Category Archives: life

Throwback Thursday (just do it..)

Posted on September 1, 2016 by bawdsey

   Today I’ve been tidying the workbench and office area where I do my modelling. If you’re like me that’s akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic for all the good it’ll do!  I did find some ‘artifacts’ … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday Clan

Posted on August 16, 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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Many Happy Returns..

Posted on July 22, 2016 by bawdsey

   Like most of us I spend a good deal of time thinking and planning future projects, and sometimes help others with theirs. What you see above is just that, in the foreground is some 3D ‘thinking’. When the Forest … Continue reading →

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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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Derby 2016

Posted on May 8, 2016 by bawdsey

   Derby show this weekend is the good quality show that it is known for. Albion Yard however has developed a voracious appetite for DC controllers lunching two of them, for no apparent/logical reason. Regrettably this means I can’t run … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursday, its all over now …

Posted on May 5, 2016 by bawdsey

Well a couple of years ago I wrote that it’s all over now, Albion Yard doing its final show at Warley 2013, or that was the plan. https://albionyard.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/its-all-over-now/ However one show which I’d been asked to do but never managed … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursday Pannier

Posted on April 28, 2016 by bawdsey

Well here’s a throwback for you. It’s a 1950’s era OO gauge Pannier. Today it has a retro sort of charm to it, with it’s cast body and basic chassis. Powered by an Triang XO3 motor through what looks like … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursday Flying Scotsman

Posted on February 25, 2016 by bawdsey

This is a real throwback for me, I can remember as a kid my father taking me to see Flying Scotsman come through Welwyn North one cold frosty Saturday morning. Today after a long and controversial overhaul the locomotive is … Continue reading →

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MRJ 245

Posted on February 20, 2016 by bawdsey

A shameless plug for my favourite magazine MRJ. This issue sees Geoff Forsters Llangunllo featured, regular readers may well have seen the links to Geoffs work on the blogroll on the right, if not follow either of these links http://radnorailways.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 … Continue reading →

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