Garden Railway Forum

Probably not much help but the message below was made as a contribution to a similar discussion some years ago on the 16mm forum. Regards, Mike Dockery. "Owen, I am afraid that, if you are referring to a number on a Merlin worksplate, it might not be an entirely reliable piece of data regarding...

>> Cheers, Mike Dockery (not a big fan of pseudoplumes or nom-de-nyms). > If that's a barb at me, then take note of the fact that this name is consistent across at least 300 railway related fora and discussion groups. A simple statement of personal opinion and not intended as a barb at anyone (there...

I must own up to only visiting this forum every 3 or 4 months and so hopefully, as the builder of the Double Fairlie shown in the original posting, you will all cut me some slack in being so late in adding my two penceworth. Was the MOTY Allcomers judging inconsistent? Putting completely to one side...

> ...there are two people working on 16mm versions that I know of, Barry Reeves (late of Pilgrim Loco Works- suppliers of live diesel-electrics to sixteen-millers) and Mike Dockery (who makes bendy engines with lots of wheels). Still and video evidence has been seen on the 16mmngm e-group, though no...

Very interesting with plain wheels running on a flanged track  cannot be many of them about! Thanks for sharing. Regards Tony. Although it certainly looks like a plateway locomotive there are a couple of diifculties in making that assumption. Firstly the undoubted world authority on steam plateway ...