Just heard the very sad news that Steve Warrington passed away this morning.
RIP
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- Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:29 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Steve Warrington Back 2 Bay 6
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15755
- Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:45 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Waterfield Hall on FB
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2828
Waterfield Hall on FB
Waterfield Hall has it's own FB page
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- Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:22 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Fairbourne Railway Gala
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3157
I was too busy at Perrygrove, but here's a vid of me having fun with Soony last November..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mICYpJfftUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mICYpJfftUQ
- Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:00 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: 15" Fowler diesel in 1:12
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14715
Well the loco performed very well at York show, I hadn't charged the battery pack since it had arrived through the post a couple of weeks ago and it didn't need charging until the end of the second day! The loco now has it's mane and works plates. Last night we had a bit of a running session in the ...
- Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:35 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: 15" Fowler diesel in 1:12
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14715
This is all I'm doing before this weekends York show (hopefully name and works plates will arrive at the show), as you can see the driver and cab controls have now been fitted. The driver is one of the Busybodies/Modelearth figures and being 7\8 scale is only 5' tall in 1;12 - this wouldn't have bee...
- Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:12 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: 15" Fowler diesel in 1:12
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14715
A quick phone vid of the loco running round the garden tonight, I still need to finish the cab interior and install the driver, fit the name and works plates and do some weathering.... But she runs, the vid shows her running at full speed on the 7.2v battery pack - taking nearly 4 mins to do a circu...
- Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:24 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: 15" Fowler diesel in 1:12
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14715
Over the last couple of days I've been doing some work on the bonnet and fitting the couplers. Next job will be to finish the cab (it's just resting there in the pics). I'm still hoping to have it running at York show over the Easter weekend - not long now........ I have also settled on a name, afte...
- Sat Apr 05, 2014 7:51 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Random Caption Competition!
- Replies: 160
- Views: 64495
- Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:37 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: 15" Fowler diesel in 1:12
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14715
Very nice Matt, what gauge is this going to be? Well I spent an enjoyable few hours yesterday building up the radiator components, beautiful etches from Allen Law as usual. Tonight I finally figured out where to hide the forward/reverse switch, I turned a brass filler cap for the rad and soldered th...
- Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:27 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: 15" Fowler diesel in 1:12
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14715
Over the last few days I have taken hacksaw to plastic and been modifying the Accucraft 'footplate/frames', should be fairly obvious from the pics..... Yesterday this all got a couple of coats of satin black, just waiting for the Talisman couplers to arrive now. Last night I picked up the etchings f...
- Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:25 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: 15" Fowler diesel in 1:12
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14715
Over the last few days I've been making a start on the cab, after a lot of consideration the cab design is being based on the Fowler 'Resilient' class 2' gauge locos but with a drop footplate.... The new rear buffer beam is made from 2mm steel, the other parts are brass with solder, rivets and 12ba ...
- Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:07 pm
- Forum: Scenery
- Topic: Eassie does it
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14795
Looking really good, just found this thread - interesting as I'm planning to build one of these buildings in 1:12 scale for my garden line. I've been looking at the drawings of the original short version (one door, one window) with the 45 degree chimney. Many years ago I built Drybrook Road station ...
- Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:56 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Lakeshore Railroad 2014
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6700
- Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:04 am
- Forum: New Models & Reviews
- Topic: W&L "Resita", live steam by Ralph Reppingen
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6649
Try this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1WJAqAe9Jk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1WJAqAe9Jk
- Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:29 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: 15" Fowler diesel in 1:12
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14715
Here are some pics of the chimney, they are both turned from old plumbing fittings, the stack itself is one piece and the base three pieces. As you can see the base is drilled ready for the speed control pot. The stack will have a length of brass rod soldered across the middle which locate in the sl...
- Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:54 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: 15" Fowler diesel in 1:12
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14715
15" Fowler diesel in 1:12
Fowler never built any diesels in 15" gauge but they did build various designs in 2' gauge.... I'm planning a 'might have been' 15" estate railway loco based on this ./myff/1716674/100_9298.JPG The model will be built around an Accuaraft Baguley chassis which will be converted to battery p...
- Thu Mar 06, 2014 6:27 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Most important engine in history?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9351
If you read 'Landscape with machines' you'll find out that Tom Rolt, as a very small child living in Chester, was taken in his pushchair to see Katie crossing the road outside Eaton Hall - which he says is what got him into railways. So without Katie, Dolgoch and many others may never have been save...
- Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:41 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Most important engine in history?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9351
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:29 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Back to basics help
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8602
Forest Classics produce this http://www.forest-classics.co.uk/bix029.htm which I have not tried but as they are only up the road in Milkwall it might be worth popping in for a chat.....
- Wed Nov 27, 2013 11:52 pm
- Forum: Mamods & MSS
- Topic: Finally joined the Mamod club.....
- Replies: 48
- Views: 29394
To be honest the garden railway is mostly buried under magnolia leaves at the moment......... we have also decided to take out a very large evergreen in one corner of the garden over the winter and this might lead to us rebuilding one end of the line? Just not sure how it's going to look with the tr...