Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Hello – this is my personal website. I bring you a smattering of articles to read, images to soak in while you wander about the web and a few thoughts to ponder on while you drink your tea in the short articles section.
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Southwold Sharpie Locomotive No. 6 is partially constructed with the chassis complete and most of the body work in place. This is a Golden Arrow Productions Kit NL2 - Southwold Railway 2-4-0T / 2-4-2T. I have constructed this as a 2-4-0T...
This weekend I have finished painting the lock gates. There is a base coat of black followed by dry brush burnt umber and then a light grey with a hint of burnt umber. The metal parts were picked out with a little rust detail and then...
Locomotive number 04 is a GEM Baldwin kit on a Grafar chassis. I started to build this before I had finished Locomotive No. 03, about 1980 but it was never finished. this engine was rediscovered during a clear out in 2005 although I had...
Roco diesel Classic Roco 060 diesel dark green with black roof. This engine was purchased in 1985 at a small model shop in Faversham. This was the first engine to test the Loxley Barton Falls track and it only just made the sharp curve....
Loxley Barton Falls is a 009 gauge railway layout built for the Cubic Challenge competition held at the 2005 ExpoNG Narrow Gauge Railway Exhibition in Swanley, Kent, UK on October 29th. The rules state that the layout must fit into an...
Baldwin Locomotive No. 03 Locomotive number 03 is a GEM Baldwin kit on a Grafar chassis. I built this in about 1980 and it runs well but the pony truck is a little troublesome over some point work. I added a copper strip over the motor...
Ffestiniog double Fairlie Not one to shirk a challenge I purchased this Langley kit of a Ffestiniog Double Fairlie. In the end I could not build the running gear and a friend (Michael Halliwell) put it together for me. This used to run...
Ffestiniog Prince. I think this is a Gem Kit. I bought it in the Portmadoc Station of the Ffestiniog Railway in about 1976 (they don't sell any kits these days - pity). The chassis is an Arnold 040 and has not run for years. Needs some...
In October 2004 I visited the EXPONG exhibition in Swanley held by the Greenwich and District Narrow Gauge Railway Society (GDNGRS). The show is purely for narrow gauge model railways of all gauges and there were some excellent layouts...
I'm always thinking about accessibility when I'm building web sites - I know I don't get it completely right all the time! Quite often I come across situations off-line where a little thought about accessibility would have been helpful....
I am drinking a cup of water from a bottle of sparkling mineral water from Wales. On the side is printed the following: Wild water from Wales? Brecon Carrig is wild in every sense. Conceived far out in the Atlantic, delivered by the west...
Just about every album I purchase these days has a track with an extra bit of music tacked on the end, usually the last track with a massive silent gap in between. Why do they do it? Is this meant to be some idea of a special hidden...
I spotted a small piece on page three of our local free Paper, The Croydon Guardian - dated February 16 2005. "Apologies to our readers about last week's page 2. A production error meant that the previous week's stories were printed."...
I have been toying with this one for well over a year now. I moved all my photos off this site and onto Pixagogo, a paid service with no limits to disk space - I'm already up to 3GB. One of the little features of Pixagogo is that I can...
A bunch of us went to the Royal Berkshire Shooting School for a morning of learning how to shoot stuff. I have not held a shotgun since I was 13 when my great Uncle and used to hunt the woods and fields in South East Kent. I only ever...