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Wordless, or rather, Costless, Wednesday
An intriguing press release has come my way from Sarah Palmer at Mortons Media www.mortonsmedia, a well known UK publishing house. The release introduces a new railway modelling magazine set for...
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Throwback Thursday
Remember this post? https://albionyard.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/dapol-08-in-7mm-scale/ No, me neither, but two weeks ago there was a weighty arrival at the yard in the form of the newly released Dapol...
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Wordless Wednesday, Dapol’s 08
Dapol O Gauge 087D-008-000 7D-008-000D 7D-008-000U7D-008-001 7D-008-001D 7D-008-001U 7D-008-002 7D-008-002D 7D-008-002U7D-008-003 7D-008-003D 7D-008-003U 7D-008-004 7D-008-004D 7D-008-004U Dapol O...
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Warley 2016 Grab Shots #2 (The Canadians are Coming)
On Model Rail’s stand this weekend were several models of the LNER J70 locomotive. In partnership with Rapido, Model Rail is looking for expressions of interest from those interested in purchasing a...
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Inspiration from Warley #1
Well if you read the interweb too much it’ll range from, it’s too crowded there’s nothing to see there what’s all the fuss about, through to it’s the bestest thing evaaa!, and, an opportunity to...
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3D Developments
Of late I’ve been fortunate to see some of the really excellent 3D printing developments that are coming into the hobby. This weekend a PO wagon belonging to the Abdon Clee Stone Quarries on the...
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Driving home for Christmas
A couple of years back in the run up to christmas, and a hundred thousand or so less hits ago, Davide at thenightflier blog, kindly allowed me to link to his ‘Drivers’ view from the office...
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Hornby Masterclass Peckett W4 R3427
Hornby W4 Peckett R3427 R3428 R3429Perhaps the phrase of the latter half of this year regarding a few ready to run locomotive releases has been ‘gamechanger’. Go back a couple of years or so and...
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Orienteering, 2016’s Last Writes…
The last few hours of 2016 ticks away, outside low cloud envelops this deeply rural welsh valley and the log burner is crackling, filling the Barn with warmth. There’s no sound travelling up from...
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Creating Cameo Layouts (Iain Rice / Wild Swan Books)
Iain Rice is well known for his many books and articles on layout design, and railway modelling across a wide range of subject matter. ‘Creating Cameo Layouts’ is the latest modelling book release from...
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Notes from Olympia 1 (Toy Fair 2017)
Oxford Rail N7 OR76N7001/XS OR76N7002/XS OR76N7003/XSToday (24/02/2017) Oxford Rail announced a package of new products, of approximately 170 new items, 64 of them were rail related items. Of note for...
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Notes from Olympia 2 (Toy Fair 2017)
Further notes from the 2017 Toy Fair. Returning to the Oxford stand the Golden Valley 0-6-0 Janus Diesel shunter was available to view in painted format. Bear in mind these models have been handled by...
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Eighties Body Snatcher Throwback
Ok mullet wearers, here’s a poptastic 80’s child for you. It’s an Airfix 14xx body with a Perceverance chassis underneath. Made in the era of Kylie, wads of yuppie cash, XR3i’s and mobile Motorola...
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Hattons DJM 14xx Review H1410
Hattons 14xx 48 xx 58xxH1401 H1402 H1403 H1404 H1405 H1406 H1407 H1408 H1409 H1410 H1411 H1412H1413 H1414 H1415 H1416 It’s early 2017 and on the desk in front of me is the Hattons/DJM 14xx model. It’s...
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14xx Frustration..
There’s a bit of an Irish answer kicking round with this one, in that if you want to finish up with a good chassis, I wouldn’t be starting from here. When buying a model for use, my primary concern is...
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