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Saturday Film Club: 1972: Crich's National Tramway Museum

A pair of 3Fs

Garden Rail April 2026

It IS quicker by train

Rapido Fireless locomotive

Midlands show haul

Midlands Garden Rail Show 2026

Saturday Film Club: Extinct Miniature Railways & Forgotten Furniculars! Exploring Margates Lost Railways

That's the Tri-ang tree!

The Paint Rack, Coventry

Making G scale spectacles

My Dad was not Batman!

VER Car 2 - Finished

The railway with a speedhump in the middle

Saturday Film Club: MAGLEV and Birmingham International Station

Random cat photos

Squeezing the seats in

Warehouse Wednesday: Cadbury buildings

The wrong transfers, for the right reasons

Making Peco OO9 slate wagons go around really tight curves

Fiddle yard envy

Saturday Film Club: Toton Yard Hump-shunting 1950

Paint on the VER car

A dirty little hut in Spring's BRM

Warehouse Wednesday: City of Birmingham Electric Supply 1920

This is why my collegues think I'm weird

Doncaster haul

Doncaster 2026

Saturday Film Club: Gauge1 live steam & electric model locomotives

Vintage spirit level

Garden Rail March 2026

Warehouse Wednesday: Bourn Brook

Volks Electric Railway - Car 2

Dad update

Bournville 2026

Off to Doncaster

Saturday Film Club: Shock Closure! The UK Model Shop Directory Closes its Doors

Brian Parker - RIP

Time for a new loco cradle

Warehouse Wednesday: 7 1/4 tunnel

Playmobil 45mm gauge track

Syston Haul

Syston 2026

Saturday Film Club: The Hospital with its own Private Railway - Hellingly Hospital Railway

A hut and a warehouse in March BRM

Time for a break

The Valley Railway Adventure

Saturday Film Club: Toton Yard Hump-shunting 1950

Scalextric 2012 Olympics Velodrome

Bog done

Warehouse Wednesday: Irish flour mill

Hinges

At last, a good use for the Sun!

Saturday at Kidderminster

Saturday Film Club: The Origins of Groudle Glen

Annie

Garden Rail - February 2026

Defunct battery charger

Wiggly brass roof

Quirky poll results are in

New Year Steam

Saturday Film Club: The Last Railway Horses

Calendar time

2025 - Review of the year

2025 - The work projects

Unfortunate stains on the WC

Dunkum Dunnies

Skip the bus in February's BRM

Saturday Film Club: How to Bake George Stephenson’s 200-year-old Mince Pies

Hellingly Hospital Loco

Merry Christmas

Winter Holiday Train

Double planking

Framed and seat fitted

Rowington 2025

Saturday Film Club: Buying a Steam Locomotive - Marcia The Pocket Peckett

Paper tickets

You're not helping cat...

Warehouse Wednesday: Birstall Social Club

Leek and Manifold WC

A simple home made wheel pusher to adjust tight B2B's simply and easily.

The Marvellous(?) Miniature Workshop

Saturday Film Club: Why DO we love model trains?

Airfix flick motor

My 100th issue of Garden Rail!

Warehouse Wednesday: Oxford roofs

Heat and hammering

Book Review: Between the lines. My Life at Hornby by Simon Kohler

Gwen's Cafe

Saturday Film Club: Design the SPV

Phil's wagon

4-wheel wagon

Warehouse Wednesday: Staines Mustard Mill

Model shop carrier bags

NFRM - The Haul

The National Festival of Railway Modelling 2025

Saturday Film Club: YouTubers at the National Festival of Railway Modelling

T55 JFJ motor

Shedtastic January issue of BRM

By diesel to Port Erin

Ratio SR van finished

More plastic kits for the stash

Scale Model World 2025

Saturday Film Club: LWMRS supports a project to mark 200 years of the modern railway

Off to the NEC

Mystery O gauge signals

Warehouse Wednesday: Shunting bollard and wagon turntable

Uh-oh

Painted van

My weird classic car show haul

NEC CLassic Car show

Saturday Film Club: New York Central's Mercury: An Art Deco Masterpiece

Painting delay

Garden Rail December

Chassis upgrades

Sprat & Winkle couplings

Very liquid glue

Heart of England NG group 2025

Saturday Film Club: Transforming A New Wagon into a Railway Workhorse!

Fleischmann MV9 diesel locomotive

Wheels in

Warehouse Wednesday - Coaling cranes

Bearing up

SR 12 Ton Box Van kit

The Great British Model Railway Show 2025

Saturday Film Club: The Last Great Playset: Matchbox's EPIC 1970s Railway Goods Yard

Mystery Garratt painting

BRM December 2025

Warehouse Wednesday: Elend goods shed

HO Schwebebahn

MMEE Haul

Midlands Model Engineering Show 2025

Saturday Film Club: The Weird Pod Metro That Lies Forgotten Under A Paris Suburb

Modellbahn Apitz, Wuppertal

Schwebebahn haul

Schwebebahn (The Dingle-Dangle)

GETS haul

GETS 2025

Saturday Film Club: Barnfind VW Beetle. Can We Get It Moving After A Decade?

Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH (HSB)

Veinenburg railway museum

Warehouse Wednesday: Das Lagerhaus

Modell Center Hünerbein

Germany 2025

Stafford 2025

Saturday Film Club: Load your wagons

Turbo car upgrades

Garden Rail November 2025

Warehouse Wednesday: City centre slipway

Finished flat

Woodleigh flat wagon

Yorkshire Garden Railway show 2025

Saturday Film Club: How to build a Shannon class lifeboat

Mystery point

Dray time in BRM November

Warehouse Wednesday: Whitley Bay station, and a K4!

Little people

More Giraffe photos

Rapido Railex 2025

Saturday Fim Club: Snow Hill Tunnel secrets

DJH 02 diesel - the kit that started it all for me

1980s Hornby garage in The Collector

Warehouse Wednesday: Albert Dock, Liverpool

A box for the B4 tank

16mm stock boxes

TINGS 2025

Saturday Film Club: The history of Peel Engineering - there was so much more than just the P50!

See you in Maidstone

Ugly loco hauls skip wagons

Warehouse Wednesday: Peel Engineering workshop

New number

Ask Phil: Bending brass

Steaming photos

Saturday Film Club: Globe Making: How the World is Made (1955)

Mystery O gauge chassis

Garden Rail - October 2025

Warehouse Wednesday: Headstocks