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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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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Train accident on the Frankfurt-Paris ICE line near Lambrecht

An ICE set on its way from Frankfurt to Paris was involved in an accident near the town of Lambrecht in Rhineland-Palatinate which occurred around 10.15 am today. A refuse collection vehicle had come off a narrow road which ran parallel to the rail line and plunged onto the tracks. Fifteen persons were injured; the lorry was destroyed and the train heavily damaged.   Spiegel Online photo strip
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Colwyn Bay Goods - 2mm Finescale

Theory Becomes Reality

Finally some progress!   If you cast your minds back to my last post, I was trying to overcome the issue of short switch blades in 2FS using Easitrac components. Thanks to all your feedback, I now have a half built prototype.   Code 40 switch rail with a solid brass dress makers pin attached. The rail was notched out using the trusty piercing saw.   The above switch blade sitting in it's drilled out top hat bearing pivot point.   Two down, two to go! Then it's the "simple" matter of
Bryn

Bryn

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G-BOAF's Blog

Various stock additions including a B4'd TPO!

An aside from my Mainline Charter Train. The advantages of jetlag and waking up at stupidly early hours is the ability to play without guilt! Such was the situation this morning, when having arrived back home after two months, and catching up from a 22 hour journey and 9hr time difference, I took the opportunity to explore the goodies that had accumulated during my absence (From a railway perspective, this absence was poorly timed; Not only did I miss Bluebell 50, but various long awaited model
G-BOAF

G-BOAF

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Adam's part-time modelling

From: Take one Kitmaster Austerity...

The [almost] completion of a project which I started on the old forum and which has been continued over here, but now has a coat of paint. Obviously, it's a bit clean at the moment and the (prototypical) livery is somewhat garish but some work-in-progress shots are probably overdue.       The weathering has commenced but will stop short of the condition the prototype ended up in:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/52467480@N08/6454506387/in/set-72157628278328931/lightbox/   You'd never k
Adam

Adam

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Whitemarsh Yard

That's funny, the damage doesn't look as bad from out here...

Bolstered by a cup of coffee, I thought it was better to attack the single slip before I chickened out. Inspecting Man was less than impressed:     I should point out the rationale for doing this - the single slip really doesn't make much sense for the layout as it is, and if I'm going to be operating it on my own for a two day show I think it's worth some pain and delay now to make the operation as simple and sensible as possible. With a double slip, I can bring trains in on the correct li
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Glasburgh Loco Depot 1981 (Tay Bridge)

Depot floor looking better

After much sanding etc and the beginning of some weathering things are beginning to look better. Much happier with this than what was there before. took the opportunity to change the lights inside two of the sheds as well. The interior lighting shows up the inspection pits better. they are now ready for internal detailing when funds allow.
Tay Bridge

Tay Bridge

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"The Caley" BREL Glasgow Works (1974-79)

4. The Carriage Shop - More Prototype Photo's

Work progresses slowly on the main baseboard, with the track cut to (rough) size - waiting a decision on the traverser! All of the baseboard surrounding the track and pits has been raised to (almost) rail level using 3.5mm cork. Pictures later in the week once I've more "features" to point out however in the interim; The following couple of photographs were obtained from the original photographer (with thanks to Mr Barr) and were of particular interest to me having been taken around my time
Bob Reid

Bob Reid

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2mm Random Ramblings

A Dip into the Archives

Tracklaying is progressing very slowly at the moment (too many distractions on my part rather than any fault of the Easitrac system), so rather than boring everyone with even more photos of half-finished turnouts, I thought I'd find something else to blog.   Having a tidy-up of my folders and files on the computer at the weekend, I came across a photo of a North Eastern Railway brake van that I took a few years ago. The van is one of the very few wagons I can claim to have finished, and I was
2mm Andy

2mm Andy

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Is this a valid excuse not to model?

Hello The summer holiday away from my modelling desk has caught up with me and although I have finally sorted the front windows (hopefully!) things have slowed down to a very very slow pace.   I do have one excuse though, it all happened yesterday and I am still smiling because of it.....   Some of you might be aware of THIS POST I made a (short) while ago. This was the result of myself and a friend going over to the railway to see a pannier tank being 'delivered', we were kindly invited o
-missy-

-missy-

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grandborough

track plan and more history

In the 1800's the midland saw a chance for some well earned custom with a feeder line from the small market town of Grandbrough to Rugby an act of Parly was passed and the line build .a couple of years later the GWR got together with the Midland to travel the opposite way. After a few back handers The GWR was allowed to make use of the bay platform to the south of the Midland station .    
nigelb

nigelb

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grandborough

in the begining

After many years away from rail way modelling, and now having space for a simple N guage terminus layout in my ' compact flat in W London' a start was made. After a few weeks of on off work the un scale ness of code 80 track became aparent!! ALLLLL Stop an investment in Templot soft ware http://www.templot.com/ was made and a disign started.   The layout will be 2mm fine scale branch line terminus '' some where in South Warwickshire'' and be a LMS station with a GWR branch to add s
nigelb

nigelb

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noctilux2's Blog

Kidmore Yard Micro N

Additional pictures have now been added on the construction of my current N Gauge layout, Kidmore Yard. These ,& other N Gauge micro layouts, may be seen at Kidmorengauge.weebly.com
noctilux2

noctilux2

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shanks522's Blog

Fueling point

Hello, Its been a few weeks so i thought i would give a small update, Had a clear out of some of my older locos which dont quite fit in the era i am modelling, but in doing so i bought two new ones whilst using a well known auction site. first off is 66200 in EWS and then 60006 in British steel blue, got the pair for a 100 quid, very pleased with both. The fueling point is pretty much complete now, needs a few more people, vans etc and some weathering but i'm quite pleased with the overall r
shanks522

shanks522

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chriswild's Blog

JMA's & KIA's in OO - some progress

The JMA's i've been working on for some time on and off have reached this stage. This wagon still needs three thin vertical stripes of blue adding, where it was welded and repainted along the lines of the hopper partitions, the NP logos have been painted out, with little care, as per the prototype. They also need some weathering, though not too much as the prototype seems to stay fairly clean. These wagons have hit the buffers at the mo, the bogies, which in look are a reasonable represent
chriswild

chriswild

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Hythe Parkway Blog

Hythe Parkway - In Railway Modeller

Hi,   Not much of a entry I'm afraid   As some of you may know Hythe Parkway is currently featured in the current issue (September 2010) of Railway Modeller. [plug mode on] It now on sale [plug mode off]   (In my best monty python voice) Now for something completely different!:   We have made 3 out of the 4 points to work, this is using a manual system instead of point motors.   This works by a dowel going from the point and the baseboard edge with a knob on the end with a wire going
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

chimneys galore

Thanks for all the kind comments to my last Blog entry.   Having had my two nephews (4 and 7) and their mum stopping with us for the last week the opportunities for modelling have been limited.   Anyway with them packed off back to Leeds, I've been catching up by mass producing chimneys and roofing the central portion of the hotel. The roof has been made as a separate unit so that it can be lifted off to allow me access to the building to finish making all those windows. I've installed some
rovex

rovex

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Grahame's dining room table

A few things on the go..............

Despite being quiet on updating this blog I have been fiddling with a few modelling projects, including making a 2001: moon bus plastic kit, and have a few railway things on the go......   The coaling tower is complete and I now need to decide what to do with it. Keep it, sell it...... umm, err,   I've acquired some etched bits from Shawplan for the class 50 upgrade so a little work has been done on that. But I now realise that I need a new chassis as I can't find the original and have bee
grahame

grahame

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Somewhere in Germany

Red double deckers

Amongst the releases promoted by Piko this year, some older models cascaded from Classic to Hobby range caught my eye. These were the refurbished ex-DR double deck coaches in traffic red. This shuffling was accompanied of a RRP reduction from Eur93.49 to 39.99 in the case of driving car, and from 69.99 to 29.99 for the all 2nd. Previously these coaches has only been available in the Hobby range as (innacurate) Metronom examples. With such a saving, some economies were surely inevitable. Nev
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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Will's workbench

60014: Underframe

I made a start on the underframe today. The more I look at detail pictures, the more I marvel at Hornby's tooling - there's really nothing missing.     The first step, as seen above, was to paint the entire underframe with Tamiya Nato Black, which is a useful not-quite black and has a very flat finish which should help the powders stick. It also means that because my finish is based on an out of the bottle colour, it's easy to paint out mistakes.   Then I went looking for pictures - I fou
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

"Three bowls of Spaghetti" and "The Blue Whale"

'What on earth?' I hear you ask! Just a couple quotes which arose today which made me laugh that seemed relevant. Allow me to explain...   JohnDMJ kindly volunteered to help do the wiring for the layout. (He's good at this kind of thing you see). Now, let's be honest here - before today I had very little knowledge about wiring so having someone else do it and teach me how to do it was fantastic!   Watching out for 'Two-ton-tin-openers' (i.e. cattle) around the New Forest roads, John prompt
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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