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- Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:50 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Nice thing about the OH's job!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3206
- Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:15 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: How to fix track to blocks/brick
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4820
- Sat Mar 08, 2014 5:29 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: The Great Forum Railway Inspection
- Replies: 371
- Views: 291485
- Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:32 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Radio Control for different scales
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3987
When I last did it, a highlight of the steam-hauled tour of Scunthorpe Steelworks was the shed visit, with a demonstration of radio control on the standard gauge 90-ton Hunslet BoBo, before handing the transmitter to a junior passenger and inviting him to have a go!
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- Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:16 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: L & B Ragleth !
- Replies: 57
- Views: 34094
- Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:42 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: BBC giving WRONG advice for dealing with internet trolls
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7270
- Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:41 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Woodfields Light Railway
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14129
Make use of the time to come up with a first-class design. Once the line is built changing it is hard work, so better to make your mistakes on paper than in concrete. I can't tell you how many goes I had to come up with a design I liked, but I'm glad I did. The only things I would change would requi...
- Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:39 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Inside Cylinders
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10780
- Thu Jan 23, 2014 7:40 pm
- Forum: Scenery
- Topic: Building scale
- Replies: 33
- Views: 17608
Re: Building scale
I've been drawing up some local buildings (based on brick counting) to 16mm scale/ 1:19 they're vast. Even the little LYR station grotty hut is mahoosive. And really bring home how small narrow gauge actually is. You know what? I think that's probably a good thing. Many of us are drawn to narrow ga...
- Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:40 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Plastic hose in the boiler
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13737
- Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:21 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Roundhouse 2014
- Replies: 109
- Views: 59435
Tender engines have possibilities, but to be commercially viable it would need to have a reasonable size and wheel arrangement, to allow for a standard boiler and enough adhesion to shift a worthwhile load without equalising beams and other fiddly expensive trickery. Something along the lines of the...
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:07 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Roundhouse Garratt
- Replies: 50
- Views: 30375
why not consider using a proven small 3 1/2 inch gauge loco boiler design such as a Titch or Rob Roy. I believe John Campbell used the small tich design (LBSC produced 2 boiler options, as well as Walschaerts or slip-eccentric valve gear options) in his first coalfired engines (freelance rigid tend...
- Wed Dec 25, 2013 12:16 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: As Noddy Holder famously said
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2310
As Noddy Holder famously said
IT'S
CHRIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAASSSS!!!
CHRIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAASSSS!!!
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:57 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Want a lift?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2597
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:54 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: A Christmas Loco
- Replies: 63
- Views: 28601
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:42 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: pylons
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3665
Search out old books on tramway modelling, especially in the larger scales. It was not at all uncommon for modellers to generate their own power- often from a Stuart Turner engine and boiler powering the genny. On the prototype many early schemes had to produce their own power as the municipal servi...
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:13 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Really, really odd question.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2928
We still had National Service in the 50s, so a sudden shortfall in the working population as qualified drivers swapped their overalls for green battledress may have led to special measures. Certainly during the war, my late Gran (then in her early 20s) was given the job of driving the delivery van f...
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:35 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The DVLR Mark 2
- Replies: 684
- Views: 294361