Category Archives: Model Railways

Modelling Rufus Castle – Portland (Updated)

The blog may well drift into being mostly model railway posts. This post will be expanded but here is a holding link to a description I posted elsewhere. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/141337-phoenix-yard-including-related-builds-and-stock-mods-etc/?do=findComment&comment=4800753 The real castle The Castle is on the west side of the Island of Portland in Dorset. It overlooks Church Ope Cove. Although often attributed to… Read More »

Railway modelling update

Modelling update This is just a short post. I am taking advantage today of what might be one of the last sunny autumn days to get some garage tidying done and make my railway modelling gear and stock more accessible. Sadly the garage check has produced a major casualty. The old, stored, baseboards haven’t warped (I… Read More »

April and June (Missed blog posts)

Missed blog posts (April & June) This is a shortened rewording of what formed the Editorial to the most recent SLS Journal and Newsletter (J912 July/August), a bi-monthly magazine which I now edit and giving the reasons for my missing the task of making blog posts here during both April and June. SLS Stand ready for… Read More »

March blog entry

Brief blog update Another very brief blog post this month as whilst workload seems never ending time, sadly, is inelastic. Railways – Three weekends out with events. With a conference planning meeting for the Early Mainline Railways Conference (In York), The London Festival of Railway Modelling at Alexandra Palace and then back to York for… Read More »

Non-stop editing!

A month of solid editing I ended last month’s blog expressing hopefully “What would have been the January content will therefore appear during February when I get back home and resume normality.” Well that hoped for return to normality during February went well, or not! What it ended up as was a month of solid… Read More »