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Can I suggest watching the videos of Lawrie Wrights Excelent railway in Aberystwyth. It may raise your spirits...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP3hrp7i8wQ

Hi Keith, that looks cracking. And that's a great website for SAR stuff!

Will look forward to your next engine.

I own a Konrad which occasionally does this.

Once your gas tank is full and venting out the top, press down on the filler to remove the liquid butane (warning you will get a very cold finger) but once the liquid butane has passed out the top it tends to settle down and light properly.

Dan

Not that I have seen for years they were under development.

Dan

When they did their pol the other year Beddgelert was a popular choice, which would tie in to the above comment.

Cracking canvas there. A good bit of advice would be to do a tour of other sixteen mil lines to try and get as much experience as possible in how others have built their lines. Below is a inspirational perspective from a well missed source... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Garden-Railways-Peter-J...

Id rather put the effort in to be honest.

A plan is going to have to be drawn up by the layout organiser of how the boards are going to be set out at each show. which will need to be dimensioned. Its no biggy really to have some longer than others?

length does not matter...

If each modules length is recorded in a database as its created then putting together a plan for a layout when a show invite is received should be no problem.

Regards

Dan

Hi all I think Dad has joined the forum, I will give him a poke to start posting .

Got a feeling he doens't want everything to be organised on the tinternet because many of our the 16mm community don't use the forums or internet in general.

Best Regards

Dan

Thought someone was posting Armature dramatics (football) scores on the forum... If your planning on having a turntable thats 10' in Diameter, to accommodate a decent length train. You may as well have a 5' balloon loop which would be easier to transport. Quite Right Bell codes would be useful. We u...

Question has anyone who's shown interest contacted Dad (The Author). He's waiting to hear from people.


I like the MOTY Idea thats a corker!

Regards

Dan

The layout will feature balloon loops however...
If someone turns up with a junction and terminus then we have out and back aswell.

If more than one people turn up with junctions and terminusseses. Then even better...

Dan

Here arises another thing that has been discussed in the group. What we came up with was a loco steam up bay and sidings on one of the balloon loops or on board spurring off it.

Dan

To get a realistic continuity, get Greenscene or another of the large scenery companies to sponsor it. This has been done to great effect by the smaller scales. I think although a backscene would add to the layout but only if a standard blue paint was used. I reakon minimum depth boards would be gre...

Hia Brian,

It says Bryan in his signiture?

Might stick with forum names.

Regards
Dan

Hi all, I'm Gareths Son. Very glad to see this has sparked some interest. What I imagine is a layout that is measured in scale miles and operated like a railway. You steam up at a shed, collect your coaches from a station/yard and work a service from one end to another then your engine gets releived...

Think the Coach 122 which was built at the ffestiniog according to festipedia. The model was built by a Driver on the Ffestiniog Railway. We also have 118 and 14 but they arn't as heavy as that and think the wind was upsetting them. Many trips were made to the slate tips at the Horseshoe pass. Retur...

Hia all, Thank you all for the kind comments I shall pass them onto Dad. Shall have to get him on this forum i reakons. I am very jealous of people that have run on the Winster Valley would have loved to run on it. Everybody is welcome on the Hope Mountain Railway. Even James if he can keep his loco...

Hancockshire... you have a very reason to visit your Grandparents...

You can come play trains on the HMR. Were only about 7 miles away.

Or poor horse, sounds like he wont be taking that guy to drink there again.

Dan

Haha I thought this was an awesome story, Personally I think only he knows his horses temperament, dogs are allowed yet some dogs could probably kill you as much as a horse could. But also I now how unpredictable some of the buggers can be. Aparently it was Witherspoons in Wrexham he took it into an...