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NSWGR 40000 gallon locomotive water tank

Building a standard NSWGR 40,000 gallon locomotive water tank

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May 6, 2020
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Yes, it has been a while since I wrote anything in this blog, but I have been a little busy!

Let’s see, since my last entry in December 2017, I have:

dismantled Lambing Flat and moved house
got divorced
set up a new household with a new partner a…

Great Western Railway History: Then and Now

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June 8, 2019
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Great Western Railway (GWR) is proudly showcasing the history of their network and celebrating the rich heritage of Britain’s railways with brand new animated images By delving into the historical railway image archives and commissioning a photographer to capture the stations in their present-day glory, GWR has successfully showcased the gradual development of Britain’s railways over […]

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Wickham Trolley Restoration Project

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May 21, 2019
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The type 27A Wickham Trolley is a railway personnel carrier. British Rail used them to transport small groups of engineers to inspect railway lines. Over 600 type 27A Mk3 were built from nationalization of the railways in 1948 until around 1990 . They were used extensively over the whole of the British Railways network. Some also hauled four-wheel trailers which carried tools and equipment. Delivery of B40W On 20th February 2017, Wickham Trolley B40W was […]

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The old Lambing Flat website; risen from the dead!

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December 5, 2017
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An idle search on the Wayback Machine revealed that my old Lambing Flat website has been preserved, pretty much intact!https://web.archive.org/web/20060210021638/http://www.cia.com.au:80/bullack/index.html

Another video; shunting the pick-up at Lambing Flat.

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September 14, 2017
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This new mobile phone doesn’t take a bad video, if I say so myself!

This is a little ‘documentary’ showing how the pick-up detached some wagons at Lambing Flat. The 55 is definitely running beautifully now. If you can, watch it fullscreen o…

Some videos of Lambing Flat

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September 11, 2017
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I have very recently acquired a mobile phone that takes very good videos, so I had to try it out on the layout!

The first video shows 5165 exiting the loop with a goods train headed for Demondrille. The train is comprised mostly of loco coal in U…

Some of the new ‘intrastate’ stuff, Pt 1…

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August 22, 2017
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The constant deluge of r-t-r rolling stock does make it very easy to fill up the yards with lovely models of the delightfully picturesque wagons that kept the intrastate traffic moving back in the steam/early diesel era in which Lambing Flat&nbsp…

That damned ‘Pig’!

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August 16, 2017
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When I last mentioned 3607, my modified Austrains roundtop ‘Pig’ back in November 2014, all was not well, a situation that persisted for some time. It had reached the basic painting stage, as shown below:

But try as I might, I could not …

The ‘modern era’ comes to Lambing Flat: Bogie rolling stock

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July 31, 2017
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The Indian red diesels need something to haul, so, thanks to all the lovely r-t-r 1960s/1970s bogie rolling stock now available, it is a simple matter of pulling something out of the box, checking the couplings and wheels against the standards gauge, …

The ‘modern era’ comes to Lambing Flat: Indian red diesels.

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July 28, 2017
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With all the lovely r-t-r models becoming available over the last couple of years suited to the 1960s/1970s era, it has been hard to resist the temptation and stay true to Lambing Flat’s 1950s steam era ambiance. In fact, it has been impossible! Especi…