Garden Railway Forum

Foes anybody else remember the model railway television series 'model town' from about twelve years ago, often paired with 'the garden railway'
Theres a petition to get it released on dvd here
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/mode ... vd-release

Snowdon ranger maybe? It would essentially be an inside framed Beddgelert with different bodywork

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:119019 wrote:A new build Lion would be first on my list I think!

I'm with you Zach! Shes my favourite loco! Also I would love to see the London Chatam and Dover iona (small scotchman) class make a comeback, though I suspect the drawings no longer exist

Pentewan 0-6-0 and stephen lewin 'erith' class, I've never even seen them modelled in live steam!

Just a little query here, I was wondering whether or not its possible, practical, or advisable to make working salter safety valves in 16mm live steam

Has anyone on here read '4 feet 8 and a half and all that'? If so you may remember the chapter when we are given a tour of crewe works including the engine naming studio, where scholars and poets are surrounded by volumes of classical literature, coming up with streams of names, achilles, cerberus, ...

If you wanted to be grand and victorian (but a little pretentious!) you could name your locos after gods: ophir, bellorophon, xerxes etc. Incidentally, the most popular full size loco name is hercules

Bought for £170 will make a nice addition to my roster!

I concur, a good clean up and she'll do fine! Made a sneaky offer, awaiting response