Category Archives: life

Pannier Progress

Posted on September 18, 2011 by bawdsey

I make no apologies for another image of 3737, it’s one of my favourite locomotives. It’s basically the Bachmann Branchlines OO model that I’ve re-numbered weathered and today spent an hour opening the rear cab doors and windows. It’s a … Continue reading →

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Manchester 2011 Preparations

Posted on September 17, 2011 by bawdsey

It seems odd that almost a year to the day on the ‘Bawdsey’ blog I was writing about the final preparations for taking that layout to Manchester. A year on I find myself in a similar position. I’m now into … Continue reading →

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DCC Sound Bachmann Pannier

Posted on July 19, 2011 by bawdsey

This article was originally written for the Railway Modeller magazine to look at how easy it was to fit a DCC sound system to a small locomotive and in 2007, was one of the first such installations of its type. … Continue reading →

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Keeping Up Appearances

Posted on June 22, 2011 by bawdsey

In the previous post I mentioned the next big thing will be the backscene. Well the photo backscene has arrived and I’ve been trying it out today. The early results are quite promising, though an issue with it is the … Continue reading →

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Work in Progress

Posted on June 18, 2011 by bawdsey

This 37xx is appropriate for the Forest of Dean area, based on a image from the Ben Ashworth collection. It’s a Bachmann model but has been modified with a South West Digital sound chip and speaker from a standard non-dcc … Continue reading →

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‘Albion Yard’ Cinderford, Glos.,

Posted on June 13, 2011 by bawdsey

In pretty much the first posting on this blog I wrote that work on Albion Yard had stagnated, I’d also had an accident with the layout in storage damaging some of the track, and that has pretty much been the … Continue reading →

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New Directions

Posted on January 23, 2011 by bawdsey

Albion Yard is just one of the projects I have under way at the moment, surprisingly it’s been in progress for about eight years! This blog was initially to record the progress of the work I did for the layout, … Continue reading →

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Reprise III

Posted on September 12, 2010 by bawdsey

The planning is now pretty much finalised, a single line extension to one of the sidings. The useful feature of having detachable buildings is that I can re-arrange them to suit a new scenario. Above you get an idea of … Continue reading →

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Reprise II

Posted on September 3, 2010 by bawdsey

This week the layout has been reassembled in preparation for a new phase of work on it. At the moment it’s standing without any buildings permanently fixed allowing me to spend looking at the structure of the layout, its track … Continue reading →

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