On Thursday I had the honour of returning Jenny Lind to the main line, admittedly 152 times too small and on the London Chatham and Dover rather than the Brighton but no less a win

Take a drink every time you see a different scale of Kerr Stuart Sirdar at Rapido Railex!

Fun fact: the one on the right is actually older than the one on the left

We do a lot of Scottish stuff, but people keep asking us about blue Scottish engines, so here's one the designers dreamed up.... This month's 'rejected' livery, perhaps?

These wagons are my earliest memory of full size railways, very evocative for me personally, donate if you can!

Oak Hill Works is setup at the South Croydon Model Railway Show!! Come and say Hi, and maybe buy a kit while you're at it!! #modelRailway #trains

I'll be posting a Cyberman portrait every day this week! Starting with The Tenth Planet, this is a collaboration with @themindrobber.bsky.social who did most of the sculpting work. Rendered in #Blender3D

(heavy breathing)

NEW 009 Locomotive! Kicking off our week of product announcements in the run-up to Rapido Railex is this quirky engine, a 'what-if' short tank version of the Kerr Stuart 'Sirdar'. This neat freelance loco comes in a variety of liveries and lining combinations. buff.ly/ehIsRNO

Rapido Railex is approaching, which means the next week will be jam-packed with new product announcements and updates. Here's a sneak preview of the new samples you will be able to see if you come to the show. Make sure you subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest info! buff.ly/MzGB0By

Tonights French fancy

We will be at the South Croydon Model Railway Show on the 13th of September, so if you can do come along and say hello If you can make it and you want any kits, let me know in by emailing [email protected] and I will get your orders prepared and you can pay and collect at the show.

NEW Private Owner Wagons! We are doing another run of the popular RCH 1907 side and end-door 7-plank wagons, featuring a range of colourful and interesting liveries. Pre-order yours today via our website or any of our official retailers: buff.ly/Nrl48TG

RAPIDO RAILEX 2025 Have you booked your tickets yet? We're returning to the Market Hall in Maidstone on 19th and 20th September with a host of excellent layouts, samples and traders! Book your tickets here: buff.ly/xs6yLcQ

Had a look at this Wplace website thats popular atm, was so happy to see the Lartigue monorail represented in Listowel, 101 years since the closure of the line!

'can we have Bord na Mona narrow gauge? We have Bord na Mona narrow gauge at home' Bord na Mona narrow gauge at home;

As if by magic, new water gauge fitted and she's back up and running, bit of a water leak around the cylinder/reverser area to deal with

It was all going so well until the gas burner melted the plastic (yes plastic!) water gauge, luckily I have a spare on hand, we'll give her another go shortly

Teaching Loco no.2 (name subject to change) about the virtues of regulators (she isn't listening)

Coalbrookdale no.5 for the Peckett W4 chassis, available to order now at £35 each

fabulous day in coventry with my darling @fantomfilms & loveliest of fans 🙏🏻! hot new dub club band ' Jo & The exterminators !!!' 🤣🤗💕🤗

Im rather pleased with that, it will be available shortly

A very unusual wheel arrangement in industrial use, 'Fred' former North London Railway no.25, built by Robert Stephenson & co in 1869, is seen at Clifton Colliery, Nottingham photographer uncredited

Hello everybody! after a bit of an enforced break we finally have some more new releases, in a whole new scale! www.oakhillworks.co.uk/a-whole-new-... #BSMRGUK #modelRailway #trains #NGauge

this is what you look like as a Harry Potter fan in 2025

serious dismantling underway, its looking a lot less car like but its necessary to make progress

'Bob Symes' was a legend of scale model making and engineering. He was a TV producer, presenter, inventor and model enthusiast, and was inspirational to generations with his TV shows including 'Model World' and 'Making Tracks', and videos like 'How to Build a Model Railway'.

At our September Conference, Dr Michael Bailey will be signing copies of his recent books. An expanded and revised second edition of his 2014 book "Loco Motion" which charts every pre-1850 locomotive and his and Peter Davidson's archaeological and archival report on "Locomotion No. 1". 🚂

slowly creeping towards completion....

Not wanting to be overshadowed by the "big trains" up top at Wharf, The Llechfan Garden Railway Gala had an impromptu cavalcade of their own - with WELL over 200 wheels in celebration of Railway 200! (80+ engines, with 400+ wheels in total - of course ending with Rocket!)

An extreme size difference in GS&WR locos is captured by HC Casserley on the 16th of May 1950, between former railmotor no.90, 400 class no 402 and an unidentified J15

We usually start the month with a rejected livery, but July is a little different, as we have an unrejected one instead! We are adding two ornate'what-if' liveries to our L Class Collection SECR No.331 buff.ly/XuuPzcM No.481 'Hawthorn' buff.ly/Bd00Nlp

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IT’S FUCKING CHESS What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.

Replacement smokebox door for the bachmann N class to make a GSR K1 (the smokebox door as supplied on the model was used in Ireland but not for long and this one is much more representative)

King for a day!

That's significantly more wagon shaped than when I started, all that's left to do is a top coat, decals and weathering, they really are beautiful kits and I'd like to make some more

A view at Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr, the loco is believed to be Fowler 3154 of 1880 'Lylie', note the very short wheelbase wagons distinctive of south Wales practice at the time and the plateway mine trucks on the upper level

Former Waterford and Limerick Railway no.23 Slieve na Mon is seen as GSR 276 on a short branch line train most likely at Ennis. She had been built as one of 8 members of the class in 1892 by Dübs of Glasgow, and would be withdrawn in 1949

Thinking about the scene from Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed where Fred says something along the line of “you’re gonna clip me to make it sound like I think Coolsville sucks” and then the news broadcasts Fred saying “I think Coolsville sucks”. Anyways, let’s blame protestors for their portrayal.

One from the archives for 'International Level Crossing Awareness Day'; Cavan & Leitrim Railway when the Arigna train struck a car at Mahanagh Crossing, June 1953. #ILCAD #irishrail #archives

The fact that it looks SO at home in LSWR livery speaks volumes about how much of a family resemblance Drummonds locos have

Tonights obsession; Beugniot's mountain climbing 0-4-0 (0-8-0) loco, one of Frances most extraordinary locomotives (and thats saying something!) Now, how does one politely bully our dear Mr Dawson into making a video about such...

some sanding work on the front left wing today revealed interesting carcheology, this car had front and read indicators at some previous point, not from new, but subsequently removed at some point