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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.
Dapol and Graham Farish Catalogues now have their own page.
My Langston Bridge N Gauge Layout is here
Setting up a Zimo MX618 DCC decoder for a Dapol N gauge class 68
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg
Pictures from a recent visit to Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg.The world's largest model railway layout. (click on one of the pictures to start a slide show)
Warley 2013
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Farish
Dapol
Peco
Warley 2012
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Farish Display Case
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Dapol Display Cabinet
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TINGS 2012
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Farish Blue Pullman
Blue Pullman with yellow ends
Download Pullman movie. 21Mb
(Click link if using Firefox, In Internet Explorer right click the link, and select "save target as". Once file has downloaded open it to play)
Dapol class 22
Dapol class 52
Dapol Pannier Tank
Dapol Pannier Tank
The cab easily unclips allowing a DCC decoder to be quickly fitted
NGS 2012 AGM Show
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Dapol 38xx First Engineering Prototype
Download Pullman movie. 13Mb
(Click link if using Firefox, In Internet Explorer right click the link, and select "save target as". Once file has downloaded open it to play)
or double click on the image below to play. Requires Apple Quicktime
Farish Blue Pullman
Farish Class 70
New Farish Wagons
New Farish Coaches
NGS Inspection Salon
Graham Farish 1980 Catalogue
Scan of 1980 Graham Farish Catalogue found in a second hand book shop April 2012. File is a 13 Mb pdf document.
Alexandra Palace March 2012
Some pictures from the Dapol and Farish stands. Click on the images to download a more detailed version.
Dapol
Dapol Showcase - click to enlarge
Farish
N Gauge Society Kit Showcase
Dapol Catalogue 2011
Scans of the new 2011 Dapol Catalogue.
N Section (7 Mb)
OO Section (8Mb)
By kind permission of Dapol Ltd
Osborns Exclusive Hinderton Hall
Preserved loco 5900 Hinderton Hall produced in GWR livery. Due approximately Easter 2011
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Warley 2010
New things to come from Farish...
Class 03 Shunter
Class 101
Iron Duke
70014 Britannia "Iron Duke". This is a special edition of Dapol's Britannia only available from Osborn's Models.
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The Prototype
Taken June 1956 at Victoria
Taken November 1957 at Victoria
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Images by kind premission of Colour Rail
Tornado
Tornado Crossing the Royal Border Bridge in Berwick.
I hope someone will make Tornado in N sometime soon....
International N Gauge Show 2010
Pictures of some of Dapol and Farish's forthcoming new models.
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Dapol HST
Farish Deltic DP1
Farish B1
More Farish B1s
Farish Mail Coaches
Farish DP1 on layout
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
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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. Note DCC decoder in cab
67 in EWS Livery (click image for larger picture)
67 on Dave's layout
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.
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Here you will find an AVI video of the Terrier going round Dapol's display track. The file is 29Mb. Below is the same video in Flash format in a smaller screen size.File size is 4Mb
Ever wondered how Dapol print their wagons? This video shows you how. The file is 18Mb. Below is the same video in Flash format in a smaller screen size.File size is 3Mb
Below is a test moulding of Dapol's class 67
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Below is Dapol's injection moulding machine, currently set up to produce the OO Fruit D - I guess you could call it a fruit machine!
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Here is some injection moulding tooling. I'm not quite sure what it is designed to produce, but it has got a freshly produced Fruit D on top.
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Wagons get spray painted by hand. The paint dries in 15 seconds. The filter at the back is part of the paint extraction system.
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Graham Farish Stanier Jubilee manual (pdf)
Graham Farish class 04 Shunter manual (pdf)
Graham Farish Class 108 manual(pdf)
Dapol Locomotive Maintenance Sheets
14xx 0-4-2 Tank Engine Lubrication
Dapol 2009 catalogue complete pdf (14Mb)
Dapol 2009 catalogue N gauge section only (9Mb)
Dapol 2008 catalogue complete pdf (5Mb)
Dapol 2008 catalogue N gauge section only (2.5Mb)
Dapol 12th edition catalogue (6Mb)
Dapol 11th edition catalogue (6Mb)
Dapol 10th edition catalogue (6Mb)
Dapol originated material reproduced by kind permission of Dapol Ltd
Copyright remains with Dapol and commercial use requires written permission from Dapol
If anyone has any earlier editions of Dapol catalogues that they can scan, or send to me for scanning, please send an email thanks.
Wonderful pictures of the Settle and Carlisle railway. Excellent reference resource for modellers.
Toma Model Works Kits
Nn3 kits produced in Japan.
Kit #0007 instruction leaflet with additional english translations. The original instruction leaflet is available on the Toma website.
Pictures of kit #0007 Under Construction
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Almost completed kit unpainted
Motor with lead weights
Underside of chassis showing worm drive
Farish Stanier Coaches
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Graham Farish Stanier coaches in LMS crimson lake. Two third class and a third class brake.
If you like railways why not consider a stay in Berwick upon Tweed - the East Coast Mainline goes right through the town and crosses the river Tweed on the beautiful Royal Border Bridge. See home page for more information. Ness Street Holiday Cottage offers a discount to N Gauge Society members.
Osborne's Models - a really good source of N gauge and great service too
A4 Union of South Africa at Berwick Station
The A4 spent a week stuck in the sidings after a bearing ran hot hauling a York to Edinburgh railtour in May 2008
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