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Picture of the Month – August 2024
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Category: Canute Road Quay
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…
Picture of the Month – June 2024
This months picture... See Canute Road Quay this month at the Southampton Trams Museum model event – (Solent Sky Museum) Albert Road South, Southampton, SO14 3FR (Just around the corner from the real Canute Road!)
Why Canute Road… and a very local exhibition…
What's in a name... I am often asked why Canute Road Quay… The arrival of the excellent Model Rail Magazine commissioned USA Tanks (which I had a slight hand in the development for), and already having a kit built Adams B4 (prior to the arrival of the Dapol versions) got me thinking about a quayside … Continue reading Why Canute Road… and a very local exhibition…
It’ll be all Wight on the weekend.. heading to Vectis…
Canute Road Quay is on tour regularly throughout this year, this post highlights it's next outing this coming weekend 11th / 12th May. I cheated slightly with Canute Road Quay and modelled the quayside but not the water itself so I won't have any issues carrying water over water when Canute Road Quay heads to the Isle … Continue reading It’ll be all Wight on the weekend.. heading to Vectis…
Picture of the Month – April 2024
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Daffodils and Easter wishes
The daffodils are in bloom this Easter as LSWR B4 'Guernsey' in early Southampton Docks lined green livery shunts at Canute Road Quay. The budding trees, the new flowers, and birds that sing, whisper to me that it's Easter, and that the supermarkets full of chocolate of all shapes (many irrelevant), sizes and special offers! … Continue reading Daffodils and Easter wishes
Happiness is the Road (and ferry)… Canute Road Quay on tour
Canute Road Quay is on tour regularly throughout this year, I thought I would highlight below the next couple of shows coming up in May and June. Canute Road Quay is next on the road (and for the first time a ferry) at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway Model Show – Havenstreet Station, Isle … Continue reading Happiness is the Road (and ferry)… Canute Road Quay on tour