Gav's Workbench

I have been modelling the railways of South Australia since 1977 and more recently British outline since 2007. Some future projects will include some American railroading such as the Virginian Railway and a new venture into another British outline layout of the LNER in the early 1930s.

Tuesday, 14 March 2023

SPIRSBY – a joint venture exhibition style layout BASED ON SPILSBY in Lincolnshire, UK. Having built many layouts, all very different fr...

Saturday, 9 February 2019

Switch stands for the yards

Researching switch stands fot the yards and main line turnouts was a difficult task and one I found to be frustrating. There appeared to be ...

The handcar shed and store room...

Also available from laserkit.com is their Cullen Handcar shed kit. This will compliment the Depot building. Just not decided on where it wil...

A Depot for the station area...

The station down at the wharf needed to be small and the laserkit.com kit No.180 of Cullen was just what was needed. A nice kit to put toget...

Coal loads for VGN and N&W Hoppers

We recently got stuck into make the coal loads for our hoppers. We want to be able to load them in at the tipple loaders, run the trains to...

Monday, 28 January 2019

The New River Company Tipple

I acquired a Walther's Cornerstone New River Mine kit and built it to instruction. Quite a beast of a kit in size. Noted was the fact th...

The bridge that links our layouts

We could have joined the layouts via the lower level at the pier but decided it would be better to do so at the upper level. This required ...

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