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Agree with Don. We'll driven as well, your club driver has a smooth touch. When do you get your passenger licence?

Very nice. And I can tell the misses I've been watching a dodgy video without the normal repercussions...

WARNING: LONG POSTING After running a 5" gauge line for a few weeks now, I thought I would write down some reflections on building the Circle Line. 1. Building a 5" gauge railway, even a mini 66 foot long one like mine, is no small task. I haven't diligently recorded the hours but it's taken all my ...

Very interesting Seamus and I admire your attention to detail. I don't have the patience but I appreciate the efforts of those that do.
Thanks for posting.

Very informative Graeme thanks.

Excellent. Why shouldn't you envisage another narrow gauge SR line, most of our railways are fictional based on personally selected facts!

Excellent idea and very well executed.

Nice video, I didn't spot the continuity error. As others have said your line does thread through some narrow gaps (who mentioned kinetic envelope?) and I bet there are a few places you are praying there are no derailments or you run out of steam! That said your line is nicely landscaped, pity you h...

Nice video Greg and I love the fake newspaper article. I assume the character Will E. Gobust is based on your good self?

DonW wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 25, 2019 2:01 pm

Well there's a design for a turnout lever Dave

Who says making track is difficult?


I do not know if you have seen this but I found it much more interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZsjikgGvmg

Very funny. Loved the video.

Ingenious and well crafted.

FWLR wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 25, 2019 9:18 am

Really well done Dave. That looks so good, I am imaging it to be a real standard gauge when I saw that photo.

Thanks!

Great fit there Dave, I have been looking at PNP track myself just so I can have a small run up and down my drive or in the garden. Thanks Tom. The PNP plastic sleepers and chairs self assembly is pretty good and easy to put together if a little tedious if you have a lot of panels to do. I have a f...

Thanks for the comments Don and Rod, much appreciated. I have installed the sidings track panel and it now looks like this, just big enough to fit a bogie wagon / driving truck. As I said yesterday I have put a gentle slope on the siding so the truck rolls gently into the buffers (circled yellow). I...

I took advantage of today's nice weather to install my point. It wasn't too bad a job. I cut out the portion of track corresponding to where I wanted the points to go, squared off the ends with a file, drilled a couple of holes in each end rail to take the fish plate bolts (the points came pre-drill...