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Bachmann Showcase Product Announcements – Winter 2020 includes H1 and H2...
Bachmann Europe have continued their new policy of making quarterly product announcements and as per last August whilst Covid-19 has stopped the physical showcase event taking place Collectors Club...
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When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our...
Marking the occasion will be somewhat different this year due to obvious circumstances. If you so wish, wear a poppy with pride today, but please pause respectfully for two minutes at 11 am this...
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Picture of the Month – December 2020
This months picture… A Hornby W4 0-4-0t Peckett modified with an open cab as well as dumb buffers on Canute Road Quay
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Christmas in lockdown at Canute Road Quay
It is certainly going to be a different Christmas for many this year, it is not cancelled but just needs to be celebrated in a different way, especially if like me you have gone from Tier 2 through to...
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Bachmann Bulleid coaches Engineering Prototypes arrive
To give us Southern modellers some additional cheer just before this strangest of Christmas periods the first Engineering Prototypes (EP) of the much anticipated brand new range of Bulleid 64ft...
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Hornby announce 2021 range including brand new Merchant Navys, catering...
Hornby have today announced their forthcoming range for 2021. The highlights from a Southern Railway perspective being new versions of the Merchant Navy’s with diecast bodies and Hornby Dublo branding,...
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Picture of the Month – January 2021
This months picture… (better late than never) … London, Chatham and Dover Railway Kirtey T Class 0-6-0T shunts at Canute Road Quay. The T Class is a Q Kits white metal kit
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Two new titles from Strathwood Books for Light Pacific and EMU enthusiasts
Two new books recently published and provided to me by my friends at Strathwood Publishing are Southern Lament – Bulleid’s Light Pacifics and Southern Electrics Scrapbook Volume II. These wide...
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Talking Stock #39 Catering for Southern travellers by Hornby
As we are talking Southern Railway catering vehicles it might be worth sitting down and having some light refreshment to go with the read as things are going to get a little confusing and complex! The...
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Kernow Model Rail Centre approve ex LSWR 10T Diagram 1541 Road Van for...
The Kernow Model Rail Centre, and therefore by default myself, have advised that the much-anticipated ex LSWR / SR Diagram 1541 10T Road Van has been approved for production. This follows the careful...
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Hornby reclassify proposed 3rd Class Dining Saloons to Open Thirds
Hornby announced as part of their new 2021 range their intention to produce new tooling for the Maunsell Dining Saloons to Diagram 2652 as introduced in 1927. In my Talking Stock#39 post about the...
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Picture of the Month – February 2021
This months picture… A Drummond T14 class ‘Paddlebox’ 4-6-0 No. 30461 in early British railways livery passes Fisherton Sarum on a rake of Diagram 1774 40T ballast hoppers. The T14 is a Nucast white...
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’00’ Works to produce a R-T-R ex LSWR Adams A12 class “Jubilee” 0-4-2.
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 the LSWR 0330 class, ex London and South...
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Dapol show Engineering Prototype and details of revised M7 0-4-4t in N gauge
Dapol have released an update on the development of their all new ex LSWR/SR/BR M7 0-4-4T along with images of their latest Engineering Prototype. A total of 105 Drummond LSWR M7 0-4-0 passenger tank...
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Picture of the Month – March 2021
This months picture… Salisbury resident Z Class 0-8-0T pushes coal wagons up to the coaling stage at Fisherton Sarum. She is built from a Millholme white metal kit.
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Dapol announce O Gauge exLSWR/SR/BR Adams B4 0-4-0 Dock tank.
This weekend at the second Gauge 0 Guild Virtual exhibition, Dapol announced that they are to produce an 0 Gauge version of the ex LSWR/SR/BR 0-4-0 Dock tank, These follow from their well received 00...
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The next Steam’s Lament book from Strathwood Books Merchant Navys, Q1, Leader...
Following on from the excellent Steam’s Lament – Bulleid’s Light Pacifics is the next title provided to me by my friends at Strathwood Publishing being Steam’s Lament – Bulleid’s Merchant Navy, Q1,...
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Canute Road Quay features in the April 2021 issue of BRM Magazine and...
I am pleased to advise that Canute Road Quay makes an appearance in the April 2021 issue of BRM Magazine available now for digital subscribers and next Thursday 25th March for the printed version. I...
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Dapol announce O Gauge exLSWR/SR/BR Adams B4 0-4-0 Dock tank.
This weekend at the second Gauge 0 Guild Virtual exhibition, Dapol announced that they are to produce an 0 Gauge version of the ex LSWR/SR/BR 0-4-0 Dock tank, These follow from their well received 00...
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The next Steam’s Lament book from Strathwood Books Merchant Navys, Q1, Leader...
Following on from the excellent Steam’s Lament – Bulleid’s Light Pacifics is the next title provided to me by my friends at Strathwood Publishing being Steam’s Lament – Bulleid’s Merchant Navy, Q1,...
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