The other night I was fortunate enough to be invited to join the West Yorkshire Area Group of the Scalefour Society on a visit to see Steve Hall's Drighlington for Adwalton project. Steve is very well known within the model railway world for two things; firstly his involvment with Scalefour North an ....
This forms a post script to my previous post about 'Project 31'. The model was finished but West Halton, as well as Botanic Gardens, is intended to be DCC, so all the locos will, obviously, need to be appropriately equipped. I've chipped a lot of locos over the last few years for both others and mys ....
On Sunday morning we managed to squeeze in a visit to the Cleethorpes MRS' exhibition before I had to come to work. If you missed it, make an effort to attend next year as it's a little gem of a show - despite the appearance of being a 'typical' small club show, they always have some excellent model ....
A bit of a bonus at the National Railway Museum this afternoon! We went as Thomas had his next lot of injections this morning (all the ones a three year old boy has to have!) - 60009 Union of South Africa with an Up special in torrential rain! ....
After all my pre-show nerves last weekend passed too quickly. Unfortunately I wasn't able to do justice to the whole show, only managing to get a quick half hour on Sunday afternoon to have a look around. There were some excellent layouts on show. I was especially impressed by Melton Mowbray North. ....
Published last year by the Industrial Railway Society was Industrial Railway Locomotive Sheds by Adrian Booth. The author may be known to you if industrial railways are of interest. Irwell Press have published a selction books with his wonderful colour photos.In the beginning there were only industr ....
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway reopening following closure of it as a through route. A lot has changed since it was part of the national network, I suspect it now carries far, far more passengers than it ever did during its supposed 'heyday'. Of course the ....
Last night we went top see Eddie Izzard, and his Force Majeure tour. He remains my favourite comedian - the combination of observational and the surreal really appeals to my rather warped sense of humour! If you get a chance to see him, don't let it pass you by! ....
Well... my first exhibition this weekend and I think I'm all set up for the show at Cleethorpes: http://www.cleethorpesmodelrailway.co.uk/events.htm The curtain has been made by my very understanding wife and I think it is the finishing touch to the presentation. I'm very apprehensive as to how my l ....
I have just received a disc the some photos of the layout taken during S4N a couple of weeks ago when it was populated by locos and stock belonging to myself, Morgan Gilbert, Dave Holt, John Darch and Paul Hutfield - thanks chaps, I've never seen so many locos on shed.
John's fright pn the main line ....
Last night we saw Mitch Benn at Hull Truck with his Reduced Circumstances tour. Quite different from the other times we've seen him performing live - it's a one man show with no backing. He's perhaps best known for appearing on The Now Show on Radio 4 - and his show centres around his music as you m ....
It's been lovely weather in Yorkshire this week! The other evening we decided to make the most of it and go for Fish and Chips at Wetwang! Sadly Small Person fell asleep in the back of the car so missed out and we ate them in the car! Wetwang was, of course, on the Malton and Driffield Railway; a pa ....
This has been in the news recently. Perhaps a touch voyeuristic but it's an interesting video - a grandstand view of what happens. I won't speculate as to the course of events which lead to the loco passing the signal (he may have been authorised to pass it or he may not have been - something' ....
Last weekend was, of course, Scalefour North. It was a very enjoyable weekend, even if I didn't actually get to see much of the show itself. I spoke to a lot lovely people and had many interesting conversations. And it was so nice to have people coming up to me to tell me that they read my blog! I'm ....
Finally this project has come to an end! Well, nearly - there are still lights to be added but I really want a way to model these so they are quite discrete and not like Xenon headlights which seems to be an 'in' look with some RTR models.Now it's all be touched up and weathered, I hope all the sepe ....
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