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The Somerset & Dorset Railway by Derek Phillips on Irwell press, has some good photos plus a track plan from 1921 and signal diagram.

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.

Went down to Blandford in October. Popped into the museum to have a look at this wonderful layout, very nicely done indeed.

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.

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.

Nothing to add to the thread really, but went to the Bluebell last week and saw one of my favourite spam cans.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I like the unhappy face chalked on the front right side buffer. Or is that just a trick of the light.

Cheers. It's taking me a while.

A couple of nice pictures of Sturminster Newton goods yard in the new Somerset & Dorset Railway book by Derek Phillips. Also, a tantalizing glimpse of the goods shed at Shillingstone as well. The photos of Stur do not shed any more light on the photo above, unfortunately, just a glimpse of the southern end.

Off on another photography trip to Dorset next week, thought I would post up another from last year's trip. Wonderful brickwork on this one, just north of Gains Cross. So many of these structures remain well-preserved, a delight to see.

Ordered. Looking forward to seeing this. Thanks.

Stunning.

I did as much research as I could on Stur, without seeing a photo the closest I could see was the model shed in SN museum. The door to the office had steps each side. This was my attempt, have no idea how accurate the museum model is. The trees behind and the bank to the right look a close match. I would love that to be Stur. The sun direction would make that late afternoon / early evening.

You can barely see the 0.3 mm difference. I use Peco bullhead flexi track in 16.5 mm and make the difference on the last sleeper as it meets the turnout. You can't really see it but the 1 mm flange ways look really good.

That's a good tip. Thanks.

00sf. Looks really good, I have not had a problem with modern RTR and 1 mm flange ways in 00sf. Get into Templot, it is a thing of beauty.