Garden Railway Forum

A couple of weeks ago I was delighted to be invited back to the Railway in the Valley of the Mill. I brought the Moel Rhos Railway's loco No. 2 Chough - which, despite being a manual RH Millie, is actually great fun to run on this end-to-end line. I also go to see Linda in steam for the first time s...

Sparked really by a running session with Simon earlier in the week. He took one of my trains up the line and discovered that when he uncoupled the locomotive to run around the train the train took off down the line on its own. Chocks away! I can confirm that the bearings make a world of difference ...

Your responses suggest that powering your locos with batteries and them with a radio control system would best suit your needs. Well, that's saved me a lot of work rewiring all my track and locos! :thumbright: Serious point: the questions about things like track and fishplates are things that compl...

This is my nephews' and niece's favourite train, so strictly speaking it doesn't quite qualify for this quarter's theme... but I thought you might like to see it anyway...

Thanks for sharing that link. I haven't visited Mamod's site since I purchased a Boulton back in 2017. I see it now comes with r/c for just over £600. Wasn't an option when I bought mine (I fitted Deltang later, myself) but the price was about £360. That seems like very expensive r/c to me on both ...

This is looking great Trevor. I'm really looking forward to seeing the coal drops in situ.

BWLR wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 03, 2022 12:06 pm

However one thing I've not previously got round to doing is to make a track plan of the railway and show how it fits into the garden, so here you are!

Track plan? This is a work of art.

Not disagreeing with any of your other points Philip, but I'm pretty sure it is still in production - a member of our group just bought one. And confirming what I said 4 years ago, I have witnessed that it does indeed come with R/C and sound...!

Phil.P wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:56 pm

Re-mangled rail-joiners, do not hold so well, either.

Useful tip I was given was to use G45 rail joiners. Especially good on curves (I still use SM32 joiners on stress-free straight sections...)

HugoFitz wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 01, 2022 9:48 pm

I’ve heard the CR-20 pro has notorious flux capacitor issues…

You could try reversing the polarity of the neutron flow...

Always lift the model 1 mm off the bed before adding supports. Then when the print is finished you can separate the model from the raft easily. Then you can carefully remove the raft from the bed. This way you don't have to try to avoid damaging the bed and the model at the same time. Thank you - I...

I did lose power daytime on Friday - ended up working in the shed. And I don't mean working on the railway which I might normally do in the shed, I mean the what-they-pay-you-for work, i.e. trying to use MS Teams on my phone because the shed was the only place with a mobile signal when the wifi was ...

This is exciting. I'm looking forward to seeing this running.

The valve gear detail is going over my head right now, but I'm bookmarking this to return to in the future once my own understanding has developed!

philipy wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 14, 2022 3:44 pm

Well... here she is:

This shot is as close as I can get to the original 'big' picture:

Absolutely stunning Philip - even better than I imagined it would turn out - and I had high expectations! A masterpiece.

-steves- wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:35 pm

Anyway, this is it so far, hope you like it.

I do - what a charming model!