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Throwback Thursday Pannier
Well here’s a throwback for you. It’s a 1950’s era OO gauge Pannier. Today it has a retro sort of charm to it, with it’s cast body and basic chassis. Powered by an Triang XO3 motor through what looks...
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Throwback Thursday, its all over now …
Model Rail/BachmannMR108 USA Dock Tank Well a couple of years ago I wrote that it’s all over now, Albion Yard doing its final show at Warley 2013, or that was the plan....
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Derby 2016
Derby show this weekend is the good quality show that it is known for. Albion Yard however has developed a voracious appetite for DC controllers lunching two of them, for no apparent/logical reason....
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Throwback Thursday, back on track!
A while ago with ‘Shelfie’ I fixed the track and fitted point motors https://albionyard.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/superquick-track/ Whilst I’d been a bit ‘sketchy’ as the yoof would have it by using...
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Toady Tuesday
Nope, not the shuffling queue of hooded, hook nosed disciples heading to a convenient internet portal to join the weekly disembowelling of a toy train manufacturer, but an update on my Toad. A year...
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Throwback Thursday, better late than never …
A few weeks ago on a Thursday, I wrote about using double sided tape to hold down or rather ‘up’ Tortoise point motors. albionyard-back-on-track/ Well all went well overnight, or part of it. In the...
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Many Happy Returns..
Like most of us I spend a good deal of time thinking and planning future projects, and sometimes help others with theirs. What you see above is just that, in the foreground is some 3D ‘thinking’....
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Tracing Tuesday
Wiring up continues with temporary switch locations for DC isolating sections. Once the sections are tested I’ll remove the switches and trace the wires into the main loom to the control panel. The...
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Throwback Thursday (just do it..)
Today I’ve been tidying the workbench and office area where I do my modelling. If you’re like me that’s akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic for all the good it’ll do! I did find some...
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DJM J94 Review. Setting Higher Standards?
DJM J94 OOJ94-001 OOJ94-002 OOJ94-003 OOJ94-004 OOJ94-005Well the DJM J94 is out and on the streets. This is the first product developed solely by DJM rather than working in one format or another as a...
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Manic Monday
4mm scale shackles. If I give up the day job I could try out as a jeweller! A mix of frustrating, and satisfaction assembling these, and remembering to breath…
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