Garden Railway Forum

“…there's no such thing as too much grunt’ Thank you. I did experiment with a very similar test ‘mule’ some years ago, as you suggest. I’ve got complacent though, having since made a few overpowered, double-power-bogie locos, largely because it was good fun and (used to be) reasonably affordable to...

Lonsdaler wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 12:01 pm “…Murphy and his legislation took a hand…”

You don’t have video of it “plunging into the pond”? I’m sorry, I laughed out loud.

Across the UK this Easter, it appears, hapless hobbyists were doing their best to sabotage their own garden railways!

(It looks — and sounds! — very neat, of course)

Wow. The Appletree stuff looks really useful, I wish I’d taken note of that. But I’ll have to go with LGB on this one — and probably the next too, as I’ve already gone and thrown this year’s discretionary spend at more motorblocks. The stuff I’ve liked to use seems to be becoming generally more diff...

3B074CEE-C3D9-4ABA-B854-79D8AE149E7E.jpeg Not going anywhere for now Well, that’ll teach me… Running upside down on the table top does not constitute effective testing of motorblocks — as I’m sure you all take for granted. Once properly installed and all Deltanged up, outside on the track forward (...

Andrew wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 9:09 am
‘…but actually that's just a lot of bits of plastic pretending to be detail!…’

Nicely done (and explained). That’s exactly my approach too: ‘Simplify and suggest plausibility’.

Very nice. I particularly like your use of colour, especially the grey underframes. Unfortunately I can’t really copy it.

Thank you. It’s been a nice sunny day and to delay having to start on the garden there were some ‘combinations of coaches’ pix to do: 1_3740_Pannier.jpg Branch line favourite (coaches 1 & 2) 2_3741_push-pull.jpg Push-pull with Bulleid Q1T (3 & 2) 3_3765_wellwgn.jpg Three coaches and Bulleid ...

“…I’ve just found this video…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCBQ9gC82oU Lovely. I’ve not seen those before. The 30s ‘concrete’ cream and orange railway buildings look great too. “…I like the way he knows how many turns of the key it takes for the first loco to go round twice and stop back at the...

Thanks again for the nice comments. You probably all know this — but I’ve recently read that way back when Hornby introduced ‘Dublo’ at a nominal 1:76 (rather than adopting the international HO standard 1:87) it wasn’t because the tight British loading gauge made UK models appear puny in comparison ...

9_3700.jpg 8_3724.jpg Desperately trying to avoid more mistakes. Note the first, tentative steps into weathering It is all taking rather longer than I’d imagined. And guess what — another spray can and the matching small bottle of enamel I bought for touching up don’t appear to be quite the same co...

Thanks for the kind comments. Now to fit the electrics; finish and paint it; sort out the garden — and run it. Hope it doesn’t take too long this time.

Invicta280 — That’s really very generous of you. Thank you.

Thank you all. I’ll need to make that trip to Tunbridge Wells (the SVR) armed with my most sophisticated sound-recording equipment (a mobile phone).

1_3441.JPG It’s been a while but two more coaches from the 2021 Modernisation Plan are almost ready for the paint shop. Fun-scale, freelance Coach 3 ( above, left ) has a cab at one end, to be part of a new, tank engine powered, ‘push-pull’ set. The cab design however, is not too different from Coa...

Enjoyed all the detective work. The enhanced image is amazing and so’s the model. Clever!

“I hope the death ray hasn't been wielded too liberally,…” Thank you. If I want to make new stuff (and I am) it’s prudent not to leave earlier examples provocatively scattered about all over the house, I find. The front room “is not a workshop”. A lot has gone — but the new stuff will, of course, b...

Hunter_600_1.jpg Semi-scale* Hunter upside down on ceiling I came to it from making flying model aeroplanes, which have, in my case at least, only one, inevitable destiny. Decent flying sites were a significant drive away and frequently very busy — it all just got too hard. I’d not done trains befo...

"...humanity now reduced to nothing more than an organic steam heating boiler round the back of Willesden shed... amid the smouldering remnants of civilisation..." Oh, Wow. This is the sort of stuff I want to hear about! Thorough and detailed — you need to update Wikipedia. But I must hav...

Not too much scope in my back garden to use System 3000 sadly (limited rolling stock and no actual destinations served) but perhaps the developers might deliver a simplified add-on — System 3000/1, Determining the most appropriate serviceable locomotive . I’ll be wanting to link it to my website, so...

Brilliant! Love it.