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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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On this rainy October morning...

...I am still waiting for my package from the ?–BB Advertising Centre with the limited series class 1116 engine in the "Fire Brigades" special livery in it. But of course I cannot know how exactly they handle their shipments. Will keep you updated as to when it arrives!   As an aside, my next purchase has been set in stone as well, but I won't reveal what it will be just yet .   Other than that, nothing special to report as of yet. But some Earl Grey tea does help getting started!   On t
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Hornby Dublo 3-rail in Cork.

This is my first attempt at blogging and I'm going to use it to share with you my Hornby Dublo 3-rail layout.   This is a shelf layout built above my more conventional layout (which will be the subject of another blog). I completed the baseboards in the summer of 2008 but then work stopped while I concentrated on restoring some railway relics that you can see in the background of some of the photographs.   Work recommenced around February this year and I have now finished the basics. The fo
Colin_McLeod

Colin_McLeod

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The Postman sometimes knocks twice

Excellent service from Alan Gibson. I ordered the wheels, buffers and bits for this kit by telephone on Tuesday. Colin answered the phone on the first ring and took my order signing off with "it will be in the post tonight". It was, and was delivered this morning (first class) despite the current postal industrial action.   Here are the bits:     So now I have everything to start this kit. The gearbox can wait as it is not required until a long way into the build and should give me time
Kenton

Kenton

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My Subterranean Railway Room

Good news. Today was a deliberately slow day at work (I work from home) because I had my boy home due to a lack of cars to get him to school. Did he want to help me build my new railway empire under the house? No, of course not, he just did the Top Gear marathon and ate the kitchen clean. So, I have now built the support structure for the platform that will support the layout when it is stored under the house. Tomorrow I will clear the existing storage out of the space so I can get the platfor
artizen

artizen

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MOK 14xx

I have been working on a 14xx chassis which can be seen in the chassispro2 jig, which incidentally makes construction very straightforward the more interesting point is the hornblocks which I am working on hopefully you can see the ballraces, these really do make a difference and I will try and standardise on them in future. A side benefit is that they almost eliminate sideplay, which is something you don't really want with S7 clearences The ballraces also showing some smaller 2mmi/d
28ten

28ten

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Capturing the spirit

Some of the pics Andy Y took last weekend:           Im very much impressed with these indeed
Andy C

Andy C

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Track by the metre..

Just to put up a more recent post than the archive stuff i've been importing here is a sample of the plain lengths of track i've been working on for the re-laying:   There consist of 4 60ft panels each of 24 sleepers and are built from Exactoscale components. I only lay the one rail at home and the other will be laid at the club once its been curved to match the template and any gauge widening has been added in.   I'd previously done a length of 26ft panels that will go on the gauge widene
craigwelsh

craigwelsh

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And back to the new layout...

I've worked up a quick concept sketch for the proposed new layout (see entry below) to get a feel of the similarities/differences to Ring Road. Very heavily influenced by Coventry, my aim with this layout would be to keep the overall style and architectural/urban elements of Ring Road, but arrange them in a different way, with the layout in a slight cutting, roads going over the top, and the station adding operational interest. Still a year or so off even starting this dedicated exhibition l
bmthtrains - David

bmthtrains - David

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The workshop

I have only used Wordpress for blogging before so i am feeling my way around this. at the moment images are linked to a picasa but this may also be changed once I get a feel for things anyway, without further ado, a few shots of the work area just to show that i actually do make something, first up is the workbench nothing special. in the photo you can see the RSU and a ERSA soldering station. the draws on the right have all the hand tools Next up and to the left of the bench is the library,
28ten

28ten

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A (re)introduction

Evening all!   Having acquired the link for the new forum and discovered that I'm one of the infamous 15%, I decided that I'd make a fresh start rather than copy across all of my old workbench! If anyone actually cares, the originals are linked in my signature.   My current project is a Backwoods Blanche, in 009, being made as a 2-4-0 STT with tender cab and piston valve cylinders - as she is now, in fact. My previous attempt at a Backwoods kit went a bit awry when Taliesin's power bogie di
Beardybloke

Beardybloke

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The scale of the problem

A blog by Phil Harding aged 60 1/6.   As the title of this blog suggests I have over the years started lots of different projects and finished none. I hope by committing to a blog to change that - even if nobody bothers to look at it I hope that by giving myself the task of making regular posts I can actually achieve something to post with. The first entries over the next few days will simply be pictures of the various projects I have on the go. Subsequent posts would hopefully involve me actu
PhilH

PhilH

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Prototype Revealed

OK - Perhaps it is time to expose the prototype   The prototype is the North British MAN 225hp 0-4-0DH Specifically the third batch D2745-D2780 that were introduced from January 1960.   Yes. It is another kit from the Judith Edge range. Michael Edge has previously started a thread on RMWeb discussing the early development of the kit. This has now been released as two kits one for the second batch (D2720-D2744, June 58 - April 1959) and one for the third batch (D2745-D2780, January 1960 -
Kenton

Kenton

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Bogies for the 85

I've been making some progress with my scratchbuilt 85 at last (see http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=16268&start=0 for the first installment). I've now got a running chassis based on the guts of a Bachmann warship. The loco made its exhibition debut under test at Showcase with a fast run round Tonbridge West Yard before I'd fitted the decoder. It did get some odd looks from the public, this strange grey thing with no bogie sides and no pan, buffers etc. I'd been planni
Dagworth

Dagworth

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A finer plan

Have done some more playing with the track plan. First I tried with medium radius points, but that needed almost 8 feet to get the platforms, station throat and fiddle yard in. I don't want to lose any of this - though I guess I could cope with a single track access to the fiddle yard, but it reduces the operational scope (the fiddle yard needs moving after every move, whereas I'd prefer to be able to do an out and in (at least) before fiddling. I remeasured the space available, and, though i
MichaelW

MichaelW

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I Feel Fine (Scale)

After an unpleasant experience with a point motor (don't ask, I don't want to talk about it * :icon_mutter:) I thought I'd try some of this boundary pushing lark.   Following Graeme's revalation that current production N stock will run on 2mm Association Easitrac I felt that it had to be worth a play - so with a supply of concrete sleeper Easitrac sprues, some code 40 flat bottom rail, a supply of copperclad sleepers and a couple of 2mmFS track gauges it was time to play.        
ian

ian

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Out of the box

I couldn't wait any longer, I just had to unwrap it all and check that everything was there.   The parts list is included with the 6 sheets of A4 that make up the instructions. Not for one moment did I even think that there would be anything missing, but I did need to get a feel of that brass.   Three very clean frets - not that my photography in this room helped show them to their full glory but you get the impression of them being well laid out with nice fine fret tabs and just about enou
Kenton

Kenton

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CJM 92

My once in a lifetime treat arrived today, 92002 H G Wells. I cannot sufficiently describe how good this model is, it really is by far the most astonishing loco. Details include drivers and fully painted control desks!   These pictures speak for themselves - and remember, this is N gauge!   David
bmthtrains - David

bmthtrains - David

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We start with a box

So this is as much an experiment in blogging as it is in describing a new kit build. With the former I feel very much like a fish out of water for the latter .... let's just say "well here we go again".   Last weekend I attended my first Manchester show - in fact the first time I had been to Manchester. The show was most enjoyable and entertaining but I'll reserve judgment on the city. Some stunning layouts there with my top 3 being Crumley & Littlewickhill, Blackmill and Harlyn Road. But
Kenton

Kenton

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Chivers Pigeon Van

Today I am painting coach one is the GWR slip coach which I have painted the ends black and a Chivers LNER 4 wheel brake van (pigeon) again its in teak livery The next job for this coach is to letter up the sides then varnish them , glaze & fit the roof.
mozzer models

mozzer models

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Modelling Foster Yeoman PTAs

Continuing from my thread on oldRMweb, I have made a little more progress on my rake of Foster Yeoman PTA The underframe ribs are now completed, adding the reinforcements to the outer headstocks and the wider ribs over the bogies. The headstock reinforcement was fabricated with the chopper set to carefully cut along its length to get the two heights (a further small step needed removing from one corner to allow clearance over the packing pieces which support the ribs. Whereas the ribs themsel
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Wilderspool Causeway - the start

The top lines are the passenger, this will be at a higher level, the track plan is similar to Shaw, it will be a single arriving and double departing (from left to right) with a reversing siding available for turn backs.   The bottom lines are the truncated remains of a once through line, freights will arrive from the left and the loco will run off and "run round" them, they then depart, this means that a freight will need to be only a few wagons long.   The juxaposition will be arranged dur
beast66606

beast66606

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That was then - this is now. A tale of a Mk 2f DBSO in 7mm

Just to maintain some kind of continuity, this link is to the pages I previously cobbled together on the old site. Okay I could copy them over however fresh start what   Bob's Carriage Shop - JLTRT 7mm Mark 2f DBSO   To be followed by a bringing up to date series of articles....(for which there are lots) honest! __________________________________________
Bob Reid

Bob Reid

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An Introduction and background

This blog aims to cover the development, and eventual construction of my next layout, Bodmin Central. The layout is based around three assumptions detailing how the town of Bodmin developed in this alternative reality,   Firstly, I have kept a number of closed lines open, covering both the line to Bodmin General, and the second branch to Wentford (which will be further serving the north Cornish coast. To further ensure maximum interest, the Wentford clay works will still be operational (and
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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