1. 2013: Beginnings |
2. September 2013 - June 2014:
Village buildings |
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No.1 The Causeway
| Nos.1-4 Church Hill | The
Red Lion | A shop | The
guildhall | A large house
Nos.2 and 3 The Causeway | Nos.4-8
The Causeway | The vicarage |
3. June - July 2014: Baseboard
construction |
4. July - October 2014: Track,
trees and ballasting |
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Track | Trees
| Ballasting |
5. October 2014 - April 2015: The
station and more trees |
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Main Station building
| Shelter | Footbridge
| Trees | Platforms
| Fiddle yard | Lamp
posts |
6. May - August 2015: The church
and other buildings |
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The church | A
tunnel portal | Nos.7 - 9 Church Hill
| Scenery base |
7. August - December 2015: The
first scenics |
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First greenery | Low
relief trees | Flowers and the garden
of 7 and 8 Church Hill
Garden of 9 Church Hill | Garden
of the Red Lion | A wooded area | More
gardens
The churchyard | More
trees |
8. January - August 2016: The village
around the station |
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More village buildings | And
more | The second scenic base | Some
buildings and gardens added |
9. September - November 2016: More
work on the left end of the layout |
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Adding buildings along the back
| Scenic work around road bridge and tunnel
Station master's garden and car park area
| Views from the back of the layout |
10. January 2017: Another cottage
|
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A step by step description of
making a small building |
11. February-May 2017: The central
scenic module |
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Another building and the start
of the module | The gardens are developed
Road markings and fencing | Gardens
of the railway cottages |
12. June-August 2017: More scenic
work |
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Lineside scenery on the right
hand baseboard | The baseboard is completely
covered
The Goods Yard and the Signal Box |
13. September 2017: Odds and Ends
|
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A cover for the layout | Extending
the fiddle yard
Flying Scotsman, City of London and a J39
pass by | Loads for the mineral wagons
Re-arranging the railway room |
14. October 2017: Weathering Goods
Trains |
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A first try at weathering
| A train of coal wagons | A
train of vans | Some photos |
15. November 2017: Village photos
and more weathering |
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Village photos | Weathered
open wagons | Other wagons | A
bracket signal |
16. December 2017: Ground Signals,
Details, Weathering and the Church Yard |
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Ground signals | Details
around the signal box | More weathering
| Photos around the church |
17. January 2018: Yet More Weathering,
Detailing and a Visitor |
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Weathering Mk1 carriages |
Weathering Gresley Teak carriages
Platform clutter | Loco
coal | A GWR 64xx Class loco and autotrailer |
18. February 2018: Village details,
more weathering and corridor connectors |
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An old taxi | Cyclists
| Weathering CCTs and a horse box | Corridor
connectors |
19. March 2018: Views, goods yard
and garden details |
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Views from the back of the
layout | Around the goods yard | Disused
platelayers' trolley
Railway cottage gardens | Church
Hill | A Midland 4F with a goods train
|
20. April-May 2018: Views, point
rodding and a new loco |
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Views of the layout |
Point rodding | A
Jubilee class loco | Aerial view |
21. June 2018: More work around
the track |
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Point rodding | Ballast
weathering |
22. July 2018: A couple of new
locomotives and some views |
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A Class 24 | A
Jinty | Flying Scotsman in different
sun and storm | Around the layout
|
23. August-September 2018: More
wagons, views and trees |
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More coal wagons | Around
the layout | Trees |
24. October 2018: Train movements,
portraits and trees |
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Unusual train movements
| The goods yard | Portraits
of locos | More trees |
25. November 2018: Goods yard,
church, and a new building |
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A pile of timber in the goods
yard | A station building for a new project
New photos of the church | Wrenton
in print |
26. December 2018: New buildings,
village views and trains |
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Two small new buildings
| Views of the village
Ivatt 2MT on a short passenger train
| Midland 4F and Jinty | Class
24 and Bittern |
27. January-February 2019: Another
new building, village views and trains |
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GWR cottages | Views
of the village | ex-WD and J39 |
Jubilee
ex-WD and J39 in monochrome | Portraits
of a B1 | An A4 passes | Station
views |
28. March 2019: Another new building,
horses and train spotters |
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GWR Station master's house
| A visiting 64xx | Ivatt
2MT | Horses and train spotters
Village views |
29. April 2019: Photographic experiments |
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Photos taken with a boom placing the camera above the layout
Eire photographed with a telephoto lens | Church Hill |
30. May-June 2019: A new signal box, loco crew and lamps and more photos |
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Signal box | Village
scenes | A BR Class 4MT shunts the yard
| Trains meet
Loco crew | Loco
and brake van lamps | 2MT with goods train
| B1 in station |
31. July 2019: The new signal box completed, new locos and village photos |
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Signal box | Village
scenes | A new BR Class 4MT class
| A new Castle class |
32. August 2019: Road details and loco weathering |
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Drains and manhole covers | Time for tea |
Extra weathering on a J39 | Photos |
33. September 2019: Phone photos and new
bulk grain wagons
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Photos of the village taken with a phone | Trains photographed with a phone
Some new bulk grain wagons |
34. October 2019: Brake vans and trains
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Two new brake vans | A B1 with a train of vans
Two phone shots of a Jubilee | A BR 4MT at work |
A misty morning |
35. November 2019: New loco, coaches, vans and views
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SE&CR Class 'C' | Birdcage coaches |
New vans | New angles |