This is the fourth in a series of 'Making Quay Changes' posts with the Canute Road Quay being transported to either a different location or era or both. It follows my Making Quay Changes #1 post moving the scene Eastwards, and then back to Southampton with my Making Quay Changes #2 post but in the … Continue reading Making Quay Changes #4 being industrious
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Bachmann Product Announcements – Autumn 2020 – introducing a new brand EFE Rail
Bachmann Europe advised at the start of the year, before the advent of Covid-19 a change to the way they make product announcements and that they would take place every quarter revealing new items that would be actually available in the following three months. The aim was that they would hold a product showcase event … Continue reading Bachmann Product Announcements – Autumn 2020 – introducing a new brand EFE Rail
Picture of the Month – June 2020
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Bachmann Europe issue new Combined Volume, some new liveries and a change to new tooling announcements
Bachmann Europe have announced a change to their new product announcements and produced a new catalogue encompassing all their British Outline brands / scales including: Branchline, Graham Farish, Narrow Gauge, Scenecraft and other complimentary products; called "The Combined Volume" a term which I am sure will be familiar to those who were trainspotters in their … Continue reading Bachmann Europe issue new Combined Volume, some new liveries and a change to new tooling announcements
Picture of the Month – February 2020
This months picture... Canute Road Quay can be see on 15th of this month at the Tonbridge MRC, Exhibition at The Angel Centre, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1SF
The Bachmann 45t Ransomes and Rapier steam crane arrives on the quay
Bachmann announced back in March 2015 they we to produce the 45T Ransomes and Rapier Steam Breakdown Crane based on the two that were supplied (procured by the Government) to the Southern Railway, four to the Great Western Railway and a further two to the Ministry of Supply / LNER under wartime conditions in 1940. … Continue reading The Bachmann 45t Ransomes and Rapier steam crane arrives on the quay
‘U’ have decided again and again… the 2019 wish poll results for 00 have been counted and verified, the Southern scores are…
The results from the annual Wishlist Poll for for 2019 for new 00 models are now available. The purpose of The Poll is to provide an easy way for modellers and collectors to tell the major manufacturers and commissioners of ready-to-run railway models what they would like to see made from new tooling (excluding models announced, … Continue reading ‘U’ have decided again and again… the 2019 wish poll results for 00 have been counted and verified, the Southern scores are…
Picture of the Month – November 2019
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Making Quay Changes #2 post rationing time travelling into the late 1950s
This is the second in a series of 'Making Quay Changes' posts with the Canute Road Quay being transported to either a different location or era or both. After my Making Quay Changes #1 post moving the scene Eastwards, perhaps to the docks of Ipswich or Yarmouth, utilising the lovely Model Rail magazine limited edition … Continue reading Making Quay Changes #2 post rationing time travelling into the late 1950s
Picture of the Month – August 2019
This months picture... PS. Happy Birthday to my Mum on the 27th this month (my brother on the 16th and my nephew Alexander on the 26th)