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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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Somercombe

back to 1st aborted attempt.

So, back to laying track. Ballasting being one of those jobs you love or hate, and I hate it. I want it to be quick, easy and to look good. So I thought I'd try a short test piece. I cut the cork to width, slapped on some PVA, lightly pinned track down, then left it for ten minutes and turned it over to remove the excess ballast. Not bad, I thought. Now, how would I turn the shed upside down. So a quick trip to Argos to get a rechargable vacuum cleaner. Tonight I started with the curve that
JZ

JZ

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Park Road TMD

Welcome aboard

Hi all,   Some will be familiar with my layout thread on the old RMweb at here   This blog will be a continuation of the thread but to start with I'll go back to the start with a quick overview of how (and why!!) the layout was built.   At the end of 2006 my wife bought me a Bachmann sound fitted class 66 for Christmas, prior to this I had no intention of giving DCC a try but once I got this loco I decided to take the plunge and bought an MRC Prodigy Advance system from the USA.   I the
Craig Watson

Craig Watson

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Dublo 3 rail layout in Cork

How it all began.

50 years on from a child's Christmas present, I recreated my first train set, with the original locomotive and wagons, on the original living room table protected with the original airforce blanket!   My N2 celebrated its 50th birthday December 2007 with a 250 mile trip back to Lisburn, Northern Ireland to my Mother's house for the celebratory run in its first home.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SemQO3idM   Here is the same train on my current layout in Cork.
Colin_McLeod

Colin_McLeod

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Somercombe

just to clarify things

I am in the process of copying over my Somercombe thread. I will be editing post on the way so things may seem a bit fra g me nt ed. But bear with me, I havn't gone and pulled it up and started again.
JZ

JZ

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Somercombe

First aborted attempt

Before any track laying takes place, I want to see that all I want will fit. The last thing I want is a cramped feel to it. If it means losing a siding, so be it. Tonight I did some test placings of buildings in the station and yard to get a feel of what I am trying to achieve.       The line through the goods shed will have an end loading dock close to the station building. Coal staithes will be in the shed in the background of the first shot. The bay platform, with the 121 in it, will
JZ

JZ

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Somercombe

and on

All fully insulated now. Baseboard height will be level with the bottom of the windows. I will be putting 38x38mm timber around the walls at that level to support the cross beams and also the power. The layout will for the most part be 24" wide, easy enough to reach over and leaving me a good sized piece of free space for other projects in the middle. Not sure about a duck-under or lift out by the door, but most likely it will be a lift out section to allow better access.     Scenic side of
JZ

JZ

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Somercombe

more

At last . The shed is up.     Next thing is to get it secure and cozy. I'll be fitting laminated glass in the windows. The side door will be fixed and panelled over, as will one of the double doors at the front. The other will be rebuilt, you could call it my Bulleid door :roll: :roll: , with 9mm plywood inside the planking, replace the batons and insulate it. Security locks will also be fitted and an alarm. Outwardly I want it still to look like a shed, so as not to attract attention. I
JZ

JZ

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Adam's part-time modelling

EM Austerity - adventures in kitbashing

For the full gory details of how we got this far (click here and read on - assuming of course that the old forum will let you). In the meantime, a few edited highlights (if that's the right word).   This is my second austerity, the first was fairly common finescale stuff, a Dapol RTR body on a Perseverence chassis. I'm quite pleased with the end result which looks like this:     Of course, having built one, you need another and it should be easier because the reference material is in hand
Adam

Adam

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Somercombe

starting

Finally I am getting somewhere. But where :?:   Well had to get the holidays out of the way. Then had to wait until my help had a week off and the days he was available had to tie in with my rest days.   So, last week we dug out the base and yesterday poured the concrete. We had to barrow it around the back as unfortunately the developers who put up my terrace didn't have the foresight to make the access wide enough for a concrete mixer. But I suppose they didn't have many back in 1904. Any
JZ

JZ

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Somercombe

Making a start

Today I made a start on clearing some ground for a base for the shed that will eventually house Somercombe. Had to buy a chainsaw to get some old shrubs and a couple of trees out. Being green by nature, I have replaced these with 6 trees in another part of the garden(and I only went to Focus to get some epoxy).     Ok, it looks a bit like a building site, but it's a start. Once the site is cleared, I will beforming a low wall around the area with concrete blocks before filling with con
JZ

JZ

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

Calshot - A summary

Baseboards       All the boards on Calshot have been made using the open-frame format, where a ply upriser is sandwiched between planks of pine. Polystyrene is then cut to shape to form the contours of the land and cut to fit between the uprisers. This method requires slightly more thought than the more usual method of pinning track straight to a board and is much more versatile because you can cut holes in the uprisers for wiring looms and it also means hills are much easier to landscape b
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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Adam's part-time modelling

Birmingham Bedford - Austin K4

This project formed the last entry on the mk 3 version of RMweb, so here it is again. What we have here are a collection of Road Trasport Images modules assembled to form a representation of a particular vehicle, in this case, an Austin K4 box van from the early 1950s owned and operated by British Railways. It turns up in innumerable pictures of Yeovil Town station from the '50s and '60s, and should make for an attractive model. In any case, it'll make a change from all those die-casts.    
Adam

Adam

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Gene's Blog

Introduction and 2 pics

Hello everybody, First I'd like to say that, now that I'm getting a better handle on this blog thing I decided to add just a quick intro today, Oct 22, 2009, telling a bit about myself and my modeling philosophy.   I got interested in model railways about 10 years ago while recovering from a bit of a health issue. Now I had the usual circle of track under the Christmas tree some 50 years ago but I was never very interested in trains and such. My main modeling focus, into my late teens, was
Gene

Gene

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Drewry Lane

Getting going

Hi,   Although St Jude still has a couple more shows to go to I had more or less decided it was time to retire it. However it was invited back to a local show where it had been shown a couple of times before. Going back a third time seemed to me to be a bit much for the paying public so I declined but had not really considered a replacement. That was until I found all sorts of useful stuff in the builders skip at work. MDF sheeting and timber in largish quantities. I asked if I could have some
lapford34102

lapford34102

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Dan Randall's adventures in Scale Seven

Dan's S7 Workbench, BR (Western Region) 1960 -1975

Sunday 11th October 2009: So, here we are in the brave new world of RMweb4. Those of you, who subscribed to my 7mm Workbench ramblings on the old RMweb, may be pleased to know that there will be more of the same here.   I hope to bring across all my previous workbench stuff, but I??™m also hoping to separate each project into its own section if possible. I have two locos on the go at present ??“ a JLTRT Western and a JLTRT/Mitchell Castle. I also have a number of Slater??™s vans and wago
Dan Randall

Dan Randall

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Copley Hill Works

'No.1' in the Works

It seems rather fitting that my first actual modelling update on the new forum should involve a locomotive very, very close to my heart. It's numbered one, but its not Thomas!!!   In 1994 I saw Flying Scotsman for the first time, at Llangollen in Wales. I was awe-struck by this machine: I remember with incredible clarity looking up at the black & gold nameplate and just studying its polished finish for several minutes.   It very quickly became my favourite locomotive (and in my heart of
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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28ten's workbench

N13 Horsebox

I found this in my todo pile, yet another horsebox, I really must crack on with the chassis....The kit is from WEP whilst its quite accurate there are some problems with the ironwork on the body side but I have overcome these. The closeup shows my method of getting nicely rounded hinges by using thin strip folded double
28ten

28ten

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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Weyford on Sea

A quick recap??¦   Weyford on Sea is our club??™s 00 layout, intended to depict a former Southern Railway terminus in the 1950??™s. Plenty of Dorset sun, sand and sea, served by lots of lovely Bulleid Pacifics, King Arthurs, Lord Nelsons etc. It is unashamedly a harking back to the days when holidays usually meant packing the bucket and spade, and hopping onto the train to the coast??¦   When we left you on the earlier RMWeb, work was continuing apace in the docks area. This is fed by a bran
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Liphook & District MRC

As some may have been aware on the previous incarnation of RMWeb I, and a number of others, have been regularly posting updates on a our club project ??“ the 00 layout Weyford-on-Sea. Although a large layout which is currently taking a lot of our efforts, it is only part of our club endeavours and interests.   Weyford is of course not the only layout from our club that is represented on here, there was a thread with a number of pictures posted of our N gauge layout Cottleston Park, as well as
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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Barry Ten's S&D blog

Shillingstone recap

As documented on the old forum, I'm building a 12x11 foot 00 layout based loosely on Shillingstone, on the southern portion of the Somerset and Dorset. The S&D has a strong family connection for me (and I was born within a week of the closure) so it's always been a line close to my heart. The arrival of Hornby's excellent Bulleid pacifics, and the opportunity to obtain a ready-build model of a 7F, were the final straws - that and the dismantling of my old layout prior to a house move, meanin
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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Spoonerisms

DHR B Class pics

A few of us thought we'd start a general NG blog together on the new format forum as a bit of fun.   A while back I went to Launceston to see the visiting Darjeeling Himalayan Railway B Class which was imported back into the UK by Adrian Shooter a few years ago. The original examples don't have tenders, this was added upon restoration in the UK.   Believe it or not, even though they rarely do more than 25 miles an hour, a streamlined tank loco was developed in the 1930s! It seems this was
invercloy

invercloy

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Transpennine Blog

Opening the Box

Hi All,   Its great to see so many familiar names over here, and all of us busy creating blogs!   Some of you may know that I have recently moved house to The Netherlands, and as a result all model rail activities had to take a back seat. Before we left the UK Diggle Junction was looking OK with the elctrics and OLE all functioning, and some scenic work going on. That all stopped when the layout was split in to two halves and made in to a box for transit. Tomorrow I'm finally allowed to open
Gallows Close

Gallows Close

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    • MikeOxon
      Spot the Differences

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      Although the broad gauge (BG) was appropriate for its original routes, Brunel himself recommended standard gauge for the curved routes in the Welsh Valleys.  In practice, Brunel's BG did not offer many advantages because the loading gauge was too small.  American railways demonstrated that much larger vehicles could operate on standard gauge, providing the clearances allowed for them.
    • ChrisN
      Spot the Differences

      By ChrisN · Posted

      Mike, Yes, it is not an area I know very much about, so to see a whole class of locomotives appear is fascinating.  I wonder how they would have developed if parliament had not gone in favour of standard gauge.
    • MikeOxon
      Spot the Differences

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      Modifying designs in CAD is not quite as simple as swapping number plates on an RTR model but it is an easy way of creating a 'family' of similar engines.  I'm pleased you find it interesting.
    • ChrisN
      Spot the Differences

      By ChrisN · Posted

      Great, one more to the list.  Very interesting.
    • MikeOxon
      North Star - a GWR Icon

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      I remembered that there is a GFBird drawing of Shooting Star in Brian Arman's book on BG Engines - Part One.  I don't know anything about its provenance or reliability but the implication is that the engine was like Evening Star but with a lower firebox top.    Since I have already have modelled Evening Star and an appropriate style of firebox for my model of Red Star,  I have simply assembled the two together, as shown below:   My representation of 'Shooting Star'

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