Andrew & the team are looking for another job! Andrew’s mega project in conjunction with West Calder High School to build the tunnel portals & add doors has finally finished. To remind you of how the project started, it just shows what has been achieved. Ruaraidh can at long last hang Read more about Job’s A Good’un…..[…]
Alastair is a member of the 2mm Fine Scale Society & the Forth & Clyde Valley area group hold their monthly get together at Almondell. ‘ESME have been hosting the 2mm fine scale society once a month for a couple of years now. It had all been agreed just prior to the pandemic but had Read more about Alternative Interests……[…]
I would like to introduce you to a short documentary made by Kris McApline. Kris is a Software Engineer but his hobby is film making and in particular he enjoys making short films and documentaries. He contacted me a couple of months ago to ask if he could make a mini documentary about our school Read more about Candid Camera…….[…]
Kris Mcalpine has spent some time at Almondell videoing our activities with a view to putting together a documentary about Model Engineering. Kris has kindly made available another of the sequences which will eventually be edited into the finished programme. This time it is a birds eye view of the site & as the video Read more about Bird’s Eye View…….[…]
Sunday was forecast to be dry until late afternoon so I decided to take ‘Hyperion’ out on the recently completed Almondell circuit to stretch her wheels. Running clockwise, she was out on the track continously for nearly three hours until the fire became choked with clinker forcing a retiral. The circuit is amazing, a real Read more about Kings Cross to Peterborough……[…]
West Calder High School have been helping on the tunnel project to construct the portals. Fitting doors was the last part of the this project & their construction team was led by Jack Galloway. Made from recycled wood from our timber pile, there is still some tweaking to do and ironmongery to add plus a Read more about Tunnel Doors…..[…]
Our first open day of 2022 and the rain held off! The cloudy, cool day did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of both the members and our visitors. Kris Mcalpine was up early to record the behind the scenes work that goes into getting the railway ready for running the train service: The event was Read more about May Day Public Open Day…..[…]
The 17th April was our second drivers familiarisation day prior to our 2022 open days. The weather was warm & dry as those involved with the exercise prepared their locomotives. (click image to start slide show) Meanwhile out on the track, the rolling stock was being assembled Time Read more about Riding The Almondell Circuit[…]
A High Precision Sundial – by Peter Rigby Introduction Prior to the development of the railways, different regions of the country kept their own local time, often different from Greenwich Mean Time. Although GMT had been established as early as 1675 for astronomical and navigation purposes, there was little incentive for this to be adopted Read more about A new Design for a Heliochronometer….[…]
Young Adam joined his grandfather on a visit and gave the site the once over. It has been two years since his last inspection so there was a lot to see! Light refresments before we set off…. ‘Will Peter bring the the ‘Scamp’ back for me Grandad?’ Two ‘scamps’ together! ‘This is cool!’ Wow, a Read more about Junior Inspection…..[…]
