BRON HEBOG

The arrival of a couple of missing curved points - and an extra length of the new Peco Bullhead track - has allowed Himself to complete the ...

Tracklaying on the narrow gauge side of the 'test track' has continued apace this weekend, and already I'm getting a glimpse of ...

Something that was proven during the early stages of the Covid pandemic is what marvellous therapy making model railways is to take your min...

Due to popular demand - well, a couple of comments, anyway - I thought I would post an update on the 'test track' project. The stand...

As I alluded to in the previous post, Himself has been getting on with fixing a couple of irritating track faults which have been there sinc...

One of the scenic features on the railway around Beddgelert which has caused us considerable head-scratching has been how to represent the a...

When Bron Hebog , and before it Dduallt , are described in exhibition programmes or magazine articles they are usually referred to as being ...

Both ends, or perhaps I should say, both levels of the fiddle yard have now had the track laid and the temporary control unit for shunting i...

Himself has been finishing off the first draft of the fiddle yard track laying. This is just a solution to get us up and running for th...

In preparation for the show at Woking, which is just a little over a month away now, Himself has begun laying some track in the fiddle yards...

As I mentioned in the previous post, Himself has been finishing off the job of ballasting the remaining sections of newly laid track on the ...

So, the basic structure of the layout is complete! You can define that in lots of different ways, or course, but a milestone has certainly...

We have almost completed the track laying on the layout. Himself has turned his attention to the other end - the Porthmadog end - and the ...

The 'head of steel' has finally reached the top end of the layout with the final big loop into the fiddle yard laid at the Rhyd Ddu ...

The track work on Bron Hebog is tantalisingly close to being completed now with lengths being laid on the latest board. This is the fin...

Alas the job of ballasting doesn't end when you walk away and leave the watered-down glue to set the stones in to position, If you wan...

I got a bit ahead of myself last week when posting pictures of the new section of track being ballasted. I forgot to mention that before t...

After the very rapid process of laying yards of track comes the much slower task of teasing tens of thousands of tiny stones into position. ...

Himself is well and truly round the bend! As you can see.. Track now extends all the way around the southern half of the Cwm Cloch S be...

Exciting news! Another few feet of track has been laid on Bron Hebog in the last couple of days, so this great decade-long project is inchi...