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Support getting 35011 General Steam Navigation to original form
A new Society, The General Steam Navigation Locomotive Restoration Society, has been formed with the aim of not only restoring but more ambitiously returning Bulleid Merchant Navy Pacific 35011 General...
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From the armchair, pre-grouping models and R-T-R, is back dating that simple?
In a way this post follows on from my previous ramblings in my ‘armchair’ series such as “Armchair R-T-R Designers” and “Armchair R-T-R tooling and manufacturing Logistics” and even my comment piece on...
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Picture of the Month – March 2016
This months picture… N15 class s747 ‘Elaine’ in early British Railways livery is a renamed and numberd Hornby model, backs towards the coaling stage, whilst S15 Class No. 846 heads west on a ballast...
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Bachmann 2016/17 range announcements celebrate 30 years of NSE with 2 HAP in...
Today Bachmann Europe Plc. announced their plans for the next 18 months, or so (which I know some will find amusing as progress on some of the previously announced models have certainly taken, or are...
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From the Archive #3 Making an exhibition of myself or Fisherton Sarum’s first...
November this year sees the 10th anniversary since the first exhibition outing for Fisherton Sarum. Wycrail 2006, the annual exhibition of the High Wycombe and District Model Railway Society, was the...
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Daffodils and Easter wishes
T14 class No 461 heads west passing the ‘daffodils’ appearing on the embankment between the main line and 21c159 “Sir Archibald Sinclair” waiting on shed. May the angels protect you, may the sadness...
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Picture of the Month – April 2016
Picture of the month for April… (Posted a day early due to a news item being posted at midday tomorrow…) Bulleid Merchant Navy 35023 ‘Holland-Afrika Line’ is turned at Fisherton Sarum
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Workbench Witterings #4 identity changing and weathering
At long last, assisted by a few days off work over the recent Easter weekend, I have finally completed a few outstanding items on the workbench. This has mainly been around renumbering, naming and...
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Hornby withdraw some 2016 range items from production including a few SR...
As they have done for a couple of previous years now at around this time, Hornby have reviewed both their available production slots and the pre-orders received for the 2016 range and withdrawn some...
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Workbench Witterings #5 O2 and not an O2, is this more weathering I see...
With a nod to the fact that today, 23rd April, is not only St Georges Day, but also the date on which William Shakespeare is understood to have both been born and this year the 400th anniversary of his...
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Hornby move a number of 2016 range items into 2017 including the Original...
Further to my post last week advising that a number of the Hornby 2016 range items had been withdrawn from the range, Hornby have also confirmed that a number of the 2016 range items have now been...
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Picture of the Month – May 2016
This months picture… A line up on shed at Fisherton Sarum, including Bulleid Light Pacific 21C103 ‘Plymouth’, M7 243, Bulleid Leader 36001, G16 494 and a Beattie well tank 30586
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A view from the line #16 The turners role and facilities
As with many sheds the turntable was a vital part of the set up, engines would usually come on shed be turned, coaled and watered before moving to their allocated shed road prior to their next duty....
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Fisherton Sarum set up and ready to appear at the @hwdmrs open day next...
Fisherton Sarum is appearing as one of the guest layouts at the High Wycombe and District Model Railway Society open day at its clubrooms next Saturday 21st May. With only one other exhibition...
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Mind your ‘P’s and ‘O’s, 35006 P&O SN Co. is renamed and hauls first...
For those of us as either members and, like myself, shareholders of the 35006 Locomotive Society yesterday 16th May 2016, was a very special day. Following restoration from an ex Barry condition, at...
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Picture of the Month – June 2016
This months picture… H16 class 4-6-2T tank No. 519, built from a Falcon Brass kit is turned at Fisherton Sarum. She must have been borrowed on a freight turn from Feltham. N1 class 1822 passes by on a...
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Yet again summer comes soonest in the South
With again a respectful nod to the Southern Publicity Department back in 1936 I am soon heading very South (well about 4 and bit hours and approximately 1600 miles in a plane south) for a blend of...
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Picture of the Month – July 2016
This months picture… Bullied Merchant Navy class 21C14 ‘Nederland Line’, built from a Millholme kit, heads a train from Plymouth towards Salisbury station.
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Go west young man, Fisherton Sarum at Barnstaple Exhibiton 30/07 and win an...
With a nod to a lyric from the Genesis track ‘Deep in the Motherlode’ from their ‘Then there were three’ album (did I not mention before I am a bit of a Genesis geek) Fisherton Sarum is celebrating its...
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Southern Big Tanks, new books from The Irwell Press
Hot of the press from my friends at the Irwell Press are four new excellent paperback books all about the Southern Big Tanks. The four books cover the London Southern Western Railway Urie G16 class...
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