Tag Archives: Layout

Hornby Masterclass Peckett W4 R3427

Posted on December 25, 2016 by bawdsey

Perhaps the phrase of the latter half of this year regarding a few ready to run locomotive releases has been ‘gamechanger’. Go back a couple of years or so and there’s no way you’d have thought that sobriquet could be … Continue reading →

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Driving home for Christmas

Posted on December 23, 2016 by bawdsey

A couple of years back in the run up to christmas, and a hundred thousand or so less hits ago, Davide at thenightflier blog, kindly allowed me to link to his ‘Drivers’ view from the office  albionyard/skyward-head-in-the-clouds/. It was a popular post, showing … Continue reading →

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Inspiration #2, and Authenticity from Warley

Posted on December 1, 2016 by bawdsey

From the earlier post from-warley you could almost think I’ve gone all Southern returning to my roots and all that stuff! Well fear not, the Forest of Dean is still very much in my thoughts regarding a larger multi location … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday, Dapol’s 08

Posted on November 23, 2016 by bawdsey
Posted in 2016, Branch Line, British Rail, Canon G10, copyright, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, flying scotsman, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Inspiration, Kalmbach, Layout, LMS, LNER, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, Nevard, O Gauge, o scale, Oxford rail, Rapido Trains, review, Scottish Region, Southern, Southern Region, toy fair, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, Western Region | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Wordless, or rather, Costless, Wednesday

Posted on November 9, 2016 by bawdsey

An intriguing press release has come my way from Sarah Palmer at Mortons Media http://www.mortonsmedia, a well known UK publishing house. The release introduces a new railway modelling magazine set for release at Warley in a few weeks time. No … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday (wonderful wagons)

Posted on October 26, 2016 by bawdsey

  

Posted in 2016, Airfix, Bachmann, blogger, Branch Line, British Rail, Eastern Region, finescale, flying scotsman, Great Western, HO, hobbies, Hornby, humour, Layout, LMS, LNER, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, Nevard, O Gauge, o scale, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, Rapido Trains, Scottish Region, social media, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, wagon, Western Region, wordless wednesday | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Wordless Wednesday (R3243a)

Posted on July 13, 2016 by bawdsey
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Throwback Thursday, better late than never …

Posted on July 8, 2016 by bawdsey

A few weeks ago on a Thursday, I wrote about using double sided tape to hold down or rather ‘up’ Tortoise point motors. albionyard-back-on-track/ Well all went well overnight, or part of it. In the morning I arrived to find … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursday, its all over now …

Posted on May 5, 2016 by bawdsey

Well a couple of years ago I wrote that it’s all over now, Albion Yard doing its final show at Warley 2013, or that was the plan. https://albionyard.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/its-all-over-now/ However one show which I’d been asked to do but never managed … Continue reading →

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Hornby Super Eight

Posted on April 12, 2016 by bawdsey

For the 200th post here I think we’ll have a look at a good easy step into ‘Finescale’. ‘Finescale’ is an odd thing, its a bit like pornography, in that I’m not sure I can define it, but I know … Continue reading →

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