Model railroading in the UK

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Push-pull

I have some old Grafar Gresley suburban coaches which I have been fettling up and painting. I thought it might be amusi...
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rmweb

RMweb is intermittent, this is down to problems with the hosting provider. It looks like Dreamhost, which is also my ho...
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Been shopping

25 x PC77 and 25 x PC80. That should keep me off the streets for a while. My test builds of both models have been very...
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N gauge 3rd rail chairs

Hi, Does anyone do 3rd rail conductor chairs in N gauge? I know Peco do them for 00 but not N. Rob.
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Night scenes

Some experiments with model lighting (only, no ambient). This is not bad considering it's a cheap digital camera, not a...
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Hoppers

I've just built my first Parkside Dundas BR 21T hopper. It rides so easily I think I'll call it Dennis. I'll get my coat...
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Dapol working signals

Dapol have released working N gauge semaphore signals, which is quite cool. Are there any RTR OO gauge semaphores? Guy
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n Gauge & DCC

Thank you, Wolf K, for taking the trouble to respond, and Nigel for your more positive advice. Will go with the latter a...
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Tight Curves and Industrial traffic

I'm off to Sz=E1zhalombatta on monday, and having a bit of a poke about on Google earth/Maps is quite interesting. Ther...
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MRM articles

There are some MRM articles that would be useful to me, but they have vanished in the move to the BRM website. Does any...
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An unusual prototype

http://www.smallbrookstudio.com/page5.php Tempting... Guy
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Marooned!

I have made a momentous decision: in order to be able to use steam and diesel without worrying too much about hopeless...
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Parkside NE 20T hopper

I seem to recall reading an account of building this kit somewhere. I've built some basic Parkside kits and large numbe...
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Retaining walls

Hornby did some acceptable brick retaining walls in the Skaledale range but typical of my luck they are withdrawn and u...
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DCC switch for Programming Track

Got a quick DCC question. Most controllers (some) have a seperate output for DCC programming track, so allow you to act...
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posted by chris
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