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I do wonder what will eventually happen to Axe and Issac when the 5 engines are recreated... The L&B have not normally cared for keeping their cast off engines, see Sid for details... I'd have thought that Axe might be good for Winter trains depending on if it can run at the speeds required and...

Lakeside Miniature Railway doesn't currently have a steam loco, the Basset Lowke class 10 extreme rebuild/replica that used to be there "Red Dragon" was sold to Austin Moss at Windmill Farm not long after John Spencer sold the line. Since then Austin sold it on to Rhyl Miniature Railway, w...

Interesting article, with a few inaccuracies if you know your miniature railway history (although given the convoluted story of the Basset Lowke atlantics and the Barlow locos it's no surprise that confusion occurs!). Prince Charles (formerly at LMR but currently at Windmill Farm I believe) is a for...

Looks very nice, I look forward to seeing all of the improvements at some point. With regard to the weather, that boiling hot Monday running trains at yours a few weeks ago seems but a distant memory now! Doesn't it just. Beddgelert would be the perfect engine to test the new curves! I guess I'll h...

Looks very nice, I look forward to seeing all of the improvements at some point.
With regard to the weather, that boiling hot Monday running trains at yours a few weeks ago seems but a distant memory now!

Thing is Peter, I did the first part on 04/08 so why has it not dired after five days when we have had nothing but hot weather! Am I applying too much? I sprayed it all until it was all white in colour. Interesting, when I did my ballasting last year in warm weather (certainly much cooler then it h...

Seems to be fairly standard for the DHR to be described as a Toy Railway, much the same way as the Ffestiniog described itself as such in the 1930's. Anyway for a DHR landslide that seems like quite a small one...

Mightily impressed by this, it must take a fair amount of planning and thought to put the concrete where you want it to ultimately get the village that you want.

Nice photos, good to see steam on Peter's railway.

Welcome to the forum, If you do want a book, then I would suggest "Practical Garden Railways" by Peter Jones, published by the Crowood Press in 2008. It covers pretty much everything although I will admit there are methods for doing things out there that are not mentioned in the book, like...

That looks much better Phil! :) I should explain to the rest of the forum that the necessity to do this work is partly my fault, last Monday Phil had a steamup and my run was unfortunately rather short as my Beddgelert could not be persuaded to go around the section which has just been relaid. I thi...

Some of mine seem to excel at growing too big by themselves, to the stage where I am considering taking them out entirely, but it has produced quite a few scale logs whilst I try and keep them in check.

ge_rik wrote: ↑Sun Jun 03, 2018 5:22 pm

If anyone knows of branches which have bark which is weatherproof, the please let me know. I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem.

Rik

I've got a stack of logs made from offcuts of various dwarf conifers, and they seem to have kept their bark over the course of nearly 18 months.

Lonsdaler wrote: ↑Fri May 25, 2018 12:21 pm

FWLR wrote: ↑Fri May 25, 2018 9:50 am Going to Sam’s in Ulverston on Sunday Phil.

B*gger - I'm not! I'll ask Midge if he is and ask him to take some with him.

Not sure you want any from there, the whole garden will be covered in no time!

I'm afraid it isn't really, the Mamod track is joined by connecting tags cast into the track and the joints are staggered, so to join to anything else you have to cut the rail ends square for a start. Then the height of the Mamod rail is much less then Peco as the Mamod sleepers are much thinner, an...

Thanks very much, all of your kind words are much appreciated here! I've got to say that all of the contributors on here make moderation very easy, so thanks to you all. I can't remember the last time I had to intervene in an argument or suchlike, it was many years ago! Now back to reading all of to...

A little bit of gauge widening should be fine, on the 15 inch gauge at Ravenglass we increase the gauge by 1/4 inch for sharp curves, so if anything you might want a bit more then 1/16th widening. I wouldn't move the wheels on the axle, as that will affect back to backs and other crucial dimensions ...

Old Hall have turned out some nice stuff. IMG_3051.JPG This is the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's Krauss pacific, to be named Whillan Beck. Although it was purchased nearly fully restored, all of the work to bring it up to the standards the railway requires has been done at Old Hall Farm by Alex a...

Must admit for me the idea of having a steam outline battery loco has just not appealed, and that even the best, mostly finely detailed 16mm steam outline is still missing something. Real steam locos share the characteristics of the prototype, of taking an amount of skill to perform its best. A stea...

Very nice, I love the removeable roof, not a technique I've ever seen anyone else use before but the end result looks great.