Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Merry Christmas to you all, fill up your life with love, compassion, tolerance, peace, happiness and perhaps hopefully some time for modelling. The wonderful Southern Railway Christmas press advert...
View ArticleMarking 100 years since the formation of the Southern Railway – a potted history
It would be remiss of me not to mark the fact that today is 100 years since the Grouping and the formation of the Southern Railway, it also of course marks the demise of its constituent companies. This...
View ArticlePicture of the Month – January 2023
Happy New Year, this months picture... The 1st January 2023 marks 100 years since the formation of the Southern Railway, click here to read more...
View ArticleHornby announce their 2023 range, a summary of SR/BR(s) items
Hornby have today announced their forthcoming range for 2023 as being a year of catch up, so not a huge amount to report for SR / BR(s) modellers (or anyone really...unless you are a collector of...
View ArticleWorkbench Witterings#19 Building a Maunsell 350HP ‘trip’ locomotive
In my Talking Stock#15 post here I discuss the background to the three Maunsell 350HHp diesel 'trip' locomotives. In 1937 Maunsell ordered three six coupled 350hp diesel electric locos, built by the SR...
View Article7mm scale Bulleid coaches under development by Greenwood & Pring
Greenwood & Pring have announced the development of a new 0 Gauge premium finescale carriage programme based on Southern Railway’s Bulleid coaches. These carriages will be manufactured in brass in...
View ArticleRapido Trains UK ex GWR V6 ‘Iron Mink’ as SR ‘Cone’ Improvised Gunpowder van...
The Rapido Trains UK ‘OO’ gauge GWR V6 'Iron Mink' covered vans have arrived, it might seem unusual for such a wagon to mentioned here you might be thinking... there is a reason, read on... The GWR...
View ArticleHappiness is the road… Canute Road Quay exhibition appearances the next two...
Canute Road Quay is on the road again and appearing at two exhibitions the next two consecutive Saturdays. The first this Saturday 25th March is slightly unusual as it the Guidelines Publications...
View Article60 years since “The Reshaping British Railways”– the Beeching report
It is sixty years to the day when Dr Richard Beeching's report "The Reshaping of British Railways" was officially published on the 27th March 1963. The report and its effects are still discussed with...
View ArticleDaffodils and Easter wishes
May the angels protect you, may the sadness forget you, may goodness surround you and may your God always bless you. The budding trees, the new flowers, and birds that sing, whisper to me that it's...
View ArticleWorkbench Witterings #21 Individualising the EFE Rail ex LSWR Cross Country Sets
The EFE Rail ex LSWR Cross Country Sets were announced last November and as is usually the case with the Bachmann quarterly announcements arrived within a matter of weeks. This is not a full a review...
View ArticleIndexing modelling tips and techniques
Amazingly this corner of the web has been going since August 2011 and has grown to over 400 pages of varied Southern related content, I always wanted this blog to not only feature news, reviews and...
View ArticleHattons announce a new batch of ex SECR P Class 0-6-0Ts
Following on from the release back in April 2018 of their SECR P Class 0-6-0t and a further four later that year in Hatton’s have today announced that seven new versions of the SECR P Class will be...
View Article#OnThisDay… O.V.S. Bulleid passed away
Today marks 53 years since the passing of Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid CBE. He was of course Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway between 27th May 1937 and 31st December 1947 and then...
View ArticleNew LBSC/SR/BR(s) K Class 2-6-0 kit available from Nucast in 4mm
Dave Ellis of Nucast has kindly advised me that their New L.B. Billinton LBSC/SR/BR(s) K Class 2-6-0 kit is now available to order. First introduced in 1913 the eventual 17 members of the class were...
View ArticleWorkbench Witterings #22 Whether to Weather with Muz revisited
Weathering is quite often seen a bit of a black art and not for the faint hearted; especially when you have just forked out for a brand new item of rolling stock or spent hours building and finish...
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