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Evening all, the bridge installed two weeks ago and now connected up. It's feeling very solid and secure. Several trains driven over with no drama. I'm very chuffed!

A more interesting way of photographing model engines

The ply for all the baseboards has been ordered today and will be cut to size before being delivered to me. 11 sheets of 9mm WBP ply.

My connection with the area also goes back a very long time Mike. My Uncle Frank and his family lived directly on the other side of the Stour River from the site (in Iford Lane) and I used to regularly stay there at weekends as I was stationed in Blandford and got on very well with my cousin John. This was in the '60s though and Tucktonia wasn't there at that time. Nor (to be honest) were Model Railways much on our minds. Boscombe Ballroom and 'Le Kilt' (in central Bournemouth) were our usual haunts in those days...can't remeber why now.   

My eldest son and his family moved down to the area about 7 years ago, so I often find myself back in familiar territory some 60 years later...

IanT 

Not sure how I missed this thread from "only" 6 years ago.  I went to Tucktonia with my girlfriend at the time, on my new Honda 500/four in 1976/7.  The buildings were amazing and the locomotives a bit generic.  What did strike me though was that the railway and the buildings were in scale together and really not many model villages are like that as they use narrow gauge or Gauge 1 which is too small for scale.

Mike

Enjoy it. I will get around to them eventually but not until further down the line.

Hi All with Johns help I am going to attempt to 3D print the F14 GWR Carriage to go with my 1:32 3D Printed Hall Class Hogwarts Castle.
My be a big order I don't know but I have t ogive it a go.
The Loco files are from here and have been my 1st forry into Railways and 3D printing.
https://www.pocketrailwaymuseum.com/

"Tucktonia: Located at 50° 43? 55.2? N, 1° 47? 24? W"

Google Maps translated that quite easily - Thank you

And yes, I drive by that "estate" every time I'm down there...

Regards,

IanT

Digging up an old thread - there is another brief bit of film of the LT&M museum's G3 line here - between 0:47 and 0:57

Thanks! It's been a labour of love building it this autumn and winter, it soon became too big for the workshop and painting has been a particular problem in the rains!