Garden Railway Forum

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I have just finished cleaning and modifying some of the Hornby wagons I bought on eBay.




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Hi, At midday it was 27C in the workshop. So, I decided to run a train on the garden railway, and in the cool edit a video made when it was running. I hope you enjoy.
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Hi Rod, Is that one of those Hornby locos and is it 32mm gauge :?: Both the locomotive and the rolling stock are modified toys. The locomotive is a Chuggington character known as 'Brewster' bought in a charity shop. The carriages are from the Peppa Pig range of toys and known as: 'Miss Rabbit's Trai...

Hi, After three months with the help of my wife and a friend part of the track bed of the Rhydypenau Garden Railway has been replaced. The part of the garden where the track bed had deteriorated is always damp and does not get direct sun light. After many years the mineral felt covered plywood had d...

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The frame speed matched the cylinders I think?

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Over the weekend I was playing with some of the steam models I made many years ago. Sorry about the noisy model, the gas jet was partially blocked and after clearing it, it decided to work like an organ pipe!



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Rhydypenau Garden Railway. New track bed construction. Hi, After about 10 years the plywood used in the construction of the Rhydypenau Garden Railway had started to delaminate. The track bed that was permanently in place had been constructed using 18mm good quality exterior plywood with a mineral fe...

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https://youtu.be/D2jxHGLmQXQ?si=rPsLYS0zdXaW3W-U

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Hi, I really appreciate the step by step process since I'm hoping to build a set of points at some point . If you decide to make some points this might help. I do make more conventional points as well, but this style of point is simpler to make and very tolerant of the different types of wheels that...

Hi Rik,

The gauge problem has been corrected, it was mostly caused by having to fit the point to the track bed at arms length and not being able to look directly down on it. A few minutes with a file and it was fixed.

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It is unlikely that many people will need to do something similar but might give ideas for other projects.

https://youtu.be/QIzGOCcEd1s?si=0USIPRKSd8sO93zP

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A few days ago the fitting of the third rail of the dual gauge circuit of track on the Cardiff Model Engineering Society's garden railway was completed and a few minutes of playing trains was required.

https://youtu.be/0NJLuxMdv7c?si=Uijj81sV09yFXI0z

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Progress on the garden railway up to a few days ago.

https://youtu.be/sNBG2LEkWxU?si=bb-TgRlyaVuy4Fk3

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On the first public viewing of the new Cardiff Model Engineering Society's garden railway it rained a bit.

https://youtu.be/GLeTNfHKtwE?si=37reVdUP76SAdDC

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After five months work the first circuit of track has been laid on the Cardiff Model Engineering Society's new garden railway.

https://youtu.be/xD1T9AdYHbE?si=fHux5HIo0cvJ-pC3

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Yesterday after four months of work a start was made on laying the first section of track on the new raised level garden railway at Heath Park.

https://youtu.be/4uRpUvn0BDw?si=AdoBNqWrM8kundXY

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Hi Rik, Yes, the tree felling along with three others must have cost a lot, fortunately our landlord Cardiff City Council footed the bill. The track bed design is a copy of a friends in the West Country. It is pretty low tech and fairly inexpensive to make. It has progressed fairly well since the vi...

Hi Rik,

Yes, quite correct; meths fired and a single double acting oscillator, it does have a small flywheel and reverser, it was built by Derek Goodall back in the 1980's.

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https://youtu.be/cDtHSw4d8GA

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