Hornby Q6 is added to the fleet
The Rede Valley Railway is finally getting the engines it needs to make it look authentically in...
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Stephenson Road
An inglenook shunting puzzle
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Stephenson Road is born
Every model railway needs a back story, whether it is a real location or a fictitious one. My...
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Hornby Q6 is added to the fleet
The Rede Valley Railway is finally getting the engines it needs to make it look authentically in...
Computer control
LatestWhich Railroad & Co products do I need to evaluate?
One of the key tasks for the forthcoming week is to start properly evaluating Railroad & Co vs JMRI. So far the hardest part is working out which railroad & co products I think I need. A readers of previous posts will...
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LatestTrain detection and DCC – some armchair musings!
One of my reasons for adopting DCC was my requirement for some degree of automation of the layout, so that it could be operated single handedly in as near a prototype fashion as possible where using traditional cab control would...
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Waverley Route – David Spaven
A trip into my favourite local bookshop yesterday revealed a Waverley Route title I’d so far...
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LatestWaverley Operations
The Working Timetable for the Waverley Route in 1953 is shown below Downloadable PDF Share...
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LatestECML Operations
The winter 1950 working timetable for services between Alnmouth and Berwick upon Tweed which includes Chathill is shown below: Downloadable PDF The summer 1955 working timetable showing all movements in and out of Newcastle...
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Great new downloadable kits
More and more downloadable building kits are becoming available and there are now several...
A New Year resolution – back to layout building and blogging
The last blog post was in February 2015 and the last one to do with any progress on the layout is over a year old. 2014 was really a year of no modelling whatsoever. Stevenson Road is still sitting with electrics and track...
Read MoreTurnout modification for reliability and DCC
There is a great DCC myth that you need to modify all your turnouts to work with DCC. This really isn’t true, and my Rede Valley layout has been operational for some time using PECO turnouts straight out of the box, mainly...
Read MoreYork Model Railway Show 2013
York has become a regular Easter outing, and while Wife and daughter explore the shops I watch the trains. The exhibition seemed to have a huge Welsh theme this year but typically I stayed true to my roots and modelling...
Read More300 square inch layout challenge
My club Bassetlaw has just launched a competition for members. The challenge is simple; build a diorama in no more than 300 square inches using RTR equipment. The entry would have no further constraints; any scale gauge shape...
Read MoreAny Waverley Route Fans in East Midlands?
There is a talk on the Waverley Route at Bassetlaw Railway Society on Wednesday August 22nd at 7;30pm The talk will be given by BNNRS club member Ben Eckersley. This is sure to be of interest to any Waverley fans in the Retford...
Read MoreWhich DCC software package
Is Railroad and Co. worth using? That’s a question that has come to the forefront of my mind in the last 24 hours. I’ve used JMRI decoderpro and Panelpro for some time, mainly because these are open source, well...
Read MoreVisit to Roy Jackson’s Retford Tonight
Roy Jackson has been building an EM scale model of Retford in the 1950’s for some time. I first came across this amazing layout a number of years ago in Model Railway Journal. At the time trains were running but little was...
Read MoreHornby Live 2012 Hartlepool 7/8 July
The highlight of my Sundy was a trip to Hartlepool and Hornby Live. The show has a new venue, in Hartlepool College of Further Education, and this provided a very pleasant bright and airy space to view the exhibits. As in...
Read MoreGresley Full Brake arrives from Hornby
Finally it has arrived, the 61′ 6″ full brake from Hornby, in both LNER teak and BR Maroon. I had hoped that this would be available for Christmas, and was quite disappointed when it didn’t arrive under my...
Read MoreBassetlaw Railway Society
I’m currently working for a client in Nottinghamshire, and this has me located in the Retford area most weeks. Last week I went along to the Bassetlaw Railway Society, and before the evening was out I’d paid my...
Read MoreDeltic in action
It’s been a while since the last post, life has just been too hctic over the last 3 weeks or so. In the absence of being able to write something meaningful I thought I’d share some Deltic footage I found on You Tube....
Read MoreWaverley Route featured in March Model Rail
The new edition of Model Rail is a Scottish special to coincide with Model Rail’s sponsorship of the Model Rail Scotland exhibition at SECC Glasgow on February 24-26. Under the title “Taming the Border Lands”...
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