Bron Hebog
@bronhebog.bsky.social
Railway modeller based in Scotland. Best known for 009 layouts of Dduallt and Bron Hebog (Beddgelert) and our latest project Minffordd
FR single engines with tenders is today’s theme for the stock box selection. All kit built, the oldest still in use after 36 years.
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
FR single engines with tenders is today’s theme for the stock box selection. All kit built, the oldest still in use after 36 years.
The four Double Fairlies of Bron Hebog - one of them still not finished
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The four Double Fairlies of Bron Hebog - one of them still not finished
Park Royal on the Cambrian. Nice! Instead of a fight to the death all making the same diesels could the big manufacturers consider some DMUs which have never been modelled instead?
RAILWAYS CONSERVE THE ENVIRONMENT (1970) | http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/725123/index.html
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Park Royal on the Cambrian. Nice! Instead of a fight to the death all making the same diesels could the big manufacturers consider some DMUs which have never been modelled instead?
A colourful group of Garratts. Four of the NGG16s from our collection which will be doing their thing on Bron Hebog in Manchester next month.
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A colourful group of Garratts. Four of the NGG16s from our collection which will be doing their thing on Bron Hebog in Manchester next month.
Has a tipping point been reached for #modelrailway content on Bluesky?
I cross-posted here and on X the other day, but despite having only a fraction of the follower numbers on here I got more likes & reposts! Anyone else starting to notice that?
I cross-posted here and on X the other day, but despite having only a fraction of the follower numbers on here I got more likes & reposts! Anyone else starting to notice that?
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Has a tipping point been reached for #modelrailway content on Bluesky?
I cross-posted here and on X the other day, but despite having only a fraction of the follower numbers on here I got more likes & reposts! Anyone else starting to notice that?
I cross-posted here and on X the other day, but despite having only a fraction of the follower numbers on here I got more likes & reposts! Anyone else starting to notice that?
It’s time to put the focus back on our monster layout Bron Hebog.
We’re three and a half weeks away from the very special centenary show in Manchester.
We don’t have any more shows booked for it so please don’t assume there will be another opportunity to see it running.
We’re three and a half weeks away from the very special centenary show in Manchester.
We don’t have any more shows booked for it so please don’t assume there will be another opportunity to see it running.
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It’s time to put the focus back on our monster layout Bron Hebog.
We’re three and a half weeks away from the very special centenary show in Manchester.
We don’t have any more shows booked for it so please don’t assume there will be another opportunity to see it running.
We’re three and a half weeks away from the very special centenary show in Manchester.
We don’t have any more shows booked for it so please don’t assume there will be another opportunity to see it running.
Many modellers strive for accuracy, but we also enjoy making up wee stories that bend history a little…
Like the London Midland Region bigwig who was very proud to have the first inspection saloon in the new Blue Grey livery and showed it off with a day trip to Minffordd.
Like the London Midland Region bigwig who was very proud to have the first inspection saloon in the new Blue Grey livery and showed it off with a day trip to Minffordd.
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Many modellers strive for accuracy, but we also enjoy making up wee stories that bend history a little…
Like the London Midland Region bigwig who was very proud to have the first inspection saloon in the new Blue Grey livery and showed it off with a day trip to Minffordd.
Like the London Midland Region bigwig who was very proud to have the first inspection saloon in the new Blue Grey livery and showed it off with a day trip to Minffordd.
People seem to like it again. ‘Best Steam Layout’. Thanks Falkirk!
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
People seem to like it again. ‘Best Steam Layout’. Thanks Falkirk!
Good news Simplex fans - Mary Ann rides again! A cheeky CV8 reset this morning its digital brain is following instructions once more.
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Good news Simplex fans - Mary Ann rides again! A cheeky CV8 reset this morning its digital brain is following instructions once more.
Day 1 at Falkirk. Snags identified at the debut show have been successfully addressed - unfortunate some digital gremlins cropped up today. One of the DCC handsets is on the blink, and Mary Ann went on strike late in the afternoon, refusing to move. Investigations beckon…
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Day 1 at Falkirk. Snags identified at the debut show have been successfully addressed - unfortunate some digital gremlins cropped up today. One of the DCC handsets is on the blink, and Mary Ann went on strike late in the afternoon, refusing to move. Investigations beckon…
Minffordd set up and test run ready for (we hope) a fun weekend in Falkirk!
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Minffordd set up and test run ready for (we hope) a fun weekend in Falkirk!
Coals to Falkirk! We’re making final preparations to continue our evangelical mission to educate Central Scotland in the charms of Welsh narrow gauge, and @festrail.bsky.social in particular, at Forth Valley College this weekend.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Coals to Falkirk! We’re making final preparations to continue our evangelical mission to educate Central Scotland in the charms of Welsh narrow gauge, and @festrail.bsky.social in particular, at Forth Valley College this weekend.
First time with its tender. Bogies knocked up with bits lying around or borrowed, and lashed up to the locomotive with a styrene coupling bar. But it goes round the tightest bends and through all the points. What a brute!
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
First time with its tender. Bogies knocked up with bits lying around or borrowed, and lashed up to the locomotive with a styrene coupling bar. But it goes round the tightest bends and through all the points. What a brute!
More chassis mileage for the NG15 tonight, attracting a lot of interest on the Greenock & District Model Railway Club test track and admiring comments about the Bowaters Models body even though it’s just a rough test print.
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
More chassis mileage for the NG15 tonight, attracting a lot of interest on the Greenock & District Model Railway Club test track and admiring comments about the Bowaters Models body even though it’s just a rough test print.
With a new keeper plate and pick ups fitted the NG15 chassis can get some running-in laps of the test track.
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
With a new keeper plate and pick ups fitted the NG15 chassis can get some running-in laps of the test track.
Now Minffordd is up & running it’s about adding the little details, like having the correct destination blinds on the DMUs.
These from Railtec have just been fitted onto the Met-Cam set.
Station Master Mr Parry’s giving it his seal of approval.
These from Railtec have just been fitted onto the Met-Cam set.
Station Master Mr Parry’s giving it his seal of approval.
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Now Minffordd is up & running it’s about adding the little details, like having the correct destination blinds on the DMUs.
These from Railtec have just been fitted onto the Met-Cam set.
Station Master Mr Parry’s giving it his seal of approval.
These from Railtec have just been fitted onto the Met-Cam set.
Station Master Mr Parry’s giving it his seal of approval.
First update on the NG15 chassis in a while.
I’ve replaced some of the Farish 08 crank ‘pins’ with the screws from the 8F which meant very carefully opening out the plastic cranks with a 0.6mm drill.
Running much smoother with less ‘play’ now.
I’ve replaced some of the Farish 08 crank ‘pins’ with the screws from the 8F which meant very carefully opening out the plastic cranks with a 0.6mm drill.
Running much smoother with less ‘play’ now.
November 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
First update on the NG15 chassis in a while.
I’ve replaced some of the Farish 08 crank ‘pins’ with the screws from the 8F which meant very carefully opening out the plastic cranks with a 0.6mm drill.
Running much smoother with less ‘play’ now.
I’ve replaced some of the Farish 08 crank ‘pins’ with the screws from the 8F which meant very carefully opening out the plastic cranks with a 0.6mm drill.
Running much smoother with less ‘play’ now.
Two weeks from today we’ll have Minffordd out on show again. Hope to see some of you in Falkirk.
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Two weeks from today we’ll have Minffordd out on show again. Hope to see some of you in Falkirk.
Another post-exhibition investigation was why our Dundas bogie wagons objected to running through the scratch built curved points in the yard - all the 4-wheel stock was quite happy.
Some tweaks to the point blades seems to have fixed it.
We’ll know for sure in a fortnight….
Some tweaks to the point blades seems to have fixed it.
We’ll know for sure in a fortnight….
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Another post-exhibition investigation was why our Dundas bogie wagons objected to running through the scratch built curved points in the yard - all the 4-wheel stock was quite happy.
Some tweaks to the point blades seems to have fixed it.
We’ll know for sure in a fortnight….
Some tweaks to the point blades seems to have fixed it.
We’ll know for sure in a fortnight….
Fault-finding at exhibitions can be stressful, especially first time out.
We had an issue with ‘Barn’ carriage 104 derailing at the exit of the traverser/ fiddle yard.
Back at base the cause was traced to a small section of track slightly wide to gauge at the board joint.
We had an issue with ‘Barn’ carriage 104 derailing at the exit of the traverser/ fiddle yard.
Back at base the cause was traced to a small section of track slightly wide to gauge at the board joint.
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Fault-finding at exhibitions can be stressful, especially first time out.
We had an issue with ‘Barn’ carriage 104 derailing at the exit of the traverser/ fiddle yard.
Back at base the cause was traced to a small section of track slightly wide to gauge at the board joint.
We had an issue with ‘Barn’ carriage 104 derailing at the exit of the traverser/ fiddle yard.
Back at base the cause was traced to a small section of track slightly wide to gauge at the board joint.
Himself has been powering through the snagging list after the first exhibition for Minffordd.
One of the issues identified was to replace the original Bachmann plastic couplings on Britomart with Greenwich brass ones to match all the freight stock for dependable uncoupling with the buried magnets.
One of the issues identified was to replace the original Bachmann plastic couplings on Britomart with Greenwich brass ones to match all the freight stock for dependable uncoupling with the buried magnets.
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Himself has been powering through the snagging list after the first exhibition for Minffordd.
One of the issues identified was to replace the original Bachmann plastic couplings on Britomart with Greenwich brass ones to match all the freight stock for dependable uncoupling with the buried magnets.
One of the issues identified was to replace the original Bachmann plastic couplings on Britomart with Greenwich brass ones to match all the freight stock for dependable uncoupling with the buried magnets.
A new arrival in the Minffordd stock box.
I’m going to go out on limb and suggest Mr Churchward’s mogul is a more handsome and better proportioned machine than Mr Collett’s ‘Manor’, helped by its stockier boiler and the purposeful stays in front of the smokebox.
Who’s with me on that?
I’m going to go out on limb and suggest Mr Churchward’s mogul is a more handsome and better proportioned machine than Mr Collett’s ‘Manor’, helped by its stockier boiler and the purposeful stays in front of the smokebox.
Who’s with me on that?
October 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A new arrival in the Minffordd stock box.
I’m going to go out on limb and suggest Mr Churchward’s mogul is a more handsome and better proportioned machine than Mr Collett’s ‘Manor’, helped by its stockier boiler and the purposeful stays in front of the smokebox.
Who’s with me on that?
I’m going to go out on limb and suggest Mr Churchward’s mogul is a more handsome and better proportioned machine than Mr Collett’s ‘Manor’, helped by its stockier boiler and the purposeful stays in front of the smokebox.
Who’s with me on that?
How do you guard against operator error at exhibitions - those ‘things you must remember not to forget’?
In this photo the operator has forgotten to throw the crossover before starting off, sending Linda off down the Mineral Line.
What are your top tips?
In this photo the operator has forgotten to throw the crossover before starting off, sending Linda off down the Mineral Line.
What are your top tips?
October 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
How do you guard against operator error at exhibitions - those ‘things you must remember not to forget’?
In this photo the operator has forgotten to throw the crossover before starting off, sending Linda off down the Mineral Line.
What are your top tips?
In this photo the operator has forgotten to throw the crossover before starting off, sending Linda off down the Mineral Line.
What are your top tips?
My, that was a quick week! And this is a very slow goods train 😆
Just 3 weeks until we get to take Minffordd out again to Falkirk and I’m excited already!
Just 3 weeks until we get to take Minffordd out again to Falkirk and I’m excited already!
October 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
My, that was a quick week! And this is a very slow goods train 😆
Just 3 weeks until we get to take Minffordd out again to Falkirk and I’m excited already!
Just 3 weeks until we get to take Minffordd out again to Falkirk and I’m excited already!
🧵 Why doesn’t our layout have any signals? A question I was asked this week.
Minffordd is in the middle of the token section between Porthmadog and Penrhyndeudraeth. The ‘signal box’ on the platform is really just a posh ground frame for shunting the yard. 1/2
Minffordd is in the middle of the token section between Porthmadog and Penrhyndeudraeth. The ‘signal box’ on the platform is really just a posh ground frame for shunting the yard. 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🧵 Why doesn’t our layout have any signals? A question I was asked this week.
Minffordd is in the middle of the token section between Porthmadog and Penrhyndeudraeth. The ‘signal box’ on the platform is really just a posh ground frame for shunting the yard. 1/2
Minffordd is in the middle of the token section between Porthmadog and Penrhyndeudraeth. The ‘signal box’ on the platform is really just a posh ground frame for shunting the yard. 1/2