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Fisherton Sarum at the Great Electric Train Show this weekend 10/11th October
This coming weekend, 10th / 11th October 2015, Fisherton Sarum will be at the Great Electric Train Show organised by the Hornby Magazine at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon Fisherton Sarum’s last...
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A Fisherton Sarum exhibition retrospective
I have now just about recovered from three enjoyable consecutive weekends exhibiting Fisherton Sarum twice and, in between, assisting fellow High Wycombe and District MRS member Alan Paley with is...
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Hornby’s first S15 ‘goods Arthurs’ arrive, an initial review
I have posted before about the S15 class firstly in my Talking Stock #16, blog post titled, The S15 Goods Arthurs and covered the announcement made by Hornby in December last year that they were to...
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Annual wishlist poll for 2015 opens today
The annual Wishlist Poll for new N and/or 00 models has started today. The purpose of The Poll is to provide an easy way for modellers and collectors to tell the major manufacturers and commissioners...
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Picture of the Month – November 2015
This months picture… A quiet period on shed with Bulleid pacific 21C102 “Salisbury” being cleaned, a modified Hornby fitted with original style cab and short smoke deflectors. A Drummond 4-4-0 L11...
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When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our...
Wear your poppy with pride today, pause respectfully for two minutes at 11 am this Remembrance Sunday morning, and again on Wednesday 11th, remembering those who have given their lives for the freedom...
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First Oxford Rail Adams Radial tank on the way.
Oxford Rail, the new brand of The 4mm scale road vehicle manufacturer Oxford Diecast, announced last November their intention to enter the UK 4mm 00 scale ready to run market, with initial an ex London...
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Hornby announce full 2016 range and the addition of a SR cattle wagons Dias...
As has been evident over the last 12 months Hornby have changed the way in which they are announcing new produces to market, moving away from a single announcement around Christmas time, and have...
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Warley Exhibition news round up for Southern Related items
Last weekend saw the annual Warley National Model railway Exhibition at the NEC, this post rounds up some of the the news and items of interest from mainly a Southern / BR(s) perspective. It is usual...
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Picture of the Month – December 2015
This months picture… Adams 0-6-0 0395 class number 3441 sits awaiting its next shed pilot turn. 3441 is built from a DJH kit. In the background N1 class 1822 is at the coaling stage. 1822 has been...
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Workbench Witterings #3 a change of S15 identity to the Maunsell Locomotive...
This weekend I finished changing the identity of one of Hornby’s excellent S15 Class 4-6-0 models to represent 30847 one of the locomotives preserved by the Maunsell Locomotive Society. I carried out...
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Plymouth Devonport & South Western Junction Railway locomotives, a guest...
For this post I am indebted to friend and fellow Southern Railway modeller Tony Teague for providing the pictures and text about his models of these two unusual engines. The prototypes for these three...
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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. OK so it’s Photoshop trickery…my Milholme model of 21C14...
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British Model Railway Awards, vote now, vote Southern…
In previous years the model of the year poll was jointly run between RMweb, Model Rail Magazine and the online MREmag.com. This year Model Rail Magazine have decided to run their own awards and so the...
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Happy New Year! First 2016 picture of the Month
Happy New Year, the first picture of the month for 2016 is… A Drummond T14 4-6-0 “Paddlebox” 461 a NuCast kit heads towards London with a Meldon Quarry Ballast train. The SR Diagram 1774 40T hoppers...
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Heljan announce Class 07 0-6-0 diesel shunter in 00 for 2017
Danish manufacturer Heljan have made a new year announcement that they are to produce a Class 07 Diesel electric shunter in 00 gauge with a release anticipated in 2017. Introduced in 1962 this class of...
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The process in producing a Ready-To Run model and assisting manufacturers – A...
As regular readers of my blog will I know I often assist a number of the model manufacturers and commissioners with support, advice and research in conjunction to models that they are in the process of...
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Oxford Rail announce 3 new Adams Radial 0415 class liveries and new GWR Dean...
Following on from their release last year of the ex London South Western Railway (LSWR) Adams Radial 0415 class 4-4-2T and 7 plank 1923 Private Owner wagons (albeit with some spurious details and...
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And the winners are… British Model Railway Awards
What was previously known as the ‘Model of the Year’ awards have this year been promoted on RMweb, through British Railways Modelling Magazine and on the online MREmag.com as the British Model Railway...
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Picture of the Month – February 2016
This months picture… Z Class number 957, built from a Millholme kit, pushes loaded coal wagons up the coal stage ramp, whilst S15 No. 846, built from a DJH kit, passes by on a local stopping passenger.
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