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Picture of the Month – March 2022
This Months Picture… ex SER Crane Tank 1302 is deployed to shunt Canute Road Quay
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Two new Southern Railway publications: “Alfred Raworth’s Electric Southern...
Two new publications are hitting the shelves of good purveyors of books that are worthy of any Southern Railway historian and or modeller’s reference library. Firstly, from friends at Pen and Sword...
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Dapol announce new production batches of their 00 gauge ex LSWR B4 0-4-0...
At this weekend’s London Festival of Railway Modelling, Dapol announced new production batches of their ex LSWR Adams B4 0-4-0 tanks and Class 73 Electro-Diesels both in 00 gauge. Adams B4 ‘Guernsey’...
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Picture of the Month – April 2022
This months picture… A line up of malachite Bulleids at Fisherton Sarum. I make no apologies if you have seen this excellent picture by Chris Nevard / Model Rail magazine before but it’s one of my...
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Rapido Trains UK SECR 5 and 7 plank wagons in 00 arrive.
Rapido Trains UK first announced these 00 gauge ready to run South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) / Southern Railway wagons in May 2021 and they have now arrived at retailers. These new models...
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Rapido Trains UK announce South Eastern & Chatham Railway Diagram 1558 six...
Rapido trains UK have announced today (15/04), following a bit of a hint in one of their videos and me here, that they are producing the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Diagram 1558 six wheel...
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Going bananas with daffodils for Easter
The pair of SR Diagram 1478 banana vans being shunted along with the daffodils bring a splash of colour to Canute road Quay this Easter The budding trees, the new flowers, and birds that sing, whisper...
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Picture of the Month – May 2022
This months picture… A bright sunny day as P Class 0-6-0t 1558 shunts at Canute Road Quay
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Hornby Maunsell Diagram 2652 3rd Class Dining Saloons arrive
Hornby announced as part of their new 2021 range they were 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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New LSWR 3D printed station seats and hand barrows available from Mudmagnet...
A new range of LSWR 3D printed station seats and hand barrows in 4mm scale are now available from my friend and excellent modeller Richard Slate via his Mudmagnet Models. You may have seen some of...
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Any colour you like as long as its SR Goods Wagon Brown, the hues and lows of...
Colour perception, especially with models, is an often debated topic especially when manufacturers occasionally, and some more than others, appear to get it wrong. There can be several reasons why...
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Picture of the Month – June 2022
This months picture… The ash gang are hard at work whilst Drummond M7 No. 676 simmers in the background
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Rapido Trains UK announce SR Diagram 1379/1400 8 plank open wagons in 00 and...
Rapido trains UK have announced they are producing a range of SR Diagram 1379 and Diagram 1400 eight plank open wagons in 00. They have also announced that their SECR wagons and Diagram 1558 6 wheel...
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Latest ex LBSC E1 class 0-6-0t CAD renders from Rapido Trains UK
Rapido trains UK confirmed back in January that they are going to produce the LBSCR ‘E1’ 0-6-0T in ’00’ gauge, as part of their growing range, despite it no longer being a commission by Model Rail...
View ArticleKMRC announce Exclusive 0 Gauge 1902 RCH seven plank open wagon in the livery...
The Kernow Model Rail Centre have announced an Exclusive 0 Gauge 1902 RCH seven plank open wagon in the livery of Guildford brick and tile manufacturer “T. Mitchell”. Thomas Mitchell was originally the...
View ArticleSeventy Years of the South Western, A Railway Journey Through Time – a Review...
Published by friends at Pen and Sword Transport “Seventy Years of the South Western – A Railway Journey Through Time” is Colin Boocock’s romp through the South Western railways on which he grew up and...
View ArticleCh-ch-changes, Turn and face the (s)train…
With apologies to David Bowie... regular readers may have spotted a slight change to the layout of my little corner of the world wide web. The previous WordPress theme (page style) I was using had...
View ArticleRapido Trains UK reveal the ex LBSC E1 class 0-6-0t versions being produced...
Hot on the heels of my post last month of the Rapido trains UK ex LBSC E1 class 0-6-0t Cad renders, that can be seen here, the list of the 14 'E1' versions being produced so far to cover all key...
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