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Port Na Cailliche: Moving home

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Tuesday, 21 September 2010. Not me, the blog. As mentioned before, I'm moving the blog to a new site. I'm going to use Wordpress from now on as it enables me to have a more traditional type site with pages in a style i prefer to blogger. I won't be transferring over the information from this blog as I'd like to make a clean break from the remnants of Port na Cailliche, fun though it was. The new site will focus on Isle Ornsay and it's development. Http:/ hlrco.wordpress.com/. Yet more Scottish postcards!

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Port Na Cailliche: February 2010

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Thursday, 11 February 2010. Change of plan continued. Here's an aerial view with the layout I will be working to, it ties in nicely between the original trackplan and the coastline of Armadale. Monday, 8 February 2010. Whilst looking around Skye and looking at the trackplan Armadale began looking rather like Port na Cailliche in reverse, so I quickly doodled the trackplan crewdly on top of google. As if by magic the reverse layout seems to fit in perfectly! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Neil King's Collect...

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Port Na Cailliche: March 2010

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Saturday, 27 March 2010. I have been working on some rolling stock recently in preparation for taking Dunbracken to Narrow Gauge South in early April. The main focus at the moment has been on some Innisfail tramway coaches. I have also been refining the North British tank loco design to the point where I've now resolved all the issues that would present a problem with the design in real life and I'm ready to get it etched (well, once all the changes are accounted for on my etch sheet drawing I am). 1 - T...

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Port Na Cailliche: August 2010

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Sunday, 22 August 2010. In my last post I mentioned that I was finding my enthusiasm for modelling rather lacking at the moment, and that this time of year my mind is normally on other hobbies. I received two invites for Dunbracken for 2011, one to Arundel, and a potential one to Crawley. I've also finally managed to sort out a date to go and look at the Hebridean Light Railway Proposal drawings in Kew in early september. I will report back on this in due course. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Neil King's C...

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Port Na Cailliche: April 2009

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Saturday, 25 April 2009. 160;and others have described themselves as having 'hot and cold' spells of modelling enthusiasm, where lots gets done during the 'hot' times, while during the 'cold' periods time is spent on other things. Hopefully normal service will resume soon, and I'll post here when it does.  I do have some stock to construct, so I expect I'll post about this soon(ish). Sunday, 5 April 2009. What's in a name? 160;at Port na Cailliche which is now the site of boat builders yard. That scene i...

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Port Na Cailliche: April 2010

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Thursday, 29 April 2010. The lines of Skye. I've been using Google maps for a while now to work on a map of all the lines on Skye, the following map is the result. View Isle of Skye Railway. In a larger map. The turquoise line is the Ord quartzite quarry tramway, a line of only a few tens of metres long from the quarry to the main road. The purple line shows the Talisker distillery tramway from the distillery, to the pier at Carbostbeg. Monday, 19 April 2010. Time for a little more history. The line was ...

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Port Na Cailliche: May 2010

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Monday, 10 May 2010. Portree Shed, AKA "What can I fit in a boxfile? For a while now I've been thinking about doing a small photographic diorama to pose my stock on for photographic purposes, and for a bit of fun whilst I'm avoiding finishing off clearing the loft to start 'the big layout'. A thread on NGRM. As Portree is the end of the branches to Uig and Dunvegan I thought that would be a good place for a stabling shed. There was a 1:24 layout based on the same idea. I might add some grass to the front...

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Port Na Cailliche: Post Kew excitement!

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Saturday, 4 September 2010. Well, today's trip to Kew was extremely successful! All images below are reproduced with permission. I wasn't anticipating finding much, but when collecting the first lot of records this is what I was presented with:. When unfurled this revealed a wealth of plans and long sections of the line including details of bridges, viaducts, and tunnels. It all looked like it had'nt seen the light of day for some considerable time. Notice to build the line under an order from the 1896 L...

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Port Na Cailliche: Quick catch up

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Friday, 3 September 2010. Just a quick post to say that I'm off to Kew to go and examine the plans for the proposed line on Skye tomorrow. I've also found some more details on the proposals and have used these to compile a history for the new layout. This is currently running at 12 a4 pages long! It's been helpful to establish some ground rules though, before starting on the new layout. Next week i'll post an update on what I uncovered at Kew. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bowaters (ish) in 009.