Below is another video showing footage from the MKMRS exhibition on Saturday
Comments and feedback welcome!
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Milton Keynes Model Railway Exhition
The exhibition last saturday was a great success for the club with over 17,000 visitors on the day.
Brickville Town Harbour was on display and big hit with young and old alike.Below is a video with pictures taken while setting up the layout on the Friday night/ Saturday morning, together with some footage during the exhibition.
The layout was popular with lots of harry Potter, Toy Story and Batman etc figure positioned around it for visitors to try and spot.
The trains behaved well as usual with the Emerald Night engine the most fussy with regard to the track (it dislikes the flexi-track sections.
The exhibition last saturday was a great success for the club with over 17,000 visitors on the day.
Brickville Town Harbour was on display and big hit with young and old alike.Below is a video with pictures taken while setting up the layout on the Friday night/ Saturday morning, together with some footage during the exhibition.
The layout was popular with lots of harry Potter, Toy Story and Batman etc figure positioned around it for visitors to try and spot.
The trains behaved well as usual with the Emerald Night engine the most fussy with regard to the track (it dislikes the flexi-track sections.
Friday, 3 February 2012
Southern Railway Inspired Concrete Goods Shed
I am determined to gradually furnish the layout with building which have typical British architecture as my collection of Lego grows and allows! One of the first models built for the new layout is this goods shed. It's inspired by the pre-fab concrete goods sheds built by the Southern Railway and I decided to have a go after getting a job lot of Lego at a carboot sale, more than half of which was light grey!
It started life with red doors as shown but I don't think it really suited it. It has therefore now developed into the building shown below and has got grey sliding doors which I feel better suit the character
The model has a small platform and door adjacent to the railway line where goods are loaded/unloeaded together with a another side door where goods can be tranfered to a lorry. The model is positioned at the end of a goods siding and once the plans are finalised for everything around it, the small details will be added to the rat which currently hides underneath
Ideas at present for other freight facilities includes a cattle dock and an engineers yard is currently taking shape - photos to follow soon
I am determined to gradually furnish the layout with building which have typical British architecture as my collection of Lego grows and allows! One of the first models built for the new layout is this goods shed. It's inspired by the pre-fab concrete goods sheds built by the Southern Railway and I decided to have a go after getting a job lot of Lego at a carboot sale, more than half of which was light grey!
It started life with red doors as shown but I don't think it really suited it. It has therefore now developed into the building shown below and has got grey sliding doors which I feel better suit the character
The model has a small platform and door adjacent to the railway line where goods are loaded/unloeaded together with a another side door where goods can be tranfered to a lorry. The model is positioned at the end of a goods siding and once the plans are finalised for everything around it, the small details will be added to the rat which currently hides underneath
Ideas at present for other freight facilities includes a cattle dock and an engineers yard is currently taking shape - photos to follow soon
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Lego Trains - Brickish event at Bucks Railway Centre
Another great day out last year connected with Lego trains was a trip to the event at Bucks railway Centre at Quainton in Buckinghamshire. A preserved railway, the event was held in the station building which originally stood in Oxford but was dismantled, transported to the BRC and been painstakingly rebuilt to a brilliant standard
There was a small but varied selection of AFoL Lego model railway layouts and there were some amazing models on display. Below is a video which I hope shows the great range of models on show
A great event and one which I hope is repeated this year as both me and my daughter thoroughly enjoyed it!
Another great day out last year connected with Lego trains was a trip to the event at Bucks railway Centre at Quainton in Buckinghamshire. A preserved railway, the event was held in the station building which originally stood in Oxford but was dismantled, transported to the BRC and been painstakingly rebuilt to a brilliant standard
There was a small but varied selection of AFoL Lego model railway layouts and there were some amazing models on display. Below is a video which I hope shows the great range of models on show
A great event and one which I hope is repeated this year as both me and my daughter thoroughly enjoyed it!
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