Garden Railway Forum

Spud, the building is designed for 16mm/G scale. It's not to 1/24th scale. The building uses JML's 1/24th scale doors and windows but the structure itself is 16mm/G scale. The window size isn't so much of an issue because there is no right size for a window - they very in real life. The door is a bi...

It takes longer to boil 3/4 boiler full than 1/2 full. The sooner you get steam up the sooner you can use the steam blower. But more importantly water gauges are notoriously inaccurate at this scale and if you fill the boiler 3/4 full there's a good chance you'll have overfilled the boiler once you ...

This topic is crying out for a step-by-step "How To" style video - there's plenty of coal firing vid's on Youtube, but none that approach it from an instructional point of view for the novice. Chris Bird made a quite nice video of lighting up a coal fired Edrig http://www.youtube.com/watc...

DJB sold the wagon business to Swanswood but they didn't appear to do that much with it and then seem to pack up. DJB introduced a few wagons again last year but they didn't sell that well, so there are no plans to introduce any more this year. The DJB "web master" is on holiday at the mom...

These lamps are manufactured by Tony Sant of Finescale Engineering. The LNER lamp has a removeable base so replacing the battery is straightforward. I'm not so sure about the others but Tony offers a battery replacement service for £3.
Steve

There was a post on the 16mmngm e-group saying that Mick Atkinson has moved over to 7/8" scale

http://www.ng-works.net/

This relates to Well Chuffed, not Chuffed 2 Bits