This year may have been thin on posts on here, however that doesn’t mean that nothing has been happening. Well not completely nothing anyway, but time has been busy and so some things have happened but I’ve not had time 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
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
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
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
OK it’s now two thirds of the way through January, but since the last of my Christmas presents has now arrived I thought it would be a good time to do a post that shows a couple of the new Continue reading