Showing posts with label Melbridge Dock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melbridge Dock. Show all posts
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Carrying model road vehicles

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  I've never been a fan of fixing road vehicles to model railways. For a start, it allows me to use the models on more than one layout. ...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Titch

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  I'm pretty sure that if you'd asked my Dad which was his favourite of the Melbridge Dock locomotives, he'd have plumped for ...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

The ancient art of Kintsugi

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  Always aware that Melbridge Dock might have to be carried out to the car when rain was falling, I brought home a plastic bag to enclose th...
Friday, June 12, 2026

The missing seagull

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  Written in permanent marker on the back of Melbridge Dock, are the words "7 seagulls".  Pretty soon after the layout appeared at...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Not in the stock box

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Not all my loco fleet made it to the weekend. A week of testing at home persuaded me that there were a couple of models that would be more t...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Locomotive stars of the show

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  Among my worries about hauling Melbridge Dock out for a weekend, was how well the locomotive fleet would work. After all, they had been in...
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Thursday, May 28, 2026

Will the trains run?

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  The layout has sat idle for a decade, and so the locos have done the same, so the first job was to set up the wheel cleaning station, and ...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Point power ON!

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  OK, first an admission. I hadn't squeezed all the layout bits into the Berlingo. Once I got home and unloaded, I found that the essent...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Melbridge Dock emerges from storage...

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  Doncaster 2016. Melbridge Dock and Ruston Quays set up next to each other to celebrate 25 years (I think) of the show. The Dock had appear...
Tuesday, June 08, 2021

The Melbridge Dock display case

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 Last week, Woz commented: "You mentioned "it looks terrific in the display case" do you have an overall picture of the disp...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Ask Phil: LMS Dock Tank

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  David asks:   Having made a few kits, DJH and Ks mostly, I wanted to make an LMS dock tank and I know from your blog that you will under...
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Friday, November 27, 2020

Coles Crane

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  Random picture time. This is a Coles Crane on my layout Melbridge Dock.  Built in the old days when we actually made things rather than bu...
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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Throwback Thursday: Percy shunting

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Looking back through some old photos this week, I found this one of my upgraded Hornby Percy shunting Melbridge Dock . The loco has ...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

Fork lift truck build

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Gordon Asks: I notice from a web site that you built a fork lift truck from a Viking model. Could you be kind enough to send me details. ...
Sunday, September 04, 2016

Consistancy

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  One of the regular comments we receive about Melbridge Dock is that people like the way everything is weathered and fits in with ever...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

What a difference 19 years makes

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  Lead photo in the Melbridge Dock article in the current BRM is this shot by Andy York showing the Y7 shunting behind Dougie and a sea...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Melbridge Dock in BRM

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  While we exhibited Melbridge Dock at Doncaster earlier this year, Andy York took the chance to point his camera at it. The results ca...
Monday, March 07, 2016

Inspired by Melbridge Dock

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Look at this: Above is the stone warehouse on my layout Melbridge Dock. Now look at this: Mike Hunter bought this layout from eB...
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Doncaster 2016

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20 years ago last weekend, the very first Festival of British Railway Modelling took place at Doncaster Racecourse. We loaded up my campe...
Friday, October 02, 2015

Daventry tomorrow

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  Today, or at least the later part of it, will be taken up packing Melbridge Dock up for it's trip to Daventry Model Railway exhib...