Click for a bigger view 44417 carefully propels a rake of empties up the gradient in to Polbrook Gurney Colliery. Note the ancient tip...

Dug this late 1970s Airfix 14xx out the other day. I recall it was one of my first weathering exercises around 1980 using airbrushing and dr...

Forest of Dean Project update... Cork sheet as a track underlay is so 2007 darhlings... I lay my track on 6mm foam board, then insert and...

The latest building for my Forest of Dean project. Knocked up the last week on and off; a scratch built 'Cornish Engine house', whic...

Click to enlarge! Just doing final bits to Brew Street for the NEC (it will be on the Model Rail mag stand). I have very limited space...

Part 1 of my little microwave sized nano-trainset has just appeared in Dec 2016 Model Rail magazine. The feature covers the first stage of ...

First stage of weathering up the Model Rail limited edition USA tank. I don't want it to look like it's been in Barry Scrapyard for ...

A little signal box I knocked up in the very early 1980's from plastic card, bits of card and some clear packaging. It needs a little t...

Thursday afternoon saw the final wiring go in to place. I won't show you that, because I'm no ambassador of layout electrics. Just i...

Click to enlarge One Sunday afternoon, I was up in my railway room having a rare tidy up, and whilst looking at those ‘wall flower ...

Having pondered for long enough, a Forest of Dean inspired layout will be my next project. Time now will be devoted to research and boo...

Until yesterday, I'd not had the space to set up Combwich since 2011, so a well over due photosession has been taking place on and off o...

The other day I was lucky enough to be given a brand new iPad Air 2 tablet.  I'm not a techy type, rather preferring things to be made o...

I've not found the time to photograph my own layouts recently, but a little earlier on found a few spare minutes to pop the camera on a ...

A few snaps from last weekend's excellent exhibition, grabbed of Polbrook Gurney Colliery during one of two of the quieter moments...

Yesterday afternoon was spent sorting out Polbrook Gurney Colliery for its trip up to Rochdale, for what will be its most northerly trip so ...

Rochdale Model Railway Group MODEL RAILWAY EXHIBITION Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th April 2015 Playing Trains I don't do many...

Photo: Buckminster Ironstone, seen from the staging/fiddle yard end taken at the little layout's outing to Railex over th...

I finally managed to extract myself from the holiday spirit of putting things off to erect the next project. Taken with a bit of light...

In the days before motorways, oversize loads were taken by rail. This often involved temporarily moving lineside equipment and anything ...

4631 puts on the brakes for Catcott Burtle; note the WR chocolate and cream liveried Mk1 inserted into this short train. The narrow gau...

A cheeky little Pug shunting and LBSCR 8 ton Goods Van S.R. Dia. 1434 out of the trap siding designed to catch runaways on the gradient up...

L&Y 'Pug Power', as the little beastie stands by the entrance to the colliery sidings whist performing a shunting move. Hol...