Room with a view…

By popular demand, here’s the view from our future apartment over the roof of the house opposite… While it’s not exactly the Swiss Alps, compared with the street we currently live in (The truck in this picture is about one metre from our living room window) it’s a major step up, so we’re happy. You [...]

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Revolutions

On my first visit to Germany I stayed at Esslingen-Am-Neckar, in the valley of the Neckar river. At the time, the town was still pretty car-dominated: The bus and rail stations exuded shabbiness: the station in particular was a rather dingy hole: my main memory of it was the darkness cast by an ugly canopy [...]

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Eurotunnel

When you read this we will be on our way back from the UK to Germany, which is a good excuse to show one of the locomotives that made it possible for us to do this: Hunslet RA 36 1989 was one of a fleet of 144 locomotives running over the 180km network on the [...]

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Field Trip

I went to my parents local Station in Bedale the other day, just to see what was there. The line is currently seeing services between Leeming and Redmire on Tuesdays and Weekends run by the Wensleydale Railway Company, who aim to reopen it from Northallerton on the East coast Main line to the Settle and [...]

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Nearly there…

Less than a week to go, but Westerooge is almost complete. The scenery is down and the track works- most of the time. It isn’t as smooth as I’d like but better than I thought I’d manage, so that’s not too bad. Even the bit that went wrong is working this time around.

The remaining jobs [...]

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Takeover? Maybe not…

The unanimous opinion on G1 in Connex livery was “Bring back red”. Thank goodness for image manipulation.
Connex are changing their name to Veolia now, and Paul Smith of Widnes Road fame tells me they are gradually changing the corporate colours to red and white. Their German website is changing too. It seems they have [...]

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Brighter Day

Yesterday was a bit brighter, so I spent some time experimenting and taking model pictures with the card background. For (many) more views click on the picture. I was trying out different ideas for lighting and camera settings. That’s my excuse anyway.
By the way, I got a lot of ideas for this, including the basic [...]

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Vision…

I’ve got a new camera at last, actually something I was planning to do long before the old one broke down. I was testing it after it arrived this afternoon, and of course I had to try out the macro function. So here is a progress picture of Growler one, warts and all, and just [...]

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