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The wagons look really good — and the ‘TGR M’ class is fantastic. Wow.

It’s usually their appearance (and/or livery) that I’ve found attractive enough to want to reproduce in the first place. So thank you all.

(not that I’ve necessarily followed any of them accurately, of course)

Another noisy Toy Trains in the Back Garden video to accompany your relaxed, early evening pint of Old Dirigible. Small screen, 1080p HD, best headphones, reasonable volume, etc, etc...

Cheers!

They’re not ugly! But thank you. It’s been on the to-do list for years. My big issue is the wheels. Sticking, say, resin-cast or 3D print (not that I can do that) Bulleid-style ‘wheel-trims’ over the wheels of a long-ish Bachman motorblock could end up with fairly dodgy wheel widths… But I might try...

Wow! Very clever.

Hi there!

“It feels like about six too many” OMG! — Help — I need to sit down… As an unreconstructed Southern Region bore, I’m beside myself with excitement. And I would like to think that by now the chaps at Swanage have developed a pretty shrewd notion of what works for them. The lovely T3 (and their other...

STOP PRESS The Swanage Railway confirm that their ‘Strictly Bulleid 2’ event, 7-9 June, will feature EIGHT Bulleid Pacifics in steam! Wow!

Very enjoyable — and I imagine it must have taken ages to assemble and shoot.

Attention to detail and consideration given to so many aspects of this (the railway, rolling stock, operations, video) is, of course, so impressive. Love the sheep audio!

Thanks Rik. Yes! I have recently been presented with several instrumental pieces specifically for use in future videos — but this one is from Kevin Macleod, yet again, who I remember you have used in the past as well. I’m afraid the steam loco noises aren’t of a Garratt. They’re varied edits of my u...

Gosh. Thank you all. Real locomotives (and even many live steam models) might produce sound you actually want to be able to hear, not obscured under other audio — but my efforts don’t. So, I’m afraid, I add both music and train noises. Used appropriately, music can set the pace and tone of the video...

https://youtu.be/6dHgVvcfgXE Chill out with the recently built Garratt as it slowly trundles round, occasionally trying its best to come off when I’m not paying attention — I’ll need to fiddle with it again. Though having to go round very slowly is, of course, fine with me. As well as embracing ‘No...

Thank you. ‘…mature garden’. Hmmm… Kind of you to describe it that way!

Thanks. I’d assumed it would be mono — but then some of it was obviously better in colour, so…

Lovely. I’m tempted to retrofit agreeably weathered tread plate to everything.

Bulleid_mono_thumb_2-600.jpg Strictly Bulleid* in black & white *Apologies to the Swanage Railway whose second, similarly named, steam gala will be 7-9 June. The first, in 2017, featured five Light Pacifics and was fab. So, in solidarity, here’s video of three of my celebratory efforts. There’s...

https://youtu.be/nWR4HPsBfTQ *Apologies to the Swanage Railway whose second, similarly named, steam gala will be 7-9 June. The first, in 2017, featured five Light Pacifics and was fab. So, in solidarity, here’s video of three of my celebratory efforts. Part archive re-edit, part new stuff. This is ...

Brrdgepaint_3985_800_1.jpg Leader-bridge_4002_800_2.jpg It's supposed to be the same colour in both pictures... Pre-season maintenance This softwood bridge has been out in the garden for six years. It would hardly come as any surprise that it was showing signs of wear and tear – mainly rot, of cour...

Wonderful! Congratulations.