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Another  S&D recreation,  a double-headed passenger working with S&D 7F piloting a West Country light pacific.  West Somerset March 1996 and Paul Davis behind the lens.

Paul Davis starts the year by bringing us Mainline steam at night. This video really builds up a sense of anticipation.  Ex LMS pacific Princess Elizabeth at Langley Dec 2012 and a King Arthur has joined the stable at Mantles Wood for summer Saturday excursion traffic. 30800 Sir Meleaus de Lile.

A winter scene showing  an articulated Saxon-Meyer at work on the Harz system, Wernigerode 1997. .Watch the walker as the train passes by in this excellent and timely Paul Davis video and an update from Mantles Wood..

October 20  2024 update from Paul Davis bringing to life the Black 5 visit to West Wales. And a reminder of summer steam on Mantles Wood.

 

Another atmospheric video  from Mason City Iowa showing long-lasting electric switchers in action. Also Paul's continuing Standard Black 5 quest

​Paul Davis continues his video series with an unusual and interesting 'catch' of

Scots Guardsman and an update of the ex-LNER V2 joining Mantle Wood

 

This time Paul Davis has brought us a video of Britannia 70000 hard at work in August 2011 and his latest work on ex-GWR 28xx for Mantles Wood.

 

if you want to know the difference between a Trebuchet and an Onager, John Tonen shows you how to make your parties more exciting with his working models,

 

For those who enjoy the delights of Continental steam Paul has provided a cameo performance of some French standard gauge steam from  June 2015

 

Developments on Cambrian Road continue and Paul has been working on the track laying gang from Modelu

The latest video is a 'must' with 2 Black 5's on the Heart of Wales line on April 24th 2024 .

Work on the group's Exhibition Layout continues and Paul Davis's endeavours can be seen here, showing some Cambrian Road 'before and after' shots.

Paul's latest video contribution presses all the buttons for me and my long-standing admiration of  Gernan Steam locomotives

Although Paul Davis is busy working on the Group layout and updating the scenic elements on the new boards he has brought us the ex-LMS Leander tackling Shap Fell

Our N gauge layout, courtesy of the late Bill Roebuck, is set in the US and is the

Bear Lake and Poplar Railroad.

Paul Davis brings us the real thing from the Nebraska Railway Museum

 

Another example of how 3D printing is changing the hobby with Peter Butler's SM32 wagons

The New Year starts with Paul Davis working on his Standard Class 5's and another brilliant video of a West Somerset Railway re-enactment of the Somerset and Dorset showing an ex-LMS 4F in action

 

The Christmas treats from Paul Davis are Nunney Castle in full steam at the East Lancs Railway in December 1997 and another addition to to his LNWR locomotives here

 

pre-Christmas meeting at Pentrecwrt with mince-pies, O gauge trams and running in a new 00 gauge loco on the test track

 

This is a 'turn up the sound' pleaser with colliery locos working hard at Foxfield Colliery in December 2003. Paul also shows us how the latest 3D printing has provided him with the makings for his 'Chesham set'.

It's not only steam locomotives that help us recall the sounds of yesterday and here is a great clip of a  Deltic on the Great Western main line and  additionally Paul shows his latest weathering of an Ivatt 2-6-0

 

 

The evocative sound of steam locomotives hard at work , and their echoes round the mountains are captured on the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, and demonstrating weathering techniques on an ex-GWR Pannier in best Old Oak Common 'tidy' condition

 

 

 

Demonstrating the importance of weathering, Paul Davis enhances the new Accurascale Siphon G and shows us the Network Rail inspection saloon at work

 

 

Never one to rest on his laurels, John Tonen set himself the challenge of building a Horse Drawn Northamptonshire Water Cart

 

A recent addition for the Layout with No Name which has been joined by this GWR Aberdare class locomotive 

Paul Davis continues his support for us with his latest example of expert weathering and a visit to Saxony's  Unterwiesenthal and Oberwiesental railway

 

 

 

Hal Reikert has let his heart lead him astray with this Marklin 1/32nd model of Stephenson's Adler

 

More weathering of an ex-GWR Mogul from Paul Davis and the glory of an industrial  steam day at Workington Steel Works in 2001

Bill Roebuck

Hal Reikert reminds us that understanding railway history is never  wasted with From Newcastle to Nürnberg in 1835

A Southern N Class Mogul has been expertly weathered by Paul Davis and he had kindly reminded us about the reality of US railways with this video of a freight train in The Tehachapi Mountains of California.

The Test Track running session at Pentrecwrt brought a number of members out to exercise their trains

 

Black Five 44932 on a St David's Day working 2014 from Victoria to Cardiff and back, filmed at Syon Lane and Ashford by Paul Davis

 

Paul Davis brings us a reminder  of the heady days of steam as the Union of South Africa shows the sheer 'grunt' needed to start a Waterloo Special in 1995

Paul Robertson reminds us of the pleasures (or otherwise) of ballasting new track on his layout

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