Well, once again I’ve failed miserably from the point of view of keeping the blog updated, however I do have an excuse. We spent most of last year working towards or on building an extension to the house. As such Continue reading
My aim for this year was to try and write blog posts more regularly, and have spend most of the last month off and on trying to write one around some of the work I’ve been doing on the wiring. Continue reading
Well it’s the start of another year, so time to do a quick post updating on the latest presents for the railway that I received for Christmas. Before I get onto I thought I’ve had a look back to the Continue reading
So this post has been a long time coming – the work it details was completed back at the end of the summer, however life has conspired in such a way that I’ve not had a lot of time in Continue reading
So one of the major scenic elements I wanted to get into the layout was a reasonable length viaduct. With model railways it’s very easy to create a layout that is completely flat by having a single flat baseboard, however Continue reading
It’s been quite a while since the last update on the model railway and work has been progressing along in various places. The last couple post have been around control and getting DCC to work on the Raspberry Pi, however Continue reading
About 6 weeks ago I posted about the saga I’d had getting DCC control working, and that I’d had to resort back to a very old desktop computer because of the issues I’d had with Windows 10. Since then I’ve Continue reading
This is a post that I should have probably put the first part of up a long time ago. Each time I’ve gone past Television Centre and taken a few more photos I’ve thought to myself “I really must get Continue reading
One of the areas that I’ve been playing with recently is that of how to control the railway. The traditional approach is simple and cheap and uses plain DC voltages to control everything, however there is a more modern approach Continue reading
Today marked a very important stage in the build out of the model railway with the running of the first train(s) on the actual layout. The last couple of posts (Track Laying – 28th Nov | Christmas Presents – 21st Continue reading