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I think a different hobby does help, I have my fly fishing 2 days a week during the season and over the last 12 months I have been involved with building the boat pictured. We built this for our local community to use on the local Loch. This has not taken me away from my trains, but probably increas...

I think my first loco was a small tank engine by Triang with the spring loaded pickups Christmas 1950 with a few wagons and a brake van. Followed by Princess Elizabeth and two coaches the following year after much saving and earning of pocket money, the layout was sold in 1958 to assist in the purch...

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Another gem!!!

Back to the drawing board, as Bigmet said it is not perfect, but it’s my layout and I’m not a rivet counter, but I was not totally happy with the Louvre vent rebuild. Which got me thinking what would a workshop do in this situation with no spare vent and no way of repairing the old one. They would f...

Hi all I have been looking for a Class 50 for a while now, when i spotted a "new but damaged" one on the Bay., after studying the pics closely I decided to have a punt! According to the seller he had damaged the grills on one side and broken the sole plate under the cab while removing the ...

No 3046 New Zealand Railways, Wellington docks
Sorry not in sequence.


The next photo will be DP1

I have two class 20s on the same address, they work well together nose to nose, but I have never tried the at each end of a rake wagons or coaches.
Note to ones self must try it

Last time Petersspare had some con rod i bought all three, failing that you can get the one to solder together and ream out the hole from Brassmaster

I have the same type of light as FB, I use mine for fly tying mostly, would not be without it.

I bought two motors from Oliviers, just in case! I made a puller from two pieces of flat bar and some screwed rod and using an off cut from a solenoid point motor pin managed to extract the fly wheels. Not an easy job which occasionally leads to expletives, However I found the main problem with the ...

I'm not fussed about boxes, my stuff lives on the layout, in the draws of a plan chest, (just deep enough for 00 models) or in a couple of display cases, but whilst I have the space to store the boxes I will, someone may be glad of them one day. I'm the same as John, on the layout, but just a few i...

Iv'e seen a few idiots cutting oil drums with disc grinders and oxy/acet to make BBQs. They actually go with quite a bang if you leave all the bungs in! Only saw it once in the UK but many times overseas. I saw a team of painters use a 45G one as a bath! these guys were painting steel work out in th...

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A few examples here, re steel drums they rely on the standard signage OSHA for safety of contents

"Trainz"? think it's an Ozzy thing, but it's not free

This will mean an Elf and Safe Tea inquiry of course, you could be facing charges of failing to inform the local rodents of potential electrocution , lack of warning signage. I trust you have a Risk Assessment in place!!!!