Garden Railway Forum

For me, it started a long long time ago, when i was still a child. My parents sat me down in front of the television and put thomas the tank engine on. it's been all downhill since then. Half-jokes aside, theres just these little details to be found in the garden i can't seem to find in any other sc...

I have some ideas for stock, but my first task is to build a bogie brake composite. I wondered if anyone on here could direct me as to where the best place for wheels/bearings/bogie components are? Also, can any of you suggest the best way of ‘mating’ the bogies to the body so that the body does no...

New line looks great, fine work. Can't go wrong having such a cute cat around either. :D He's been very helpful with the gardening, he even digs up flowers before they start to wither. At some point during the destruction of the old pond i found some slate rocks that had been cut perfectly flat at ...

4 years later... What happened? My plans for a garden railway ran into slight technical issues... i had changed my plans to raise the railway up on breeze blocks so it'd be easier to keep the grass away from the track, but the family dog developed arthritis and my raised track would be a problem, so...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mamod-Locomo ... true&rt=nc

Half the loco
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double the price?

Hello, here is a quick video tutorial on fitting chuffers to mamods https://youtu.be/llR6LCm8FZg Additional notes: If the locomotive has been used alot, the smokebox may have partially fused to the chassis/body and will be very difficult to remove you may need to take a small flathead screwdriver an...

That little red diesel is nice, what is it? The little red diesel, Lyn, is an Houstongate Locomotive works LB2 body on a Philip sharples chassis. he sells them on fleabay every now and then Heres a video of her https://youtu.be/W0XV4QC3_oU After yesterdays running, i went to bed feeling i had forgo...

Just when you thought you were finally rid of me, i return! i still haven't done anything with the garden layout, nor have i made any changes to the portable layout. the only thing ive done is put some "temporary" mamod track down on a garden patio and i didn't feel that was notable progre...

Merry christmas from the lotus lakeside light railway
no snow here sadly

as i had the misfortune of finding out, a week is more than long enough for algae to start growing in the boiler.

im not sure what kind of danger algae poses to boilers as i found it was easy to clean out but its something to consider.

Lotus lakeside has visited burseldon brickworks. we attempted to run on burseldons track but there was a slight difference in gauges http://i.imgur.com/zme7JNc.jpg Due to this difference the portable layout was bought along even in its unfinished state. Sadly, due to a recent storm the hopper was no...

Following the suggestions of bazzer42 and markoteal, a n̶a̶s̶t̶u̶r̶t̶i̶u̶m̶ Sugar cane harvest was started. Trogdor, being the newest member of staff was given the grunt work and ordered to harvest the n̶a̶s̶t̶u̶r̶t̶i̶u̶m̶ Sugar cane and was quickly worked to the bone while skelator sat in lyn watch...

Some progress has been made with the portable layout. Due to being made out of pallets, the layout has been named "Pallet town moorings". Very creative i know. its come to just over 9 feet long and somehow still fits in the back of the domestic authority's car its purpose and track positio...

Having enjoyed playing trains for 3 years now, it was decided to build a railway of my own. taking advice and inspiration from visited railways and these forums i set to work. The domestic authority were contacted and building permits obtained, Surplus track was obtained from the Warren point and St...

Has anybody seen a standard solid fuel loco operate for more than a 30 seconds or so on rails with a couple of vehicles behind? My MSS diamond jubilee has no upgrades, i got it to run for 1 min and 17 seconds pulling 1 mamod passenger carriage and 2 flat wagons before it ran out of steam and needed...

from my experience i find 2.4 gh tends to jam other transmitters that do not operate on 2.4 Particularity troubling when your playing with a submarine, somebody chucks a fancy speedboat on the pond operating on 2.4 and suddenly your submerged submarine no longer responds to ballast tank control and ...

Here is a before and after picture of the mamod sl2. ./myff/2056502/Beforenafter.png As you can see handrails have now been fitted, a buffer has gone missing and a high tech system has been fitted to hide where the rc gear will be. Balsa-wood floor with toothpicks to hold it up and coal repeatedly h...

Please can you edit your post so that it is possible to see the pictures? I am sure they are great but they are unnecessarily huge. Thanks. The option to open in new tab doesn't come up for me. Sorry about that, i thought the forum would resize them automatically. ive changed them from 5184x3456 si...

Here's my mamod collection so far. all 3 of them lined up http://i.imgur.com/uXj98JI.jpg Closeups, in probably inaccurate order of  manufacture the sl1 (no prize for guessing which buffer is a replacement) http://i.imgur.com/w3XVtmn.jpg the recently completed sl2 http://i.imgur.com/dR0zd3C.jpg the m...

200 psi lorry tyre explodes and that's considered normal wear and tear

14 psi mamod without a boiler cert and its considered a hand grenade!