As mentioned in my previous post, I’m currently focused on building around the main country station and the road and level crossing area next to it. The station is based on the Yorkshire pattern which is seen on lines such Continue reading
It’s that time of year again when the evenings are drawing in, Strictly is on the TV and I need something to occupy myself to cope during all the waffling and therefore I get pulled back into modelling. This has Continue reading
About three weeks ago I posted some images of the pub which I had built for the railway, so close on the heels of that post is this one talking about building the shops which will be on the other Continue reading
At the end of December I did a post talking about building the interior to the signal box. Since then I’ve kept up the modelling and have been working on the combination of station and level crossing, which in turn Continue reading
Since getting back into the model railway I’ve been doing new things that I never did when I had a layout when I was young. For example I’ve been playing with DCC control, wiring point motors and building control panels. Continue reading
This year may have been thin on posts on here, however that doesn’t mean that nothing has been happening. Well not completely nothing anyway, but time has been busy and so some things have happened but I’ve not had time Continue reading
This post brings together the work done this year on the viaduct on the model railway. So while I’m publishing this now, the photos and work covers a longer stretch across this year and was completed about a month or Continue reading
Time for one of those erratic updates with some progress from the model railway! Over the last couple of months I’ve been doing a lot of wiring to bring all the point motors and additional sections of track that were Continue reading
Many things we didn’t expect have happened over the last 18 months, but one of them that I hadn’t planned on particularly was that I would change job, however that has happened this year and has been a really good Continue reading
Well, once again it’s been a much longer gap than I intended on updates. Ironically having been through various lockdowns, being stuck at home, not allowed to do a lot of things you’d have thought I’d have managed to make Continue reading