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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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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

Judith Edge Steelman Royale bonnet.

A former is soldered onto the cab front and the cab is then greased and bolted to the footplate, as is the front baseplate. The bonnet sides are then soldered to the cab front and the base after riveting the bottom edge. The bonnet front/radiater is attached at this stage. It is laminated from 2 layers similar to the fuel tank rear except that it's larger and more delicate. So I had the bright idea of cutting it from the fret with a piercing saw which just bent it (my fault!). I straightened
halfwit

halfwit

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Glasburgh Loco Depot 1981 (Tay Bridge)

layout operation DCC

I took the decision to sell off a lot of stock and re equip the new layout with BR blue era stock. This was what we grew up with living in Monifieth (which is on the main East Coast Line between Dundee and Aberdeen) I spent many days travelling on trains between Arbraoth and Edinburgh using a handy mini rover ticket which cost ??6.50 for 1 week unlimited travel! It also included Perth. My brother (taybridge) has also posted his layout Glasgow George Square on this site which is of a similar time
Tay Bridge

Tay Bridge

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Glasburgh Loco Depot 1981 (Tay Bridge)

Layout basics- Why and where.

Hi all   Finally started to transfer my entries from old site. Will start with a bit of history. Following a house move to a smaller house I lost my 'shed' and have only got one side of a spare bedroom to work on. There were further conditions applied by 'the Planning Department' (wife) that it had to look a bit like furniture and leave the room available for guest use (kids!). The layout base is thus on top of a series of clothes drawers down one side of the room. Measures approx 9.5 feet b
Tay Bridge

Tay Bridge

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Stroudie's Blog

RHTT - with lights!

Finished the basic construction phase of building a Network Rail RHTT, with the added extra of DCC lighting.     I've put a full summary of sources etc on my website, here.
Stroudie

Stroudie

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Stock Storage Boxes for Mk3s

My usual stock storage boxes are formed from box files with foam inserts, with one box holding a single rake of stock. Annoyingly these will only hold 6 Mk3 coaches, meaning that a rake of Mk3s has to be split over 2 boxes. Yesterday I found a great solution which best of all was free! Wine crates. Best of all they come full of wine (though sadly you have to pay for that bit!)   The crates that I am using (6 bottle), will each hold 2 full HST rakes of 8 Mk3s and a pair of powercars lie
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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The Railways of Borsetshire

Premise for a fantasy

I have followed The Archers since being introduced to it by my girlfriend, now my wife, over 25 years ago. For all its crazy plot lines it keeps a subtle foothold in real geography and relates to real world events in a way TV can never do. For the uninitiated, the action takes place in the imaginary county of Borsetshire. This occupies the physical area of East Worcestershire, West Warwickshire and North Gloucestershire, but in a different time-space continuum.   There is even a map of the
28XX

28XX

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barrowroad's Blog

Assembly of Office, Mess & Store

Time to put the building together...   Here are the front and side elevations in their painted state with the glazing and doors added.{non available for the end elevation - I must contact the supplier}       The internal structure is made from 2mm mdf, slotted together and glued. I have given the viewable internal walls a coat of grey primer.     The corners of the walls are mitred together at 45 deg... here is a shot especiall for Missy - to show the corner joint.     The ro
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - Lima Body Ready to go Blue

Lima body is all primed and ready for the blue paint       I now need to get the Dapol/A1 body to the same state of readiness   Once the blue paint is on I have a decision to make. Should I nick the nice Craftsman etched whiskers and side stripes for my Dapol/Bachmann/A1 version and use the Fox transfers on the Lima/Craftsman one? :icon_e_confused:   Also, how am I going to stick the etches on? I could do with some kind of slow setting superglue .......
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Sometimes it just doesnt go right...

Hello   I thought this was worth posting...   After flicking through my books to see if I could find out a bit more about the goods sheds on the railway I found out that the goods sheds were raised to platform level themselves and didnt sit on a platform (if that makes sense) so I tried to add the extra bit to the bottom of the shed without much luck. The only was to sort this is to strip things back to a bare shell and redo most of it.     The thing is its annoying, yes but these thin
-missy-

-missy-

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph coal drops - a bit more progress (again)

Apologies to those who managed to find this update and request for help in the history during the recent posting problems, but here it is again. Better luck this time?       A bit more progress with the coal drops, this week.   For the first time since before Christmas, I've been able to access the workshop and trial fit the coal drop deck with the rails attached. Fortunately, the alignment with the track already fixed either end was very good, although a packing shim (.020" plasticard) wa
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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Markmiller2008's Blog

Further Test Picces

Hi All   Had another running session the other day and managed to work out how to top and tail my 31's on the NR test train so they both respond the same!     Variety of EWS Traction Sat on the Depot     47769 Working a empty charter stock out of the yard     31452 about to depart with 2Q08 TyseleyTMD-DerbyRTC Network Rail Test Train with 31105 on the rear   And Last but not least my Finished Patch work OBA Wagon.  
Markmiller2008

Markmiller2008

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

VSOE: Type K Pullmans

Having come up against something of a brick wall with the work on my 1951 U stock, and not having the funds to start buying up the kits for the 1935 D stock, I've gone back to working on the K stock.   As mentioned before this includes 1928 built Parlours Lucille and Zena, kitchen Ione and the 1925 Ibis (rebuilt in '28 to a similar design).   Lucille, Zena and Ione are all converted using the Comet sides, unfortunately though their design they have left off the raised beading (so that the
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Bomp's Blog

Power cut on the railway!

For the first time I tried my HST power car (only one - I'm still sorting the lights on the dummy) yesterday. On DC the powered car copes with 8 Lima Mk IIIs up my (stupidly steep) hills with barely a murmur. However, with the chip fitted, it keeps on cutting out. Only on the hill, though. It's fine on the level. Am I overworking it? When I get back from work tonight, or more likely in the morning or afternoon before work tomorrow, I'll try it with a gradually diminishing load and see wher
Bomp

Bomp

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Clan Line's Tender

Dont you just hate it when you spend absolutely ages looking for a photo, and then when you find it realise that theres a lot more work to do....   Came across this photo last night, http://www.jason-cottage.fotopic.net/p51561520.html, which gives a pretty clear view of the top of the tender. In the process confirming what I was afraid of that the recess cut into the back of the tender does have an open top (all be it with a grill over the top). The problem is that with a thick sided plast
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Netherton Junction

gah!

Due to the time i've spent doing nothing here, i've changed my mind. It will be blowers green station in 1964, just before it closed, becaause that way i get to use the interesting diesels, light freight and anyway, the station has everything i wanted in a layout. I've translated it into a trackplan, and it looks ok. but It would help if anyone had a picture of the whole station rather than just the one of the junction or the one of the far ends of the platforms. Also, were there three platforms
Dudley Dodger

Dudley Dodger

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N gauge modern image

66098 arrives.

This afternoon the dhl man came and deliverd my hattons package and inside was my lastest loco ews 66098. I ran it for 10mins to make sure it was ok no problems to report it is fantastic! Now work begins im not a fan of locos straight from the box i like weatherd engines and trying to fit all the tiny name plates and pipe work! so the front coupling was taken off and all the tiny pipe work laid out in front of me 10mins later it was done and to me it has made abig improvement others might not ag
shreives

shreives

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Gas towers

colours

I purchased a Model Power kit of a gulf gas tower which is european and it is moulded in blue and white plastic, i was wondering if anyone knew what colours would be soutable for UK gas towers because i have searched google and could not find any images to work from.   thanks Matt
matt66701

matt66701

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The Saltney Railway

Gotta see something move!

After seeing nothing move for quite a while we decided to up the pace a little (which with hindsight was a little ill advised). Much sawing, drilling and er...screwing went on into the wee small hours and after a week or so we were fastening the last bits of the main line baseboards. You can see how strong the boards are as Steve had to clamber into the corner to add the last bits! Another few days of painting tidying and track laying and our first train was trundling round. The honours went
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Etched Pixels Workbench

Some updates now the blogs are back

Good to see rmweb slowly recovering   In the meantime I've mostly decalled the 02     and am also part way through painting and decalling a Carl Peplow resin 47 shell I had lurking in a drawer.     and the Maunsell coach project is slowly getting there. This is a test build with the underframe, sides ends and roof. Couple of small errors to fix on the underframe etches but nothing serious. Need to fit the bogies, underframe and roof vents next, see how it looks.  
Etched Pixels

Etched Pixels

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barrowroad's Blog

Office, Mess & Stores Walls

I have now coloured the walls using my favoured method with coloured crayons. The Berol Karisma ones are no longer available so I have substituted some from the Faber Castell range which have proved to be better.         The building substructure is now assembled and I will add these walls to it shortly.
barrowroad

barrowroad

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matt66701's Blog

hornby Live steam

I have a layout running two separate loops which are fed from the same common return and two other separate feeds, and I was wondering if any one knew if two live steam controllers would work using the same common return, i dont really want to try it and end up blowing up two live steam locos and two conntrollers.   thanks Matt
matt66701

matt66701

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