Sadly, due to bereavement, the Bushey Miniature Railway has had to be dismantled as the land is going to have some new owners. The first...

As members of the ESSMEE (East Somerset Society of Model & Experimental Engineers), we took a recent trip down to visit in September as...

We have just acquired our second Planet locomotive for the railway. Its a 5" Maxitrack Planet (the same as our other loco) in the same...

This week we visited Wat Tyler Railway in Pitsea near Basildon. We had been told about this railway and wanted to see it for ourselves....

We have received a very generous donation of 2 live steam locos an associated items from a family in Hertfordshire. A 3.5 inch gauge...

The Bushey Miniature Railway have just received a substantial donation of box fresh OO gauge items, much of it unopened. This consists of...

Our newly completed drivers truck as been coupled with the passenger carriage for the first time. We used the same company to supply the...

We have added a 5mm yellow stripe to the paintwork to finish it off (to match the stripe on the loco). The carriage is now pretty much...

We have now fitted the buffers and the new vinyl seat cover on the passenger carriage. We cut a sheet of 6mm MDF to fit the seat section...

Work has started on the passenger carriage during our lockdown period. We have given it a coat of primer, dark grey and then Maxitrack...

Maxitrack (the makers of our loco) have told us that the colour code for the Maxitrack Planet loco is RAL 3005. We found this at a...

As we now have a new passenger carriage, our minds are turning to the painting, seats and buffers. Both our drivers truck and our...

After some deliberation, we decided not to buy the slightly dilapidated passenger carriage in our previous post because a better one came...

We have built a automated point motor unit for the 30 foot points by the station. This consists of a 12v actuator connected to the point...

The garden is slowly coming to life. The snowdrops are beautiful. Can't wait to see the huge Magnolia tree and the bluebells.

We have just acquired a passenger carriage from Station Road Steam in Lincolnshire. This long awaited addition to our railway will enable...

We have just completed the new spur of track that goes across the pond via a small bridge and extends 15m through another tunnel of trees...

We've spent a while now trying to work out the radius of the points we need where the new spur of track over the pond rejoins the main...

The Bushey Miniature Railway features in the latest copy of Miniature Railway, a magazine that covers all aspects of the world of...

The last run of the year was marked by the very popular ghost train event at the 7 1/4 inch Brockwell Park miniature railway. We arrived...