Tag Archives: Hobby

Forest of Dean Lines Book review

Forest of Dean Lines & the Severn Bridge Price £30.00 ISBN 13: 9781899889 98 3  http://lightmoor.co.uk   This is Volume 2 of British Railway History in Colour from Lightmoor Press. Volume 1 dealt with the Wye Valley lines and north … Continue reading

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200 Not Out …

In the way that odd or interesting numbers sometimes appear on the car dashboard, an interesting one has appeared on the dashboard here on’t blog. That number is two hundred thousand. The number of hits the blog has achieved since … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday 64xx 31-637

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New Life ..

You could say that the hobby at the moment is better than its ever been, new companies and new products and techniques than we have seen before. We can pick and choose what we want, because there is so much … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday 5201

Double click images for bigguns…

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Independence Day

Firstly to all my American readers, have a good Independence Day. I find it genuinely warming to see the way the US, and other countries for that matter, embraces and celebrates its history and culture. But what might independence day … Continue reading

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700 Hornby Hat Trick R3240 Drummond Review

So far this year Hornby have definitely be hitting the back of the net with their locomotive releases. The K1 and J15 have both been well received and provided much encouragement that Hornby are back in the saddle. The latest … Continue reading

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Bob Barlow, au revoir

greystarpublications.com It’s with great sadness that this weekend I learnt of the passing of Bob Barlow, editor of Finescale Railway Modelling Review, Narrow Gauge and Industrial Review, and previously editor of Model Railway Journal. It came as a bit of … Continue reading

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Never mind the bollocks,

‘Most people don’t understand how to change and readily accept the formats that are given to them.’ Author Mr Johnny Rotten Well if that one sentence doesn’t sum up the overriding conservative, sometimes moribund attitude of railway modellers to the … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday Bachmann 08 32-102

Posted in Branch Line, brassmasters, DCC, dcc sound, hobbies, Hornby, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Photography, social media, toytrainset, train set, wordless wednesday | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment