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Although we announced the dates for this years show some time back we've been fairly quite given the current climate, however we are hopeful that we should be able to proceed with the show in March. This year we move to the Heritage Centre at Crewe over the weekend of 26th & 27th March. On top...

I thought long and hard about creating a new thread for my Garden layout but it doesn't really fit with the layout thread or my workbench so here it is. As this Covid thing has put pay to all last years jollies and we wont be going far this year either progress has been made on the house and...

Earlier this year we had a new shed in the garden mainly for my modelling, but also to store some garden bits. The long term aim is to get the 7mm running around the garden but now winter has set in there won't be any further garden progress. Now with this years difficulties Cam and I have not...

We're pleased to announce our Road-map for the next 18 months and its an exciting action packed one. MIOG LIVE Starting off with MIOG Live on the 24th/25th October 2020, we'll be hosting a 2 day online live event from Simon Georges Heaton Lodge Layout. You'll be able to watch all of this from...

Well, I wrote a whole load of spiel here about the background for our new layout, the idea behind it and all sorts but I have just lost it all so tough, I may come back and add some details another time. That'll teach me to write straight into a forum rather than do my usual trick for long...

Hello there, after designing and building many layout which have been subsequently dismantled, I thought I would give it another try and here I am with a fresh start. After returning to the hobby only about a month ago, I started drawing up plans on what would become a southern region terminus...

As I mentioned in my thread on my 54E layout, since my accident I have been unable to do much in the way of serious modelling and that lead to some 'chaffing at the bit'. I had already bought a couple of Heljan diesels to run on friends layouts when a chance conversation at an exhibition about...