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The Kernow Model Rail Centre ex LSWR Gate stock 2nd Engineering Prototype...
I am pleased to show on this post the progress made on the Kernow Model Rail Centre ex LSWR Gate Stock sets, with some pictures and video of the 2nd Engineering Prototypes (EPs). The purpose of such...
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Warley 2016 updates from a Southern Perspective [updated 30/11/16]
Well the annual event that is the Warley National Model Railway show at the NEC has now been and gone and by all accounts it appears that it was a good show, not that I was able to see as much of it as...
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Picture of the Month – December 2016
This months picture… A busy time at Fisherton Sarum, G6 Class No. 237 built from a SE Finecast kit, shunts the ash wagon, whilst N15 Class locomotives 746 ‘Pendragon’ and 782 ‘Sir Brian’ await their...
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SR Diagram 1529 and 1530 cattle trucks arrive from @Hornby as part of their...
Announced as part of their range for 2016 this time last year the SR cattle trucks (technically correctly termed as being trucks being a sub set of wagons) have arrived in the last week or so from...
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Further progress on Canute Road Quay, buildings and inset track start to take...
A weekend at home for a change has seen some progress made on my new little timesaving / timewasting project Canute Road Quay. This post brings you up to date with that progress, further buildings have...
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Talking Stock #35 Original Merchant Navy pacifics @Hornby initial variations...
As promised in my recent Warley 2016 update post this post is about the first four original Air Smoothed Bulleid Merchant Navy pacifics being released by Hornby due in the first quarter 2017. The...
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Snow lay round about…. Christmas at Fisherton Sarum
It’s a cold and bright December Morning as we approach Christmas at Fisherton Sarum and snow lay round about, lightly dusting, crisp and even, although services have so far been largely unaffected...
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The quay fiddle yard and wiring takes shape
With the Christmas festivities out of the way for another year, I turned my attention the last couple of days to the fiddle yard and wiring for Canute Road Quay. A package arrived from Tim Horn the...
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Happy New Year! First 2017 Picture of the Month and a hint to next week…
Happy New Year, lets hope that 2017 is not eventful for the wrong reasons like some of the events from last year (to many RIPs to mention)… the first picture of the month for 2017 is… A quiet period on...
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Hornby announce full 2017 range; a Southern Railway / Southern Region related...
Hornby have today announced their full range for 2017. As with the range for 2016 new tooling announcements fro 2017 have already been made during the last year via their informative Engineshed blog...
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Bachmann 2017/18 range announcements includes a Class 410 4BEP EMU in 00 and...
Today Bachmann Europe Plc. having brought forward the timing from their traditional March slot, and hot on the heals of Hornby last week, announced their plans for the next 18 months, or so (as we have...
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British Model Railway Awards for 2016, vote now, vote Southern… (shameless...
Voting for this years British Model Railways Awards promoted on RMweb and British Railways Modelling Magazine is now live and open for voting until 9th February, with the winners being announced in the...
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Fisherton Sarum on the road in 2017 and beyond…
Some of the more eagle eyed readers of this little corner of the blogosphere will have no doubt noticed that the over the last couple of weeks the number of booked appearances of Fisherton Sarum at...
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Picture of the Month – February 2017
This months picture… The powerful Urie 4-8-0T G16 class No 494 is captured on the coal stage ramp. She is a Golden Arrow resin body on a modified Hornby Chassis.
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A little update… Hinton Parva, @Hornby Merchant Navy & Adams Radial and 247...
Last weekend I was attending the Festival of British Railway Modelling held at Doncaster racecourse organised by Warners the publishers of BRM Magazine, and spent the weekend as part of the operating...
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Ground cover taking shape on Canute Road Quay, now that the wiring is complete
I thought it was about time I posted an update on some progress on my new little timesaving / timewasting project Canute Road Quay. Since my last post here that spoke of the wiring commencing and the...
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And the 2016 winners are… British Model Railway Awards
The winners of the first British Model Railway Awards for 2016 have been announced today and can be read here. This year saw a resurgence for Hornby wining not only 00 manufacturer of the year, but...
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Picture of the Month – March 2017
This months picture… A couple of school children watch waiting to see how the postman deals with the pending conflict with the householders dog!
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Making a scene on the back of Canute Road Quay or simply how I have done the...
I have spoken before in a view from the line post about my views on the need for a backscene on a layout. Even simple a plain blue or grey painted back board is better that nothing. A good backscene...
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Letting the grass grow and concrete expansion on Canute Road Quay
Following on from completing the basic ground and the inset concrete trackwork areas on Canute Road Quay as detailed on my post here, I have now in addition to adding some ballast in around the point...
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