Dave Searle

Hi,

I paid for a King deposit by Barclaycard and raised a Section 75 claim with them simply by messaging them with the transaction details, the fact that DJM were now in receivership and that I hadn't received anything. They came back within 24 hours with a message saying they had credited my account while they made further enquiries and asked me to retain copies of any relevant documentation, should they need to see them.

Very impressed, I hope others have as straightforward process to get their refunds.

Cheers,

Dave

This weekend we're off to the Great Central Model Event. Do drop by.

Cheers,

Dave

I did some experiments with Chinchilla dust and Aquarium sand for Lewes.

We used a mix of Carrs 2mm light grey ballast and Chinchilla dust on Hinksey Yard for ballasting and plain Chinchilla dust in the ballast wagons.

Cheers,

Dave

This coming Saturday we're off to the SWING show at Littlehampton. Do drop by.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi Javier,

I really like the LBSCR Horsebox.  I think the Horsebox is earlier than Stroudley, dating from the around 1850s. I think it's a type 19B (from LB&SCR Carriages. Volume 1: 4 and 6 wheel ordinary passenger stock)

Will you be making them available on Shapeways, and if so, could you do them in 2mm scale?

Many thanks,

Regards,

Dave

A big THANK YOU to all our exhibitors and traders for making it a great show. And also many thanks to all our visitors for coming along and making it all worthwhile  

On to next year's show...

Cheers,

Dave

Also visiting is Hurstmonceux by Andy Jones:

Cheers,

Dave

Also appearing is Minories by Howard Bolton:

Cheers,

Dave

Another visiting layout is Vale of Oxbury from Carl Woodwards:

Cheers,

Dave

A holly blue in the garden today:

Cheers,

Dave

Another visiting layout is Northallerton from the Cleveland MRC:

Cheers,

Dave

Hi,

I had an email from Digitrains yesterday:

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We at Digitrains are looking to have 200 of these exclusive King George V No 6000 models made available to us for sound fitting and and they can be in any combination from any of the four variations offered in response to customer interest.

Hope this is of interest.

Cheers,

Dave

One of our visiting layouts is Arun Quay by Gordon & Maggie Gravett:

Cheers,

Dave

We're taking Hinksey Yard

Cheers,

Dave

Hi,

We're off to the Crawley show at Horsham this weekend, Do come and see us - and lots of good layouts there .

Cheers,

Dave

My reading of the Digitrains site is that there will be 50 of each of the four versions - there are 50 "in stock" on the "shirtbutton" page and less on the other pages.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi,

We are pleased to add Model Railway Developments to our list of traders at the show.

Cheers,

Dave

Epsom and Ewell Model Railway Club's 2019 Exhibition

Saturday 27th April and Sunday 28th April 2019

at the

North East Surrey College of Technology (NESCOT), Reigate Road, Ewell, Surrey KT17 3DS

Full details on our Website

 
Opening Times
Saturday 27th 10 am - 5:30 pm
Sunday 28th 10 am - 5 pm
 
Admission
Adults £7.00
Accompanied Children (under 16) Free
 
Refreshments available
FREE on-site parking for 500 cars
Level access for the disabled
 
Layouts attending
Arun Quay, 7mm/ft, O, BR(S), 1950s (3.5m x 0.8m)

Fintonagh (Clogher Valley Project), 7mm/ft, On16.5, Clogher Valley Railway (Irish narrow gauge) (3m x 0.5m)

Dent, 4mm/ft, OO, Settle and Carlisle (14' x 8')

Frecclesham, 7mm/ft, O, BR(S), 1950s (23' x 3')

Gerrog Wen, 4mm/ft, OO9, Snowdonia, 1880s (9' x 2')

Hornby Junction, 4mm/ft, OO, Children's activity layout using products by Hornby Ltd. (9' x 5')

Hurstmonceux, 4mm/ft, OO, BR(S) Ouse valley, 1950s, (26' x 2')

Little Aller Junction, 2mm/ft, N, BR(W) Devon, 1960s (7' x 3'6")

Llangerisech, 2mm/ft, 2FS (9.42mm), GWR (Cambrian), 1930s (9'6" x 8')

Minories, 4mm/ft, P4, BR(S), 1950s (4.35m x 2.5m)

Northallerton, 2mm/ft, N, Post privatization (N.Yorkshire), 2000s (25' x 4'6")

Snowdon (NWNGR), 8mm/ft, 1:38, Rhyd Ddu, North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway (17' x 2')

St George's Dock, 7mm/ft, O, Tyneside, 1930s (3m x 1.5m)

Theobald's Yard, 7mm/ft, O, Mixed gauge industrial (27' x 8'6")

Vale of Oxbury, 2mm/ft, N, BR(W), early 1960s (12' x 4')

Wittenden, 7mm/ft, On16.5, Kent, 1950s (16' x 2')

Wolfe Low, 7mm/ft, O, Staffordshire, 1920s (24' x 3')

Searles Railway (7¼in & 5in mixed gauge, Miniature Railway Rides)

Traders attending
ACE Products
Addlestone Model Centre
All Components
Branchlines
C&L Finescale
Dart Castings
d.c. Kits
Eileen's Emporium
Freestone Model Accessories
Green Scenes
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust (Surrey Support Group)

Model Railway Developments (Added 2019-03-29))
N Brass Locos
Plus Daughters
Rail Books
Railwayania/Replica Railways
Roger Carpenter Photos
Roxey Mouldings
South Eastern Finecast
 
Club second-hand stand.

Many thanks to Adrian and the Uckfield Club from the Hinksey Yard team for a most enjoyable weekend. A very friendly show with lots of quality exhibits.

Cheers,

Dave

We spent Saturday getting Hinksey Yard ready for the show:

Looking forward to being there.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi,

We're off to the Uckfield Show this coming weekend. Do drop by.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi

The companies that produce terriers seem to like producing the SECR locomotive in fully lined green livery. Did this ever exist? I've only seen "little titch" in grey or plain green with large numerals.

Here is No.751 in full SE&CR livery:

Cheers,

This is a link to the E1 page on Dave Searle's LB&SCR website. You could tick them off there if you wanted?

http://www.lbscr.org/locos/E1.html

Cheers

Ian

Hi Ian,

I've updated the web-site and this has now moved: http://www.lbscr.org/Rolling-Stock/Locomotives/Stroudley/E1.xhtml

There are now photos of most locos as well.

Cheers,

Dave

One of our team scratchbuilt a Pylon for our N gauge Hinksey Yard.  See the fourth photo in this post:

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/33440-hinksey-yard-c2010/page-9&do=findComment&comment=1633041

Cheers,

Dave