Bachmann Showcase Product Announcements – Autumn 2022 include SECR Diagram...
Bachmann Europe have continued their new policy of making quarterly product announcements the highlight of todays announcement of new tooling is the SECR/SR Maunsell/Lyons Diagram 1559 25 ton good...
View ArticleWorkbench Witterings#16 The foundations of the Westhill Road Station Building
Amid some of the heart breaking events and issues that life is throwing at many of us at the moment, being able to step aside into model building can be very therapeutic. This is a quick post to show...
View ArticleTrains Times Model Shop exclusive Rapido Trains UK LB&SCR E1 0-6-0 locomotive...
Further to my post last month where Rapido Trains UK revealed the versions of the LBSC E1 class 0-6-0 tank locomotives they are producing, it also advised that Train Times of Eastbourne announced a...
View ArticleHappiness is the road… Canute Road Quay exhibiting this Saturday
A reminder that Canute Road Quay is on the road again and appearing this Saturday 20th August 2022 at the Silverfox DCC MRC exhibition being held at the Oakgrove School, Venturer Gate, Milton Keynes...
View ArticleE1 class No. W2 Yarmouth in 00 from the Isle of Wight Steam Railway
Further to my post here announcing the LBSC E1 0-6-0T variations being produced by Rapido trains UK the Isle of Wight Steam Railway have today announced that they working with Rapido trains UK on an...
View ArticleHeljan announce new SR Passenger Luggage Vans and Utility Vans in 0 Guage
Heljan have today announced that are to produce the SR 4 wheel Passenger Luggage Vans and Utility Vans in 0 Gauge. The Passenger Luggage Vans, ‘PLV’ (Parcels / Miscellaneous Van, PMV) were initially...
View ArticleNew CAD images released by Dapol of Bulleid Light Pacifics in N Gauge
Last weekend at the International N Gauge show (TINGS) Dapol released images of new Cads for their proposed Bulleid Light Pacifics in N Gauge. Dapol first announced their intention to produce Bulleid...
View ArticleLSWR Diagram 1410 Covered van in 0 Gauge announced by Kernow Model Rail Centre
Kernow Model Rail Centre have announced the LSWR Diagram 1410 Covered Van in 0 Gauge as an exclusive model with the tooling owned by Kernow Model Rail Centre The numerous LSWR 10 ton covered vans were...
View ArticleFrom Southampton to Stafford – Canute Road Quay heads North – 24/25th September
Canute Road Quay is on the road again and appearing at this coming weekends Stafford Railway Circle Annual Model Railway Exhibition 24th/25th September 2022. This is always an excellent show organised...
View ArticleBachmann Bulleid coaches are arriving soon – a review
The long awaited all new tooled Bachmann Bulleid coaches announced in 2018 are now due to arrive soon (although the SR Malachite versions will be slightly delayed, see below) and SR and BR(s) modellers...
View ArticleAccurascale go bananas… and announce SR Diagram 1478 and 1479 banana vans in 00
Accurascale have today announced that they are to produce the SR built banana vans to diagrams 1478 and 1479. The banana traffic through Southampton docks in the early 1930s had grown rapidly and...
View ArticleBachmann announce ex LSWR / SR 56ft non corridor cross country sets as part...
As part of their quarterly British Railway Announcements for Winter 2022 Bachmann have announced the ex London South Western Railway (LSWR) / Southern railway 56ft non corridor cross country sets in 00...
View ArticleRapido Trains UK ex SECR / SR Diagram 1426 van and the Dia. 1744 ballast...
The Rapido Trains UK ‘OO’ gauge South Eastern & Chatham Railway wagons, the Diagram 1426 van and the Dia. 1744 ballast wagon announced in January this year have now arrived. Both these wagons share...
View ArticleBachmann SECR/SR Diagram 1559 Dance Hall 25T Brake Vans arrive – a review
Following it being revealed in the Bachmann Quarterly British Railway Announcements for Autumn 2022 last August the newly tooled SECR/SR Maunsell/Lyons Diagram 1559 25 ton good brake have arrived with...
View ArticleWhen You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our...
If you so wish, wear your poppy with pride today, pause respectfully for two minutes at 11 am this Armistice Day and again this Remembrance Sunday remembering all those, both service and civilian...
View ArticleWorkbench Witterings #18 Not a pane yet, Westhill Road’s station building...
Has it really been August since my Workbench Witterings#16 The Foundations of the Westhill Road station building? I have at last been able to do some more work on it today, starting with a the upper...
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