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    Drifting through the Stour valley and its tributaries, mainly the mighty river Tarrant.
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    Choo choos, beer and easy times. Anglo Saxon settlements, did I mention beer?

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  1. The Somerset & Dorset Railway by Derek Phillips on Irwell press, has some good photos plus a track plan from 1921 and signal diagram.
  2. I think with the new Peco bullhead track offering a greater scale accuracy to newbie modelers,(like myself), has opened the door for track building, With most turn out kits now having the thicker sleepers, a lot of different products work together nicely. You can build most of a layout with the Peco flexi and standard points, with some nice curved point kits to add interest.
  3. Went down to Blandford in October. Popped into the museum to have a look at this wonderful layout, very nicely done indeed.
  4. Really nice work. I got inspired to make track from your posts, made a catch point a while back, I think it turned out ok.
  5. I have been toying with the idea of starting an 0 gauge layout for some time now, today I pre ordered the new Lionheart 3MT 82030.

    Planning on doing the classic Inglenook Sidings Alan Wright 5-3-3 using Dapol late crest wagons, plan to use Peco bullhead track and turnouts.

    Hoping I can squeeze it into a 6 foot space.

     

    What have I started?

     

    Will start a thread about it next year.

     

    Take care.

  6. Seems like you are going to build another milk truck, like the one you sent me a couple of years ago. Here it is in pride of place near Stourpaine.
  7. Nothing to add to the thread really, but went to the Bluebell last week and saw one of my favourite spam cans.
  8. Another not quite realistic pic of my Stourpaine and Durweston halt. I wish I could use photoshop to replace the plasterboard sky with a nice cloudy image. This was one of the first pictures I took of it while it was under construction. Wrong loco, wrong coaches but I like the look of the train, lucky shot that I have never managed to repeat.
  9. I posted a while back that I disconnected the wires for the tender pickups, the loco has been running fine ever since just using the loco ones. I would like to add that the Hornby 8F is now one of my favorite locos, it runs an absolute dream, even through my clunky hand made points, a real jem.
  10. Waiting for the loft to warm up and looking forward to start modelling again. The next part I want to crack on with is Salisbury street bridge and the embankments leading up to it. Took some photos last summer as a guide.
  11. Not a realistic photo but, I spent quite some time sloping the farmland into the embankment on my Stourpaine and Durweston halt layout. The results are quite pleasing but, it takes up a lot of space.
  12. I miss the days of Jack Hargreaves and old country. A friend of mine used to live in a caravan like that on the Shillingstone station site back in the 1980s. He tells me it was wonderful, never saw a person at the weekends and he used to pick wild freshwater mussels out of the Stour.
  13. Wow, what's happened to this place? Pop up ads everywhere that I guess no one needs. Really awful.

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      down the sdjr

      Thanks, Ian.

       

      I have heard friends mention this browser before, will give it a try.

       

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      @ISW

       

      On Brave now, problem solved. Thank you very much.

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      Glad it helped. You'll also find that watching YouTube is vastly improved, as there are no adverts to interrupt ...

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  14. trying to make his way home.

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      Little known fact, that the hooters had a model of Philadelphia in 00-sf, sometime in the 80s.

  15. Thanks Lez, Over the last 8 months I went back to oo/oosf to hone my turnout building skills. Bought a nice variable temp soldering iron, vee and switch-blade jigs from the EMGS, to be honest I have really enjoyed it. Been bothering folk on the templot / handbuilt track forum, and I think I am ready to start again on the EM track. I have been busy converting some wagons to EM, some are just a straight swap of wheel sets and some require a bit more filing, cutting than others. Thanks again. Paul.
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