Garden Railway Accidents

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:04 pm

Lightline possibly.
As I dont trust myself with it anymore.

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:06 pm

im sure the lightline guy will make a great job of it

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:07 pm

He better do (Strokes shotgun lovingly).
P.S are you permanently online?

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:10 pm

yeah I stay loged on all evening doing other stuff just in case owt happens, which it normally doesn't but hey youtube is a fun place and i've nearly finished the first series of red vs blue (yes i know very long way to go)

bungle80a · Post by **bungle80a** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:41 pm

If i'm online, I usually keep one tab open on the forum, just in case. You never know when something might just pop up on here!

Another RvB disciple! Werhoo! Rofl!

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:28 pm

Had a horrible scare today. I was filming a drivers eye view with Caradoc pushing a flat wagon with my camera on it. Departing Afonglas the wagon derailed on the loop points, falling off the small embankment and then taking the engine with it! Caradoc rolled over :( vitually onto its cab roof, scratching some paintwork and tearing the trimline in 2 places as well, and pushing the burner partially out of the tube as well

Luckily the damage has been repared but it was horrible watching the engine roling, but something I have had before, Gwydion my Roundhouse Millie rolled over on a sharply curved tempoary bridge on its second steaming! Its lining covers up most of the scratches from that day!

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:47 pm

laalratty wrote:Had a horrible scare today. I was filming a drivers eye view with Caradoc pushing a flat wagon with my camera on it. Departing Afonglas the wagon derailed on the loop points, falling off the small embankment and then taking the engine with it! Caradoc rolled over :( vitually onto its cab roof, scratching some paintwork and tearing the trimline in 2 places as well, and pushing the burner partially out of the tube as well
Luckily the damage has been repared but it was horrible watching the engine roling, but something I have had before, Gwydion my Roundhouse Millie rolled over on a sharply curved tempoary bridge on its second steaming! Its lining covers up ost of the scratches from that day!

a bloody close call that! lucky it didnt fall off the embankment!

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:58 pm

Perhapes I should of made that a bit clearer, as in it rolled off the embankment!! However the close call came in the thankfully small amont of damage, lets just say 5 minites later the engine was running happily enough, if a little grubby and the results should be on youtube soon (thats the drivers eye view). All it took was then 20 mins with a couple of pots of paint and the spare trimline to repare the cosmetic damage

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:17 pm

Sorry to hear of your misfortune.

I know this may sound a bit rude of me, but any chance you'll be uploading the video of the de-railment?

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:19 pm

Deleted it! the memory was too painful

Although from the wagon it might have looked quite funny. Drat

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:22 pm

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:25 pm

Remembred another reason to delate it, I think there was some rather bad language on it! Should of watched it before deleting it first....

bungle80a · Post by **bungle80a** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:33 pm

oh dear. sorry to hear bout your accident. must be somethin bout the a&nlr and misfortune at the moment. when i went to get westmorland out of her box on saturday, the cushioning rag had somehow got stuck to the tanks and it took a rather large chunk of paint or 2 off with it and left marks all over the rest of the paintwork!

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:47 pm

Well another day and another accident in the form of this pile up of skips at SLRmidge's Silverdale light railway.

One of the tippers derailed when being propelled, the rest fell off as the engine didn't stop fast enough

ACLR · Post by **ACLR** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:19 pm

ouch looks like that hurt

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:27 pm

I think these de-railments follow you

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laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:30 pm

SillyBilly wrote:I think these de-railments follow you .

What? They are almost inevertable on the SLR! Just because i've been making a few postings on this bit of the forum recently

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:08 am

Nah. those wagons would have come off cos midge was probably propelling them as a scale 90 mph.

riveresk · Post by **riveresk** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:16 am

According to my brother - it was! Plus it had a dodgy control and tried to drive itself instead of listening and stopping. In neutral it was still going!

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:52 pm

Well today I had a big steam up with my fellow members of the Cornish Mamod Group. Had all my stock n locos out, including rollers and traction engines, and had 2 visiting locos + a load of TE's rollers n stuff on the grass. I will include more pics n vids tomorra once got more off the others.

However, we had a fantastic laugh today. While prepping my Edrig, I learnt that I should not talk to others while doing it. I turned around and found that I was putting steam oil in the boiler, not the lubricator!!!!

WOOPS!

Had a newbie out today, only having a driven Mamod TE's, he was keen to get his hands on a proper engine

, so here is the result!!!

Hmm, a few cosmetic repairs were required this evening!!!

Took the corner a little fast!

Sam had his troublesome 'mucky' MSS out with a rake of wagons while I had Edrig in full steam, with a fully loaded granite train. Sam's had stopped on the bridge, and not told me that the line was blocked, so he was attending to that therefore 'hiding' the train. Ben-Ben hurtled out of the tunnel, and before I realised what was going on, WHACK!!!!

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