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Talking Stock #36 The rebuilding of the Bulleid Merchant Navy Class and a...
This week saw the first of the new Hornby ‘Original’ Merchant Navy Pacifics hitting the retailers, see my Talking Stock #35 post here for more details and also the full size ‘Rebuilt’ Merchant Navy...
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The @Hornby Original Merchant Navy has docked, lets take a look… the bar has...
Delivered via its current day namesake, my Hornby 21C3 ‘Royal Mail’ arrived this week. It is gratifying to see a project that I have in a small part been involved with for nearly two years come to...
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Kernow MRC Bulleid Diesels break cover along with Gate Stock livery samples &...
At the BRM / Warners / MRC London Festival of Model Railways this weekend Kernow Model Rail Centre have on display for the first time a full livery samples of the Bulleid diesels 10201/2&3. The...
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A brand new invaluable modelling resource book: “SOUTHERN NOUVEAU – And the...
Although not strictly model news this latest book from the excellent Irwell Press stable will provide an invaluable resource for LSWR, Southern or Southern region modellers alike. ‘Southern Nouveau: An...
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Picture of the Month – April 2017
This months picture… A Maunsell N1 class, a modified Bachmann model, hauls ballast train past the sheds coal stage. The SR Diagram 1774 40T hoppers are modified LIMA wagons on new bogies and other...
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Layout lighting is Quay… white is white right?
Just like a good backscene; see my A view from the line post regarding Fisherton Sarum’s backscene here, or my Canute Road Quay backscene post here; another area that I think is vital for any model...
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Fisherton Sarum out on the road again, the Epsom and Ewell show this coming...
This coming weekend, 22nd & 23rd April, sees the annual Epsom and Ewell MRC exhibition and one of only a couple appearances of Fisherton Sarum this year. The Epsom and Ewell Model Railway Club is...
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Making Quay progress, Canute Road Quay nears completion… if such ever happens..
Since my last post showing progress on Canute Road Quay, with respect to the concrete road area and inset trackwork along with making the grass ‘grow’ I have been busy completing the rest of the...
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Picture of the Month – May 2017
This months picture… Gresley A4 class 60033 ‘Seagull’ heads to London on a locomotive exchanges route familiarisation working in May 1948. The Home signal that controls entry to Platform 1 or 3 at...
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35006 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co. Steams into to spring and summer...
This Month sees restored Bulleid pacific 35006 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co. return to regular steam on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway (GWSR) following the completion of her restoration...
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’00’ Works to produce a R-T-R ex LSWR Drummond D15 4-4-0 locomotive
The ’00’ Works have produced a number of small batches of hand built Ready to Run locomotives including a variety of Southern classes, including most recently an ex London Brighton and South Coast...
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The quay to presentation… Canute Road Quay goes on the road
As I reported in my last update post here about Canute Road Quay it made is first semi public outing and a days running in anger so to speak at the RMweb annual South West Area Group members day in...
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Bullied Merchant Navy update, including 35028, 35006 and 35018...
Further to my update of 8th May here regarding Bulleid Merchant Navy pacific 35006 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co and her steaming plans for this month, things change quickly, 35006 was...
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Picture of the Month – June 2017
This months picture… Drummond 0-4-4T M7 No. 243 is one of the 6 painted in Malachite Green after the war but is one of those that were unlined, she is a repainted Hornby model. She has just shunted the...
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A quick Dapol B4 and Kernow update before heading to where Summer comes first
Regular readers of this blog will know that this time of year I tend to head south to where ‘summer comes soonest’, to coin a phrase from that well know Southern Railway Publicity poster. I am soon...
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Canute Road Quay’s first public showing in Exeter this weekend
This weekend sees the first proper exhibition outing of Canute Road Quay at the Exe Model Railway Society’s exhibition. Having made its successful debut at the RMweb annual South West Area Group...
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Picture of the Month – July 2017
This months picture… Bulleid Merchant Navy class 21C14 ‘Nederland Line’ built from a Millholme kit, heads to London with the up Devon Belle having taken over the train at Wilton. Adams O2 built from a...
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Bachmann and Graham Farish – SR related product updates July 2017
The Bachmann Europe team met up this week with the model trade press to update the market on the latest developments and progress, a full report can be found on the RmWeb forum here and I take this...
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Waterloo Sunset, marking the end of Southern Steam 50 years ago today…
Today the 9th July 2017 marks 50 years since the end of steam on the Southern Region. During the final weeks in July 1967 there were officially 72 steam engines left in service that obviously included...
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New Dunkirk film released, time to remember Operation Dynamo; the Southern...
This week sees the release of a new blockbuster style film ‘Dunkirk’; directed by Briton Christopher Nolan, whose stars include Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy and some singer or other Harry...
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