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Have you tried to phone them instead of coming straight online to complain or contacting them via email? There are other ways to renew.

it was still manual at the time so escaped damage free

Skip ahead to 4 mins 46 seconds... It was new to me at the time and a really cold day and straight butane... but now its much easier it seems its only gotten better with time. Its a Caradoc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2D6bh_ehs0
Video's not mine

Depends on who's driving them

Sunday just gone I went out with my sledge hammer, claw hammer, plastic block, pliers and a spirit level to make a few adjustments to the track bed. The rather roller coaster back straight is now flat and ready for putting a station in and the bottom of the bank is now not as steep as it once was, I...

So it's snowed... Have a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjNkK0qLueg

Bournemouth? That's only 2 ish hours away... But there are plenty of places between here and there... Brambleton is worth a visit and will probably be the place it gets its first good long proper run. I've got to tidy up the line a bit this year as it has no ballast at the moment thanks to the rain ...

The boiler is the original. There's not too much left that is original now really... the wheels and odd bits of valve gear are, as is the body, boiler, lubricator and for the moment the gas tank... the rest is brand new. All it needs now is a millie gas tank, karen crosshead and slidebars and russel...

Isibutu A.K.A "The Spanish Acquisition" Lives!! Dan and his Dad are doing a fantastic job of reviving this loco!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlkDNWe ... e=youtu.be

I started with a simple mamod and some mamod track on my decking and it snowballed from there... joining the 16mm association was a good idea... lot of inspiration in those pages but there is also Garden Rail magazine (can get from whsmiths) which is also good. depends what you like the look of caus...

This is a photo of my line from last year not long after the shed had been removed and the line extended by a little bit... you can just about make out where it went from the dead grass... Either way my garden is not very big and I've got a good run out of it... The railway is on the decking and kep...

Happy new year! The Awchit and Cyder Railway has got a short ish list of things to do this year... levelling out a bit, sorting the flowerbeds out, building a leek and manifold station ( not picked one yet ), lowering the height of the existing platform, bit of track work in places as its a bit disj...

So the L&M's have landed with a gentle thud... and resulted in a mad rearranging of my stock shelves to get them to actually fit somewhere safe... ./myff/1946026/%5E3FDDC0F7D5708BF895DF2100205DDD6D6E1239D2E2A975D596%5Epimgpsh_fullsize_distr.jpg They have run around the garden without issue excep...

Isibutu a.k.a THE SPANISH ACQUISITION! Has run on air!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIxx4h ... e=youtu.be

Don't forget the annual Show! This years one is shaping up to be another good one!

I'm the 16mm Association's show director

Last I heard one side of the valve gear now runs in both directions and has new frames and buffer beams and connecting rods. I bought it from a friend without really seeing it

Isibutu's frames had holes drilled wrong other than that they were alright, The boiler we both looked at and both said no chance is that being used... it weighed a lot more than it should have. The body wants a little bit of cleaning up, but other than that its ok, wants new Smokebox, new footplate ...

So once again I've neglected this thread and the railway has seen some change... A week or two ago the back fence decided it wanted a lie down during the high winds. Not just a panel or two... the whole lot went. So a morning was spent recovering usable panels and a trip to B&Q for the necessary...

Roundhouse, Accucraft, Mamod, Regner, Pearse, Essel, Finescale, etc etc etc... It really doesn't matter... as long as you look at the engine in question and like it, it really does not matter in the slightest who made it cause you're going to want it anyway. I've had both of the big two's locos and ...