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Its been a while since I last looked at this layout, though the photos don't seem to show up anymore. Are they still accessible to see the layout again?

Thank you for the wait. So here is the current progress of the layout. Starting off fresh, I began making up the baseboards. I was lucky enough to measure the boards on the original layout as well as the timber that was used to make the frame works. The frameworks are 36x18mm timber to which 9mm MDF...

It has been a good while since I last updated this thread. Since my last post here, I haven't been keeping up with the progress on the new baseboards. True, I had made a start on them but I was starting to loose interest int he build as there were other items that were requiring my attention. Howeve...

I'd better share an update regarding this layout. It has been a few years now since I made this thread, and during then there has been small updates to the layout which soon lead to it's downfall and where it is now. In my last post, the layout was going through it's stages of having it's track laid...

More work last night on the NWR sees most of the Main Line, baring the return loop and the terminus of Tidmouth, completely laid out and ready for painting and ballasting. In turn the Ffarquhar Branch has also begun it's route as far as the small quarry near the junction station and will continue on...

Belated happy New year to you all. With the holidays now finished for the time being, things have resumed for the construction of the NWR. After starting back on the Tuesday of this week, myself and the team began measuring and marking out where the board for Tidmouth was to go. The only issue was t...

So last night no more track was laid as we wanted to see about getting the next two boards fitted and see what way it's going to look. The board leading for Tidmouth was the first fitted and we noticed that we were 2ft short of what we needed. So this will need to be sorted once we get back from the...

Some more progress this evening. We got the main line section of Knapford Junction laid and ready to start connecting it to head towards the terminus of Tidmouth. But we've still yet to make that board so we can start that come the new year. In the mean time we're going to finish up the junction on ...

If you mean the first engine that ran the original layout, then yes, a certain blue engine will be operating on this layout alongside replicas of other engines that also ran on this layout. Though due to issues that one particular engine has, this is mainly due to the way the original manufacture de...

A few months ago I joined a Men's Shed which had formed in my nearby town and it was there that an old friend of mine had decided to set up a model railway club there. he'd been trying to find a suitable location for it to be set up but could never find the space. Here however he was given a space a...

Right so apologies for lack of updates. So what way are we with Ffarquhar Mark II? So in the last post I showed that the two board frames were now made up and ready for the top surface. Like with the original, the top surface was made using hardboard. Now this will sound odd as hard board is mainly ...

OK progress has started on this project. Yesterday I began on making up the two baseboards for the main station area. The fiddle yard will be built once I get more timber bought but for now we'll focus on the station section. https://i.imgur.com/8UXOE6N.jpg https://i.imgur.com/jpT3Vwx.jpg Now the ti...

I'll ask you the same question that someone once asked me, "Why are Stepney's coupling rods upside down". My answer was that there was insufficient clearance to stop the tabs, which are supposed to represent oil pots, fouling on the underside of the footplate, and I'd not got around to fi...

So a little update for everyone. For those living in Northern Ireland will know that the Ffarquhar Branch will be returning to this years friends of Cultra show held at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. The night before the show The layout will be featuring on the evening programme, UTV Life. In...

What a remarkable recreation of an icon. Ahem, I do rather prefer them without the faces, but that begs the question, when did the faces come in to being, or did the 1950's technology didn't lend itself to faces, (unless one wanted to carve it out of plaster)? There was an article in an issue of Mo...