Good evening, This coming Saturday (29th) is the Portsmouth Model Railway Exhibition hosted by the South Hants Model Railway Club, but before I can look at layouts from that exhibition I need to finish my look at the Fareham Railex show. The final last 2 layouts I really enjoyed watching and the job of taking…
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have long had a soft spot for the humble Hunslet Austerity saddle tank. They are the most common class of standard gauge steam locomotive in the UK and it is probably for this reason that they are generally not well-regarded amongst many steam enthusiasts. I have…
Today was the first day of the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition (www.thewarleyshow.co.uk.) Alongside the exhibition, model railway manufacturers use this show as platform to announce their new products and this year was no different. Before we look at Warley announcements, we will start with slightly older news. Hattons have commissioned DJ Models to produce…
Just a quick blog post tonight in anticipation of arguably one of the most important model railway exhibitions in the UK. This weekend the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition 2014 will be in full swing at the NEC Birmingham. This event has become well known as the venue that many model railway manufacturers use to…
Good evening, Todays post is rather special as it will be the first one I have done since I have completed my first year volunteering on the Mid Hants. My actual first year was completed at the end of September but with my wife giving birth to my second child in September, yesterday was the…
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This is a guest post written by Associate Curator of Rail Vehicles Bob Gwynne. Sir Kenneth Grange is an industrial designer whose work includes: the Kenwood Mixer, the Parker Pen, the Kodak Camera and the London taxi. All of his designs are examples of how he has worked to…
Today we finally wrap up the articles from the Watercress Line’s Autumn Spring Steam Gala with a gallery of pictures. By now, the locomotives featured here (850 Lord Nelson, 925 Cheltenham, 9F 92212 and Black 5 45379) have featured so many times that there seems little reason to look at them again in depth. I…
