Garden Railway Forum

TonyW wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 11:17 am I was a member in the early 1970s. My, how it has improved in the intervening years. Grass? We had wall-to-wall mud!

We even have lawn mowers !

Blows Downs Tramway, 32/45mm duel gauge track layout in Dunstable. https://youtu.be/eXIBu83sw7Q Platinum Jubilee Garden Party with Live Steam on my Garden layout SM32/45 16mm 3 June 2022. Highlights from yesterday’s Garden Party, Scones, Tea, Cakes, Coffee, Children, Rock painting, and a few steam t...

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway D class Garratt and B Class tank models
16mm SM32 WHAGS steaming at Brambleton Model Railway Club 11 June 2022

West Herts Area Group at Brambleton

WHAGS and visitors West Herts Area Group 16mm steamup and BBQ at 16 July 2022 at Brambleton Model Railway club

On this video you can see both electric and steam powered loco's, including one using coal.

Two weeks earlier - O gauge layout at Brambleton Model Railway club action and on 16 July 2022. Brambleton's tracks are unpowered, so all the loco's you see are self powered by clockwork, battery or steam. The battery loco's typical have remote controls and sound cards, and they sound very realistic...

Video shot at Brambleton special O gauge running day and BBQ on 30th July 2022 Brambleton hosted a special O gauge running day and BBQ, inviting members from other O gauge clubs and organisations to come and run their stock on our tracks or just to spectate. Brambleton's tracks are unpowered, so all...

Very nice

I can rescale no problem

David

Excellent guide

I learned all the above the hard way, through experiment after experiment. Shame I did not read your guide first.

Excellent work

Hi yes, I am David Clavey and produced loads of different models for the Gravity Griff as "Clavey Models" You can find me on Facebook and Ebay. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/clavey.models CLAVEY Models is owned by David Clavey, creating 3D drawings of Garden Rail parts and 3D Printing them in the UK....

No, not running power through track, so like rugged look, but would like it less smelly, and less dirty too touch. Mind you this is probably 80 year old track, so probably has 80 years of grime! I am mainly using it as an indoor test track. http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag29/dclavey/My%20proje...

No dishwasher unfortunately.

Wife says, how about WD40 and cotton wool ?

I have just bought a case of 80 year old Lionel O Gauge O31 tubular Track on ebay for 99p. I am using it as a test track for my SM32 HGLW diesel Loco and carriages. Example of SM32 using Lional O Guage (with middle rail removed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Ib2pbVSv4 http://i1297.photobucket.c...

Just seen that your carriage design is now on the http://www.hglw.co.uk/ website for easy ordering.

I have just ordered the LB1 Loco and FB1 Flat bed wagon, so I need to complete those before I purchase a Carriage