Wow, I forgot I had this blog, such is the kicking to my life I've had over the last half-decade.
Well, since the last entry I've even managed to lose the independent roof over my head and I'm having to rent a piddling little room in a friend's home as a lodger while all my stuff sits languishing in a container at a storage site, so all modelling has come to a complete stop. It's not fun for so many reasons
However, from time to time I still think about modelling and building a model ra
In amongst the cull of my model railway stock (now slowly coming to its end) I've been thinking about suitable stations to model within my two core areas of interest. A recap, they are both geographically the same, based around the Bournemouth area and its lines, but two distinct periods, 1961-ish, and 1985-ish.
For small, simpler layouts, the best candidates seem to be the likes of Parkstone for 1961 and Moreton and Holton Heath for 1985.
Parkstone is very short, even today not even cap
As some here will have noticed, I'm having a cull of my stock collection. What's going out are almost all items that don't fit within two themes. In order to help me with making sure I don't sell something relevant to the themes and to help focus future purchases, I thought I'd ask here for input on what stock (locos, carriages, wagons and departmentals) was known to run within them. The two themes are related as they are the same geographically, but differ in period. Note that I'm not planning
OK, I've done a bit of an inventory of the non-rolling stock scenic stuff I have sat in boxes, and this is a summary:
Landscape etc:
Canalside x1
Countryside x4
Goods Yard x3
Industrial x8
Loco Shed x12
Non Specific x2
Residential x6
Station x8
Town x2
Trackside x19
Village x4
Vehicles:
Buses x12
Cars x68
Coaches x3
Emergency Car x6
Lorry (Articulated) x9
Lorry (Rigid) x7
Taxi x24
Van (Large) x6
Van (Small) x10
Now, these summaries don't show enough detail
Well, I've decided to start a new blog for my model railway interests. It won't be regularly updated and the content will be varied, ranging from occasional model building stuff to ideas and dreams for the future. Apart from this very sentence, it will avoid covering any issues in my life re unemployment trials and tribulations, writing and publishing etc. It will just be for model (and occasionally real) railway stuff.
To start with, I'm thinking at the moment of what I can do with a number
