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Warehouse Wednesday - Chapel come garage
This is a weird one. Spotted on the road to the Snaefell Mountain Railway sheds, a cute, and very modelable chapel. With a row of lockup garages built on the back. I know no more, and certainly can't...
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Can Ragleth save the day?
I really want to take two locos to the club steam day. The Peckett has a boiler certificate, and digging through a boxfile of correspondance (Including the hate mail I've recieved while editing mags....
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Plaster N gauge buildings
Three, very nice, N gauge (OK, scale, but you know what I mean) buildings, for a fiver. Thanks Elaine's Trains at TINGS. Apparently, they were part of a much larger collection, that mostly sold out on...
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Saturday Film Club: Steam day 2023
Steam day was fantastic. Please sit back and enjoy some slightly low-resolution (Didn't set the compact camera properly) film of the action. Sorry there's only one steam boat, things were a bit hectic....
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009 Society 50th Anniversary show
What a terrific day. There's no argument. This collection of 009 layouts, brought together at Statfold Barn to celebraite the Societies 50th borthday, was superb. It would be hard to pick a favourite...
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Marmagne SNCF
Simon posted last week - "I've had an interest in French railways (real and model) since the seventies, a Jouef model of the red and cream Draisine in your photo bought from the local model shop was...
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Ragleth runs
After the embarassment of leaving the blowdown valve bung at home, I thought Ragleth stll deserved to streatch its legs on the club track, so I dropped in there just before dusk last Thursday for a...
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Waterborne Wednesday: Liverpool workboat
A mystery from my Manx trip. Spotted in Liverpool, while we waited to board the ferry, was this boat with a crane on the end of it. Oddly, I didn't take many photos, mostly because the view was...
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Ye Olde Toy & Model Shop - Douglas, Isle of Man
A new addition to the Douglas shopping experience, Ye Olde Toy & Model Shop is handily placed for an excellent cafe, at which we enjoyed a late lunch thanks to the MER being packed, forcing us to...
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I hate model railways
A stuffed cat with a fine selection of badges spotted at a recent photoshoot. The thing is, I suspect I know where these came from. The L&WMRS has a badge machine, and in the 1990s, we made a lot...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: Making Minifigs
OK, I love learning how things are made, and find the machines used to do it fascinating. A Lego mini figure is quite a simple toy, but the process to produce one, and the kit that does it, is...
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Stafford 2023
In brief - excellent show. Wel laid out, plenty of visitors and some excellent (with one exception) trade. I did so much chatting that I didn't get as much layout watching as I wanted in. Never mind,...
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Too much DCC
Making it to the Stafford scond-hand stall before most of the crowds, I picked up a few bargains. Starting at one end, I spotted an interesting 009 loco for a tenner. The guy running the stand was the...
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Sentinel
"+ wheels and motor" - music to the model railway kitbuilders ears. Everything being in the box means no extra cost, or rooting around trying to complete the kit. Maybe said mechanical bits are...
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Waterborne Wednesday: Magellan Delta
My parents have been on holiday in Cornwall, and return with some boat photos. The one that really caught my eye was the Magellan Delta - lovely sleek lines. A little digging took me to the builders...
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Crooked House in BRM
One main project for me in November's issue of BRM - if you've been looking at the news in the last few months, you'll have heard of the Crooked House pub. This apparently, well loved hostelry, was...
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Monorails in Magazines 1918-1971 by Paul Langan
Monorails have been a technology that is coming soon for at least a century. Paul Langan has retyped 20 articles from old science magazines extoling the virtues of the latest monorail type scheme. Each...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: Moving millions
London Transport has always fascinated film makers - so many stories to be told of how the system, and it is a system, managed to move people around a busy metropolis.
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Elsecar (Barrow Hill) 2023
With the Elsecar Heritage Centre full of builder at the moment, the Yorkshire garden railway show has had to decamp to Barrow Hill roundhouse for a couple of years. From my point of view, this means...
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Gaseous emissions
O gauge kits mean big lumps of brass, and for soldering these together, there's nothing better than a small gas torch. Using one allows me to blow solder along any joint, with the stuff running like...
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