Electric Railway Museum Open Day Visit – 9th July 2017

On the weekend of 8th/9th July 2017, the Electric Railway Museum opened it's doors to the public once again. Natalie and myself visited on the Sunday (9th), with the aim to take photographs of the Bulleid design 4SUB unit and the Class 457 car (67300), as well as to take photos for a modeller working…

Electric Railway Museum Coventry to close

The following appeared yesterday on the ERM's facebook page: *COVENTRY ELECTRIC RAILWAY MUSEUM SITE TO CLOSE* The Trustees & Volunteers have met today to discuss the future of the ERM site in the light of a recent meeting with Roxhill who are going to develop the land for commercial purposes. We have reluctantly decided that…

An untitled P4 project

As previously mentioned in the previous post, I've been working on a new plan recently. It has as yet not got a name, but a plan has been drawn up. I've been discussing progress over on rmweb as usual. However, to recap here: The Origins of the plan: Originally it was envisioned it'd fit in…

Making a start on baseboards and other items

So, in the last post I caught up a bit with what was planned and what had stalled plans etc. I've been researching baseboard construction recently and come up with a couple of ideas now as a result. Construction methods: I'm suspecting I'll go with plywood on a frame rather than my original thought of…