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  1. Hi Steve, I think your ideas to re-use your late Dad's items is great and hope you manage to build something fitting. I believe the station building is actually modelled on a SMJ railway one, possibly Byfield or similar. There were plans in an old Railway Modeller magazine in about 1968/69 from memory. Alan.
  2. Not posted for a while, couple of recent pics below.
  3. Does anyone know if the Sydenham laser cut station shown last week is available as a kit?
  4. Don't forget you can catch Wilne Lane Yard at the Olney show tomorrow.
  5. Looking forward to meeting you in Olney.
  6. Wilne Lane will be at The Silverfox DCC exhibition in Milton Keynes on August 19th. Drop by and say hello if you are visiting.
  7. I'm not doing many but next one is Sunday, March 5th at the Chesham show.
  8. Thanks to all for the positive feedback today. We had a good time with Wilne Lane Yard.
  9. I will be exhibiting Wilne Lane Yard at the Princes Risborough Exhibition this Saturday. Come and say hello if you are visiting.
  10. I also think the line at the front adds more to the layout than the original plan.
  11. Ray, I am aware that Slater's do both in embossed plastic sheets: S0434 4mm space planked sheets (planks are 4mm wide) and S0437 7mm scale corrugated sheet.
  12. Ray, I think lowering the building somewhat is the right thing to do. I also wonder if you would be better cladding the walls to give either a wood planked effect or corrugated iron to reflect the light railway status.
  13. I picked one up from Magazine Heaven at Rushden Lakes on Thursday. Almost walked off empty handed when there was no copies with the rest of the model railway magazines on offer. I just decided to have a quick look at the "real" railways section on the other side of the store and spotted about half a dozen copies. The assistant seemed uninterested when I pointed out they were in the wrong section though.
  14. Newly constructed pipe wagon kit is shunted. Parkside kit which had been residing in the cupboard for a few years.
  15. "I'm sure that tree wasn't here when we passed earlier".
  16. I thought it was an enjoyable show at a great venue with ample parking.
  17. Still awaiting weathering and crew, newly completed 1F shunts the yard today.
  18. Hi James, Some good progress. Can you advise where the window on the goods shed was from please? Thanks.
  19. What about a low (stone) embankment wall at the lower level with a slope of grass banking up from the top of that?
  20. Just a few pics to replace some of the missing ones following the recent outage.
  21. James, It is possible to couple anywhere as the force of the hooks pushes each away when they are pushed together. In practice though you will have uncoupled over a magnet so one hook is normally held down. One advantage is that it is possible to vertically lift a vehicle by hand from a train when in the fiddle yard for example. Also if you have long trains the couplings act like 3 links in that each vehicle picks up in turn when pulling away.
  22. Hi Mark, Not done much on the layout for some time now. Lost the modelling mojo for a while but have just picked up building the 1F kit again. I have plans to add a couple of small trees on the embankment at some point. Not thought about a video, maybe give it a go but my phone camera is not up to much. All the best.
  23. Thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware of their kits. I model in O Gauge and have had a look at their Ebay shop. Some potentially useful kits on there.
  24. I do like the angled window surrounds.
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