Merry Christmas to you all, I wish you a hopeful and joyful Christmas, and a happy New Year. Let any anguish, pain, and sadness leave your heart and your road ahead be all clear. Fill up your life with love, compassion, tolerance, peace, happiness and hopefully some time for modelling. Snow lays round about, deep … Continue reading Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Category: Fisherton Sarum
#onthisday 60 years since the last Atlantic Coast Express the final ACE
Today is the 60th Anniversary since the final run of the Atlantic Coast Express, known as the ACE. This is a version of my Talking Stock #28 post here to mark the anniversary. The last ACE left Padstow in Cornwall on 5 September, on the last day of the 1964 summer timetable. The Southern Railway … Continue reading #onthisday 60 years since the last Atlantic Coast Express the final ACE
Picture of the Month – September 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
Picture of the Month – July 2024
This months picture... See Canute Road Quay this month at the Chatham and District Model Railway Club – The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TZ
Picture of the Month – May 2024
This months picture... See Canute Road Quay this month at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway Model Show – Havenstreet Station, Isle of Wight Steam, Main Rd, Havenstreet, Ryde PO33 4DS
#onthisday 125th Birthday of my Granddad Arthur Muspratt
My grandfather, Thomas Arthur Muspratt, known as Arthur, was born this day 125 years ago in 1899. As I have stated before on this blog he was a ganger for the Southern Railway based at Salisbury, for most of the period that I model, before he gained promotion to Sub Inspector (permanent way) at Andover … Continue reading #onthisday 125th Birthday of my Granddad Arthur Muspratt
Picture of the Month – March 2024
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Picture of the Month – December 2023
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Picture of the Month – September 2023
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