Showing posts with label Australia Trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia Trip. Show all posts
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Saturday Film Club: Jumbo Railcar

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Spotting this video of the Australian diesel hydraulic 2000/2100 class railcars running from Adelaide to Gawler - and thought "I'v...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: Not the galleon

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Sensible people would take photos of the pretty, wooden galleon moored in the Sydney harbour.  Not me, the working boat next to it i...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Waterborne Wednesday: Sydney Ferry

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My subject this week is Michael Portillo's fault. Watching his latest series of railway journeys through Australia, I caught the Syd...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Warehouse Wednesday: Aussie navy buildings

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Two years ago, I was enjoying a trip to Australia. Being a bit odd, I skipped the beaches and traditional stuff, finding my way to Cocka...
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Friday, July 01, 2016

M wagon finished

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After adding thebrake lever and guide - a couple of ingenous fold-up etched brass components - I could move on to painting.  Livery ...
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Monday, June 27, 2016

M wagon

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A bit more in the way of Aussie projects this week. Tucked away in a box of souvenirs, is a Steam Era Models Victorian Railways 'M' ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

London Road

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It must be Aussie layouts month in the UK model railway press this month. I open up my copy of Hornby Magazine and there is Alan Harrison...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Aussie railway posters

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While looking for the photos used in yesterdays, post, I found some more shots, this time of Australian railway posters hung on Trevor's...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Huntingdale and Grange

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I don't normally buy Continental Modeller magazine - I'll flick through it in Smiths most months to see if there is any inspirationa...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

NRM - Australia

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While I was in Oz, one of the trips I was taken on was to their National Railway Museum in Adelaide. It's a fantastic place, not unli...
Friday, November 07, 2014

Sydney Opera House - in brass

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You'd think a kit designed for "normal" people would be easy to assemble. Instead, I've built locomotives that were eas...
Thursday, November 06, 2014

Sydney Opera House - in kit form

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If you visit Sydney then it's pretty much the law that you will go and have a look at the opera house. We're all seen it on the t...
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Not so different after all

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The traditional British view is that foreign railways should be ignored and only the home-grown scene is of interest. I'll admit to p...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Detailed scenes

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  Not all Aussie layouts are giant scene nailed in place. Master modeller, Gavin Thrum, builds what we would consider "conventional...
Monday, November 03, 2014

Aussie layouts

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One of the biggest differences between the Australian model railway scene and the UK one is the lack of exhibitions. With major population c...
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Friday, October 31, 2014

More souvenirs

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Well, I couldn't visit all those model shops in Oz without buying a few kits could I? The range of Australian prototype kits is greate...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

A couple of souvenirs

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 "What did you bring back from your holiday Phil?", I hear you ask. Well, there is an awful lot of stuff the tempt the to...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Yard crane

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Yard cranes in Australia, at least those on branch lines, seem to have two designs. The first we can describe as "looking a lot li...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Stobie Poles

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    It's funny what you become interested in on holiday. Or maybe it's just funny what I become interested in.   On the ...

Back from a land down under

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  Right - I'm back from Australia. The trip was great, none of the flying involved crashes and I'm now faced with trying to ge...