Blogs about Railway modelling
15 blogs about Railway modelling.
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BRON HEBOG
A blog about a 009 narrow gauge model of the Ffestiniog Railway and Welsh Highland Railway.
By Rob Waller. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Minffordd Update: What's New in 2024 An update to this blog is severely overdue, it appears. I hadn't realised it had been so long since I had last posted.There's been no big leap forward since the autumn but there have been …
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Chris Ford model railways
A blog about model railways, model railroads, model buildings, model scenery, trains, locomotives and model layouts and diorama.
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The return of Half Acre With the delivery of a small 009 layout to Devon came the return of a previous build. Half Acre was a mess right from the beginning; started during lockdown when the world and his wife …
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Chris Nevard Model Railways Blog
I've been into photography, railways and modelling them in miniature for over 40 years.
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Computer Glitch Due to a computer malfunction, for even when computers were made of polished mahogany, brass, Welsh marble, lithium crystals and powered by pigeons, things could still go wrong. A computer controlled signalling error at Neasden …
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The chronicles of the Isle of Stoner
A blog about my 009 modelling and The Isle of Stoner Railway.
By Lord Stoner. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Round the houses and some new engines too Since my last post on here I've actually done quite a bit of modelling so I'll start in no particular order with a loco kit I swapped for a 'Dolgochification' kit. I had intended to …
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esngblog
The East Surrey N Gauge blog keeps you up to date with what’s happening in the club, and gives news and views on N-gauge modelling generally.
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Chatham & District MRC Exhibition 2024 #3 Here we go again with a third set of layouts from the Chatham show… First, Northport Quay, David Holman’s cameo layout set in County Mayo. 7mm/ft, and real 5’3″ gauge – with handbuilt track to …
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Exhibition Layouts - Modeling Hints - Large Scale and Other Reviews
What I Have Learned modeling the Oahu Sugar Company in Fn3 (1:20.3) in a diorama style layout using Llagas Creek Track.
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Helpful Hint - Applying Wood Grain to a Trackside Details TD-39 Toolbox Nicholas Kalis May 2024Helpful HintThis nicely detailed brass toolbox is meant for attachment to my Fn3 tender on my Oahu Sugar Company. I particularly liked the hinge detail on this casting - even its modeled …
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Gallimore Railroading
A blog about model trains and other hobby projects.
By Galen Gallimore. More infoUpdated
Patience, Risk, Reward Work on the "Putnam", the 2-8-0 kitbash I had begun a couple years back and recently resumed, had stalled. The nature of this hobby and the flow of my daily life during the summer had …
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Kanada Rail
Model rail line in Kanata Ontario Canada.
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N Scale addition Adding 70ft of N-scale layout and some overview picturesKanata Rail overview pictures Feb 2024:
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The modelling workbench of James Hilton...
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Friday Update: Twenty-six Seven Twenty-four… Holidays? What are they? To be fair, I'm not working - but looking after the kids isn't exactly relaxing - but can be rewarding and I've managed to slow down a little and almost feel …
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Model Railroad Minutiae
Modeling and modeling ideas for my 1939 era HO model railroad - the Royal Oak & Southern, plus other things I find of interest.
By Stan Knotts. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Old crane truck model I built this crane truck using an old plastic military style truck and a commercial crane part along with various other parts and scraps. Above is a front view. There is a ladder on the …
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Phil's Workbench
A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
By Phil Parker. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Cav'ndish brass tension locks Here's a new, vintage, product to me. A bag of what I think are stamped (not etched) brass, tension lock couplings. The mounts suggest 1960's or 70s Hornby replacements, but smaller than the Margate originals. …
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Pottendorf
By Tim Hale. More infoUpdated
A journey from here to there A personal philosophy In order to be a modeller of railways there needs to be a model railway. It doesn't matter if it is a loft or an Ikea box, there has to be a …
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Prince Street
By Chris Mears. 🇨🇦 More infoUpdated
child, model railroader, parent, adult; one. “For the kids”. And there it is among a stack of ways to promote the hobby. I’m totally not special but I also feel like I was born a way that made model railways soothing, …
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Southern Railway, Fisherton Sarum, Canute Road Quay & Westhill Road
The model railway world and mainly Southern Railway meanderings of Graham 'Muz' Muspratt.
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Workbench Witterings #25 Canute for Cantue Road Quay – a PD&SWJR inspired might have been The Southern Railway inherited a small number of oddity locomotives including three from the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PD&SWJR) that were ordered from Hawthorn Leslie and Company . It was these locomotives, …
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West Halton Sidings
A bit of North Lincolnshire on the North Lindsey Light Railway.
By James Wells. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Critical Infrastructure Don’t do critical things when you’re ill; out just enough to cause a derailment. And more embarrassingly the A and X chairs are the wrong way round, embarrassing because I used to do the real …