GWR-Fanatic

Back on RM Web after a long absense, nothing wrong, it's just I've had very little to report regarding my layout Fiddler's End, and have begun building a new OO Gauge layout with friends at the Tonbridge Model Railway Club.

My Motto: Once a GWR Enthusiast, always a GWR Enthusiast, though am open to appreciating other companies in moderation.

My Motto: Once a GWR Enthusiast, always a GWR Enthusiast, though am open to appreciating other companies in moderation.

Gave the layout a run, apart from one or two locos that need a little tlc, it's looking pretty good, now I need to concentrate on getting it ready for exhibition in March.

Planning to give the layout a proper test run again at some point, just to make sure that every thing is functioning properly, have a few bits to repair also, nothing major, just a few levers for the manually controlled points (they work fine without them but can't keep pulling on the wire in the tube need to put the pull bar back onto the slider)

At last I have an LMS Black 5 in my collection!

Is it too early to write a list for the items I want to get at the N-Gauge show at Leamington Spa in September? Nah... never too early!

Well, I have a Hall and a Castle, but what I would really like is a City.

Ah the joys of railway modelling... what can be sweeter than spending a bank holiday weekend participating in such pleasurable activity? Well... that's for me to know, and for you to look forward to when I post a topic thread about it later on during the weekend! Watch this space! Oh and it is totally railway related.

You know what... I decided to take down my only just put up avatar, and put up a new one I brought together with a little computer magic.

Just a whim really, but I decided to change my Avatar picture to one of my railway heroes, G. J. Churchward.

What an absolutely empty weekend it's been for me with no RM-Web! Absolutely fantastic to see it back online! I tip my hat (well I would if I had one) to the people who worked hard to get it back online!

Though predominately a GWR enthusiast, I do have interests in other railways. LMS in particular, due to the Stanier connection.

Was trawling through railway related videos on Youtube recently, when I came across a wonderful archive peice from 1935 celebrating 100 years of the GWR, where it recreates the companies creation and construction of the route from London to Bristol.

Ok so this isn't railway related at all, but I've discovered that RM-Web works much quicker and more efficiently through Google Chrome. Much more reliable, does not freeze either.

Working on my first ever kit at the moment... a GWR 20ton Coal Truck (nicknamed "Poles" after Sir Felix Pole who was General Manager at the time they were made), unfortunately in my moment of somewhat absentmindedness, I have forgotten to take photographs of the construction stage, and the first stages of painting! I will aim to post photos of the finished version of course, and take photos of start to finish of the next kits I purchase and construct. Cheers!

Oh to nick a slogan and shamelessly adapt it... here I go anyway... The future's bright, the future's N gauge! (See what I did there? )

Am considering future projects at the moment, I have one GWR 20ton truck to construct from Parkside Dundas in N Gauge and then I might get the taste for kits and who knows, maybe one day, I'll scratch build something of my own!

Had a very enjoyable day at the London Transport Museum's Acton Town depot, Saw a couple of very nice London Transport layouts whilst there, and of course some of the heritage stock that is not part of the main museum in Covent Garden.

Had a very enjoyable day at the London Transport Museum's Acton Town depot, Saw a couple of very nice London Transport layouts whilst there, and of course some of the heritage stock that is not part of the main museum in Covent Garden.

Currently reading the Middleton Press books that I own, am reading Didcot to Swindon at the moment, will move on from that to the book entitled Swindon to Bristol. If you have never had opportunity to view a Middleton Press publication, I recommend them, they are excellent source material for the planning stages of a layout.

Currently reading the Middleton Press books that I own, am reading Didcot to Swindon at the moment, will move on from that to the book entitled Swindon to Bristol. If you have never had opportunity to view a Middleton Press publication, I recommend them, they are excellent source material for the planning stages of a layout.

I highly recommend a very good book recently brought out, entitled "Fowlers Fury" it's a most interesting book about a somewhat enigmatic experimental locomotive of the LMS.

I am really hoping that one day there will be an N gauge version of City of Truro.