As mentioned in my previous post, I’m currently focused on building around the main country station and the road and level crossing area next to it. The station is based on the Yorkshire pattern which is seen on lines such Continue reading
It’s that time of year again when the evenings are drawing in, Strictly is on the TV and I need something to occupy myself to cope during all the waffling and therefore I get pulled back into modelling. This has Continue reading
About three weeks ago I posted some images of the pub which I had built for the railway, so close on the heels of that post is this one talking about building the shops which will be on the other Continue reading
At the end of December I did a post talking about building the interior to the signal box. Since then I’ve kept up the modelling and have been working on the combination of station and level crossing, which in turn Continue reading
Since getting back into the model railway I’ve been doing new things that I never did when I had a layout when I was young. For example I’ve been playing with DCC control, wiring point motors and building control panels. Continue reading
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
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
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
So here we go with part 3 of the progress of building a Scalescenes engine shed, but not just one of them, but three joined together to make a larger shed. If you’ve not already done so then it’s worth reading through Continue reading
Back in April I posted about the fact that I had started building a Scalescenes engine shed. Off and on since then in evenings while watching TV the work has been continuing. So about time to show the progress to date…… Continue reading