Garden Railway Forum

Hi guys, Thanks for all the opinions, and now a month later I can say that the deed is done. I was just amazed at were they all ended up. Roundhouse pooter - via ebay- went to Scotland Mamod - Cornwall Binnie Tipper wagons - Italy Blue Saddletank - A nice chap on this forum Rough Pup - Via ebay - no...

Hello All I was wondering how, if at all, people have managed to get rc control over the throttle to slow these little beasts down. Specifically keeping all the rc gear in the cab so you dont need a tender. I've hacked a form of rc control into my Janet using a 9g micro servo and an oversized gear t...

Mamod is on ebay, listing starts at 8pm tonight. The black hunslet has spares on their way to get it ready for sale. The blue one has a few people interested and the Pooter is just sat there. I start work in a new city in a few weeks so I have to get them moving.

Hello All Thanks for the replies. Well yesterday I created a garden railway in 25minutes. Just a line of track tacked down along the wood railway sleepers on the back of our garden. This is because my last attempt years ago took over 5 years and never saw a train going round it. http://i1311.photobu...

hi, thanks for the opinions, keep them coming. I've never really gone in for static displays. Also I managed to loose lots of parts for the hunslet during a housemove so I'm ringing slaters on Monday to hopefully place an order for a new back axle. For a bit of background I'm 22 and just finished un...

Hello All I'm a long time member of the 16mm organisation and have been on and off with my garden railway for many years. However I'm looking to drastically reduce my number of projects because I also have a classic car demanding attention and nothing is ever getting finished. In the next few days s...

Hello Well here are some photos, the paintworks all pretty good and the motion is tight without any slack. However the control linkages between the servos and the regulater/reverser have been cut so I need to whip up some new ones. The janet is a bit of an odd one. I was very young when I got it, 12...

Hello I'm afraid my first post is going to be a slightly tacky one. I'v had a few mamods over the years and a pps janet thats never quite run properly. Today at beaulieu autojumble I stumbled across a rather nice meths roundhouse pooter(square windows). I was wondering if anyone would could suggest ...