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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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bmthtrains' N gauge projects

Micro Layout - Day 2!

I was tempted to name this layout "Left Over Street" given that almost all of it is made up of left overs from both Ring Road and Westbrook (the eagle eyed will spot more than a few items from Westbrook on this!), but settled on Jubilee Street.   Now the model is never going to win any awards, but its actually really fun just to plonk things on without any planning! An afternoon's work has brought the layout to this stage - the platform is done, as is much of the backscene - just the big space
bmthtrains - David

bmthtrains - David

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Stubby47's Micro Layouts

Cement Shed changes - blame Marc Smith !

You know how it is, you have this great idea all planned in your head, you know exactly what you want your layout to look like, then along comes some smart-alec with a wild suggestion and everything goes t*ts-up.   So it is with the Cement shed.   Marc asked if I have a track plan - the track was only going to be a few inches jutting in from the left side, enough to hold one hopper wagon over the hopper.... But Marc also said "And added track on the lid is another stroke of genius!" - I hadn
Stubby47

Stubby47

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The British Railway Stories

Episode 2: "Veto a V2!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-aXr1c_-cA   Air Date:   20th August 2007   These are the stories they tell...   In which we are introduced to Herbert, a nervous V2 engine (who is openly afraid of cows), and we are forced to listen to Sir Ralph's whinging...again! Herbert then shows Sir Ralph what mixed traffic engines can do (and why Sir Ralph shouldn't run hot while running!)   Episode Two was made quickly on the back of a shed load of adrenaline and coffee! The series h
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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The British Railway Stories

Episode 1: "A Great Problem Goes West!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8unNDFvBx8&feature=PlayList&p=FABBA86024946A23  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fim6YMS9TC4&feature=response_watch   Air Date:   17th August 2007   These are the stories they tell...   In which we meet Allen the Peppercorn A1 Pacific, Stephen the Holden B12 and Sir Ralph the haughty A4 Pacific for the first time, as a locomotive from the Western Region requires help getting home...   The first episode of the series, and the one w
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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The British Railway Stories

These are the stories we tell...

This is the RMweb Blog and Information source for The British Railway Series, an historical Youtube series set in the years 1950-1964, and in a railway yard named Copley Hill.   I started making the series of videos with some friends for a module assessment in 2007, and while the rest of my team have gone onto better things, I found I enjoyed making the videos so much that I kept on making them! Over the last three years the series has improved greatly in terms of modelling and filming, evolvi
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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Claverton Engineering - 0-16.5 micro layout

Sleeper painting and first rails

I've now painted all the sleepers in a more appropriate aged timber colour.     I used a variety of shades of Humbrol enamel, starting by painting each sleeper a light tan, then applying dark brown to the sides, ends and edges, adding some white to the middle, and blending it all together in an appropriate wood grain sort of pattern.     I have also now pinned down the first few lengths of rail. The procedure for fixing it was much the same as on the test length - glue and pin one r
Burkitt

Burkitt

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Newark Northgate in N

Newark Northgate

Hi Chaps and Chapesses   This will be my BLOG for Newark Northgate, an exhibition layout of the ECML in the GNER era. It will be N gauge and DCC controlled from Traincotroller via Lenz 100 set. I have been planning this for years really and progress will be glacial like as I have an active family and a job with a lot of travelling.   I am also a hobby woodworker and build baseboards on occasion (I did some of Tim Easters Auchin thingy boards for him to match up to the previous boards) and I
cutting42

cutting42

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Gloucester Road's Blog

Gloucester road - scalescenes

Thought I would post some images of the construction of Scalescenes small terrece houses. I had lots of fun building these; as with all scalescene the instructions are very clear and construction is straight forward. The first two I did are complete with the interiors all done up and the front walls are removable to see inside. The last two I thought would be done as if if they were still underconstruction, so no windows and the roof is under construction. The wood and flooring is strips of b
Gloucester Road

Gloucester Road

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Ouse Viaduct/Balcombe/Lewes project

The end of Camberhurst?

Some of you will know of my planned Camberhurst layout from the old site http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7091   I'm not sure any more whether this will ever happen. This is for a variety of reasons, including   * Time for a sole project considered against other commitments * Space to put it up at home * I don't really like shunting, much prefer trains passing through the landscape (c.f. Eridge, Tawbridge) * I also feel much happier with real locations, or at least so
10800

10800

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Engine Wood

The Captain's Exhibitions

Cheltenham (St Margarets Hall, Hatherley) - 24/25 October 2009   This was a really delightful little show and very friendly too. I have posted some photos of the show in the main exhibitions thread here: My link
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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5Bel- Replica 4Epb.

5Bel 4Epb continued

Hi All,   Some more pics of the 4Epb. The underframe bits are from Replica for their MLV. The dummy motor bogie are MJT castings on the Southern Pride bogie shell. Wheels are the excellent(and cheap) Hornby ones. It will be powered by a Hornby ringfield power bogie. This has enough power to pull an eight or even a ten car train. Just a few holes to drill for the handrails at the front then painting. This one will be BFYE. I also intend to model one of the units fitted with B5 bogies as an expe
5Bel

5Bel

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Engine Wood

Bleakhouse Road

Tuesday 27/10/09   Here are a few photos taken on Bleakhouse Road last weekend at the Cheltenham show. These two were taken during 'happy hour' towards the end of the Saturday, allowing Re6/6 to run his new Bachmann 150 and give us a glimpse of what BHR might have been like, had it survived to the modern day...     Re6/6 has charge of the shunting at this time...   I'll add to this particular blog as and when, but more information on this and my other layouts can be found at www.eng
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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Tawbridge 00 Roundy-Roundy

Some authentic full-length train formations

Although I haven't started building the layout yet (next month maybe?) I have been assembling a few trains to run on it, especially some reasonable length ones, and here's a couple of them (straight from the box, no weathering yet or replacement couplings).   (Note that in these photos the trains are more or less plonked on temporary track - the DB is on 00 track on the new DRAG TT2, but has humps over the board joins where the sleepers haven't been removed yet; and the Western and Mk1s are o
10800

10800

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DRAG TT2 progress

More track and a bit of grass

Another routine DRAG meeting last night, with both TT1 in use and work continuing on the trackwork on TT2. Here it looks like we've left CK on his own (not true, others were busy threading rail into trackbases etc )       But meanwhile, John (Re6/6) had just taken delivery of his new Noch Grassmaster for Matford, and gave us a quick demo. The following pictures speak for themselves really, although it is difficult to convey the 3D effect on a 2D image.              
10800

10800

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New layout and a change of scale

Deadwater Mk2. Extension and refurb.

Most of the construction work on the original layout took place back in 2006/7, and beyond pulling back up some pictures such as building constructions and trees etc, I dont really see the need for verbatim copying/posting of pages past, as they are still of course available on the old RMweb, which at the moment we are re-assured is going to be continually available as an archive.   I linked to the new place from there so here is the OLD Deadwater Burn thread. Isn't that 'insert link' tool j
Russ (mines a pint)

Russ (mines a pint)

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4mm rolling stock

More rescued stuff

??? posted on Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:26 am   A few more wagons finished tonight. I've also been playing with my camea to try and get better results. These were all taken on long exposures, with the lights turned off and a handheld torch as the main light source.   The LMS lows are all done - Chivers kits for the long lows and scratchbuilt 10' wheelbase ones.           The one in LMS bauxite is intended as a runner for a rake of wagons carrying timber. I've made a start on loading t
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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28ten's workbench

14xx Episode 4 - more pipework

Quick progress report, these fiddly jobs are taking an age and I have added extra detail such as cable brackets and stand offs, anyway its late so here we go cables along the footplate in reality these were very untidy but on a model it looks awful so I have gone for a compromise... Some work on the battery box, the gusset behind the bufferbeam is from scrap etch but it was handy to hang the battery box from Overall looking like a 14xx, well 1447 as it is now There is a lot of piping o
28ten

28ten

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barrowroad's Blog

Bristol Barrow Road

Bristol Barrow Road   by Barrowroad   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:55 pm   About 25 years ago I started collecting information and photographs of my local ex Midland Railway shed, Bristol Barrow Road, and vowed that one day I would create a layout of the site. Well over the past year, with the help of some fellow modellers I now have the baseboards for the layout.     The track plan has been produce
barrowroad

barrowroad

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4mm rolling stock

Stuff rescued from the old forum

4mm rolling stock, mainly Southern...   by pete_mcfarlane   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:05 pm   I was made redundant from my job last month (as my employers thought it was a good idea to replace me with 3 unskilled Indian graduates on ??5 a day, but that's a different story). The good news is that this gives me a lot more modelling time (in between job hunting of course), and so I'm trying to clear the backlog
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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General - Muz's modelling mastications

The MRS celebrates the clubroom expansion

Last Saturday we held an open day at the High Wycombe and District MRS (of which I am the Chairman) to celebrate the completion of the renovation of the extension to the Society rooms. Pictures and a video walk around of the new and refurbished facilities can be found here   I am delighted to be able to say that the open day was considered by all to be a success. It was probably the first occasion, certainly in the 25 or so years that I have been a member of the Society, that we had every clu
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Stooperdale Engineering

Stooperdale Engineering Ltd a box file layout

Stooperdale engineering,a layout in a boxfile   by Tel2010   original page on Old RMweb   __________________________________________   ??? posted on Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:34 pm   Hello everyone, i'm new to this forum,having read loads of great posts and viewed some really outstanding modelling thought i would finally take the plunge and post a little about my current effort.   Having come across carendt.com micro layouts and one in particular by Colin Peake,i was inspired to have a
Tel2010

Tel2010

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