Tag Archives: Forest of Dean

Balancing Act

Posted on October 25, 2012 by bawdsey

This week I’ve had both Albion Yard and Bawdsey up for a digital meejah project. It’s been interesting doing a compare and contrast between the two layouts and styles. They have similar footprint dimensions but have a very different execution … Continue reading →

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Albion Yard on the Telly

Posted on October 16, 2012 by bawdsey

Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be in the woods in Gloucester! http://www.steamon.tv/ Tonight both Albion Yard, and my mate Paul Lunn are on telly, ‘Steam on TV’ to be precise. It looks to be an interesting venture, and at short … Continue reading →

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Model Rail 2012, Barrow Hill, Thank You!

Posted on September 26, 2012 by bawdsey

Thank you to everyone who popped by over the weekend, we had a really good time at an event that was well organised and was very different to other exhibitions we’ve been to over the years. In terms of visitors … Continue reading →

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Model Rail 2012 Barrow Hill

Posted on September 21, 2012 by bawdsey

Today I’m packing the train set and setting up at Model Rail Live at Barrow Hill, Chesterfield. Theres a new train, see above image, based on Ben Ashworth and Ian Pope images of the Berry Wiggins Bitumen trains, I’ve re-lettered … Continue reading →

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Model Rail Live II

Posted on September 15, 2012 by bawdsey

Here’s a bit of a clue as to the changes made since Railex and indeed the September Railway Modeller, they involve a significant change to the buildings, more track, a new train, in the literal sense, and more trees. Theres … Continue reading →

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Model Rail Live Update

Posted on September 8, 2012 by bawdsey

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 …

Posted on September 5, 2012 by bawdsey

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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Albion Yard’s Trees

Posted on August 24, 2012 by bawdsey

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 …

Posted on August 17, 2012 by bawdsey

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

Posted on July 8, 2012 by bawdsey

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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