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Buffer beam is painted and more progress if only slight on the GVT tram loco. This is to be named 'Sir Albert', after my grandad who I never met.

I did try soldering it before, but it was very awkward. Don't think coat hanger wire is meant to be soldered!

So No2 River Itchens new buffer beam is complete, except for painting.

No, your memory is not failing you, but the loco in question was built for a friend and also forum member George. So I am building one, which will be much improved for my self. The steam loco will be a Willesco Meccano, thing and I have already made the chassis using Accucraft 32mm wheels, refitted ...

Yes, the relay is very serious, but its been needed. Almost all the railway will eventually have this method. The weather hasn't been very kind, though I hope to finish the shorter original layout first, with the rest for next year. As for the other projects, the steam loco has stalled due to the un...

Well hello again. Ive been rather busy of late and not posted on here, but here are some happenings going on down at the Dibden Valley Railway (Not to be confused with the Deben Valley Light Railway) First up after a large number of derailments, a complete relay has become necessary, although this h...

No not yet. I went to the Solent G Scale groups indoor meet and I bought a radio control and mach 5 speed controller for £20 so it will not be radio controlled battery for speed and direction as well

After much swearing, hammering and generally making a mess, the engine is coming along nicely. Now painted blue, the orriginal name of "Black Beauty" wont work so it is to be known as "Big Bertha" on account of it being the largest locomotive to be bashed in the workshop so far! ...

The chassis is an LGB wagon one with the middle taken out and two old bits off an LGB wagon glued on with "No More Nails" glue in the middle. The body is being made from plasticard.

Pictures of the bash so far... loco posing on the Dibden Valley Railway at Somerton Station platform 1.

I have had an otto, which has appeared in several gueises over the years, but now its time to bash it into something more permanent and add a tender to carry the batteries when not in use with track power. I had attempted to make a tender before, but this was not very neat or successful, so hopefull...

This is a 2005 model and my dad has had it himself for nearly 5 years himself second hand and in that time it has run a ridiculous number of miles and has never had any problems. Unfortunately I dont think I can repair this fault. It still works and my dads friend might be able to fix it. Cheers for...

Yes there is. I tried retimming in reverse and this has produced a significant forward running imrpovement, but has worsened the reverse running.

Tried that, in forward the reversing lever in the block in the middle is pulled out and in reverse it is pushed in. I dont really understand it, since I followed the instructions elsewhere on here and it did not work.

I had a go at retiming my dads Caradoc, which works forward but hardly at all in reverse. What I got was a big improvement in forward motion but none in the reverse. Anyone know how to do it?

Can anyone tell me how I can improve the burner in my Merlin Mayflower? Having taken it out, it seems it only burns a bit at the front and most at the back with the centre being clean brass. The loco does not tend to make steam that well and when going around my layout has a tendency to run out of p...

Yes it is a Merlin Major, but it has fully reversible (and much less reliable) valve gear rather than the standard merlin valve gear which is not reversible, reversing being achieved through a mamod style regulator on the other models.

Forum fest it will be as im there too!

Cheers Greg. George did the repainting of that and also those green coaches too. He really is very good!

Mine wont be far behind either, thankfully its only winter relaying :p