The DVLR Mark 2

[LMS-Jools]

Luvvly Jubbly.

[Sir haydn]

looking good. how many yards is that?

[taliesin001]

Good progress, you've got a nice line there

[DolwyddelanLightRail]

I love the uneven chuff on the loco! reminds me a lot of Lilla

[Sir Clothem Cap]

Welcome back to your garden railway now it's off the shelf!!

[Pendo Pilot]

Nice one Zach. If it had been raining it would of looked rather Welsh actually.

Bet you can't wait to push on even further with that line.

[90733]

Brilliant

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

Thanks for all he comments! The line is rather too short at the moment, even shorter than how it appears in the video. Next to be extended is the Holesley branch (the bit the train reverses down having gone out of Woodbridge station), that will go all the way down to the end of the flowerbed and under Woodbridge town and should end in a quarry balloon loop. Yes, I am having a quarry! Not of the type you'd be thinking of though... Its a Phosphate nodule quarry. In the Suffolk rock (Red Crag) there are lumps of phosphate which Victorian geologists believed to be fossilised dinosaur poo. It was discovered that by dissolving in sulphuric acid it would make a valuable fertiliser (most important to an agricultural area) Superphosphate. The quarries would only have been around 10m deep at most as reg crag is found above a layer of London clay and is reasonably shallow. This all gives me the perfect excuse to have another station, an unfeasably tight radius balloon loop and some nice dirty, stained mineral wagons. I love my loco area!

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

Right ho then, new station building for Woodbridge due to be clad with bricks etc...

[MDLR]

You might want to take a look at the stuff Richard Stacey does:

http://www.richardstacey.com/welcome.html

It's nice, but pricey!

[Narrow Minded]

Nice one Zach, good to see the progress on the line

now it's off the shelf!!

- or is that "Off the Wall"? Fossilised dinosaur poo??????? Are you implying that the area is a prehistoric $#!t tip? and brilliant editing once again!
Nice production.

[taliesin001]

Alternatively you could look at www.minaco-uk.com , someone built a station from a jacksons miniatures kit and clad it with these bricks. Not exactly the right scale but the 1/24th scale ones look good

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

prehistoric $#!t tip

Well, the cats seem to be doing there bit for renuability, ensuring there is fossilised poo in the garden for many years to come grrrr.
Anyway...
Been working on the branch line to Bordsey quarry with another two lengths of track down. The railway on this branch was layed very lightly and is not expected to see much passenger traffic. I had to build the track behind my rose and infront of mum's tree like plant (name escapes me) so the railway has developed a nasty double S curve of rather tight radius! Still, it all adds to the light railway image...
My two layers of bricks method of laying track seems to be working well providing a sturdy track-base. In these pics I have yet to water the ballast to make it go off so it looks a little bright!


Looking back up the line

Do check rails go on the outside or the inside?

Clearance testing.

[Narrow Minded]

Lookin' good Zach, nice steady progress there - you'll be ready for my visit at this rate!

Oh and

Do check rails go on the outside or the inside?

[Sir haydn]

Inside rail to pull the flange across, but mostly on both

[plewsy2105]

check rails normally go on the inside (so im told )

plewsy2105

[Pendo Pilot]

Yep inside of the two, as in between the two rails & on the tighest radius side. If thats not clear enough. Only ever seen two check rails in standard gauge anyway, on bridge tops (where you also sometimes get rails on the outside of the running rails as well.

You could always make some 16mm greasepots/flange oilers whichever you prefer to call them for those tight S curves. I was trying to on my return curve before deciding it was going to be lifted anyway. Some vehicles flanges rub like mad on that & I found smearing grease on the inside of the outside rail helped it go round.

Nice update anyway, coming together piece by piece. Whens the next installment out anyway?

[MDLR]

Check rails go INSIDE the running rails on the INSIDE of the curve - sometimes on both sides!

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

Thanks, I'd got it on the outer most rail! Funny that as I've seen them so many times on NG lines but never noticed which side they went on! It was just a funny idea of mine, "I've got some rail kicking about, bend to shape, check rails voila!" Next for the line is a tunnel, I'll be doing one of the biggest no nos known to garden railways...
Curve in a tunnel...

[made-in-england]

Viloa...hhmm seems a bit fiddley to me