wales

When I was small my mum and dad took me to Dyffryn Ardudwy for our summer holidays, a village not far from Barmouth which we went to nearly every year when I was young. BR blue DMU's and double headed 37's on summer specials are what I remember, I had loads of photos but thinking I'll never use...

Hello all I'm currently in the process of building my first proper layout, and first exhibition layout, Cwm Prysor. Although relatively small at 10ft in length, it will be part of a home layout extending the line across the Viaduct and along the mountain side. The Boards were laser cut by Tim...

A bit of a bonus as I was driving past Rhyd Ddu on the Welsh Highland this Saturday was this pair of Garratts on a photo charter freight train.

Knowing that I have a bit of a soft spot for local lines my mate Nick turned up with a copy of this book for me to cast an eye over. He left minus the book but with thirty of my pounds in his wallet. I was going to waffle on lots about how good it is but I've realised it's better just to say...

So my 2mm adventure is launched - having been very impressed with the various 2mmFS contributions on the forum I decided this was an opportunity to get a small shelf layout started - hopefully I will have some progress to report soon on Holywell Town. In the meantime I seem to remember a...

While looking for something else entirely I stumbled across this rather wonderful selection of photos from Flickr. There are many, many highlights but something to note is just how few vehicles were on the roads and the general good order of the buildings and their relatively limited colour...

Just before Christmas, work took me to the Royal Comission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales, or by its shorter(!) Welsh title, Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru, it doesn't especially matter why but among other things they publish books on the historic built environment of Wales...