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Hi all, does anyone have anyone have any pictures of Ashby-de-la-Zouch station? All there is on the web is countless pictures of the front, and one picture of some midland locos at the station, but not much can be seen. If anyone has any pictures of the platform or even the inside that would be very much appreciated. As for timeframe of the photos I do not mind, and in fact it would be very interesting to compare a photo of the station when it was in use as a station and then how it looks now, as the platform is no longer there. There are a few little garages just outside of the station, and at that point the trackside wall is replaced with a low metal fence, for some reason, which gives a view of the track, however I'd rather not go have a look by myself in case someone asks what I'm doing! Either way, any detailed photographs are very much appreciated.

Can't wait to see these two on freight. Here's to hoping they pass through my town at some point

I still haven't got a Smokey Joe! Oh dear. I'm going to a model show next week, hopefully it's decent but either way I'll have a rummage through the second-hand stuff, I don't panic nearly as much about budget nowadays, for whatever reason things seem to be cheaper than ever, not that I'm complaining! Only really expensive things are locos and coaches, but at least with locos you only need a few. Whatever happens my 56 is still going to be pulling a fair few charters and DMU replacements on the layout . Bachmann DMUs are going for relatively cheap on eBay, I could easily get myself a 158 or something of the like running around the layout for less than a hundred quid, that's passenger services sorted. Freight won't be too hard, Hornby TTAs repainted black to represent bitumen tanks, those weird box wagons on the triang grain hopper chassis, container flats, Hornby HEAs ect ect

Can't wait to see pictures of her, I've been looking for ages

any progress updates on the other 69s?

done!

i will try and do the aircon box/grid thingy tomorrow aswellpipes were made from some bits of plastic from my spares box

I'm surprised at how nice the wasp stripes came out (on the front end atleast..) just needs a number, nameplate and crew now

spruced up the pug, minor things plus cab interior

Grid came today, I'd love to get another

Hornby ex-Dapol 56 and some paint, varnish (and lots of brushes!) ordered off ebay with the money I got from the carboot. Did see a Hornby 121, network southeast, but as much as I'd love it, I did really need to stock up on modelling supplies, I had practically nothing

Guess the next purchase will be some new fishplates then! Would like to stock up on paint but I'll have to save up for that. I've seen a railroad 08 body on eBay for cheap so hopefully if I can snatch it I'll repaint it. One thing I do want to atleast start this year is giving all my fleet separate handrails and hooks, and all the other little details that make a loco shine that little bit more. Definitely not a case of not knowing how to do it, just a case of not having the stuff yet! Once I get my hand on some little hand drills I'll try and experiment with wire couplings for my locos, it would be nice to finally have invisible couplings on the locos, wagons I don't mind as much

Can't wait to get on a train jn a few years time and see 'Britain Train' plastered on the side next to a full body height union jack stretched across the entire length of the train

had no idea there was a downton abbey 040

did my post about the Hornby pride wagon get through? it isn't showing up here, even after refreshing. If not, you'll hear about that project when I finish it, not typing all that out again!

Funnily enough i found a nice bit of card today, and I've already set it aside for a little diorama, a few months ago I was told of a new club forming a few miles away and I will definitely try and join once I have a layout. The cupboard under the stairs was recently parted with its door in exchange for a plastic slide door. it's been sat it the shed for a while and i have definitely thought about using that as my baseboard, it is quite long so in spite of short curves I'll have a lot of straight to give them a good run. One Idea I've had for a while is covering up one of the curved ends with a tunnel that goes through a hill, walking down said hill then leads to a little park thing, which then has access to the local station, and a level crossing leading into a little carpark. Just something to use up the middle space really.

Unfortunately it seems my town is a bit lacking. as much as I love it. No model shops or toy shops, no paper round jobs (would be useless anyways since I can't ride a bike haha) As for jobs , my brother got a job working at one of the billions of co ops in this area, and its definitely not a bad job, pays good too, that is my plan atleast

Thank you everyone for the replies, very much appreciated! Modelling itself I find very nice to do but with my current track running the is a nightmare. Fortunately now everything is coming together in my head, and how I will do it all. Unfortunately we didn't go to the car boot, slightly disappointed as I had been looking forward to it for a good few weeks, and it would have lifted up what has been quite a horrible week. Add to that my phone refuses to work anymore, so I've been using my old smashed to pieces nokia for a good month now, which now doesn't charge, so I can't talk to my friends either! More absolute boredom that anything else. The model shop in my town closed down a few months back so now I have to buy paint online, not very cheap.

Hopefully I am going to a carboot tomorrow. Once I've shifted my stuff I'll go round and see what stuff they got, hoping to find an 08 or a bodyshell that I'll plop on my jinty's chassis

Hi all again. weird to think I made this thread originally when I was 14 and now it won't be long until I'm 16, and I've got my first mock GCSEs in just over a month. I haven't posted in this thread for a while because I felt like it was going no where at all, and the same for my modelling. I'm no closer to an actual layout yet, and it's only this month I've got back into modelling after spending most of my holidays going for as many walks as i could pack in and as many minutes on the exercise bike as possible, so funnily enough, despite me growing quite rapidly the past 6 weeks, I've lost quite a lot of weight! However I'm just worried that with me now being in my last year of school I won't have time for the hobby, and it's already a bit overwhelming; I feel like I need to now if I'm going to college or sixth form, and I don't know. I think I want to go to college and see if I can do something artwork/graphics designer ish, something I enjoy doing quite a bit. Either way the modelling slowly trudges on, but I'm finding even that stressful aswell. I can't afford paint at the moment, but all I have is some BR blue and glossy brunswick green, notice that black, browns, greys and whites are missing, arguably the most essential colours in modelling. So, I can't weather or do much repainting, so most of what I can do is running the trains, but that's the thing I find most stressful! I can clean the track and wheels all I want but the track is worn out from being mistreated by other family members, the connections are weak, meaning that at any speed, let alone realistic ones, the locos awkwardly slow down very noticeably at certain points, and despite my many locos, only some run well, but I want more variety, diesels ect. I think I really do get too stressed out over it all, but sometimes I want to just slam my head against the floor. I do apologise if this comes off as moody or anything, just thought I'd do an update, some nice models that I'll be sharing soon!

Some screen caps from videos I've taken on the Ivanhoe line in the past two weeks First up: Colas 67s on NR duties featuring what I like to call the bald mk1 Next up we have some empty metals wagons in Coalville, and then the same wagons being picked up the next day by a shed. And finally we have the good old shed hauled aggregate empties. Hope you all enjoy

interesting, so does that mean the class 25 moulds are in the UK? just as weird as the mouldings for the prototype Hornby percy being in the far east.

I just wish Hornby reintroduced them because st least we'd have some variety.. they've released loads of 47s and 37s but there's so many classic liveries they just never do. BR blue? EWS? DB? so many opportunities missed; I'm glad they're doing current liveries but so many decades of liveries (including the one I model, the 2000s ) missed out, with maybe a few here and there

Whoops. I'm pretty sure Hornby made a GBRf 66 in the original livery with the first logo on the front so if I come across it I'll just have to get one won't I? Runs well, and it's DCC fitted if I ever want to switch to DCC. any other Hornby 66s anyone wants to recommend that fits in the 2000-2010 period?

amazing! I love both the virgin liveries, look good on anything