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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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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 - 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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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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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 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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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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Eventual outcomes are worth pondering constructively...

Now the problem is generating the time to do this and the models - well maybe Soon stuff will appear - some beasties are pending a visit to the picture generating department; they just need their hair blow drying...........   Be seeing you
iak

iak

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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
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10800

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Muz workbench - Crediton in two forms

21C148 / s21C148 is now finished and just awaiting light weathering.   The difference in livery as 21C148 condition on one side as yet un-named and in post Feb 1948 condition on the other can be seen, along with the differing deflector lengths.     To answer Ivan's comment is that the casting for the original style cabs (which were based on my original scratch brass cabsides) are available to non members from the Southern Railways Group.
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Conflat Clay

Have made a start on a conflat clay for Wheal Elizabeth. Before anyone asks, they were a Boplate E conversion with a couple of cut down ISO 20ft containers with sheets over. I don't know when they were created exactly, but I found a photo of one in Larkin's 'Working Wagons Vol 2 1974-79'. Apparently they ran to Avonmouth which was news to me. I didn't think they exported clay from there. I'll try and post progress. Should look very nice behind a hydraulic...
ullypug

ullypug

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Stooperdale Engineering Ltd a box file layout

Stooperdale engineering,a layout in a boxfile   by Tel2010   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by mason on Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:00 pm   just checked out your fotopic site and this is a fantastic project, really nicely done with great eye for detail, well done mate   regards   neil __________________________________________   ??? posted on Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:01 pm   Hi Neil Thank you for your kind comments.Your boxfile layou
Tel2010

Tel2010

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Ballasting is slower than on the real railway

By May I'd managed to give the boards a coat of undercoat to give the scenics a base and completed the first bit of ballasting I've ever done. Having read lots of different techniques mine is very simple - a coat of sleeper grime from a Railmatch aerosol, sprinkle on the ballast (Riko ballast scatter), brush into the right sort of shape followed by the traditional mist of water spray with a drop of washing up liquid and applying the PVA with a dropper.         Six months later the bal
pauln

pauln

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Some electrical works .....

With a huge effort of will over Christmas 2008 I put most of the electrics into place before trying to run trains but I now have a near complete track layout on the front side and a simple rigged up circuit around the back (purely for "test" purposes).   I've tried to keep the electrics as tidy as possible allowing for the fact I have never wired up a DCC layout before nor done any soldering. Some of the track droppers soldered to the rails look rather hamfisted but I guess I can go back and r
pauln

pauln

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The boards fit together

This is an edited summary of my thread from the old RMWeb. Progress has been slow over the summer so let's start with the initial steps in September last year (wow! I did't realise it had taken me a year to get to where I am today .... how embarrassing).   So the history ..... after four false starts (OO, N, Japanese N, OO) and 30 years since I possessed an actual model railway I finally put four baseboards together and roughly concluded on a track plan. The final layout has ended up as 16ft
pauln

pauln

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9. The Retaining Wall

The OO Garden Shed By John Geeee   I look on my layout as eventually being a series of Diorama scenes all linked by railway track. I am certainly learning all the time so I never consider any scene to be complete untill I can master all forms of the art of railway modelling. Therefore as I learn a new skill I revisit one of the scenes and try to improve it, as seen earlier with the way I think I was improving the yard surface.   For the area past the new turntable I decided to create a smal
John Geeee

John Geeee

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