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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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North Marsh Road - Eastern Region - BR Blue - OO

Progress update – well non really

My word how time flies and unfortunately modelling progress has not been made during this time.   I have spent a large part of my recent spare time working on home restoration work and my job has also taken up a lot more than just my basic hours, so with these two things added up, railway modelling has taken a very big back seat.   However, the repair work, plastering, woodwork, painting, wallpapering is now complete, the carpets are laid, the furniture back in place and one bedroom and ne
Jaggzuk

Jaggzuk

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Jon020's Workbench Blog

Further Deltic modifications - chassis dropped on bogies

Dear all. I finally got around to reducing the gap between the bogies and chassis on two of my deltics. I'v ebeen meanign to do this for a while and whilst a number of people have mentioned it, I could never find anything that showed how it was done... so here's how I did it. First picture shows a before shot... there is clearly a bit of a gap between the bottom of the brake lever and top face of the bogie. Whilst this allows the loco to be used on layouts with 2nd radius curves - my move to Co
Jon020

Jon020

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harkins77's Blog

Final height of upper boards decided on and fiddle yard laid out

Well I thought I would update on the progress I've got done today and it's been relaxing and fun even though I've had to get up once or twice from the floor as my legs have gone dead. The update is that I've made use of the 2 a1 sheets of 5mm foam board and I've used them to raise the upper level from 10mm high to 20mm high and I'm really pleased with the results. I tried it with just 1 board of 5mm on top of the already laid 10mm but it still didn't look right so I placed the 2nd board down an
harkins77

harkins77

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

July ramblings

Not a lot of modelling done over the past few months, the highlight begin the work on 50031. This has seen a little more progress with jon's cast side grills now fitted along with the new windscreens. Just need to drill out the new exhaust ports and it will be ready for painting in august.   The main event of the past month has been buying my first house (ok apartment), although it will not be finished being built until December it does mean that I know know how much space I have for a layou
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Best of British Haymarket Diesels

Fruit Machine Jackpot

Well, after the hectic postings of yesterday and my knee-jerk reaction to EE Type 3 feedback, there seems to be an unprecedented level of traffic to my mindless number-crunching, so here goes with one particular Haymarket Best of... that I was dreading, Class 24s. And it turns out to be as benign an allocation history as it's possible to get.   Every oral history of Waverley dieselization makes great fanfare of the same classes: Peaks, EE Type 4s and 'BRCWs,' probably because they were the us
'CHARD

'CHARD

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Meadow Lane, MSC Railway in P4

Yellow black and blue all over...

It's been a busy few weeks with work and mountainbiking but I've found time to progress my Judith Edge Sentinel - and couldn't resist 'semi finishing' one side to get a feel for what it would look like...   I often find that doing something like this (like with the Pacer) eggs me on in some way to finish... the end is in sight and it's looking good! So what steps to get us this far...   Well primed, then the yellow (which was faded with a touch of white), then masked, then the blue (again
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Avonwick South Devon in 2mm (Kris' Blog)

Less than 8 hours muddling time to go..... panic time!

Twas the night before Christmas GJLC and all was quiet. Well that's not true for a start. Planned modelling time yesterday evaporated so today has been designated a day for muddling testing and generally trying to get everything done.   Plus points   The layout is up and test running has commenced - minor issues have been tweaked and most of the track is clean. The locos seem to work! Fingers crossed. Most of the points still switch - soldering iron is out to attack the problem one.   M
Kris

Kris

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Best of British Haymarket Diesels

More marauding Celtic Co-Cos in the Central Belt

For completeness, here is some additional info about tractoring's infancy at the sixty-something depots, Polmadie having a massive early input but action concentrating on Eastfield in 1972. Obviously it's Celtic in the genealogical sense, not the football one, in which I have no interest and even less knowledge.   I'm keeping the Haymarket contingent in here - amazingly the drive to rid the Fife coalfield of steam meant that 64B started off as a major player. We barely associate HA with the
'CHARD

'CHARD

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The Saltney Railway

Pie in the Sky(trex)

Just a quick update on the Skytrex “L&Y style†signalbox kit.     Looks more like an RSCo. Box as supplied to the LYR.     Seems to be fitting together ok but I’ve had to shorten the cast whitemetal handrails for the staircase by about 5mm.     The interior kit is (as usual) a bit Great Westerny so I’ll use the lever frame but scratchbuild the rest   I think it’ll look suitably Lanky-ish when its done and painted.      
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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SNCF stephen's Blog

24 hours of progress on a new Micro Layout!

I was about to make a start on the fiddle yard extension to Nevic Entier when I noticed that I had enough materials to construct a reasonable sized shunting plank. This made me change my plans somewhat considerably. A new micro layout would give me somewhere to take pictures of stock and also allow me to finally use all those buses my dad purchased for me.   So last night I used the scraps of wood I had left over to form a pretty crude baseboard and this morning I layed the track, created the
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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Best of British Haymarket Diesels

Lesser spotted Borders tractors

Possibly the least-photographed and recorded class based at 64B to feature in Waverley route (re)collections. A dozen strong for the majority of the Waverley's diesel era, the tractor fleet remains elusive, despite Neil Caplan attesting to their late mastery of the route in the Railway World WR Special (Ian Allan 1985).   However, there is probably a solid explanation for this. The Clayton fleet was still retained in quantity until inroads were made during '68, matched to a degree with ro
'CHARD

'CHARD

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RJRs Branch Lines

The coach has a roof !

This afternoon I got home earlier than planned so i used the time to block up and sand the roof section with some Balsa wood           This method was a lot quicker than the one I used to make the loco roof !!!   John
johnteal

johnteal

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Best of British Haymarket Diesels

The 64B Nine - Brush with standardization

Some observers have pointed to the dying years of the route, when its life was literally ebbing away, as painfully exciting times, when nearly new Brush Type 4 locos (less than two years old when the writing was on the wall in February '67) and fellow Co-Co, EE Type 3s, made an impact. BR's 'Standard Type 4' certainly proved itself more than capable on the line's legendary climbs, perhaps even more so than the Peaks with which the line is inseparably associated in folklore. The locos concerned
'CHARD

'CHARD

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Best of British Haymarket Diesels

19 x Sixteen Wheelers - Haymarket's Type 4 Homies

When I've got this entry down I can put the instructions to the central-heating boiler away, because the core details are written on the back of its warranty envelope - along with the addresses of some RMWebbers! - is that you???!!!!   Haymarket became synonymous with the EE Type 4 over two decades' faithful service, it received 19 examples from new. Displacing A4s and the like from the Aberdeen expresses was just one of their party-pieces. On the Waverley Route, they established themselves
'CHARD

'CHARD

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Best of British Haymarket Diesels

The Magnificent (64B) Seven - BR Sulzer Type 2

Drafted-in to replace yet more steam on local colliery and branch trips, Haymarket got its first real taste of the Class 24's younger, bigger sisters in December '66 with the arrival of D7602-7608 from Barrow Hill.   These displacements followed their Clayton shedmates' transfer (effectively to the Millerhill subshed) by a couple of months, giving an instant north Derbyshire feel to Lothian freight. I can't even imagine what that might have been like.   D7602 D7603 D7604 D7605 D7606
'CHARD

'CHARD

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Best of British Haymarket Diesels

Easing in gently: 64B choppers

For far longer than I'd care to mention, the grubby recesses of my existence have been dedicated to establishing what traction worked the Waverley Route. Obviously this process went warp-speed with photo-sharing sites and this forum literally opening up a new vista of data that, even five years ago, who'd have believed existed out there. Take a bow all you photographers and chroniclers of legend who kept hold of your collections, no matter how fragmented or ill-structured for 40-plus years, in
'CHARD

'CHARD

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The Saltney Railway

Compounding the problem

Steve’s now done his Bedford TK coal lorry and added some rather nice little coal sacks. These are made from some old material, and filled with yer actual coal.   Note the empty sacks folded and weighed down with a 5lb weight.   I’ll do some transfers for the doors (T. Watkins I think) as soon as Steve gives me some details.     As has been pointed out, our yard footbridge wasn’t quite right so Steve’s set to with fixing that. I think this arrangement should be ok once the rest
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Merg based electrickery

Having joined the MERG at Biggleswade I went down to their meeting at Keen House a couple of weekends ago. Very pleasant day out, welcoming bunch of people and an interesting talk on computer control. I purchased a number of kits including the servo controllers and some of the CBUS modules designed for accessory control. Several hours with a soldering iron later and we have the CBUS playground featuring a number of modules designed to test and develop some ideas on how it might work on a layout.
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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coombe junction - moorswater

coombe junction - Bits and Bobs...

Update - As in the UK, its been very hot here of late and there has been little enthusiasm to plug in the soldering iron and complete the turnout, however the last two evenings have seen a bit more progress.   First of all, during my periodic scans on EBay to see if I can find anything related to Coombe and Moorswater, I managed to find the two items depicted below, duly won and received. Steam days 2009 had a series of colour shots of the Looe branch and whilst pre diesel it does have some go
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

Biro sketches

Well, I don't like blog posts without photos and I haven't made any progress so I thought I'd wait until I had something vaguely worth blogging about and that might make for some discussion or helpful comments before posting. So here we go - and it's about time I got my teeth into this project...   Sketch 1 Sketch 2   One of these sketches you've seen before, but the other one (sketch 2) you won't have. It is based on the real prototype and follows it closely looking towards the west. T
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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Pugsley's Workbench

Done it 2! (well, sort of) - now with better pic.

Following on from the post the other day, I've managed to get a better picture with the help of a little Klear, water just wasn't working properly. I've also spent another couple of hours on this effect this evening (in the same place) and I think it's pretty much there now. (apologies for the slightly blurry photo)     Other things are moving with the project as well, the artwork for the bogies was finalised over the weekend and the etching company think that they will have it done tow
Pugsley

Pugsley

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Gauge Irregularities

Sunny Saturday Session

To open my blog I would like to post a video recently produced, displaying the fun recently had at a running session held by my local model club - Berkshire Area Group.     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhkbd3Jl860     www.bagladdies.com
lucazone

lucazone

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Grahame's dining room table

New N'spirations and 2mm Anniversary Expo

I pleased to report that the second issue of my exclusive magazine has come back from the printers. I'm impressed and pleased with the quality and finish, although there is one little problem - some reversed out text on two small coloured panels didn't come out. Fortunately they're small and don't detract from the content; one was about ordering the first issue (on page 2) and the other is a photo caption (on page 19). I've reported it to the printers but to be quite honest there's little they c
grahame

grahame

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