ModelR Blog http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:17:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en New Hornby products for 2008 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=25 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=25#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:17:22 +0000 admin 2008hornbynew http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=25 Flying Scotsman in AustraliaHornby’s new range for 2008 has been officially announced today. It includes five all-new locos, plus another four from the former Lima range, as well as new wagons and more additions to the Skaledale range. (more…)


Tags: , , ]]> http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=25 New information icons on event guide http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=24 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=24#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:37:05 +0000 admin events http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=24 I’ve added some icons to the event guide to show some standard information, such as whether a venue is wheelchair accessible or has free parking. Not all of the events have this information available, as the submission form has only recently been updated to include it and I haven’t had time to go back over older additions and make sure that they all have this data flagged where appropriate, so please check the individual entries and organisers’ websites for the definitive answer.

Hopefully, as we move into adding events for next year, the majority of them will have this information available in a simple visual form.


Tags: ]]> http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=24 Wirksworth photos http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=23 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=23#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:16 +0000 admin gallery http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=23 I went to the EVRA show at Wirksworth on Saturday. As usual, I had my camera with me and took some photos which can now been seen in the gallery.


Tags: ]]> http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23 Photos from Manchester 2007 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=22 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=22#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:25:05 +0000 admin photos http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=22 I’ve added my photos from the MMRS 2007 exhibition to the gallery. I have to say, though, that they’re not as good as the ones on the RMWeb Manchester thread!


Tags: ]]> http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=22 More Hornby photos http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=21 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=21#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:01:20 +0000 admin Hornby http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=21 More photos from the last two Hornby PDFs:

LSWR Class M7

GWR Terrier

Caledonian Railway 4-4-2

Caledonian Brake Coach

Caledonian Composite Coach

Inter-City Mk3 Sleeper

Inter-City Mk3 TGS

GNER Mk3 TGS


Tags: ]]> http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=21 New Hornby Brake ‘Van C’ vans http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=12 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=12#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:17:59 +0000 admin Hornbyproducts http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=12 For the benefit of those who’d prefer not to download the Hornby PDF, here are the images of the new Brake ‘Van C’ vans:

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Tags: , ]]> http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=12 Oops, and an apology http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=9 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=9#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:10:00 +0000 admin dataevents http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=9 If you’ve read earlier blog entries, you’ll know that a few months ago we had to take a lot of entries offline while we verified their content as part of a major data cleanup. That’s now mostly complete, and the newly verified entries are now available again.

However, during that time, a bug in our submission system meant that many newly added entries were incorrectly being flagged as old, unverified entries rather than new submissions.  The bug has now been fixed, and all the affected entries have been released. Unfortunately, some of them were for exhibitions in August and early September, and so they never got to be published before the event had taken place.

All we can do is apologise, and promise that it won’t happen again. The programmer responsible for the bug will be forced to do penance, just as soon as we can come up with a suitably appropriate punishment.


Tags: , ]]> http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=9 Gallery is fixed again! http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=8 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=8#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:34:28 +0000 admin gallery http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=8 I’ve replaced the original gallery system, based on Gallery2, with a new one using a modified form of Zen Gallery. It seems a bit more stable, and easier to configure, than the old one.

The downside is that all the captions have gone. I might get round to re-captioning all the photos eventually, but it may take a while!


Tags: ]]> http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=8 Gallery problems http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=7 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=7#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:52:07 +0000 admin gallery http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=7 The gallery is broken again. Hopefully, it will be back online soon, but it may be a few days.


Tags: ]]> http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=7 More site changes: About/FAQ http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=6 http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=6#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:55:17 +0000 admin pages http://www.modelr.co.uk/blog/?p=6 There’s now an “about/FAQ” page, giving contact details as well as answering the most frequently asked questions about the site.


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