slaters

This is my next build for HMRS in Scale 7. As with the Kirtley Goods described here, Slaters MR/LMS Kirtley 0-6-0 Goods (Johnson) 7L007, there is less than no clearance between the splashers especially across the smaller section over the coupling rods. I have sent the O gauge wheels to...

From the Slaters kit with a few minor tweaks. BR unfitted brake van from LMS diagram D2068. Number M731497, one of the last brake vans built to this design. Built in the period 1949-1950 and entered service with the M prefix under British Railways ownership. It's been a bogey project for a few...

I joined the Scale 7 Group at Telford having volunteered to build the Slaters MR/LMS Kirtley 0-6-0 Goods (Johnson) 7L007 (Slater's Plastikard - MR/LMS Kirtley 0-6-0 Goods (Johnson)) for HMRS to run on Dewsbury Goods. I usually model in O gauge...

Sometimes it does seem that Basilica Fields - a tale of everyday wagons in the black country to the east of the City of London - has been running for as long as the people of Ambridge have been supping in their local... and then there is a step forward in the development of the project. This...

Well you see, it's not my fault - I went to the Central Southern 0 gauge do last Sunday and made the basic mistake of taking my cheque-book, with unused cheques in it! And well, Peter and Geoff manning the second hand stall are mates (and co-operators of Wadebridge 1860s) and there was this kit...