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Category Archives: Midland Region
Lost Diesels, Lost Lines (Review)
In a, ‘Does what it says on the tin’ kind of way, this book pretty much does that. This is a new Transport Treasury album that covers diesels that are withdrawn, and closed lines, so this book is very much … Continue reading
Posted in b&w, black and white, blog, book, book review, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, Eastern Region, finescale, great britain, Great Western, history, hobbies, Hobby, Inspiration, Layout, layout design, library, life, LMS, LNER, man cave, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, new release, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Photography, product news, prototype, railroad, railway, reading, reference, research, review, Scottish Region, Southern Region, throwback thursday, TT, TT Gauge, Uncategorized, Wales, Western Region
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Transformation Tuesday Heljan TT 31
Please don’t forget as you join your local interweb cake and arse party, that to participate you need to ignore the following; UK mainstream 7mm RTR doesn’t exist, there’s no market for it. UK mainstream 009 RTR doesn’t exist, there’s … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Eighties, finescale, foamathon, Hattons, heljan, hobbies, Hornby, Inspiration, Interweb, Layout, life, Midland Region, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, Modelu, new release, news, Oxford rail, peco, Peco TT, product news, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie, toy train, track, TT, TT Gauge, Uncategorized, Western Region
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Transformation Tuesday
Twelve hours To foamathon 22. Sounds exciting!
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, British Rail, dapol, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Eighties, finescale, Hattons, heljan, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, man cave, man-cave, Midland Region, Modelling, new release, news, Oxford rail, peco, Peco TT, product news, Rails of Sheffield, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, seventies, toy train, transformation tuesday, TT Gauge, tuesday transformation, Western Region
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Transformation Tuesday, Relax…
Well what’s the transformation then? Beer? nope, no change there, DMU?, nope, no change, a shelf layout?, nope, still no change. The reason for popping the top off this cool one, is the transformation in operating this layout, Shelfie 3. … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, dapol, DC, DCC, DMU, Eastern Region, Eighties, finescale, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, Layout, LED Lighting, man-cave, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, railroad, railway, Rapido Trains, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie3, toy train, transformation tuesday, tuesday transformation, Uncategorized
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Wordless Wednesday (or rather speechless!)
Posted in 2FS, 2mm, accurascale, Bachmann, British Rail, DCC, Eastern Region, finescale, Hattons, heljan, hero, HO, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, life, man-cave, Midland Region, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, realism, scale, scale modelling, skill, toy train, Uncategorized, Western Region, wordless wednesday
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Heljan OO class 45
At Heaton Lodge Junction’s exhibition in Wakefield, Heljan have a small display case with some of their latest tooling and EP’s. One of those is the Class 45 in OO. My initial thoughts are that it captures the look of … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, British Rail, dapol, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, Hattons, Heaton Lodge, heljan, HO, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, new release, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, product news, railroad, railway, Railway Modeller, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train show, trainset, Western Region
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Wordless Wednesday Heaton Lodge
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, British Rail, dapol, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eighties, Exhibition, great britain, Hattons, Heaton Lodge, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, realism, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, woodland scenics, wordless wednesday
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A Train Set The Size Of a Boeing 747
Recently I’ve been helping out Simon George with his O gauge Heaton Lodge project, click the link for a real time stroll down its frontage. This week the final preparations and installation of the layout at Wakefield Market Hall has … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, B747, Bachmann, baseboards, blog, British Rail, DCC, dcc sound, djh, Eighties, Exhibition, finescale, Hattons, Heaton Lodge, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, Jumbo jet, Layout, LED Lighting, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, national train show, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railroad, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, realism, scale, scale modelling, skill, toy train, train set, transformation tuesday, Uncategorized, woodland scenics, Yorkshire
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Motivation Monday Spaghetti
Wiring. Yuk. If there’s something that slows a project down for me it’s wiring up a layout. Pretty much everything else I can crack on with, but this bit, it’s a real chore even for a simple three point layout. … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, baseboards, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DC, DCC, dcc sound, DMU, Eastern Region, Eighties, Exhibition, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, monday motivation, motivation monday, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railroad, railway, realism, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, Southern Electrics, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, train set, Uncategorized, video, Western Region, youtube
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Heljan Class 104 DMU
The first public image of the CAD’s for the 4mm scale class 104 DMU have been released today. With several detail differences to be produced this is good to see progress on this project which has suffered delays due to … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, British Rail, Cameo layout, copyright, DCC, dcc sound, DMU, Eastern Region, finescale, fridayfunday, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, Layout, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, new release, news, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, product news, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie3, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, train set, Uncategorized, Western Region
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