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Bushey Miniature Railway
Dec 14, 20221 min read
Bushey Miniature Railway - The end of an era
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...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Oct 22, 20202 min read
Visiting the Bath & West Miniature Railway
As members of the ESSMEE (East Somerset Society of Model & Experimental Engineers), we took a recent trip down to visit in September as...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Jul 17, 20201 min read
Our second Locomotive has arrived.
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...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Jul 10, 20202 min read
A sad visit to Wat Tyler Miniature Railway
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....
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Jul 10, 20201 min read
A kind donation of two live steam locomotives.
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...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Jun 12, 20201 min read
A large donation of 1970s brand new locos, coaches and scenery.
The Bushey Miniature Railway have just received a substantial donation of box fresh OO gauge items, much of it unopened. This consists of...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Jun 12, 20201 min read
The completed drivers truck and carriage.
Our newly completed drivers truck as been coupled with the passenger carriage for the first time. We used the same company to supply the...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Apr 23, 20201 min read
The completed passenger carriage.
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...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Apr 14, 20201 min read
The new seat is finished on the passenger carriage
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...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Apr 4, 20201 min read
Painting the new passenger carriage
Work has started on the passenger carriage during our lockdown period. We have given it a coat of primer, dark grey and then Maxitrack...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Mar 19, 20201 min read
Matching the rolling stock paint colour to our Maxitrack loco
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...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Mar 17, 20201 min read
5 inch gauge rolling stock buffer positions?
As we now have a new passenger carriage, our minds are turning to the painting, seats and buffers. Both our drivers truck and our...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Mar 15, 20201 min read
Our new Maxitrack passenger carriage has been delivered.
After some deliberation, we decided not to buy the slightly dilapidated passenger carriage in our previous post because a better one came...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Mar 3, 20204 min read
Installation of our automated point motors.
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...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Feb 29, 20201 min read
Railway through the Snowdrops
The garden is slowly coming to life. The snowdrops are beautiful. Can't wait to see the huge Magnolia tree and the bluebells.
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Feb 28, 20201 min read
The latest addition to our rolling stock
We have just acquired a passenger carriage from Station Road Steam in Lincolnshire. This long awaited addition to our railway will enable...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Feb 4, 20203 min read
The new track extension is finished.
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...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Dec 6, 20191 min read
Working out the radius of our next set of points
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...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Nov 22, 20191 min read
We feature in Miniature Railway magazine!
The Bushey Miniature Railway features in the latest copy of Miniature Railway, a magazine that covers all aspects of the world of...
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Bushey Miniature Railway
Oct 28, 20192 min read
The Brockwell Park Ghost train!
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...
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