Canute Road Quay at the end of the Metropolitan Line in the Chiltern Hills –...
The first exhibition appearance for Canute Road Quay in 2025 is next Sunday 2nd March at the Chesham Model Railway Club exhibition at the White Hill Centre , Chesham, Bucks, HP5 1AG. The White Hill...
View ArticlePicture of the Month – March 2025
This Month's Picture... Drummond M7 Class 0-4-4 tank No. 30676 simmerts in the coal road at Fisherton Sarum, she was outshopped from Eastleigh works December 1947 in SR lined malachite and was soon...
View ArticleBachmann announce ex LBSC Isle of Wight coaches as part of their EFE Rail...
Bachmann have today, ahead of the London Festival of Railway Modelling have announced ex LBSC Isle of Wight coaches as part of their EFE Rail brand in 00 Gauge. I have developed these models in my role...
View ArticleSR/Southern Region ‘Tram/Trolley’ style overhead cantilever mast kits...
West Hill Wagon Works have released SR/Southern Region 'Tram/trolley' style lightweight overhead cantilever mast kits in 00 Gauge. To enable the Bulleid Raworth Booster and class 71 electric locos to...
View ArticleCanute Road Quay steps in – High Wycombe MRX25 Spring – Saturday 12th April
Canute Road Quay is stepping in to appear at the High Wycombe and District MRS MRX25 Spring exhibition on Saturday 12th April. This show is very local to me being organised by my own Model Rail...
View Article#onthisday Anniversary of the “The Reshaping British Railways” – the Beeching...
It is sixty two 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...
View ArticlePicture of the Month – April 2025
This Month's Picture... My grandfather, Thomas Arthur Muspratt, known as Arthur, was born on 14th April in 1899. Alongside the platelayers hut next to the main line on Fisherton Sarum, is a...
View ArticleThe Isle of Wight Steam Railway via Bachmann produces three exclusive models,...
The Isle of Wight Steam Railway (IoWSR) and Bachmann Europe have partnered to produce a range of exclusive models centred around the locomotives, rolling stock and buildings found on the Isle of...
View ArticleHornby announce new TT:120 LBSC Terriers and 4 wheel coaches as part their...
Hornby have today announced further new items as part of their forthcoming TT:120 gauge range for 2025. The headline news for Southern modellers is new tooled LBSC A1/A1X terriers and 4 wheel coaches....
View ArticleDaffodils and Easter wishes
The daffodils are in bloom this Easter as LSWR B4 'Guernsey' in early Southampton Docks lined green livery shunts at Canute Road Quay. The budding trees, the new flowers, and birds that sing, whisper...
View ArticleHornby announce new Merchant Navy 21c9 Shaw Savill as part of WWII VE Day...
Hornby have today announced a new WWII VE Day 80th Anniversary Collection that will include a model of Merchant Navy 21c9 'Shaw Savill'. The WWII VE Day 80th Anniversary collection also includes LNER...
View Article#OnThisDay… O.V.S. Bulleid passed away
Today marks 55 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 ArticlePicture of the Month – May 2025
This month's Picture... May 1948 sees the start of the Summer timetable and the return of the Summer only all Pullman Devon Belle service. Unusually Bulleid light pacific 34011 in her experimental BR...
View Article80 years on – Marking VE Day – Putting the Southern Railways war effort into...
Today marks 80 years since Victory in Europe Day or VE Day. VE Day is the day on which Allied forces formally announced the surrender of Germany, which brought the Second World War to a close in...
View ArticleCanute Road Quay to appear at Alstom’s The Greatest Gathering as part of...
The Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) opened on September 27, 1825, connecting places, people, communities and ideas, and ultimately transforming the world. Railway 200 is a year-long...
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