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Category Archives: Manchester
The Christmas Show Manchester 2018
If you’ve got time tomorrow, this years Manchester Show is really worth making the effort. If you like Minories, and BR Blue, Alan Whitehouse’s Hallam Town in 2FS will float your boat, Geoff Kent’s sublime Black Lion Crossing features EM … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, christmas, christmas show, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, EM, Exhibition, finescale, Great Western, gwr, Hattons, heljan, hobbies, Hornby, Inspiration, iphoneography, justdoit, Kalmbach, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, life, LMS, LNER, Manchester, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, Western Region
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Setting the Scene
Last week I had the privilege of a call from Roy Jackson asking for a few of my thoughts. A brave man. So I gave him a few of them and then we got on with the matter in hand. … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, Cameo, Cameo layout, canada, Chris Nevard, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, EM, Exhibition, finescale, Forest of Dean, Great Western, HO, hobbies, Hornby, Industrial, Inspiration, Layout, life, Manchester, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, Nevard, O Gauge, o scale, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, Rapido Trains, Scottish Region, shelfie, social media, Southern, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, trainset, Uncategorized, Wales, Welsh Marches, Western Region
Tagged Bachmann, Branch Line, Canada, Exhibition, HO, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, life, media, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, nevard, OO, Railway Modeller, toytrain, trainset
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The Peninsula Club
Is that where he’s been, The Peninsula Club? Low cut dresses, heels and G&T’s by the bucket load. That’s enough about what I do at the weekend though. The Peninsula. In the UK a pretty rare piece of layout design, … Continue reading
Posted in blog, British Rail, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, hobbies, Hornby, laramie, Layout, life, Manchester, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, research, Scottish Region, shelfie, toy train, toytrainset, train set, Uncategorized, Western Region
Tagged Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, Exhibition, HO, Hobby, Hornby, laramie, Layout, manchester, media, mmrs, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, nevard, o scale, OO, Railex, Railway Modeller
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Manchester 2015
This weekend I have ‘Shelfie ‘ at the Manchester show. http://mmrs.co.uk/exhibition/ Barnes Wallis building Manchester University. We also have one of the USATC Engineering prototype dock tanks from Model Rail/Bachmann with us. Harwood Room, Stand 4, next to Pete Kirmonds … Continue reading
Posted in Bachmann, blog, christmas, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Layout, life, magazine, Manchester, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, shelfie, social media, toy train, toytrainset, train set
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The Other 02
Much frothing has taken place over the past few weeks regarding 02’s of the steam engine variety, I’ve not seen one yet, though Warley show beckons and I may catch up with one there. With the Warley show coming up … Continue reading
Posted in Bachmann, blog, brassmasters, hobbies, Hornby, Layout, life, Manchester, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, OO Gauge, paint, research, skill, skillset, toy train, toytrainset, train set, Uncategorized
Tagged 02, Bachmann, blog, brass, craftsman, etch, HO, Hornby, kit, Layout, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, nevard, OO, Railway Modeller
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Some Might Say …
As remarked upon in my previous post there are a good number of people in the hobby that spend far too much time telling you how something should be done, what can be done and what can’t be done, with … Continue reading
Posted in Airfix, Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, canon, Chris Nevard, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, humour, Kalmbach, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, Manchester, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Railex, Scottish Region, shelfie, Southern Region, Uncategorized, Western Region
Tagged Bachmann, Branch Line, Canon, Canon G10, Exhibition, HO, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, life, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, OO, photography, Railex, Railway Modeller
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Warley & The Digital Backscene
This weekend is the final show for the layout, and we are stand B50 at the NEC Warley show. One of the main features of the layout is the backscene, which is a digital print. It is one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, canon, Chris Nevard, copyright, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Ian Futers, Kalmbach, Layout, LMS, LNER, Manchester, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Photography, Railex, Scottish Region, Southern Region, Uncategorized, Welsh Marches, Western Region
Tagged Bachmann, Branch Line, Canon, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, nevard, OO, photography, Railway Modeller
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Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
Perhaps that genuine buzz looking at the who’s who of names from the history of our UK branch of the hobby engraved in the Visitors Cup, is a touch of what it feels like to be a rock and roll … Continue reading
Posted in Airfix, Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, canon, Chris Nevard, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, humour, Ian Futers, Kalmbach, Layout, LMS, LNER, Manchester, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Photography, Railex, Scottish Region, Southern Region, Uncategorized, Wales, Welsh Marches, Western Region
Tagged Bachmann, Canon, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, HO, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, life, media, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, nevard, OO, photography, Railex, Railway Modeller
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Manchester, Wonderwall, Eeee, Cup of tea anyone? ….
This weekend its the Manchester show, and Albion Yards penultimate showing. Its been a couple of weeks since Model Rail Live at Newark where Albion Yards own ‘wonderwall’ the seamless backscene, was one of the features of the layout that … Continue reading
Posted in Airfix, Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, canon, Canon G10, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Ian Futers, Industrial, Kalmbach, Layout, Manchester, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Scottish Region, Southern Region, Uncategorized, Wales, Western Region
Tagged Bachmann, Branch Line, Canon, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, HO, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, nevard, oasis, photography, Railex, Railway Modeller, wonderwall
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Model Rail Live Visitors …
Model Rail Live was a really nice exhibition to do, not only because it was so near! We had a good few visitors who came and said hello which was very nice, myself and John, Ian and Phil appreciated that. … Continue reading
Posted in Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, canon, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Industrial, Layout, LMS, LNER, Manchester, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Photography, Scottish Region, Southern Region, Uncategorized, Welsh Marches, Western Region
Tagged aberbeeg, Bachmann, Branch Line, Canon, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, HO, Hobby, Hornby, kernow model centre, Layout, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, nevard, OO, photography, Railway Modeller
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