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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…

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Why privatising public transport doesn’t work

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November 4, 2023
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Since the late twentieth century, governments have selling off our buses, trains, metros, trams, ferries… you name it! But do we, the passengers, actually ben

Scandinavian filth

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November 2, 2023
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A shuffling of trestles and stock boxes saw Svanda set up and run. It needs a little bit of a clean and there was a conversation about upgrading the scenics. Running wise there were no major issues (or none that we weren’t aware of) and it enters…

Narrowing my modelling projects

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November 2, 2023
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With so many half completed model railway projects either underway or accumulating in boxes in the wardrobe, last month I had one of those honesty sessions with myself where I asked; ‘just where are you going to find the time to complete any of them?’ …

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Arrival of first new Interislander mega-ferry delayed

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November 2, 2023
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The arrival of Interislander’s first new mega-ferry has been delayed by five months to avoid Cook Strait’s busy summer season. In mid-2021, KiwiRail signed a $5

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Future of long distance passenger rail services

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November 1, 2023
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With the recent Government's parliamentary Transport and Infrastructure Committee inquiry into the future of inter-regional passenger rail in Aotearoa New