Michael's Model Railways

More progress with the buildings. Having completed the engine shed, at the other end of the layout I wanted to represent the hospital utilit...

Painting track is a bit of a tedious job but makes the world of difference to the realism of the layout. Fortunately, this is a very small l...

Yesterday the Wessex Narrow Gauge Modellers held an open day, a rather smaller affair than the Narrow Gauge South exhibition held by the sam...

In my trip to Gaugemaster to get the track for the layout, I also picked up the Wills double road engine shed kit. Well, it's called a ...

This morning's job was to attach wires to the tracks. Holes were poked through the foamboard into the holes in the ply below, and wires ...

One of the images in the book about the Wittingham railway shows the train passing by a pond in the grounds of the hospital, with the water ...

With the plan decided, final adjustments to the positioning of the points was made - with a layout this size a few mm either way can make a ...