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- Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:56 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3407
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One thing to look out for with indoor/outdoor operation is train length. Pointwork takes up a lot of space, so your average indoor layout doesn't have loops and sidings big enough for very long trains. Conversely, when you've got a lot of space to play with it seems a shame not to have the occasiona...
- Tue Dec 25, 2012 1:49 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: First Day of Christmas
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6106
On the 15th day of Christmas my true love gave to me... A very understanding missus... Garden railwayman: I really want that shiny engine! Regular Mrs: No, we need the money for redecorating the kitchen, going somewhere far away to sit on a beach bored out of our skulls, stuff for the kids to ignor...
- Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:23 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Joined up thinking
- Replies: 90
- Views: 36784
- Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:18 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Joined up thinking
- Replies: 90
- Views: 36784
Its no biggy really to have some longer than others? Depends on what you plan to do with them. If you're just going for an end-to-end then only width and track centres matter. If you want to retain the option of a circuit then standardised module lengths are suddenly more important, as both sides/e...
- Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:39 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The Westwood & Loscoe Light Railway
- Replies: 1040
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http://www.penmorfa.com/JZ/index.htm perhaps? History and politics of the area pretty much spot-on, though Bosnia was a fragmentary remnant of the Ottoman Empire until Annexed by the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary (Croatia was sort-of ruled by the Hungarian part- internal politics in the dual mona...
- Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:19 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The Westwood & Loscoe Light Railway
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 343364
I think most German 75cm lines were built big with the idea of future conversion to standard gauge, or something like that. Certainly, the prevailence of Calthrop's favourite toy - the rollwagen - suggests some awareness of the need to maximize carry capacity at an early stage of development. Any...
- Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:10 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: First Day of Christmas
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6106
On the Twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me... Twelve cans of butane, Eleven Burning Mamods.... Ten White Rooved Locos Nine Hudson Tippers..... Eight new figures Seven open wagons six passengers waiting Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive buffet caaaaaaaaaaaars Four sprung buffers Three lumps of coal two...
- Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:26 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Joined up thinking
- Replies: 90
- Views: 36784
- Sat Dec 15, 2012 12:24 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Studied Ambiguity
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2168
So many fascinating railways on so many different gauges, so little garden space and other resources. To model all the railways I like would take the resources of a billionaire and a medium-sized island. I suppose if you want consistency and realism there are three choices: 1) Find a scale/gauge com...
- Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:46 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Engine names
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2479
- Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:10 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: See, I have got one!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6224
- Sun Dec 09, 2012 8:46 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3407
- Views: 1120505
- Sun Dec 09, 2012 7:19 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3407
- Views: 1120505
What are you talking about? That site is PERFECT! Obviously you're not going to use every inch of space because that would be far too much track to maintain, but what you have will be wonderful. Don't fight the natural slope, USE IT! If you follow the contours like a real full-size railway engineer ...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:30 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Elmdon Heath Light Railway (was EHLR: A small start)
- Replies: 181
- Views: 83664
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:21 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: What track length should I use
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3752
Don't forget that acoustics come into it too. The bigger the gap, the louder the clicketyclack. So much so that a friend who makes rail from steel strip (which effectively functions like CWR with no welded joints) files small V notches on his rails just for sound effects. It works magnificently, esp...
- Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:25 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Elmdon Heath Light Railway (was EHLR: A small start)
- Replies: 181
- Views: 83664
- Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:30 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Willi's first run in the garden
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4113
- Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:38 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: No fuel like an old fuel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8518
- Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:26 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: You may now call me "Master"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5222
I never realised that they had railways in that war, I had thought that the first world war was the start of wartime railways. Not even close. During the Crimean war the poor performance of the support organisations led to public outrage and involvment. You've heard of Florence Nightingale, right? ...
- Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:22 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Design and Construction Manuals for REAL light railways
- Replies: 2
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Design and Construction Manuals for REAL light railways
Browsing the web for kindle freebies I found the following goodies which I thought well worth sharing.... http://archive.org/details/cu31924062544832 J C Mackay "Light railways for the United Kingdom, India, and the colonies. A practical handbook setting forth the principles on which light rail...