Hornby have today announced further new items as part of their forthcoming TT:120 gauge range for 2025. The headline news for Southern modellers is new tooled LBSC A1/A1X terriers and 4 wheel coaches. Also sneaking into the range is a basic version of an LWSR B4 'Normandy' included within a Branchline Freight Train Set. The … Continue reading Hornby announce new TT:120 LBSC Terriers and 4 wheel coaches as part their 2025 range
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Rapido Trains UK announce batch two of their generic ‘Evolution’ pre-grouping bogie coaches which includes LSWR livery versions.
Rapido Trains UK announced in September last year a range of 00 gauge generic pre-grouping 48' coaches. They have now announced their second generic project ‘Evolution’ production run featuring ten new liveries that includes London & South Western salmon and chocolate. Much like the liveries from Batch 1, Evolution Batch 2 will include Brake Third, … Continue reading Rapido Trains UK announce batch two of their generic ‘Evolution’ pre-grouping bogie coaches which includes LSWR livery versions.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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
When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today #Remembrance #lestweforget
If you so wish, wear your poppy with pride today, pause respectfully for two minutes at 11 am this Remembrance Sunday and again tomorrow for Armistice Day remembering all those, both service and civilian personnel who have given their lives for the freedom that we all enjoy today, and should you feel so inclined, support … Continue reading When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today #Remembrance #lestweforget
EFE Rail Adams T3 identities revealed in Bachmann Winter British Railways Announcements
The EFE Rail London & South Western Railway (LSWR) 4-4-0 T3 Class were announced at the 2024 Bachmann Collectors Club Members Day on Saturday 7th September ) held at the Swanage Railway. I have developed these models in my role with Kernow Model Rail Centre for the Bachmann EFE Rail brand and seem to have proved popular a popular … Continue reading EFE Rail Adams T3 identities revealed in Bachmann Winter British Railways Announcements
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
Picture of the Month – October 2024
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Bachmann announce LSWR Adams T3 4-4-0 as part of the EFE Rail Range
The 2024 Bachmann Collectors Club Members Day was today (Saturday 7th September) held at the Swanage Railway. The venue was the perfect location for Bachmann’s next new product announcement, in its EFE Rail range being the London & South Western Railway (LSWR) 4-4-0 T3 Class. I have developed these models in my role with Kernow Model … Continue reading Bachmann announce LSWR Adams T3 4-4-0 as part of the EFE Rail Range
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
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…