Search This Blog

The Philden Model Railway Blog

Pages

Home
About Me
Bookshop
Bryn Nadolig
Philden Museum
Philden TV

More…

Posts

March 03, 2024

Layout Revamp Book Launch

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Friday Film Club ~ The Blues Train

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Friday Film Club ~ Southbank

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

There's plenty more to see

Just have a click around through the many past articles that will keep you coming back for plenty of free tips and tricks!

Powered by Blogger

Information contained within remains the copyright of Phillip Overton. Site designed and managed by Phillcreations.

Phillip Overton: Award-nominated Author of 23 books across multiple genres and lifelong model train tragic. Lives in Brisbane, Australia.

Visit profile

Passengers Since 2015

Purchase my books direct from Blurb

The Philden Fan Club

Translate

Philden Street Yard34
track laying19
weathered36

Show more Show less

Great Blogs We Follow

Chris Nevard Model Railways Blog

Flood Preparation - Prod to blow up Former pub landlord Shamus O’Shandy and Andrew Barclay pause to enjoy in the lovely late summer morning at Whimsy Pit. This little known...
12 hours ago
Australian Model Railway Magazine

February 2026 issue of the AMRM is out now - The February 2026 issue of the AMRM is available in store If your local hobby shop or newsagent does not stock AMRM (ask them why not!), you can purchase ...
17 hours ago
Westgate - South Western Rail

OV - Vacuum / Mobil 5,000 gallon (32 Tons) Tank Wagons. - The Vacuum Oil Company was the first oil company in Australia. The company set up their branch in Melbourne in 1895. In 1904 it became officially incorpo...
3 days ago
Craig's Shed

Side Trip to Sydney - So late last week and early this week, I was in Sydney with the family. We were looking at places to rent in inner Sydney for my son. I recon I walked ...
6 days ago
Border District

3 January 2026 operating session - With interstate friend of the Border District, operations aficionado and owner of the innovative The Illawarra Line layout Aaron Stinson in the general vic...
1 week ago
Building Wagga

Side projects - * Side Projects.* QUBE train 3112 heading north, departs Junee yard (Dec11, 2025) very slowly with a very long container train. The level crossing at Jun...
3 weeks ago
Camden Railway

Time for an update. - I can't believe it has been 12 months since I last posted a blog report. In August last year I mentioned that I was adding to my collection and this is st...
3 months ago
Southern Rails

Marton Locomotive Depot - *Marton Diesel and Wagon Depot in the late 1990's. The depot is boarded up and is starting to show signs of vandalism. * Marton has long been a railway t...
5 months ago
South Coast Rail

Post #18 - Finally baseboard construction has begun. I have had the plywood 8' x 4' or 2400mm x 1200mm for a few weeks and to make the baseboard framework I needed...
7 months ago
Hoskins' Hollow

First on the last. - If you were to look back at any of my railway blogs you would be able to find from time to time comments about returning, or finding mojo, or re evaluat...
1 year ago
John Wiffen's Rocklea Yard

Hile Transport - An aerial view of the yard in 1987. Built in the early 1980s and operating into the 1990s the Hile Transport yard was located behind the South bound ...
1 year ago
Phillip Overton

One Year after the story ended - The year 2024 is almost at an end, and if I'm being honest, it has been a year-long exercise in letting go of everything associated with my time being a...
1 year ago
BRANCHING OUT NSWGR

Long Time Since the Last Post - When I started this blog page several years ago, my intention was to provide regular updates on my progress on the various railway modelling projects th...
1 year ago
BRON HEBOG

Minffordd Update: What's New in 2024 - An update to this blog is severely overdue, it appears. I hadn't realised it had been so long since I had last posted. There's been no big leap forward...
1 year ago
Modelling NSWR in the 1970s

Diversions... - Last weekend saw 3 months' worth of rain fall across the east coast in the space of just over 3 days. I thought our house was doing ok until my Sunday afte...
5 years ago
Lambing Flat

The old Lambing Flat website; risen from the dead! - An idle search on the Wayback Machine revealed that my old Lambing Flat website has been preserved, pretty much intact! https://web.archive.org/web/2006021...
8 years ago

Show 10 Show All