Tag Archives: Branch Line

J15 R3232 Red Box Review

One of the latest items released by Hornby is the Great Eastern Wordsell designed Y14. The type first entered service in 1883 and was reclassified to arguably its more common designation of J15 after Grouping by the London & North … Continue reading

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And relaaaax….

Its been a bit quiet on the blog front of late, and that’s because I’ve been working on a large writing and modelling project with my good friend Paul Lunn. It has re-fired the brain cells though with quite a … Continue reading

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Narrow Gauge & Industrial 101

101. Sometimes referred to as the starting point or base line experience, the origin I believe from within the US education system. An introductory point. NGI 101 breaks a few rules right from the start in terms of UK magazines, … Continue reading

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Hornby. Hitting the right notes in 2015?

Well it’s very nearly a year since the last foam filled festival of angst and fundamentalist fervor. In one sleeps time will Hornby hit the right notes with, (allegedly), two new steam engine projects, a passenger coach, (singular), and a … Continue reading

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Who Pays the Piper

An interesting debate has broken out, and been locked, (no change there then) in a small corner of the interweb. It all kicked off because some one asked an event organiser if their show was a commercial show or not. … Continue reading

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Severn & Dean

You’ll note a new page on the blog, this is to cover the larger layout project, the post below is the first page entry. Today’s been an interesting day having the privilege of watching Chris Nevard http://nevardmedia  take pictures of … Continue reading

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Destination Anywhere

Well, its more destination ‘AnyRail’, than anywhere actually,  https://www.anyrail.com and that’s where some of the schematic plan above has come from. More of that later .. I’m at one of those stages where you have a number of ideas/projects all running … Continue reading

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY No.2

Posted in blog, blogging, canon, hobbies, Kalmbach, life, media, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Photography, social media, wordless wednesday | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Space, The Final Frontier II …

Last night I had the real privilege of meeting a hero, they, (whoever ‘they’ are), say you should never meet your hero’s for fear of disappointment, but this was a real pleasure. The hero wasn’t a person, but a layout, … Continue reading

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THIRTY!

Tonight, thirty years ago, as the doors closed at Scaleforum, Paul Karau, Gerry Beale and Bob Barlow arguably instigated one of the biggest changes in the UK’s model railway publishing, with the decision to produce a magazine dedicated to ‘finescale’ … Continue reading

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