This Month's Picture... To replace the SR USA 0-6-0 tanks, that in turn in 1946 had replaced the Adams B4 0-4-0 tanks, fourteen Ruston Paxman 0-6-0 diesel-electric shunters were purchased by British Railways in 1962 specially for use in the docks (as the Class 08/9 350hp shunters were unable to work on the tight curves … Continue reading Picture of the Month – February 2025
Category: Canute Road Quay
Happy New Year – Picture of the Month – January 2025
Welcome to 2025 - Happy New Year - This Month's Picture... Adams B4 No. 100, not being one of the 14 Docks allocated members of the class must be on loan from Bournemouth shed as she shunts at Canute Road Quay. She has been built from McGowan's kit long before the RTR Dapol B4 was … Continue reading Happy New Year – Picture of the Month – January 2025
Picture of the Month – December 2024
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Picture of the Month – November 2024
This months picture... See Canute Road Quay at the High Wycombe and District MRS MRX24 exhibition on Saturday 9th November.
3D printed kits for LSWR 20t / 12t machinery wagons D1673 & D1674 from Dulais Valley Models in 4mm & 7mm scales
My friends at 247 Developments under their Dulais Valley Models brand have produced 3D printed kits for the Diagram 1673 LSWR 20t steel & Diagram 1674 12t timber underframe machinery wagons. They are available in either 4mm or 7mm scales priced at £15 for the 4mm and £40 for the 7mm versions, Brian at 247 … Continue reading 3D printed kits for LSWR 20t / 12t machinery wagons D1673 & D1674 from Dulais Valley Models in 4mm & 7mm scales
This train is my life, Canute Road Quay on the road again – High Wycombe MRX24 – 9th November
Canute Road Quay is on the road again and appearing at the High Wycombe and District MRS MRX24 exhibition on Saturday 9th November. This show is very local to me being organised by my own Model Rail Society. Wycombe MRX24 once again brings the Society’s Wycrail exhibition experience to a “small, friendly and family” model … Continue reading This train is my life, Canute Road Quay on the road again – High Wycombe MRX24 – 9th November
Picture of the Month – August 2024
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Controlling Interests #12 Uncoupling revisited – Canute Road Quay
One of the most asked questions when exhibiting Canute Road Quay is about how my remote hands free uncoupling works. Quite some while ago now I started using modified tension lock coupling in combination with electromagnets on Fisherton Sarum, see my Controlling Interests #6 post here, but I thought I would revisit it now with more … Continue reading Controlling Interests #12 Uncoupling revisited – Canute Road Quay
Workbench Witterings #25 Canute for Cantue Road Quay – a PD&SWJR inspired might have been
The Southern Railway inherited a small number of oddity locomotives including three from the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PD&SWJR) that were ordered from Hawthorn Leslie and Company . It was these locomotives, especially the 0-6-0T No. 756 "A. S. Harris" that first inspired this, albeit larger, quick win 'might have been' project … Continue reading Workbench Witterings #25 Canute for Cantue Road Quay – a PD&SWJR inspired might have been
Canute Road Quay heads to a dock like a dock to…
When does a quay, or for that matter a wharf, become a dock, and what is the difference between a dock and a harbour..? A quay and a wharf are pretty much the same thing, being somewhere alongside the water that ships or boats can tie up to load and unload. A dock however is … Continue reading Canute Road Quay heads to a dock like a dock to…