With the holiday period now upon us, many of North Leigh’s locomotives are now ‘on shed’. In the following photo can be seen my first ‘scratch build’ - a GWR ‘Queen’ class, with a ‘Stella’ 2-4-0 next in line. Disappearing out of view, the back of ‘Lord of the Isles’ can just be glimpsed, while on the front track is a Dean Goods, together with an early PBV. (The 'back scene' is by Photoshop)
Locomotives ‘On Shed’
Looking back into Broad Gauge days, I remember a comme
A comment on my recent post about modelling Rocket reminded me that my first scratch-built locomotive was an Armstrong 2-2-2 that I constructed 10 years ago and described in ‘Railway Modeller’, July 2014 , as ‘Simply Victorian’. I explained in that article that I was encouraged by a drawing of one of these engines in Russell’s ‘A Pictorial Record of Great Western Engines’ with the caption comment that: "The utter simplicity of these early engines can be seen." The idea of ‘simplicity’ appealed t
I’ve now managed to produce a set of ‘printable’ parts from the original download from the ‘Printables’ website described in my previous post.
I’m still puzzled by the theories on exactly which of Trevithick’s locomotive engines was actually used for the Penydarren trial, which was the moment in history that put the steam locomotive on the map.
There is a print in the Science Museum collection, said to be the Penydarren engine but it has been discredited because, accord
In my very first post in this Blog , I referred to the need for plenty of horses and the facilities to support them. As part of "Turning Back the Clock", I decided that an essential railway vehicle would be a Horse Box, so I chose to build the Wizard Models/51L etched brass kit of the GWR diagram N6 box.
Inspired by @magmouse description of his 7mm scale model, I decided to restore my own early post about my 4mm scale model.
Although at that time (2013), I had not started
Having gone right back to 1804 with Trevithick’s locomotives, I decided to start moving forward again - to Stephenson’s famous ‘Rocket’, which was to put passenger-carrying railways firmly on the map.
When I built my Trevithick model, I wanted to put it alongside a model of ‘Rocket’ to illustrate the progress made over 25 years but, although I know I have a 4 mm scale model built from an Airfix kit, ‘somewhere’, I couldn’t find it!
I did find however that there is a 3D pr
Almost 10 years ago, I wrote a post about Dean’s experimental 4-2-4 tank engine , which made a brief appearance in 1882 before being hurriedly rebuilt as a more conventional 2-2-2 tender engine. Very little information has survived about the original engine, except that it had a chronic inability to stay on the track.
With so little prototype information available – and even less that could be considered reliable – I felt justified in taking considerable liberties in the design of my
