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Just an update at Boltorr Road Halt
The actual lay of the land has changed a little at Boltorr Road. I know this should take aeons, but it’s my universe so get used to it. So, no track alignment changes, but the Boltorr Brook’s changed its course … Continue reading
Posted in Boltorr Road Halt, Modelling, Railways
Tagged Boltorr Brook, Boltorr Brook bridge, Boltorr Reservoir, track plan
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Well, There’s Theory … And Then There’s Practice – Boltorr Bridge
I sort of want to delete the previous blog posting. Things didn’t turn out as I intended. Why? I’m modelling in OO “gauge“. Not “scale“. That’s another thing. Don’t even go down the HO route. Hey, we’re British. Not as … Continue reading
Posted in Blah! Blah!, Boltorr Road Halt, Modelling, Railways
Tagged Boltorr bridge, colour rendering, weathering
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Bridge over the Boltorr Brook
Living in the land of HO rather than OO doesn’t provide much local opportunity for finding a UK outline kit in your local model railroad store. Fortunately, when it comes to structures like a steel plate bridge on a railway … Continue reading
New Header for That British Bloke
I thought it was time for a new look at the otbb blog. I’ve kept the text elements the same, but merged in a view of my model railway, the Boltorr Road Halt. The shot is comprised of an ex-GWR … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggy, Boltorr Road Halt, Court & Social, Modelling, Railways
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HiFi : The Digital Line
HiFi Now there’s a word you don’t see or hear that often these days of listening to highly compressed music squirted through cheap ear-buds from your phone for your ears only. Another day I’ll reminisce about when we used coats … Continue reading
Posted in Hifi, Techie
Tagged .flac, analogue hifi, audio file compression, audio file format, audio tagging, CD ripping, dbPowerAmp CD Ripper, digital hifi, Exact Audio Cop - EAC, high definition audo files, lossless audio format, MediaMonkey, mp3, network file server - NAS, qobuz, studio quality, tags
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Bolt Tor Tunnel Portal
I’m pretty sure that the rest of the granite structures on Boltorr Road will not be made in this manner. Manufacturing and applying hundreds, if not thousands of clay chips to represent rough hewn granite blocks certainly gives a very … Continue reading
Sansui AU-317 MkII Integrated Amplifier
For some reason, this article written some years ago now, elicits the largest number of Google referrals to this blog. The actual article itself is still available on BlogSpot. Here to be precise. The link to Sansui’s sales brochure still … Continue reading
March on Manhattan
A 70F/21C day in Manhattan in March was too good an opportunity to miss, so my fellow Bromptoneer, Steve, and I met up at NYPenn station and set off for a leisurely tour of the west side of the Big … Continue reading