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Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway #1
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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Tagged exhibition, inspiration, model railway, narrow gauge
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1971 – April – “Gricers” reach Wales
The April 1971 edition of Railway Magazine contained an article informing us that there were still seven classes of steam locomotive operating in Malaysia. They had certainly all gone by 1985 when Maxine and I took a train from Kuala … Continue reading
Posted in Prototype, Uncategorized, Weird and wonderful
Tagged humour, narrow gauge, prototype, railway
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Welsh Highland Railway
My old colleague Roger sent me these lovely shots of trains on, and views from, the Welsh Highland Railway through Snowdonia. I’m also told that the pub in the background is wonderful, and as the banner claims, won a pub … Continue reading
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Tagged inspiration, narrow gauge, prototype, railway
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‘OO’ Locos – Jon’s old trains #4
Last of my old ‘OO’ stock packed away were a number of Southern Railway locomotives. The two tank engines both run on the old Hornby ‘R1’ chassis. The ex-LSWR ‘G6’ on the left was my first cast kit (by Wills). … Continue reading
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Tagged irish railways, model railway, narrow gauge
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‘OO’ Coaches – Jon’s old trains #3
From Irish narrow gauge to Southern coaches. Here are a few of my early efforts. Some of my first successful scratch built models were this SECR ‘Birdcage’ rake. They never got lettered or lined, but weren’t bad at all. Note the open … Continue reading
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Tagged irish railways, model railway, narrow gauge
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Forgotten Dreams – Jon’s old trains #2
Most modellers have what is generally known as a ‘gloat’ box – but mine must be worst than most. I’ve been excavating some more, and have come up with all sorts of things. A lot of them I’d forgotten completely. … Continue reading
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Tagged irish railways, model railway, narrow gauge
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Living in the past – Jon’s old trains #1
Not much progress on the modules since coming back from Hong Kong, but I decided it was time for a real turnout of my storage boxes of trains, dating back nearly 50 years. It’s time to keep a few things, and … Continue reading
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Tagged irish railways, model railway, narrow gauge
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Kuranda Scenic Railway
Back to Australia and North Queensland for this post, and a few shots of the Kuranda Scenic Railway. Wikipedia tells you that: The Kuranda Scenic Railway runs from Cairns, Queensland, Australia, to the nearby town of Kuranda. The tourist railway … Continue reading
Sugar cane railways – 2
Back to Australia and North Queensland for this post. A day exploring inland, more or less at random, discovered the sugar cane processing plant at Tully (well, actually, I worked out where it was, and found it by ‘accident’). The … Continue reading
The (very little) night mail
Fascinating article from the BBC on the Post Office Railway (otherwise known as mail rail). This driverless narrow-gauge line carried mail for over six miles from sorting office to sorting office under the streets of London from 1927 to 2003. That fount of all knowledge … Continue reading
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