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Odd modelling ideas #20171
A couple of interesting modelling challenges from the Daily Telegraph for the New Year…. First, the Crystal Palace Subway. It’s been more than 60 years since a train last pulled up to the forgotten station – but this beautiful underground heritage … Continue reading
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Links to end 2016
If you, like me, are still working off the Christmas Day turkey (or cod for our Scandinavian readers….), here are a few links to read. First the Southern Railways epic fail award #1. If you can’t get it right on … Continue reading
Minories #3 – alternative Minories…..
The last couple of posts on Minories have given enough ideas for any number of successful layouts. But I’ve been playing around with the basic idea, and have a couple of ideas that could have some mileage. Firstly, Minories on … Continue reading
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Christmas greetings
Wishing you a blessed and peaceful Christmas 2016. This is perhaps one’s ideal for Christmas – steam and snow…. But this may be more like it – critical sections of the railways closed while they try and catch up with … Continue reading
Minories #2 – Out in the suburbs
If you leave London, and head to the other end of the commuter lines, a Minories like design, sort of ‘mini-Minories’ is another option. Iain Rice published this excellent design, loosely based, I think, on the outer-London terminus at Caterham. … Continue reading
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Minories #1 – the original design
There are few model railway plans that can be deemed ‘classic’. One surely must be the late Cyril Freezer’s ‘Minories’ plan. The plan was the result a flash of inspiration whilst waiting for a train, then some doodling to try the … Continue reading
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‘Sorry’
The Daily Telegraph came up with this intriguing website…. Fed up railway commuter builds website to track every time a train operator apologises Delays, cancellations, strikes, overcrowded trains and irregular services: millions of British commuters know the pain of travelling … Continue reading
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New Edinburgh station
I must have spend 15 years or so involved in the river works around Edinburgh Airport, that is adjacent to the River Almond and the runway and terminal are on top of the flood prone Gogar Burn. It was interesting … Continue reading
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Three links for Thursday
Three links for this Thursday. First the BBC visits Baghdad Central station. It’s an interesting and sympathetic article, interviewing a veteran train driver. The state railway’s heyday, when it offered luxury travel to Jerusalem and even as far west as … Continue reading
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Ron’s Rambles #2
More of Ron’s pictures, this time from Leipzig. First, the railways. Seeing the ‘McCafe’ reminds me that the inventor of the Big Mac died this week, age 93. Perhaps he never ate his own invention to get to that age! … Continue reading
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