Garden Railway Forum

I'm sure others know; but there was a message posted this afternoon on the PDF Models facebook page announcing that some of the range will return - in a limited format to start with with other models returning later on in memory of Peter Farley Initially locos are listed as: Leanne Ruby Skylark Huns...

Brilliant, thank you to both of you for your input. I'll have a look at those two threads Rik - will be some light reading after dinner later. :study: I am looking at something simple to build their confidence of one or both of my little ones and saw the Tram engine loco and thought bit might be int...

Afternoon All! I hope you're well? I was wondering if on the forums anyone had experience assembling RailRoad Model kits of Locomotives or Rolling Stock? I am quite tempted to dip my toe in the water with some of their stock due to its very reasonable price tag. But equally I know you get what you p...

Thank you all for your kind words. I'm going to try and post as/when I have the opportunity to show off some work that I have completed. For the moment I am doing some research for where I want to go heading forwards; looking at kits for rolling stock - what sort of proportion of stock would be need...

Morning All! I hope you're all doing well, and looking forwards to the better weather bringing the opporunities to spend time in the outdoors doing the things we love to do. I am still lurking on here; I had some rather bad luck over the last few months - I lost my job due to COVID-19, then I took s...

Afternoon all, Occasional lurker Matloughe here! With a peculiar question; given that recently there have been a number of good looking inexpensive Gauge 1 kits for wagons released. Would it be possible to mix the scales somewhat and fit a G1 wagon kit body with a 16mm scale NG chassis in 32mm gauge...

Afternoon All! Just me again here with a mini-update; having been furloughed and then off of furlough and converting my Garage in to my Home Office hasn't seen much opportunity for working on the Garden Railway - I've also been reassessing my priorities - trying to decide what it is I want in my Rai...

Thanks for the comment! It has been a nice fruitful diversion after working during the day to settle down once I've put the little one to bed with a nice strong & sweet brew and build kits - although I confess in my haste to assemble one of the GVT wagons that I have made a mistake. The kit come...

Afternoon all, Apologies for the lack of updates - I have just come back to this project with the increasing amount of spare time. I had got around to painting the Brake Van into a pseudo Southern Railway Brown livery - this is the state of play currently - just with some IP Engineering blackened si...

Your Robin Wood Light Railway was a great inspiration to me. It still is I read it start to finish yesterday for further inspiration. Its sad it has gone - but bigger & better things ahead. Your skill as a modeller and making things tenable for others to aspire to is what interested me to plan a...

That's what I was planning, heavy duty brackets and using gravel boards as a baseboard for the track & scenery. I was concerned that it might sag in the middle between fence posts without more support. The better half doesn't mind what I do so long as it doesn't look like a building site or cost...

Good Afternoon All! Welcome to the home of my planned Garden Railway. Now first and foremost - I only have a limited budget so I doubt this will be of much interest to people as things will appear to stagnate while funds are raised. Secondly I live in rented accommodation so although I can do 'whate...

Hello my first post on here so I probably shouldn't be commenting, but for my locomotives it is planned to use the forenames of my Grandparents who are no-longer here prefixed either "Sir" or "Lady" it'd just be a nice memory for myself. I haven't decided if I will make a distinc...