Category Archives: Inspiration

Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway #1

Posted on May 8, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

Summer has arrived on the May Day bank holiday weekend – unheard of!  On Sunday, we paid a visit to the Bredgar & Wormshill Railway (B&WR), and their model railway exhibition. It proved to be an excellent day out.  Kerry … Continue reading →

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Full steam ahead

Posted on May 6, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

Some excellent photographs from Simon this time, who writes…. A few pics from my trip on the KESR a couple of weeks ago – got to open gates, shovel coal and drive the loco! Beautiful mogul, Norwegian, built in Trollshaven. … Continue reading →

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Mid-Hants Railway

Posted on April 30, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

A few shots of the Mid-Hants Railway from Ron.  Note the beautiful spring weather….

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Little and often

Posted on April 27, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

Wise words from Jason Shron of Rapido Trains: Last year, I hardly made it down to my model railroad room. It became more and more difficult to face what is supposed to be my favourite place in the world. Thinking … Continue reading →

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This is what sound should sound like…..

Posted on April 24, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

There’s been a bit of discussion recently on a couple of forums about sound on model railways.  (Including the horrors of being on a stand next to a modern diesel depot with all the locomotives on loud tick-over – or … Continue reading →

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Links whilst we play trains

Posted on April 14, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

A few links for today.  I’ll hope to get a first report of the ESNG show up on Monday. How about a model of Kim Jong-un’s armoured train?  You make have difficulty modelling his haircut in ‘N’, though.  Lots of … Continue reading →

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The next project(s) #2

Posted on April 5, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

Somehow, the mojo has been sorely missing over the past month.  I’ve had a rethink about my N-club modules – nothing major – and have been thinking this through.  And life has been a bit busy – too many days … Continue reading →

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How do you choose?

Posted on April 3, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

Mojo not in good shape this week, so another interesting quote from Mike Cougill’s OST Blog…. How do you choose between two or more equally compelling options? That’s the situation a number of us will face at some point in … Continue reading →

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London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2018 #3

Posted on March 30, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

We’ll start today with some thoughts on layout design.  It is noticeable how the classic branch line layout has been supplemented at shows by the ’roundy-roundy’ with few points.  It was interesting to compare a few of those layouts on … Continue reading →

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London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2018 #2

Posted on March 28, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

Durham Road TMD followed the standard loco shed conventions that are quite common now we all have too many locomotives.  But this is an excellent example of the genre, especially due to the size, being in ‘O’ gauge, and with … Continue reading →

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