A new strategy from the Greater Wellington regional council is another step towards public control of the bus network. It will be “back to the future”, said cha
Auckland Council’s move to explore seeking a law change giving it more direct control of transport planning in the city is a sign of frustration with the curren
I’ve just spent the past three weeks downstairs in the garage weathering a small empire of Australian HO scale models. Many were simply over-purchased ahead of sitting down to write my Model Railway Weathered Wonders book. With the project now finished…
A cost blowout on the disruptive rebuilding of track foundations under Auckland’s rail network has required extra funding, and left open questions about how and
This lasted a little under a month, with Te Huia returning to Auckland Strand Station from Monday 7th August 2023. That week saw Te Huia offering free rides to
This latest batch of Weathered by Philden models is being listed on eBay this evening. Regular readers of my blog get first notice before they go live, as my last batch of GY wagons were all snapped up immediately by the one person. This time I’ve weat…
The lobby to bring rail back to Whanganui and other provincial districts has been gaining momentum in this election year, and political parties are being urged
After releasing my Model Railway Weathered Wonders book in August, you’d think that I’d be well and truly sick of weathering any more models. However, in not knowing how many different examples I needed to show within the book’s pages, I was left with …
Wellington has traditionally had the best developed and most used public transport network in Aotearoa. As at the 2018 Census, 18% of workers and 21.7% of stude
One of my
companions on my Model Railway journey is the National Model Railroad Association
(NMRA). It might seem strange to credit
the association, but without them, I doubt the hobby, and my own modellin…
