New Articles from Area Group and Member Blogs
Everything new within the last 60 days. To add your blog or site, please
contact webmaster.
May is the first anniversary of our monthly meetings in cyberspace courtesy of Zoom! On the whole these meetings, shortened to 40 minute online get togethers, have been interesting ventures into the modeling we been doing during lockdown. From track laying, rolling stock building and RR conversion, ....
Our May virtual meeting had the theme of "scenery". Alistair, Alisdair, Alasdair, Simon, Jim, Roy, Tony, Richard, Graham, Nigel, Mick and Andy attended.First up was Andy, who for historical interest showed us how he'd created the hillside for a viaduct on his previous layout with layers of expanded ....
Before clearing the modelling desk ready for tracklaying operations, I decided that it was worth doing a 'quick' conversion of a Farish 4F that I'd had the bits for lying round since getting them at a Supermeet in Chelford some years ago.Saturday was spent prepping the wheels, giving them initial co ....
At last out attention turns to the possibility of a 'real' meeting in the months ahead. A chance to closely inspect and handle, and discuss techniques and practical solutions. The blog will still play it's part, as it did before restrictions, a running digest of our work around Lightermans Yar ....
Since the last post a lot has happened, and over the last almost year and a half of lockdown chances to get to Keighley have been few and far between - mainly to check up on things and that's it.However, with a hopeful return towards normality group meetings should be starting up again soon and we'v ....
Having used my imagination to create a non-descript building supplies/scrap dealership at the far end of Freshwater goods yard that I have not found photographs of, I decided the business needed a better means of transporting its wares than the old bicycle. I purchased an Autocraft white metal c ....
Our virtual meeting this month had the snappy theme "Uses, Misuses, Advantages, Disadvantages and Frustrations in the use of DCC". Nigel, Jim, James, Stephen, Chris G, all three Al(i/a)s(d/t)airs, Graham, Simon and visitor Andrew participated. Most are already using DCC, or planning to use it, so th ....
Something I have long considered is how to create a public right of way from the archway at the back of Burghmire to the front of the layout. The platform and overall roof on the tramway rather obstruct a ground level route or even an elevated one. A subway was the only choice! Progress has also bee ....
Not a progress report - though there is a bit of progress - not even a crowing account of my latest achievement (!). But a request for opinions, so feel free to pile in because I can't decide what's best. My new project, Sovereign Colliery Junction includes a short length of colliery branch. I dec ....
It's almost a year since we found ourselves in Covid lockdown and unable to meet face-to-face. At the time we probably didn't think we would be in the same place a year on. Enter Zoom and other Internet meeting software. Our meetings went online and provided a means of maintaining contact and keepin ....
Two sets of 30 year old ex-LBSCR 4 car 4 wheeled carriages arrived on the Isle of Wight in 1924. They were followed later by some slightly newer Billington carriages, some of which still run on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. The Stroudley sets saw less than 10 years service on the island ....
The list above is automatically generated from RSS feeds,
using SimplePie, which is a freely available script.
Note: Feb 18th 2019: RMWeb blogs now have an option to enable RSS on them.
If you have a Blog on RMWeb and wish it to appear in the above list, please
enable RSS on your RMWeb blog, and then contact the webmaster to have it included
in the above list.
March 2020: Annual editing of the feed list threw up a few dead blogs, so
they've been removed from the auto-checker (which has also fixed the page
load speed - it was waiting for these dead blogs to not answer). If you've
re-started your blog, and it doesn't appear in the list below, or postings
fail to appear above, please get in touch with the webmaster.
Sites checked:
Sites list is edited fairly regularly, and those without new entries in
the last two or three years are removed, assumed defunct. So, if your site comes back to life, please get in touch to be reinstated. For advice on
adding your site to the above, and a set of easy to install tools for websites,
please contact the webmaster. I have added a short article about using
SimplePie to make this page
