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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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Preservation

Keeping 26043 alive.....No2 end.....snagging

A bit of a while since my last blog, but no let up in the effort on 26043, work obviously fades over the summer months, its peak season for the diesel department so a number of us crew locomotives but we also have summer holidays and kids to look after...     The last sheets of steel being welded in, during late march at No2 end     No2 end welding is now complete all that remains is to fit a new skirt, the skirt is a very complex fabrication and is curved
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London & Birmingham Carriages

A London & Birmingham Novelty

I’ve long been entertained and intrigued by depictions of early railways of the 1830s and ‘40s. The period was marked by significant political and social change, the technology of the new iron roads symbolised these changes more than anything and the railway companies knew it. From the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway onwards, artists such as Isaac Shaw, John Cooke Bourne, Thomas Talbot Bury and many others recorded what they saw, creating images that sought to commemorate and i
Misc.

Copenhagen to Penzance by rail

Back in June I had some work to do in London. I live in Copenhagen, so a devious plan was hatched to extend the work trip with some time off for railways and family. I even managed to do a bit of research for the Farthing layouts.       I went by rail to London. It was 16 hours on 5 trains, but I enjoyed the views and got most of a day’s work done on the laptop.       Early departure from Copenhagen Central at 5.44. No rush to the airport hours befo
Mikkel

Mikkel in Misc.

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General

Photographic Evidence

Having wandered into South Devon territory with my atmospheric caper, I started to look at some of the steam engines used on that line. I realised that, although I have modelled several early passenger engines, including the Firefly class, I have not tackled any of the early goods engines.   The Leo class 2-4-0 were built as goods engines, starting in 1841. It was soon realised, however, that they had insufficient adhesion weight, so all the engines were converted to carry saddle tanks
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in General

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P4

Cheddar P4 - August 2023 Update

This month, I have been mostly gardening. In a scale style obviously. And that's about it really. Road surfaces are the usual Attwood Aggregates dust, greenery is static grass undercoat and postiche top coat, horsehair hedges and an assortment of sprinkles and flocks. It's funny how I'm down at the dregs of various containers as I hit the last board. Another obligatory strawberry patch has appeared inside the railway fence (which is still to do). Still lots to do but I alread
ullypug

ullypug in P4

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Wagons

Midland Railway D299 Open

As Stephen has highlighted, the Midland Railway D299 Opens were built in such large numbers that they appeared in almost any pre-grouping goods yard at some point.       So I dug out my Slater's kit for this diagram.       The kit had some rather bare looking insides.       I therefore scribed on some planking detail.       For the rest of the build I followed Stephen's info, including removal
Mikkel

Mikkel in Wagons

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Electronics

Installing the Signal.

A while ago, I brought a fully wired up Dapol LMS semaphore home signal from Cropper's Models in Bridlington. It was originally intended for use on a new OO gauge micro layout I was working on. Unfortunately, that never happened and the signal remained in store for a while.    That was until Oxendale was built. I was sorting out some boxes and I came across it again. I thought "that would go well on the layout" and then it hit me: Rather than keep it in store, I'll use it on the layout
Monthly Reports

We have five Long Wednesdays left .............

The club chairman spoke to our team this week. There are going to be 22 layouts at the joint show with Dorking club on 30 Sept/1 October. We did say that we could make that 21 but were firmly told "no way". So over the next two months we will concentrate on making our efforts as interesting as possible as completion to exhibition standards is totally not feasible. If it ever was.   One of the issues we have had since the beginning is that Horsham club do not have a dedicated club room.
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whart57 in Monthly Reports

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General

A Stevens & Sons lever frame , part 1

I have never been entirely happy with the control of points and signals on Kelvinbank. Three way switches allow a signal to be set to on, off or auto. Switches set the points, in auto mode they also control the signals via short timers. It is vaguely interlocked, but not perfectly. All workable but somehow not in keeping with the period feel of things.   So. Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire section of the CR during the Edwardian era. Built in the 1890s. Boxes would have a Stevens & S
Dave John

Dave John in General

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46444 Blog

Two out of three ain't bad. And the one about the soup can!

In the 1980's as an impressionable teenager Ratio produced a number of special pre-printed kits based on their venerable GWR 12T box van.    As far as I an aware the three kits available came in Badger Beer, Huntsman Ales/Elderidge Pope and BOCM liveries *.    When they were available in the 1980's I never built them. I remember they were advertised in black and white images in the Railway Modeller from Ratio when they were based in Sturminster Newton.    However a
46444

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The scenics

Ballasting the track

18/07/23   I've started the painstaking process of ballasting the track. I have decided to start on the freight only line first then do the BR mainline second.   I started it by dealing with a small section of the high level line first. I used my track ballaster I brought on eBay and a bottle of Ballast Bond. I should note that and it was an absolute fath to use (the ballast bond, not the track ballaster) and I probably won't be using it again. I then resorted to the more eas
General

A small TMD - Part 4

I finished construction of the scale scenes diesel depot, now down to a single road, clearances are a little tight (due to a central heating valve) so large locos can't fit but small ones can.   I swapped the old container crane to the other end and the fuelling siding will now be alongside the tanks but I need to add pipes at some point to the tankers siding.   Now working on a west hill wagon works test facility. Its going in the siding alongside the shed on a separate modu
MattB

MattB in General

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Goverseth Sidings

Making Progress!

I was posting updates over on Twitter but I have decided to move to something a little more substantial to track and show progress on the layout! With that here is some rather crude progress photos of the layout. These include the painting or corking on the baseboards as well and track laying and glueing with the final picture the track laid with it cut and back in the boxes!
Fxtgood

Fxtgood in Goverseth Sidings

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Johnson Street IEMD - Layout update

30th June 2023 - Loco Update

30th January 2023 - there's a Dyson in town   Having taken the Dyson for a quick spin on the test track at the local model shop yesterday,       today was a layout debut for the highly anticipated Accurascales DB Schenker branded Class 92, 92042. As it used to be known, ''Honegger'', well, Honegger got to meet his new stablemates,       alongside probable brief classmate George Eliot (92027), briefly visiting Johnson Street IE
Planning and Design

Season 2 - How to not plan a model railway (part 1)

Episode 1: “The only way is up!” - a nadir is reached…   I’ve been interested in layout design and track planning for as long as I’ve been interested in model railways.  After all the books I’ve read, videos I’ve watched, and ideas I’ve doodled, I’d suggest there are two fundamentals to be decided on at the start.  Most importantly: what’s the vision?  What do I want my layout to represent, or achieve?  Trouble is I like a lot of different things and have far too many ideas, as demonst
LMS/BR

Bye bye for now...

Stourpayne Marshall is no more!  Or at least, it's back in its box for the time being. When I switched my layout from GWR mode to S&D mode back at the end of summer 2020, I had no idea that I'd keep the S&D theme for the best part of three years. However, it's been far too much fun running Bulleid pacifics, Fowler locos, Black 5s and so on to want to stop. However, I decided this week that was enough was enough (my GWR locos were feeling neglected)  so over the course of an evening or so
Barry Ten

Barry Ten in LMS/BR

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General

My Atmospheric Caper – Part 3

Assembling the Parts   In tackling the assembly of the components that I printed as described in Part 2 of this series, I was reminded of President Kennedy’s words “We choose to … do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard“   I had realised that the assembly of the parts was not going to be easy but it turned out even trickier than I had expected. To re-cap, the parts I printed were as shown below:   3D printed Atmospheric Apparat
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in General

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J17 Build

Progress on a possible J17 kit - part 2 - self quartering P4 wheels anyone?

In my previous blog on this subject I mentioned I'd 3D printed some wheel centres to fit into Alan Gibson 4'10" tyres. I put these into my test chassis and got it working but I was not entirely happy with the result. The issue I believe is that 'Gibson Style' wheels rely on having the centre molded out of a fairly 'grippy' plastic, the hole through the centre is designed to be a good tight fit on an 1/8th inch axle. even so most of us have had a wheel be a bit loose at times and some people reso
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit in J17 Build

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Blog entry

No. 168 GWR - the Great Way Round – the concept.

The past couple of years have seen a number of exciting modifications to the railway that have so far passed unrecorded.   I was first alerted to the misuse of the initials GWR by George Behrend (Ref 1) in his 1966 book Gone With Regret.  In his recollections of the Great Western Railway he extols the virtues of God’s Wonderful Railway and notes that opponents of GW methods would dismiss the company as the Great Way Round.  (Something about Brunel’s original route to Bath and Bristol via
General Help

Peco Electrofrog Points - Please Help!

Hello, I am a fairly novice modeler and I have decided to dip my toe into wiring. I wanted to do a test of my wiring beforehand by utilizing the Peco PL-10E, PL-9, PL-13, and PL-26B, along with a medium radius Peco Electrofrog point. I have followed the steps of the Dean Park YouTube channel, and modified the point as shown. I am very confused as to how I am meant to continue, as my first arrangements have not worked. I cannot get the point motor to work. Again, I am very new to this, so patienc
GWR

Paynestown - pushing on

With Paynestown's appearance at the Barry show just over a month away, I've been pushing on with some of the outstanding tasks.  Most of the work has been on the right hand end, including the building of this pub from a Metcalf kit:     I toned down/adjusted the colouring with washes, added a proper roof and some gutters and drainpipes, but other than that it's as Metcalf intended. I've named it the Railway Inn and made it a Rhymney & Crosswells pub. I spent a happy few h
Barry Ten

Barry Ten in GWR

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