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Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Merry Christmas to you all, I wish you a hopeful Christmas and a brave New Year. Let any anguish, pain, and sadness to leave your heart and your road be clear. Fill up your life with love, compassion,...
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Picture of the Month – January 2024
Happy New Year! – This months picture… Post 1962 at Canute Road Quay steam has been replaced by the Class 07 diesels by Ruston & Hornsby
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Bring in the New Year with a first look at the EFE Rail SR Boosters and a...
As we recover from last nights celebrations to bring in the New Year, here is a bonus New Years Day post with a couple of things you might missed in the inevitable pleura of social media postings the...
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Hornby announce part of the their 2024 range, Southern modelers can relax…;...
Hornby have today announced part of their forthcoming range for 2024, as yet another year of catch up, so nothing really to report for SR / BR(s) modellers and just 80 new items in total announced....
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Picture of the Month – February 2024
This months picture… Canute Road Quay, by Graham Muspratt
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Graham Farish announce N Gauge SECR Diagram 1559 25 ton goods brake van and...
Graham Farish have continued their new policy of making quarterly product announcements the highlight of today’s announcement of new tooling is the SECR/SR Maunsell/Lyons Diagram 1559 25 ton goods...
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Workbench Witterings #24 Taking centre stage, the Westhill Road provender store
Due to other factors progress on Westhill Road is somewhat slower than I have anticipated , this is a quick post to show one of Westhill Road’s intended key buildings, the provender / perishables...
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Rapido Trains UK in conjunction with the Brighton Circle announce Marsh-era...
E1 Class Locomotive No.110 (now preserved at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway) will now be available in Marsh-era goods black livery with double red lining suitable for between 1912 to the locomotive’s...
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Picture of the Month – March 2024
This months picture… N1 Class No. 1822 (a converted Bachmann N Class) heads west past Fisherton Sarum with a mixed goods with banana vans from Southampton at the head.
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Rapido Trains UK announce RCH 1907 00 Gauge 7 plank open including SECR/SR...
Rapido trains UK have announced they are to produce the RCH 1907 specification 7 plank 16’6″ long private owner wagons. The South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) ordered, between 1910 and 1914, a...
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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 (ferry) at the...
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Kings of the Steam Age Podcast series by Railway Mania Ep1 O.V.S Bulleid
A new podcast series is now available from Railway Mania “Kings of the Steam Age” Obviously I had to put forward O.V.S Bulleid! To listen to why Bulleid was undoubtedly A King of the Steam Age” click...
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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...
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Picture of the Month – April 2024
This months picture… AN ex LCDR T Class 0-6-0 shunts at Canute Road Quay with a ‘yet’ to be produced in RTR ex LBSC Diagram 1369 5 plank open wagon in the foreground.
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Going bananas – SR Diagram 1478 and 1479 banana vans in 00 from Accurascale...
Accurascale announced in October 2022 they were to produce the SR built banana vans to diagrams 1478 and 1479. These lovely models have now arrived at retailers and are shown below. The banana traffic...
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KMRC announce Exclusive 00 Gauge 1907 RCH 12T seven plank open wagon in the...
KMRC announce an Exclusive 00 Gauge 1907 RCH 12T seven plank open wagon in the livery of Moger & Co Ltd as running on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR). Joseph Moger and his...
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#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...
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