem to have gotten the hang of this blog thingy, so I reverted back to the old format in Layout Topics. Updates for Sturminster can be found there. Maybe in the future I'll work blogging out. You can now see updates in the link below.     http://www.rmweb.co....__gopid__55142&
nebnoswal

nebnoswal

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Rainy day in Leipzig

Well - here's a couple of photos I took yesterday . As I mentioned, it was rainy around noon and in the early afternoon, and only around dusk did the sky clear up. The night was quite cold - cars were frozen over when we returned home after meeting some friends in the evening, and still are as I am writing this.       This location is Johannisplatz, where some line 12 services terminate. There is a reversing loop a few hundred metres down the street. However, this here is a line 7 service
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Harpers Road

Scalescenes.com Low Relief Warehouse

Scalescenes.com Low Relief Warehouse   We've built several N-gauge Metcalfe kits but now that we have decided to model a modern diesel-era scene we don't have much use for a period country station or goods shed (shame, I was rather pleased with the finished results but my wife thinks they looks great on the mantelpiece).   We like card modelling and have scratchbuilt other non-railway models such as space rockets, satellites and famous landmarks. After a little Googling we discovered Scalesc
Peter & Seth

Peter & Seth

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

More PTAs

I've returned to my improved Lima PTAs this evening, spurred on by a photo showing a rake operating in 1998 (i.e. perfect for the layout!) I've got on with a little more work on this rake.   Not quite as much as I would have liked to do, (given that I've left my 'chopper' back in Bucks, along with most of my evergreen strip.)   The first job was some prep work, this batch of 5 wagons had already been detailed a fair few years back, just not to the standard of the more recent batch of 5 deta
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

A spot of renumbering

Another spot of renumbering in front of the tv tonight, Started off with my Freightliner 66/6 thats being changed to a 66/5 (very thankful here that the differences are all internal!). The Freightliner 66s are my favourite to work on, while they have 6 numbers to remove, they are all located on flat surfaces (so no repainting needed to repair the scars from removing numbers over the bodyside ribs here!) The Bachmann printing is my favourite of the RTR manufacturers, given that one application
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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2mm layout based in South Wales The Blog

The tracklaying begins

Today (27/12/09) I was able to have a very long day of working on the layout, with work starting on the trackwork.   I must say I come into 2mm at about the right time as the "Easitrac" components are really enjoyable to work with, along with all the different jigs for the making of points a lot easier.   All but for the check rails, I have managed to complete one point, although I'm not to sure about the robustness of the way I have soldered the nickel silver wire to the point blades too th
Trevor H

Trevor H

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2mm layout based in South Wales The Blog

Why 2mm and the baseboard

Although rather late this is my entry to the 2mm Association and RMweb layout challenges. The layout will be based somewhere in South Wales around 1969/70, so will be requiring quite a few mineral wagons and 21t hoppers for the coal traffic along with a selection of general freight.   With all the recent stuff coming out in N gauge, I was quite taken by the Bach/Farish class 37 when released and opted to purchase one, which followed with a few other locos and the odd bit of rolling stock. This
Trevor H

Trevor H

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shanks522's Blog

More trackwork and new toys.

Well i've survived christmas so now back to modelling, My family were all very generous over the festive period and i've now got a lovely rake of TARMAC JGA's and a Freightliner 57 (I wanted the chassis for a RES 47). Whilst out today shopping for handbags i managed to slip into the local model shop and grab a couple of points i needed to complete some of the upper level trackwork, It looks a little strange in the photos but hardly any of it will be visible when complete with scenery, both the 5
shanks522

shanks522

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Sandhills' 2010 Challenge Blog

Cropped & shopped

Back to work tmow after 4 enjoyable days off and a spot of modelling. Plenty to get on with next time I get some modelling time with the retaining wall and perfecting the ballast heaps first up.   A few more pics below from this mornings trip out. All cropped/clarified and some have been posted in the 'How realistic' thread but I wanted them recording in the blog as well.   I will hopefully update with some more progress over the New Year weekend.............              
Sandhills

Sandhills

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bigd's Hunslet 15" 0-6-0ST

Prototype

Its one of the three 15" Hunslets that worked at Bickershaw colliery in the 1950s. So thats: BICKERSHAW (HE1699) LYON (HE1809) BILL (HE1901)   They were built 1933-1938 and stayed at Bickershaw colliery until 1956-1959.   I do not think they have survived to this day but others have. Here is one at Embsay, on a foggy November morning.   Photo References: The industrial railways of the Wigan coalfield, Part 2, North and East of Wigan by C.H.A Townley, F.D. Smith, J.A. Peden ISBN 1-8
bigd

bigd

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On the Intercity Workbench

7mm Barclay Class 06 - Control Panel completed

Entry updated 28.12.09 with photos and descriptions of the completed panel       I was hoping that this build would turn out to be quite a simple one. The kit as supplied was quite basic and my intention was just to solder it together more or less as the designer intended as a relaxing "quickie".   My first mistake was to try to identify a suitable candidate for the finished loco...   For reasons I shall probably explain later, I wanted an ex Corkerhill based loco. The DVD "Railways of
IC126

IC126

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

An update on 57008

First of all, apologies if I have taken a photo of the unmodified side.... But its now impossible to see the remains of the old nameplate and I cant remember which side it was........   As mentioned earlier this has previously had the incorrectly placed nameplate removed with Tcut and was then varnished to get rid of the shine. Obliviously prior to doing this I striped down the model removing the lights, cabs and glazing.   While all of this was very easy to remove, it was an absolute swine
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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My Layout - Talerddig Sidings

DMU update

Well I managed to spray the underframe today and have made a decision to paint the unit in the simple Rail Blue with Yellow ends. My original intention was to paint the Blue/Grey livery but I've been looking at DMU photos and I actually quite like the all-over blue scheme, plus it's MUCH easier to paint!   Just been in the garage to spray the yellow [going to use the tried and tested Halfords paints] and it's freezing! I'm hoping to fade both the blue and yellow and have a generally grubby/w
matto21

matto21

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Tim V's Workbench Blog

Photography

I've just been scanning and restoring a photograph of my parents taken almost 60 years ago. It's in colour, very faded, 2 1/4" square print.   A few minutes work and the colours jumped out at me. I won't be posting it on here obviously, but you'll get my drift.   I do wonder if some of today's wizzo digital camera pictures will be viewable like this in 60 years time? Will the prints have faded? Will the discs they are stored on still be readable?   Anyone remember drive B?   Anyone using
Tim V

Tim V

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Southeast Steam Railway

Southeast Steam Railway - Signals

Hi,   Just finsihed the signal controlling the departure of trains from the Goods Yard reception road (It's just sat there for the photos and not stuck in!):     I don't think it's in the right position, I've got a thread in the signalling forum asking whether it is: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/topic/6523-is-this-signal-in-the-right-position/   As with all the signals I've dispensed with the ratio operating system, but soldered a length of brass wire to the end of the ope
St. Simon

St. Simon

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SNCF stephen's Blog

Action!

Well in my last blog I wanted to do a few smaller lower budget jobs on the layout. However time got the better of me and I have so far only managed to do a little bit on the building I am in the process of constructing. I have made the 4th wall for the building. I am not very impressed with my finish and I was so dismayed with the way the quoins lined up that I used a bit of polly filla to sort out the gap (which actually seems to have done the job, I just need to sand it a bit before painting!)
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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bmthtrains' N gauge projects

Christmas Running

A nice afternoon running trains today, so here are some images and videos!   The Javelin (or is it now Blue Rapier as Hornby are calling it?) has finally been reliveried into the correct service livery for Southeastern. You can also see the finished OHLE in this image   Here's a vid of it too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqAE6M5kSR4   Some Christmas presents - the start of a train of new hoppers!   Dapol 153 with lightbar installed#   My second 156 having a run in   David
bmthtrains - David

bmthtrains - David

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      Class 73/9 - development of a body shell or kit......

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    • Keith Addenbrooke
      Episode 8: Am I 'brave' enough?

      By Keith Addenbrooke · Posted

      For anyone interested in seeing how the Ontario layout in the Pilentum video linked into the blog post was built, there's a thread here on a Benelux modelling Forum (in Dutch).  Build photos reveal how the layout goes together, as @AndyB highlights.  Very informative.   I have no connection with the builder, or with Beneluxspoor.net - everything I've linked to is in the public domain, Keith.  
    • Erudhalion
      GRC&W 10T End Door Wagons - A Typology

      By Erudhalion · Posted

      Unfortunately I don't have my copies of the S&W books by Ian Pope et al. at hand, only the scans I made of the wagon photos, mainly from vol.1 and 2. Luckily, many are dated GRC&W works pics, most from about 1890 to the mid 1910s, so presumably the 10t and 12t wagons were the newer kind being produced. There must have been many older, smaller wagons in use at the time, as the photos of Lydney yard in (I think) 1908 at the beginning of vol. 5 show what appear to me mostly 8t mineral wagon
    • MikeOxon
      GRC&W 10T End Door Wagons - A Typology

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      Noting that you "have been building stock appropriate for the Forest of Dean in the early '20s.", I am interest to see that the use of larger wagons persisted in the area from much earlier Broad Gauge (BG) Days.    In my own blog,  I have written about BG wagons built for carrying both coal and pig iron down through the Haie Tunnel to the dock at Bullo Pill.  Ian Pope et al quote an incident from 1863, when a train of 70 wagons broke free and led to a ‘pile up’, said to be 15 wagons hi
    • Keith Addenbrooke
      Episode 8: Am I 'brave' enough?

      By Keith Addenbrooke · Posted

      Thanks Andy, some good pointers as always.  I think the picture in my blog post of the abbreviated mainline DB train illustrates your point about train length very well.  Fortunately I also have a couple of railcars:   Epoche I:       and Epoche III / IV:     As for goods or freight trains, this is only 20" long in OO and could be used to generate ideas too:       I do need to give some further thought

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