Tag Archives: Branch Line

Model Rail Live Update

The layout doesn’t go to many shows and will only got to a couple of shows before its retirement in 2013. One up and coming show with a good mix of model and prototype interest is Model Rail Live at Barrow … Continue reading

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Parklife …

PC84 GWR 10 Ton Goods Van Mink A  Dia/V12, V14 & V16 At Aylesbury Railex exhibiton in late May, Parkside released their latest 4mm scale kit. This is for the GWR Diagram V12/V14/V16 10T goods van. The prototype era spanned … Continue reading

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Several Shades of Grey, Some Say, as Many as Fifty …

In another ’15 minute hero’ heres how to get a better looking planked finish to a wooden floored wagon such as bogie bolsters or flat wagons. As you can see from the image below (Mainline Bogie Bolster), the ready to … Continue reading

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Albion Yard’s Trees

One of the things the people seem to respond to most when they see the layout, are the trees. The core of these are made from plastic armatures from C&L finescale. At Railex, http://www.railex.org.uk/ Peter from C&L wasn’t sure if the … Continue reading

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Mags and Mountains …

September 2012 Railway Modeller To date there’s not been much in this blog section regarding the build of Albion Yard and how its developed over the years. In this Septembers Railway Modeller the layout is featured in a break from … Continue reading

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108 Connections

This was the result of one of those ‘good ideas’ you have from time to time. For my EM layout Bawdsey http://bawdsey.wordpress.com/, I’ve been building up the motive power and stock to reflect Eastern Region Practice in the late 1950’s … Continue reading

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MSE 4mm Signals (Ready to use)

Model Signal Engineering 4mm Steel Tube LMS/BR ‘Home’ Signal In the early 1930’s the LMS was finding good quality timber for signal construction expensive and difficult to source. One of the alternatives chosen was steel tube, this subsequently became very … Continue reading

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The Impressionists ..

These are the latest vehicles for Albion Yard, two kits that have been sitting around for a while. One thing I regularly do is make a short cut to achieve an improved visual appearance, whilst not getting bogged down with too … Continue reading

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Bank Holiday Workings

This bank holiday gave me a few opportunities to do some extra work for Albion Yard. One of the things I want to do is to establish the layout in the Forest of Dean with some more visual clues. The … Continue reading

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The Curse of Albion Yard …

Railex 2012 Review ‘The Curse of Albion Yard’ The weekend potentially started with very bad news, and nearly ended that way too! Wednesday was a day I was looking forward to finalising a few details and getting the train set … Continue reading

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