Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
* The Magpie Echo * * Services Suspended *
As the title suggests we are on pause at the moment due to the sudden passing away, on new years eye of my partners Father. My best friend POPs.
Myself & Mrs T would like thank all the well wishers your support at this very sad time. Normal services will resume Sometime in February.
Thank you for your patients, Take care and look after yourselves. Many thanks. Mr & Mrs T
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* The Magpie Echo * & Top Comment This Week *
STORIES FROM TYNE DOCK.
@thelibrarian46
22 hours ago
I dare say Grace has made Sid some corn beef sandwiches with Branston pickles and fully wrapped them up in greaseproof paper. Mrs Harrington recently took the children Christmas Shopping and they had to change trains at Tyne Dock. Jonathon was excited about getting a Mecano Set, and a fountain pen, and Susan needed a new pencil case. She will be taking the Eleven Plus next May, and like Jonathon will hopefully be able to attend grammar school. But according to the Daily Mail, let's hope let's hope those Teddy Boys, loitering about the station, and smoking woodbines, are not causing trouble. I am sure the Crewmen will welcome a rest hut. Perhaps Sid can offer them some of his sandwiches unless his dog has eaten them?
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* The Magpie Echo * * 10th Anniversary on You Tube. *
August 2015 saw the very first episode appear on The You Tube.
It was must of a video as i can remember. There's the timber here's the room and lets get on with it.
And 10 years on the layout is not finished. who knows maybe in another ten years.
All i can say its been a great pleasure to share my layout with you all. and meeting and making so friend through You Tube. we have a great community and long may it last so cheer's to 2025 and another ten years.youtube.com/video/syT9BBTkgF8/edit
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* The Magpie Echo * * A video coming soon *
One last project for 2024. The Crewman's Rest Hut.
Compare photos.....Looks familiar or similar.
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* The Magpie Echo * * Christmas Special *
Is this Station Finally Finished. Stay Tuned to find out Today. Merry Christmas and all the very best for 2025.
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* The Magpie Echo * * This weeks Top Comments *
* TRAIN LENGHTS *
@kenattwood8060 • 16 hours ago (edited)
Thanks for this, Tony, incidentally your comment about the station being too short for a Nine coach rake... Well remembering back to when I was a kid in the 1950's - "The Cornishman" a crack GWR Wolverhampton to Penzance express used to call at Bilston Central just before 9am... Bilston station was not small but the loco (normally a Castle) and two or three of the coaches always over-ran the platform and I believe that the rear end of the train didn't reached the station - these were the days of fourteen or more coach trains.. The Cornishman didn't pull up twice as I believe that long trains did in some places. I'll always remember the site of the castle waiting on the bridge on the Birmingham side of Bilston station - it was truly a magnificent sight - gleaming green and gold in the morning sunlight... So do the same! Run your full nine-coach rake and let both end's over hang the platforms The GWR and British Railways did this so there's no reason why you shouldn't!
@johnmboon • 12 hours ago
Yeah, I remember not hearing the "last four coaches for Whitchurch" and having to jump down onto the ballast on the embankment and trudge embarrassingly, dragging a huge suitcase back to the platform on the way back to boarding school once, past the scowling station master. Some trains from Crewe were just way too long for the old Whitchurch Cambrian Railways built platforms.
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* The Magpie Echo * * This Fridays Video *
Carry on Canopy Again.
The Glazing has now been fitted and some panelling.
All we have to do now is create those glazing bars. (strips)
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* The Magpie Echo * * This Weeks Top Comment * Scratch builds that last's. *
Scratch building that last's.
@janetlewis7145
Love the canopy build. Your videos remind of my scratch build days on my model railway 50 years ago. I don't have the layout anymore. But I still have most of the buildings. Like you I scratch build all my interiors. And they still look good after 45-50 years. Thanks for bringing back those memories. Bill and Janet from California
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* The Magpie Echo * * This Fridays Feature *
Carry on Canopy.
Staring: T Dock Station.
Featuring Tony Two Hands.....see you all soon.
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* The Magpie Echo * * 2025 Calendar News*
Thank you for everyone who has purchased a calendar already. I am shocked at the interest in these. 10 down and 10 to go.
Don't Panic. Charlie there is still plenty left.
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HI YOU TUBERS my channel is about building a model railway based on the north east of England. where i am from originally. The layout is built in oo gauge Sale. with a main line circuit and a branch going to my old home town station of south shields. also on the channel there will have some rare music from the fifties & sixties. there's also some videos taking from the jukebox. and any thing else that may be of interest you. THANKS FOR WATCHING.