Category Archives: Branch Line

Manic Monday

Posted on September 26, 2016 by bawdsey

4mm scale shackles. If I give up the day job I could try out as a jeweller! A mix of frustrating, and satisfaction assembling these, and remembering to breath…

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DJ Models J94 Review. Setting Higher Standards?

Posted on September 15, 2016 by bawdsey

Well the DJM J94 is out and on the streets. This is the first product developed solely by DJM rather than working in one format or another as a partner with other stakeholders.  Yup with the ‘stakeholder’ word in there … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday playing trains!

Posted on August 10, 2016 by bawdsey

     

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Tracing Tuesday

Posted on August 9, 2016 by bawdsey

   Wiring up continues with temporary switch locations for DC isolating sections. Once the sections are tested I’ll remove the switches and trace the wires into the main loom to the control panel.  The layout will be DC/DCC with the … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday (R3243a)

Posted on July 13, 2016 by bawdsey
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Throwback Thursday, better late than never …

Posted on July 8, 2016 by bawdsey

A few weeks ago on a Thursday, I wrote about using double sided tape to hold down or rather ‘up’ Tortoise point motors. albionyard-back-on-track/ Well all went well overnight, or part of it. In the morning I arrived to find … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday (fifty shades of grey)

Posted on July 6, 2016 by bawdsey

 

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Toady Tuesday

Posted on June 14, 2016 by bawdsey

Nope, not the shuffling queue of hooded, hook nosed disciples heading to a convenient internet portal to join the weekly disembowelling of a toy train manufacturer, but an update on my Toad.     A year or so ago I started … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursday, back on track!

Posted on May 26, 2016 by bawdsey

   A while ago with ‘Shelfie’ I fixed the track and fitted point motors https://albionyard.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/superquick-track/ Whilst I’d been a bit ‘sketchy’ as the yoof would have it by using superglue to fix the track down, the Peco point motors (PL10-E) are fixed … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday (The next project?)

Posted on May 11, 2016 by bawdsey

  

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