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TV Centre Update

Posted on 2nd March 2015 by John

    In a classic case of having time to stop and write something, this post is about 3 weeks later that it should have been!  It appears that on Monday 9th Feb (3 weeks ago today) Stage 6 of Continue reading →

Posted in Television & Media | Tagged 2015, BBC Worldwide, Photos, Television Centre

Test track baseboard complete

Posted on 17th February 2015 by John

    On Sunday, since it was a nice sunny afternoon I took the opportunity to build the baseboard for the model railway test track.  The main board – 22mm plywood – was an off cut from the local B&Q picked Continue reading →

Posted in Model Railway | Tagged 2015, Baseboard, Model Railway, Test Track, Trains

New Television Centre Photos

Posted on 3rd February 2015 by John

One of the side effects of the snow this morning  was that I picked up the camera when I went out to take some photos of the snow.  As a result I took the opportunity to do something I’ve been Continue reading →

Posted in Television & Media | Tagged 2015, BBC, Photo Gallery, Television Centre

Snow Photos

Posted on 3rd February 2015 by John

So in Southern England we’ve seen the first real snow this year – yes the north has had it already, but this is the first time the south has had a proper quantity, so what better excuse to post a Continue reading →

Posted in Life | Tagged 2015, Chessington, Garden, Snow

Designing The Layout

Posted on 29th January 2015 by John

In my post earlier in the month I wrote about my aspirations for the layout and basic thoughts about what I wanted to achieve.  I’ve also written around the computer software available for designing layouts, so in this post I Continue reading →

Posted in Model Railway | Tagged 2015, Canal, Gradient, Layout design, Model Railway, Station, Viaduct

Train list

Posted on 27th January 2015 by John

One of the most important things that a model railway needs is the actual rolling stock to run on it.  So what better to do a blog post about than the trains that I’ve got.  However it was only when Continue reading →

Posted in Model Railway | Tagged Class 03, Class 150, Class 220, Class 47, EWS, Model Railway, Trains, Trucks

Model Railway Design Software

Posted on 25th January 2015 by John

In thinking about planning a model railway I spent some time a while ago playing around with some of the different software for designing a layout.  This was quite a surprise to me to discover there was dedicated software out Continue reading →

Posted in Model Railway | Tagged 2015, AnyRail, Layout design, Model Railway, SCARM, Software

Railway first thoughts

Posted on 7th January 2015 by John

Many years in the thinking and planning, some bits purchased or given, will 2015 finally be the year that sees the start of building the model railway..?? So what are my thoughts so far: Background I had a model railway Continue reading →

Posted in Model Railway | Tagged 2015, Arduino, DCC, JMRI, Model Railway, Occupancy Detection, Raspberry Pi, Signalling, SPROG

New WiFi system for church

Posted on 7th January 2015 by John

Our church has had broadband for probably getting on two years now.  The idea was to allow people who need email/web access to be able to work from the onsite office.  It also means there is now WiFi available as Continue reading →

Posted in Church, Technical & Computing | Tagged 2015, Church, Guest Access, Raspberry Pi, Ubiqiti Networks, WiFi

About time for another post….

Posted on 30th December 2014 by John

As 2014 draws to a close its probably about time for another blog post….. Well it has been over 18 months since the last one! Need to try and do better in 2015. I’d like to sit here and write Continue reading →

Posted in Church, Model Railway | Tagged 2014, 2015, Church, Model Railway

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