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It's about 1.5/2km, depending how quick you walk, say 25 minutes. There is a bus that comes up from town, I think it wears the number 28 and runs half hourly. Bus timetables though are a bit of a mystery to me, so best double check.
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Thanks Ian and since you're quite local, forgive me a shameless plug for Exmoor Rail 2024 - if you fancy a day trip to Minehead on 1 June. 😀 Cheers, Rob.
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Hello Everyone, I figured it was high time I introduced myself - my name is Rob and I am an aspiring railway model maker. As in, as much as I would like to have my own layout etc., all the usual life things seem to conspire to hinder my progress. I have several little projects on the go, but no real progress. I've come back to the hobby after a 30+ year hiatus and still have a very old white metal Baby Deltic kit to finish off, the one that warped in every conceivable direction. Maybe I shouldn't have hung onto it, but it is kind of sentimental. Being based in Minehead, I can be found most Wednesday evenings hanging out with the Exmoor Coast Railway Modellers, which is where I get to at least have a go at this varied hobby. I have managed to dabble a little over the last few years, building short lengths of EM and P4 trackwork including turnouts to test a couple of conversions to each. Mostly it all worked (best to ignore the smoking Lima 33) and ultimately I concluded EM is for me. Probably. Tinkered a bit with MERG DCC and put Zimo decoders in a couple of locos to get a feel for it, but probably won't go with DCC immediately. Whatever layout I build is going to be quite small, a couple or three metres of scenery kind of thing. If you look too hard, you will see I have been a largely silent RMWeb member for a while, just dipping in occasionally. There is a lot of interesting and valuable material amassed here and thank you to everyone who has contributed to it, I have managed to waste hours reading through it.
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Exmoor Rail 2024 is on Saturday 1 June 2022 in Minehead at the local college. Recently added to our list of exhibitors is Jim Allwood with his Apa based project, 2mm fine scale, "Bordesley North". As Jim says, he has shamelessly plagiarised "Apa Park", using an Ikea "Apa" toybox for this unusual micro-layout. Unusual, in that to the left of the fiddle yard is another micro-layout, previously a container terminal when it appeared at Warley in 2022, we've been told it may be something different by the time it arrives in Minehead! The main Exmoor Rail 2024 announcement can be found here: And for those of you that remember our attempts in 2022 to coax the Pacer to move. Yes, it lives! Looking forward to seeing all our exhibitors, traders and visitors, @exmoordave David & @robkRob
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untilThe Exmoor Coast Railway Modellers are proud to present our annual, 1-day exhibition, Exmoor Rail, on Saturday 1 June 2024 in Minehead. Over the years Exmoor Rail has built a reputation for quality layouts, traders & demonstrators. This year, Exmoor Rail will be on Saturday 1 June, 2024 from 10:00 through to 16:30, at The West Somerset College, Bircham Road, Minehead, TA24 6AY. Car parking at the venue is free and hot & cold refreshments and light meals will be available. Our local college is a modern building and the venue is all on the ground floor. Free car parking on-site is easily accessed from the A39 main road. Look for our "Train Show" signage on the A39 from either direction at Minehead and our yellow banner near the car park entrance. This is our group's 12th annual exhibition, the organisers have over 30 years experience arranging such events and have an excellent reputation for selecting high quality layouts, plus wide and varied trade support. The Exmoor Coast Railway Modellers hope you can join us in Minehead, on the edge of Exmoor, to help us make Exmoor Rail 2024 yet another quality, fun and friendly event. Entry is £7 adult, £3 under 16, £14 family (2 adults plus children under 16) and this year we will be accepting card payments. Layouts attending so far: Sturminster Newton by Gavin Collins - N scale, 1960s, BR Keane's Cove by Debbie McMillan - HO scale, 1930s, Santa Fe Woodlands by Steve Fackrell - OO scale, 1950-60s, BR(Southern) Ewe by Rob Gunstone - OO scale, early 1950's, BR Baytree Road by Chris Rix - OO scale, 1965-70, BR(W) Mill End by Chris Hill and Sam Clayton - O scale, whatever they feel like on the day Lockdown Wharf by John Long - OO scale, no set era, BR West & South Glenfile Whisky by John Davis - OO scale micro, 1960s, industrial Bodmin Moor by George Damerum - 7mm FS scale diorama, Era 5, Western, moody sky, ask George how he paints Great Snoring by the Plymouth North Road Railway Club - OO scale, 1946/7, LNER Abercynon Fach by Brian Tucker - OO scale, 1950-60s, Pontypridd Caerphilly and Newport Shobroke Road by David Vanstone - OO scale, modern, preserved Southern Railway Lower Exbury by Alison and David Barker - P4, 1952, BR(Southern) Kleine Albula by Nick Warren and Mervyn Kendall - HOm scale, Late 1990s, Rhatische Bahn, there's snow
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Keeping 26043 alive.....lets see what's under the dome....
robk commented on pheaton's blog entry in pheaton's Blog
This blog is one the most interesting reads I've come across. Well done and thanks for going to the trouble - blogging takes a surprising effort!
