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Been pondering a little micro layout while work commences on my train room! I’ve gathered some info and even made up the platform sign So workbench gone most materials packed away hopefully work on the room will be done by Christmas it’s only a tart up but there’s also a bathroom floor to lay...

This build will prove interesting, on a couple of counts. First, it's my first ScaleSeven loco commission. Second, it's a "Small Prairie", but not quite as we know it. Back in the early 1900s, George Jackson Churchward, chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway, was looking to...

Hi guys Just joined and thought I'd say hello and bit about me My names Brian ,I'm a south Yorkshire lad from Barnsley and into the old railways around here especially the GC and LNER I've just started planning my layout of a lifetime which will fit in my 22foot by 10foot loft My new...

With the pending MOK 9f kit getting closer it would be nice if we could start a 9f detail thread.. If this is out of place here then moderators please feel free to move or delete. Anyone who has close up detail of any 9f alive or now scrapped please feel free to add you photos. Please keep them...

A bit of a bonus as I was driving past Rhyd Ddu on the Welsh Highland this Saturday was this pair of Garratts on a photo charter freight train.

Hi All For you steam & LMS/BR people here is a taster, see my Flickr link for a further selection including night photos. This was from a Russ Hillier Photo Charter as a part of the the 50th Anniversary of the end of steam at Barrow Hill. Dave

Following the demise of my previous garden line, I've spent most of this summer and autumn replacing fences and starting on the build of another garden railway. The big difference is that this new one is a continuous circuit to exploit the use of my live steam engines - something my end to end...

In the current Model Engineer - No.4514, 7th to 20th August - there is a very go0d article on a live steam G1 model of the LMS Turbomotive which might be of interest to live steam fans. I also dug up a video of it running at a G1 show in France. Jim.

Hi, The great advantage of doing something entirely new with a different philosophy is the opportunity to have fun. Part of that is that I can go where I want to rather than think about period or livery or region as is necessary with Heyside. I'm still thinking about the how of the garden...

Yes the scatter gun has been out so for a change of scale I dragged this shelf queen out of storage. It's a convoluted story but I ended up with this Aster kit for the Titfield Thunderbolt. However if built straight out of the box it would end up like this...

The thread title will make sense when I explain this build is an Austerity 2-8-0, and the client's chosen loco ended its days at Aintree 27B. This commission build is of the JLTRT WD kit. It's a mixed media kit, with the usual mix of resin, etched and cast metal. Forgive me for not...

Not great news but I've just seen this happen at Quorn and Woodhouse GC, I think she ran through the trap point protecting the main line. Gala weekend over for her then !! No one hurt which is the main thing, Mick