This post brings together the work done this year on the viaduct on the model railway. So while I’m publishing this now, the photos and work covers a longer stretch across this year and was completed about a month or Continue reading
Time for one of those erratic updates with some progress from the model railway! Over the last couple of months I’ve been doing a lot of wiring to bring all the point motors and additional sections of track that were Continue reading
Many things we didn’t expect have happened over the last 18 months, but one of them that I hadn’t planned on particularly was that I would change job, however that has happened this year and has been a really good Continue reading
Well, once again it’s been a much longer gap than I intended on updates. Ironically having been through various lockdowns, being stuck at home, not allowed to do a lot of things you’d have thought I’d have managed to make Continue reading
In the previous update I started writing about how the wiring of the layout works and focused mainly on the power to the track and control of the actual trains would be handled. This is fine for running trains up Continue reading
I was on Google Photos the other day and it highlighted photos from the same dates in previous years and made me realise that I’d been working on the railway now for just over 4 years – the earliest photos Continue reading
Following on from the recent post about building the control panel for the model railway I thought I would start a series of posts looking at some of the wiring work behind getting the model railway functional. While the control Continue reading
Following a recent significant life event that happens but once per year a couple more items of rolling stock have found their way to the model railway, so I thought I would add some photos of them to the blog. Continue reading
This last week was half term, and in a change to the usual model railway posts I thought I’d share a few photos from our recent break. At the start of the week we went to Fountains Abbey in North Continue reading
I’m very aware the blog has been quite on progress around the actual layout for the last 18 months or so. The reality is that most of last year and the early part of this year went into building an Continue reading