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Berwick upon Tweed - Northumberland Coast

Ness Street is a high quality four bedroom self catering holiday home located within the historic Elizabethan walled town of Berwick upon Tweed. Click here for the home page.

Read reviews about our Northumberland Holiday Cottage on Google.

Ness Street Holiday Cottage offers a discount to N Gauge Society members.

Berwick is easy to reach by train and Ness Street is ideally suited to a car free holiday. See here for more details.

The following links have some, little or even no relevance to Berwick!

Model Railways

Dapol Terrier Tanks have moved to their own dedicated page.

Fitting a DCC decoder to an Ixion Manor

The wonderful new Ixion Manor is not fitted with a DCC socket, and that's hardly surprising given the small amount of free space in the tender. However it is possible to fit a TCS Z2 decoder and no modifications to the tender's bodywork are required. Click on images for a larger picture.

A view of the decoder and the upturned tender body.

Tender with body removed prior to conversion

Here is the decoder wired up but not quite in the correct position. I've got the orange and grey wires transposed, so the decoder has been programmed with the backward running bit set. The blue, yellow and white wires are for lighting control. I've left them longer than absolutely necessary just in case the decoder ever gets used in another locomotive.

The decoder bottom edge is positioned just behind the lugs that locate the tender body, and is angled slightly towards the front of the tender. As the body is lowered the decoder is pushed to a slightly greater angle. Allowing the decoder to sit tilted from the vertical is key to getting it to fit without having to trim any plastic from inside of the tender body. It helps to remove the coal load before refitting the tender body. It simply unclips, and can be clipped back afterwards.

Ixion have also produced a fitting guide for the bag of bits that comes with the Manor.

Stove R

Pictures of my LMS Crimson Lake Stove R. Ready to run model produced by the N Gauge Society and released at the Warley Show in November 2009. Again, click on image for a high resolution version.

Dapol 2010 Catalogue

Scans of the Dapol 2010 Catalogue, by kind permission of Dapol Ltd.

N Gauge Section pages 1 to 18

OO Gauge Section pages 19 to 32

Hopefully these scans will be replaced by pdfs created from the orignal artwork.

Dapol Open Day 2009

Some pictures taken on 10th October 2009. All items are preproduction protypes. Click on image to downlad a larger sized version.

Class 86

The 86 has three cab end variants

Class 58

Class 58 three quarter view

Terrier Ashtead

Terrier Crowborough

The following are a series of preproduction Class 153 units in various liveries. Unfortunately they were stored in a way that obscured the underframe.

Stove R

Pre production picture of the N Gauge Society Stove R

Click image for higher resolution picture

Photo courtesy Richard Bardsley

Collett Coaches with Light Bar

These pictures show the new Dapol light bar ready Collett Coaches fitted with the amber led light bar. The light bar is being operated at full illumination. The pictures are taken in full daylight, twilight and darkness. Click on the picture for a larger image.

Daylight

Twilight

Darkness

Light bar printed circuit board

How light bar connects to Collett coach

Dapol at Model Rail Scotland February 2009

Pictures taken on Friday 20th February. Please note that all models shown are still preproduction and still have minor errors. (Mainly livery details)

Southern Terrier Tank

Southern Terrier Tank. Note DCC decoder in cab

67 in EWS Livery (click image for larger picture)

Dapol 67 on layout

67 on Dave's layout

wrexham and shropshire coach

MK3 in Wrexham and Shropshire Livery

Dapol Open Day October 2008

As well as the items mentioned in the new 2009 catalogue, Dapol today announced that they would be producing the following products over the next 24 to 36 months:

B1, 38xx, HST, Pendolino, 26, 56, 153.

Exact release dates will depend on market conditions.

Here are a few pictures taken at the open day on 11th October 2008.

Below is a shot of an early test build of Dapol's forthcoming Terrier Tank locomotive. Note there is more work to be done and this is not the final build state. The tanks in this model are plastic, which will be replaced by tungsten in the released version. This model was shown pulling 7 coaches on the flat.