April 10th 2011 - A article looking at the valve gear of Bulleid's Q1 by Don Ashton, originally published in Model Engineer. Click here.

February 27th 2011 - Another new West Country article, this time an original version of 'City of Wells' in 5" gauge, being built by Stefan Owen, using his talents to pre-model parts in CAD on the computer. Click here.

February 20th 2011 - A bumper week perhaps ? Three new pages; A list of errors in the Ariel drawings, Favourite Names chosen for Bulleid models, and a Gallery of various items/models of Bulleid interest. You will have to key in a phrase to see these, this is to deter robots from trying to cataologue this material, which in the case of photos consumes lots of allocated bandwidth. Click here.

February 13th 2011 - A new article by Tony Harmsworth about the building of his excellent Ariel based model of 'Clan Line' in 5 inch gauge. There is some useful detail about the sequences in construction of his boiler. Click here.

February 5th 2011 - A new article describing the current build of Mike's superb 5" gauge rebuilt West Country class loco "Yeovil"; some first class engineering. If viewing this page with Internet Explorer, you will need to use IE7 or later to see the page as intended (and really no-one should be using IE6 anymore). Click here.

January 31st 2011 - A first stab at a Links page, long overdue; just a few basic links to get the ball rolling. Click here.

January 22nd 2011 - Kicking off the year which sees the 70th anniversary of the launch of the Merchant Navy class locomotime, David Smith describes his take on the background to this iconic locomotive. Click here.

December 31st 2010 - To those following this site, apologies that there appear to have been few updates recently. My year was beset by one trying situation after another, and I had to be hands off for a couple of months. Nevertheless the site has been rewritten for the latest version of the framework, coding tidied up and texts tweaked in places. Also videos of Kevan's IMLEC run with 'Leader', and John Lloyd's 2010 IMLEC run were added to the video section. I have put some new articles together; with additions to the Light Pacifics section coming soon. Today in line with the 70th anniversary of the introduction of Bulleid's first loco design, the Intro page has been updated . . .

March 9th 2010 - A new page, highlighting Bulleid's final steam design - the Irish turf burning loco; this one has been about 20 months in my melting pot . . .

September 28th 2009 - Update to the Merchant Navy intro page to allow for more photos, another one that took hours to get working correctly. Please let me know if you like this change or have any problems. Plus tidy ups to the Leader pages.

September 12th 2009 - A new page on the rebuilt Merchant Navy pages. Clifford describes his lovely 7¼ gauge version of Clan Line.

September 7th 2009 - An additional page about the Leader design; (things have been a bit slow due to a difficult period at work this year).

February 19th 2009 - Regular visitors will have noticed changes to the Merchant Navy intro page, but now a proper new page. In the OVSB section, a listing of all Bulleid's British steamers, with a selection for those of an analytical nature. This relatively simple page took me ages to get working properly; though I expect to expand it to hold additional info. More articles to come, but I have actually been getting some work done on my own model !

October 6th 2008 - Some tweaks to the West Country intro page, and a new article about Francis' project - building his new West Country class loco.

September 18th 2008 - A new account of a Merchant Navy constructed to the Ariel design - John Bradley coped with the challenge of building in Johannesburg, South Africa.

September 6th 2008 - If you've been wondering what I've been up to - it's been a busy spring and summer; building our new Club track, time working on my own loco, and some excursions away. There has been an update to the Q1 intro page in an attempt to compact the photos (hope it works for you), and I'm working on new pages. Also changed: Ian has slightly updated his Merchant Navy article and a drawing to reflect a change to the brakes, needed after he bolted it all together.

March 17th 2008 - A new article about Ian's build of Ariel, including his mods to make it more authentic with supporting sketches - a 1st for the web-site.

February 22nd 2008 - A new story about a 3½ inch original gauge Merchant Navy model, with a little twist to accepted history.

January 31st 2008 - A few text changes and an Excel download button added to the index of Ariel build articles. Apologies if you were unable to access the web-site during the last week; somewhere at the hosting site a setting got changed and broke the site. Hopefully back to normal now, but it caused me a lot of agro !

January 19th 2008 - A new article in the light pacifics section, an expanded look at Alan's 7¼ B of B class on the G.C.R.

January 16th 2008 - Revisions to Light Pacifics page including revised text and a couple of new photos. Also revised References page, now tabbed, including new index of Ariel constuction articles.

December 2nd 2007 - Completing a trio of original Merchant Navy articles, and celebrating the first international contributor, Roger Lainson reveals his brave 5 inch gauge new build in Sydney, Australia.

November 26th 2007 - Another original Merchant Navy article, here Charles describes his striking 3½ inch gauge version.

November 13th 2007 - New article added about David's new build of an original Merchant Navy. Plus an extra photo added to Leader page.

November 10th 2007 - Added a references section, to record books, magazines and drawings featuring Bulleid locos; will be a bit sketchy to start with.

October 21st 2007 - Major shake up of the Merchant Navy section, now split between Original & Rebuild pages. Plus new article about Bernard's M.N. Project, and several new M.N. Photos added.

October 2nd 2007 - Additional photos added to the article on Tony's re-built M.N.

October 1st 2007 - A new page added to the Bulleid design list after too long in the melting pot, the 4-DD double deck electric units.

September 1st 2007 - New article on a re-built Merchant Navy loco being built by Tony.

August 23th 2007 - Additional photos and info added to the CC1 Electric loco page, and new entries on the Surviving locos table.

July 24th 2007 - Article added to the Light Pacifics, Andrew discuses his air-smoothed Gauge 1 Aster 'Battle of Britain' class kit.

June 18th 2007 - While I'm waiting for promised material to arrive, time for some light maintenance. Mainly, a new bolder Intro page; plus, fed up with poor photo captions I will be doing them differently, (MS tooltips disappear after 5 seconds in IE, were cropped of length in Mozilla, and don't even display in Safari). Hope you find it's an improvement.

June 8th 2007 - Photo added to the Light Pacifics section, Alan's original Battle of Britain class that runs at the Great Cockrow Railway.

May 31st 2007 - Article added to the Light Pacifics section, a first look at Bernard's re-built West Country that he's currently painting and assembling. Bernard has promised a proper write-up will follow later.

May 27th 2007 - New category on Bulleid's unique 'Leader' class, with an article on the prototype locomotive. Plus a description of Kevan Ayling's amazing model of Leader; the text may seem familiar to some, but here with colour photos, and more will be added when Kevan finds them . . . Also an additional photo added to the Q1 page of a part built loco in 7¼ inch gauge. Thanks to Derek Alford.

May 20th 2007 - New article, Clive Young describes his time as an apprentice working on Q1s.

May 18th 2007 - Bringing content to the photo, the story of John Cottam's blue 'original' Merchant Navy class has been added.

April 30th 2007 - Another Merchant Navy build added - Bob Frost's rebuilt in 5'' gauge, and the first picture of a M.N. Being built by David.

April 21st 2007 - New site page added, giving the 'Background' to the whys and hows of the web-site.

April 8th 2007 - The Light Pacifics class page added, plus a revised layout of Alec's West Country article. Not many entries yet, they're hard to find.

March 11th 2007 - Following a week in which the new domain name and web-space purchased; the Bulleid pages were spilt out from the NADMES web-site to form the new dedicated Bulleid web-site and made live. Please note the Light Pacific, and Leader articles are not there yet.

March 10th 2007 - New Merchant Navy page added, John Heslop describes the building of his new locomotive.

February 9th 2007 - A feedback form added to the Bulleid pages.

February 2nd 2007 - New items added to the Bulleid collection; Bulleid main-line diesels featuring Cyril Carter's 5'' gauge model, plus Len's article about his 3½ inch Merchant Navy class loco.

January 27th 2007 - Additional items added about Bulleid's Legacy and a list of surviving locos.

January 12th 2007 - Additional item added to the Bulleid study, the first draft of a Biography of Bulleid, plus additional photos added to the M.N section.

December 15th 2006 - Additional item added to the Bulleid study, Clive's Class 12 shunter article.

December 11th 2006 - New category in the Bulleid section, the Merchant Navy class, with 3 contributed articles on 5'' gauge models of this class.

October 30th 2006 - Article added to Q1 section on Rob's loco construction.

October 19th 2006 - An additional page added to the Bulleid series, the Bulleid-Raworth electric locos.

October 18th 2006 - Additional pages added to the Bulleid series, a photo review of Peter's Q1 loco, and construction of Len's Q1.

October 11th 2006 - New Area added to the NADMES site Home page, featuring Bulleid designed locomotives, five months in development. Starting with just the Intro, a Q1 intro page, and 3 builder's personal accounts of building their Q1, more to follow. Inspired after talking to a number of Q1 builders.

July 17th 2006 - A new Guest page on the NADMES site; welcomed Alec's story of building his 'West Country' class locomotive.