Category Archives: Kalmbach

The Good, The Not So Good, and the Indifferent

Parkside 7mm Southern Dia 1477 Insulated Van Its been an interesting couple of weeks, I’m lucky in a way that I get to mess about with different things, across scales and eras, but mostly within my overall interests. You do … Continue reading

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108 Connections

This was the result of one of those ‘good ideas’ you have from time to time. For my EM layout Bawdsey http://bawdsey.wordpress.com/, I’ve been building up the motive power and stock to reflect Eastern Region Practice in the late 1950’s … Continue reading

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Bank Holiday Workings

This bank holiday gave me a few opportunities to do some extra work for Albion Yard. One of the things I want to do is to establish the layout in the Forest of Dean with some more visual clues. The … Continue reading

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The Curse of Albion Yard …

Railex 2012 Review ‘The Curse of Albion Yard’ The weekend potentially started with very bad news, and nearly ended that way too! Wednesday was a day I was looking forward to finalising a few details and getting the train set … Continue reading

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Railex Thank You

Just a quick line to say thank you to those that dropped by and said hello, and passed comments about the layout to myself and my team over the weekend. Al, Ian, Pete and myself enjoyed the show, the company … Continue reading

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Heavyweights creep in …

In reality, highly unlikely, but I like it. It also takes the layout back to its roots as an occaisional photo set.

Posted in Airfix, Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, canon, Canon G10, Chris Nevard, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Kalmbach, Layout, library, life, LMS, LNER, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, OO Gauge, Photography, Railex, research, Scottish Region, Southern Region, Wales, Western Region | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

FCUK (16 Tons of French Connection in the Forest)

One of the noticeable things in Forest of Dean images is the variety of apparently similar mineral wagons. I have a good few of the Bachmann varieties which have taken precedence gradually over the Airfix mineral wagon kit of the … Continue reading

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Railex Preparations Vol III

Today the layout was put up for the first time in six months, and I’m pleased to report that apart from dirty track, there have been no problems with the layouts running. A few people have asked what is the … Continue reading

Posted in 3f, Airfix, Bachmann, Branch Line, brassmasters, Canon G10, Chris Nevard, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Kalmbach, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, OO Gauge, Scottish Region, Southern Region, Uncategorized, Wales, Welsh Marches, Western Region | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Make Your Mark

Hampton Hill Makeover Bachmann OO Signalbox Catalogue. No. 44-010 Of late there have been many releases of resin cast buildings in both 4mm/OO and 2mm/N gauge scales from both Bachmann and Hornby. As these are mass produced items there is … Continue reading

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Bachmann/Brassmasters/Shawplan Trinity 08

Not quite the holy trinity, but a decent place to start. Many years ago when t’interweb was a bunch of MSN chatrooms and Yahoo groups with people in effect emailing each other abuse, I did a makeover of four Bachmann 08’s, one … Continue reading

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