London Festival of Railway Modelling: 2022
So yesterday I had a day out in ‘the big smoke’ with a trip to Alexandra Palace. Getting there and back from rural Norfolk was an interesting challenge given the Anglian Main Line was...
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Layout planning – week 2
Honest update? Ok, not much has happened. Work this week while it should have given time to thing about important things whilst travelling, ended up keeping me very busy. Something are more assured than...
Layout planning – initial concept & scoping
Ok, so the cover image is a bit OTT in terms of electrical drawings, but what do you do on a cold wet winter’s evening? Play trains? Sadly not as I am in the...
Revolution Announces More Nuclear Wagons
Revolution Trains have announced their next wagon project this week at the Model Rail Scotland exhibition. They are to add to their range of nuclear fuels traffic wagons with the new-build FNA-D nuclear flask...
Revolution Trains Announce Class 175 and 180 DMUS
In their round up of 2021 there was a teaser from the boys at Revolution. They promised more multiple units in 2022, and now they have gone public. Revolution Trains are offering both the...
Now on Twitter
As the title says – I’m now on Twitter. For many out there this will be a so what moment. And you know what, that’s fine. I took the plunge today because every year...
Graham Farish announce Class 769 Flex bi-mode BMU
Given they already have the tooling for the vast majority of the model this announcement was hardly surprising. However Farish are to be applauded for announcing further modern image releases on top of the...
Graham Farish Announce Updated Class 08 Shunter With DCC
For years now the bane of many modellers life has been the requirement to manually wire the smallest decoder possible into a class 08. Now in their Spring 2022 releases GraFar have eliminated the...
New Class 67s Due In Q3 2022 From Dapol
An announcement I didn’t get to share pre-christmas was Dapol releasing their plan for more class 67s this year. The class 67 has been around in N Gauge from Dapol for a number of...
4 New class 86 locomotives coming from Dapol
In and amongst the new year announcements is one from Dapol that they are releasing more versions of their successful class 86 model. Expected in quarter 3 of 2022 the new class 86s will...