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New Wagon Project

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November 14, 2023
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London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866 (GOLD)As the weather has turned colder and outside tasks become more difficult, the Thompson coach, usefully located inside the shed, has been able to see a little more progress. The recently…

Removing the tram tracks

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November 13, 2023
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One of the trickier tasks I faced with transforming the setting of my inner-Melbourne HO Scale shelf layout to the NSW North Coast, was removing the tram tracks that once ran down the middle of the Philden Street overpass. They were anchored down to th…

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Auckland public transport boost ready to roll after $100m upgrade

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November 13, 2023
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One of Auckland's biggest completed public transport projects in recent years gets its first big test on Monday, with the start of Western Express services

The wrong time of the year.

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November 12, 2023
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With this being the run up to the Santa services I was reminded of a visitor to Orton Mere Station some years ago. She asked if we had thought of running the Santa services in the summer when the weather was warmer and often sunny as it would encourage more people to book! She then …

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Rhiw running session

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November 10, 2023
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A decision was made to have regular running sessions for the current exhibition animals. This rather than the last minute check before a show. This week Rhiw came out of the box and some of the new stock was introduced, the short wheelbase pickin…

Sacrificing length for functionality

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November 10, 2023
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For a small and simple layout such as this, it wasn’t really necessary to draw a track plan on paper before I started constructing the layout. All I needed to do was draw the track plan directly onto the sheet of 596 mm x 1200 mm x 7 mm plywood, and ma…

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Why the Waiheke ferry is public transport but fares won’t be regulated

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November 10, 2023
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The government won’t step in to regulate ferry fares on the downtown Auckland to Waiheke route even though its been deemed an integral part of Auckland’s public

Parkside vac-braked minerals

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November 7, 2023
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The weekend saw a push to get a rake of vac-braked 16 tonners painted up. These representing what must have been the last use of these on scrap traffic. With four left to do it was a case of looking at Paul Bartlett’s excellent wagon photo site an…

Keeping within 1st Radius

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November 7, 2023
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For some modellers the sight of a 600 mm x 1200 mm x 7 mm sheet of plywood isn’t going to do much to excite the senses or go too far towards completing the benchwork in your walk around model railway plans. So when the sheet measured only 596 mm wide x…

Seething station

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November 5, 2023
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Only a few details and some scenic patching to do now, all well ahead of the deadline of Beccles on June 1st. Most of this scene is either s/h junk or other peoples chuck-outs. I bought a bag full of tatty trees off a club stand and refurbed a co…