Garden Railway Forum

Here's my Merseysider purchased 9 years ago from Andel Models for £400 that included running lights, charger and full R/C from Timpdon Electronics been used regular over the years and never failed, 007 (250x141).jpg only changes I have to make is to the wheels as the plastic ones worn out so metal o...

Hi Planty, I see that you used foamboard for the building of the church and no doubt you will be using the same for the signal box, what is the life span of this board when left outside in all weathers and what adhesive did you use to join pieces together

regards freelander

all well and good going through the manufactory but you will properly find the waiting time could be longer to get one as most dealers will get first choice, also its good to support your local (or not so local) dealers for our scale of railway as they are becoming few and far between and waiting fo...

it is even better in the flesh

freelander

GRS KITS
These are two I have made



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Hi I have two of the kits both 45mm and I find the pulling power is fine mine will easily pull 4 or 5 Accucraft wagons or 3 0r 4 coaches of medium size, I have also fitted a sound card and R/C (Timpdon)and they do look and sound the part, not easy to fit but it does work. freelander. ps. the kits ar...

got mine today, cannot write anymore need to get back to the mag Ha Ha

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Hi Andrew, yes I am using a lever frame 12 levers, 6 blue 6 red they are housed in a plastic box resembling a signal box out side in all weathers, I am having problems with send you pictures of the levers and point movement. if you send me an e-mail address to my pm I will send them by email freelan...

Hi all, I have used the Modratec frames and they are out side and have been for the past 3 years, there is no sign of any rust although I do keep the well oiled. I use these on a pulley system on points and signals, I don't use rod but fishing braid line (their is no stretch in the braid as their is...

as I started this I will go on? well I opted for Mylocosound unit and every pleased with it. it has gone into a GRS 0-4-0 Hunslet loco, bit of a tight fit but it works and the sound is very good and realistic, it can be altered to suit along with the whistle. the beat is controlled by the speed of t...

Not sure if you are going to the 16mm show this weekend, if you are look out for the stall selling all types of tools and modelling gadgets. he sells a manual turn table for around a £5 (may have increased since last year) they are designed for model making, spray painting etc,. but they are very st...

many thanks

freelander

Hi all, please can somebody explain the process of downloading my videos onto this site I have tried upteen times gone through the process it asks and still I cannot, waited for hours only to give up and call it a day, photos no problem, videos ******

HELP.

I like the sound of that, the sound card I have seen runs of the loco's battery (mylocosound web site). waiting for the site to get back then will have a chat, if all goes well will get some details on here.

freelander

I am looking into putting a sound card into the loco I have made from one of the Garden Railway Specialist kits, I have made the loco run via battery and is remote control using Timpdon electronics, has anyone done this to their locos and what pitfalls if any am I likely to come across, any help and...

Many thanks fo r your replies lads, much appreciated

freelander.

Hi all, I am looking at taking my loco's to other members garden railways when they have an open day but not sure about the statement that I need to have an up to date boiler test certificate before I would be allowed to run my locos, my loco's are 4 year old Caradoc and a 3 year old Leader both wer...

to stain wood try tea bags yes I did say tea bags, look into any used cup and look at the stains, the more you expose the wood to the tea the darker it goes and you keep the natural look of the wood, try it and you will be amazed and you get a cuppa at the same time rewards all round

cheers.

As promised, fine tuned the Peckett with couplers and added the fire irons, also looks well with shed mate Hunslet 0-4-0 (Linda, keeps the wife happy), all I need now is some fine weather to give them a run.

freelander

many thanks for the comments, I found the kit to be very basic and needed lots of work to get it into a workable state, but I suppose that is what you get when working from a kit form. the chassis was very crudely put together and the wheel and rods needed some attention, but overall I found it a go...