Garden Railway Forum

I really do think you explain how to do a proper job on building retaining walls Rik. It's the same principle I would imagine to build any wall. Get the foundation right and you are half way there. Thanks Rik for another build, brilliantly explained in your excellent Blog Thanks Rod I try to rememb...

Whilst out walking the dogs, I couldn't help thinking about your current progress in railway construction.... here in West Wales we are in gentle breezes and light rain (I don't like to exaggerate!) courtesy of 'Dennis', whilst I picture you outside in shorts and sandals, with transmitter in one ha...

I've now finished widening the raised bed at Bulkeley reduce the precariousness of the siding at the front of the bed.
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More info on the landscaping here.......
https://riksrailway.blogspot.com/2020/0 ... keley.html

Rik

Picking up on Greg's theme, quite a few of my locos use LGB ToyTrain motor blocks for their motive power. Don't be put off by the label. The motor blocks aren't at all toylike. They are well engineered mechanisms. It depends on whether you want something to run off the shelf or you're prepared to do...

An interesting story and video. Why did the train reverse at Dolgoch and then re-enter the station?

Rik

PS
If you don't mind using your phone or tablet as a transmitter, you could cut costs the control system by using one of these http://locoremote.co.uk/




Rik

For the money you really can't go wrong with a loco kit from HGLW. http://www.hglw.co.uk/Locos.html That would be my recommendation as well. Easy to build and robust with a decent mechanism. I wrote up my build of one of their locos here.... https://riksrailway.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-i-constructe...

Looking really good, Andrew. Glazing bars are a bit of a nightmare for me. I like the idea of using double sided tape.

Rik

This is garden railway modelling by stealth! Just a few square feet at a time.... she will hardly notice. Actually, Linda is very tolerant as to my incursions. As long as she has access to her veg beds and greenhouse, she's quite happy. Mind you, she hasn't noticed that the raised veg beds just hap...

This will be a lovely rustic station area. I do like the bridge, and is that a charming wee cottage I spy atop the rockery. Not yet decided what to do with the extra bit of landscape. Maybe a goods shed or even a coal shed like they had at Blythburgh on the Southwold. The cottage is a pottery model...

You'll remember that the new siding at the front of Bulkeley was left in a somewhat precarious state: DSCN0283.JPG . Time for a bit of landscaping. First of all the sandstone cladding was removed from the old wall - leaving the siding in an even more precarious position. DSCN0287.JPG . Then a new wa...

Sounds like your weather is going from one extreme to the other, Greg. Glad to see Sandstone wasn't affected by the bush fires...

Rik

Great looking model, Rod. As others have said, the wood grain and painting is particularly effective.

I wonder if anyone has managed to motorise one of these. I know Bachmann has a 45mm version but it's not as realistic as yours.

Rik

Only just caught up with this thread. A great read! I agree with you about moss cultivation. It grows spontaneously on my railway but I think it's largely due to its location - ie a North facing shaded garden. The one bit of railway which was exposed to regular sunlight ( ie not in the shadow of the...

Another local's recollection of the Boneworks. I got to know quite a lot about the Boneworks when visiting my grandfather at the site. Bones were brought from the abattoir to the Boneworks by Bill Kinsey, a Tattenhall haulier. During the war years, when he carted the bones through the village, the r...