Basingstoke Scruff's Junction (S7) at Basingstoke Show 8th / 9th March 2025

[Spike]

My layout is going to be at this show appearing as "mostly complete with some bits to be finished".

Scruffs is a Forest of Dean layout depicting services in the Edwardian period with excursions into the late 50s.

Details of the show are as follows

Basingstoke Model Railway Exhibition 8th & 9th March 2025


Location: Blue Coat School (formerly Aldworth) , Western Way, Basingstoke RG22 6HQ


Times: Saturday 10.00 - 17.00 Sunday 10.00 - 16.00


Admission £10, accompanied children FREE

Photos taken yesterday at the test day
Class 517 departing with a set of three Clerestory's, Photo by Nick Hunt (@magmouse)


Same train leaving - Photo by James Taviner (friend who photographs both model and real trains, can be found on facebook under Southern Steam Lad Photography)


Photo by James Taviner

Photo by James Taviner

Regards
Peter

 

[john lewsey]

Fabulous

 

[Osgood]

The scrub is delightfully - scrubby.
Maybe you could run us through how you achieved the effect?

 

[Heather Kay]

The scrub is delightfully - scrubby.
Maybe you could run us through how you achieved the effect?

Try here:

7mm - Scruft's Junction:- Down the Garden path

 

[Osgood]

Try here:

7mm - Scruft's Junction:- Down the Garden path

Thanks, Heather - so its postiche and scatter a la Gravett, and very prickly it looks.

 

[Dog Star]

Thanks, Heather - so its postiche and scatter a la Gravett, and very prickly it looks.

Tony,

A bit more than that. Keep on reading the topic to the post(s) about flowering period for Blackberry and Brambles, some of the scrub has flowers from white and from pink fine ground scatter. If you cannot see the flowers in the photos then please feel the need to visit the show!

Rgds, Graham

 

[john lewsey]

Who made the coaches?

 

[Dog Star]

Who made the coaches?

I wish that I knew because I do not know.

I bought the three coaches from a bring and buy table at a S7 event - maybe six or seven years ago, certainly BC (before covid). The models are not RTR and not kits. Genuine scratch builds with a mixture of materials, mostly plastic with some pine strip and hardboard sheet, bogies appear to be hand made. There are some castings. Couplings are CPL fitted after purchase.

All are to Diagram C10.

Rgds, Graham

 

[timbowales]

I wish that I knew because I do not know.

I bought the three coaches from a bring and buy table at a S7 event - maybe six or seven years ago, certainly BC (before covid). The models are not RTR and not kits. Genuine scratch builds with a mixture of materials, mostly plastic with some pine strip and hardboard sheet, bogies appear to be hand made. There are some castings. Couplings are CPL fitted after purchase.

All are to Diagram C10.

Rgds, Graham

If they are all dia C10 all thirds where does the guard ride?

 

[Dog Star]

If they are all dia C10 all thirds where does the guard ride?

In a goods brake van which has a brake setter, that van ran a hot box on the morning of the photos and was given a red card.

 

[Jordan]

Scruffs is a Forest of Dean layout depicting services in the Edwardian period with excursions into the late 50s.

There's a fair bit of interest in the F.o.D. railways these days (guilty as charged) but it does tend to be the 50s/60s years of decline (also guilty as charged). Pre-Grouping is certainly different and a much more colourful and prosperous looking Era to model.

 

[Dog Star]

Jordan (@Jordan), generally, you are correct about years of decline.

And yet, for the S&W line from Parkend out towards Drybrook Road the photos in "BR lines in colour", vol.2 FoD Lines and Severn Bridge show pride in the job and cleanliness in locos - so that is why our 1950s stock is still in RTR condition.

Rgds, Graham