Garden Railway Forum

The 16mm Assoc MOTY has turned into a joke. The inconsistent judging of the Masters class from last year to this has been unforgivable. Last year winner was quite a nice model of Graf Schwerin-Löwitz. But...........the valve gear in many peoples opinion was rather "heavy" it still won the ...

A little bit of G.V.T. on the Vale of Evermore......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8PqbVPcrIQ

Is this wise? (From a security angle)?

Just for interest, this is what the firebox of a meths fired pot boiler looks like when the engine is in steam. Notice the glowing superheater elements.

Thanks all for your kind words. In answer to your questions....... Each one has taken about a year to build, I have to fit it in when I can. What with going to work & life in general! I don't have any immediate plans to start building another locomotive. A period of consolidation now, Sgt Murphy...

The VOR was written up for SMT a couple of years ago.
The blue one is a South African railways NG4 built by Kerr Stuart and the green one is another South African Railways locomotive "Midget" built by Manning Wardle.

3 little maids from school!

A visit to the L.V.R. Meths & coal fired engines climb the steep gradients.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8TsdBY ... 8X6xxnTtow

Nearly 40 years old now, still going strong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF981AAYkJw

Here is another interesting loco. LITTLE WONDER is a meths fired DOUBLE FAIRLIE pot boiler built by Steve Bell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-dByV ... 8X6xxnTtow

The loco is one of the "Standard" 0-8-0's. The valve gear is actually Allans straight link & not Stephensons as it says on the video. The driver insisted on driving at that speed :roll:, it is more than capable of running much more slowly. Next time we do a video of it I'll take the co...

Coal fired 0-8-0 built for the RH&LLR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MskbBon ... 8X6xxnTtow

A couple of early F.R. loco's spotted this morning.

A couple of my favourite ladies

M C D, The carriages have no extra weight in them. They are all generally built from 1mm ply for the sides backed by 3mm ply underneath the windows. They are all built from scratch except for the Bowsider which is a Brandbright kit. I have paid particular attention the trackwork to get things as smo...

Thanks for the kind words all

The lady who owns the Mountaineer also does the garden by the way!!!!

Run is about 80 yards