Garden Railway Forum

Thanks all for the advice and suggestions.

Definitely some food for thought there and some ideas well worth following up. Much appreciated.

SVLR Andrew

Thanks folks, You've given me some food for thought here. Durability was an issue I hadn't considered. They will need to be able to withstand the odd hot cinder and the effects of foot traffic. No idea about printing, I'm afraid, but I'm VERY impressed with your/the GCR's attention to detail! Mostly...

Fantastic Andrew, and very apt.

I love the track repairs too, nice to see the platelayers favourite tool to the fore!

SVLR Andrew

Thanks Philip,

I might give him a try.

SVLR Andrew

Hello all, I hope you will forgive a non garden railway (and 12" to the foot scale) enquiry. The Eastern Region of BR used to mark each chain along the railway by nailing small cast numbers to the sleepers (about and inch and a half by two inches and about and eighth of an inch thick). Over the year...

I thought I'd carried out some major terraforming but I can't compete with that!

SVLR Andrew

Just checked the website.

The home page confirms he is still trading but no longer making loco and that the business is up for sale.

SVLR Andrew

That's handy!........................... I'll get my coat!

HI Andrew, Brilliant pictures, I loved the 'pan' shot too. The train looks great. It may have been early but you seemed to drum up a respectable number of passengers! I haven't run a train at all yet this year. The state of the track on the CFLR and the amount of work required to make it fit has put...

On the Midland Railway wagons were painted grey. Even as new that could vary between a pale grey and a dark grey. The reason was that the wagon paint was 'stretched out' by mixing in all the scraps of paint from the paint shop, so the 'colour of the day' depended on what other vehicles were being pa...

That's rather wonderful. Thanks for the picture Rik.

SVLR Andrew

Hi Andrew, A very suitable way to spend the time, if I may say so. That's a very nice looking train in a very nice setting. I managed to clear some vegetation from my own line this weekend but it only revealed how disappointing my track is! Yours on the other hand looks very nice, well established b...

Hi Grant, You have a real knack for the subtle. I've said before how much your pictures feel like looking at railway in old photos. (of course, it IS a real railway in it's own right - but you know what I mean). One of the subtleties I noticed in the first photo was the layout and spacing of the sid...

I very much agree with Keith and Andrew. Live steam was a big thing for me, plus the 'reality' of an outdoor railway - it is a real railway in my eyes. Those where the attractions of the garden. The fact that it allows quite large items of rolling stock when you are working in 16mm is a huge spin of...

Hi Rod,

Nice to see you back and to hear things are getting better for you.

The wagon looks great -far better than anything I could achieve.

Take it easy,

SVLR Andrew