1st Oct - HSTs at Chipping Sodbury and 60054 sat at Westerleigh
3rd Oct - Skipped footex and 60011 on 0B33 at Rodbourne
6th Oct - 60063 on 6B33 at Callow Hill

A trip up to the WCML in search of some AC traction

A couple of hours at Fairwood Junction on a sunny Friday morning

A couple of hours lineside at Rodbourne. No sign of any coals or the Hayes-MoLugg stone, but the Didcot Wentloog MoD and Wentloog Freightliner ran, along with a surprise test train

Class 37s to Weymouth on what is billed as the last loco hauled summer Saturday working to Weymouth vice the usual 67s. It remains to be seen if this really is the end...
Photos taken at Westbury and Brassknocker Basin

60019 arriving on 6B13 at Westerleigh, various freights and the Cardiff Skips at Cattybrook and Pilning

Half an hour at Langley Burrell to catch the West Coast powered 1Z61 Nenta tour from Norwich to Cardiff. The mix of liveries on the coaching stock would make this an interesting and eye catching set to model

An afternoon out to photograph 47739 on 6Z48 Colas steel and anything else that came along.

World Tour of Wiltshire part 3

An hour of so down at Fairwood Junction with a pair of Hanson 59s

Around the Chippenham area getting the Thingley-Topsham rail recovery set and the Loadhaul Tug on the Theale tanks

More dull and rain on the week off! Yes the dull can give moody shots, but finally the sun finally appeared on Friday! 60059 on 6B33, 60019 on 6B47, 66021 on 6V77 and 66560 on 4V60

An early trip to catch 4E31 the Fairwater-Peterborough sleepers

A week off work, and the first trip out sees rain and grey skies at Little Bedwyn, Crofton and Pewsey

A couple of hours at Fairwood on a Friday afternoon

Tug hunting round the Bristol area - 60040, 60059 and 60013 on oil trains, and 66s on aggregates, coal and steel.

A quick afternoon out to get some shots at Westerleigh. Ended up staying at Coalpit Heath for a while in the pouring rain. The photos that look a bit noisy - that's the rain!

66623 working 6M22 (formerly 6U72) Westbury-Stud Farm ballast empties

A visit to Cow Roast and Berkhamsted, with a visit to Haddenham and Thame Parkway to get the Wrexham service. Variable weather again - though not as bad as last week!

A trip over to the southern end of the West Coast mainline to get photos of some different stuff to usual - sparkies!
The weather was a bit on and off, as the photos show!

A bit of an EE fest today - 3 tractors (37087, 37194 and 37401) and a whistler - 40145, along with the usual GM and unit mix. Well worth the early start and late finish!

Detail shots of the 5 types of tank in use on the Murco flows - TDA TIPH 782xx, TEA GERS 89xxx, TEA VTG 853xx, 859xx and 88xxx. The 88xxx TEAs are similar to other VTG owned Polish built tanks in use on other flows all across the country, so may be useful with a view to modelling the "21st Century" TEAs.

World Tour of Wiltshire (and Somerset) part 2

Out in the morning to Avoncliff for 47580 working Eastleigh - Long Marston with 73006, 50026 and 50135, and some units from the afternoon at Bathampton

Tug hunting around South Gloucestershire. Nice close shots at Westerleigh courtesy of the crossings and twists of the line

Bourton, Shrivenham and Knighton

HSTs and tug 74 on 6B33 at Callow Hill

Claverton weir, Whatley quarry and Wanstrow on the Merehead branch

World Tour of Wiltshire part 1

47854, 66111 and XC diverts at Westbury, and 08652, 59002 and 08643 at Whatley on a quiet Sunday

A pleasantly surprising amount of freight on a grey and gloomy day

Out to get the tug on 6B33 at Rodbourne, north of Chippenham

HSTs, VC10s and some wildlife!

A couple of hours by the lineside at Crofton in Wiltshire, including a surprise of a 59 on the scraps

An afternoon spent in Bath's Sydney Gardens

60074 on the 6B33 Theale-Robeston tanks

Layouts entered by the Bentley Model Railway Group and it's members: Pengwynn Crossing, Hedges Hill cutting and Plankenstein

Took a trip out today with Jack to Kemble and Hullavington. Some interesting sights!

Detail shots of Class 59/0, 59/2, 60 and Yeoman JHA hoppers, amongst others

A couple of engineers trains along with the usual mix of DMUs and HSTs. Also an Arriva Wales 150 on hire to FGW, and 08495 putting in an appearance too

Class 67s and HSTs at Chippenham. 67s running top and tail on load 6 (5 TSO, 1 BSO) not stopping at Chippenham. There were 2 sets, running Swindon - Castle Cary - Taunton and return.

A couple of hours at Westbury one Saturday

Photos from an afternoon at Merehead (Yeoman) and Wahtley (Hanson) quarries in Somerset

A collection of what ifs and maybes......

Worsley Works N gauge class 67. It may not be perfect, but I think its skip shaped, and I'm happy for my my first etched kit. Becuase its my first kit, I glued, not soldered, the joints using a mix of superglue and epoxy resin. A major problem is the lack of weight because I took the motor and bogies form a Bachmann USA split chassis diesel, so I need to find some weight, and hopefully then it should run. This is the model I used as a donor: http://www.ehattons.com/StockDetail.aspx?SID=19915

Dapol 66702 and 66716. 716 was bought at the N guage Show in Leamington for £20 straight off of Dapol, because it was a customer return. I replaced the nameplates with Shawplan ones, using PVA glue.

Combining 2 of my interests - Motorsport and Trucks

Pics from 2006 Rallyday. Includes many detail shots helpful for modellers like myself, particularly if you like Imprezas!

My attempts at weathering...

These are the N Gauge Society Grainflow kit built with MMA printed sides. Visit tdev.org.uk/mma today!

Here's what happens when you leave a Bachmann Farish class 66 running while popping downstairs to collect a cup of tea - 30 seconds max!

Some shots of my N Gauge layout