Garden Railway Forum

Very nice - which side of the doors are you going to have the handles?

Oooh, I like the bridge - is that new? (Tuxcraft?)

LnBmad:86633 wrote:Looks great rich! Can't wait to see it in person! (Still looking like oct?)

That's still the plan - certainly won't be looking finished, but still hopeful of getting right round by then by hook or by crook.

The cutting looks great - nicely done. It's always a hard call as to whether to finish off an area, or press on and lay more track...

Just a few overview photos - I had reason to be up on the air raid shelter roof on Saturday, so took the camera with me. Llanfair ar y Ffos: ./myff/1608557/64313_10151555560990509_383060891_n.jpg Hendre (and the vital steaming-up bench): ./myff/1608558/483918_10151555561045509_1522979935_n.jpg In th...

Hope you enjoy the DVD. Bummer about the email not working - not sure what else to suggest - try asking on http://irishrailwaymodeller.com ?

Aye, it's an amazing system which deserves to be better known. Have you got "Locomotives & Railcars of Bord na Mona" (by Stephen Johnson, Midland Publishing, 1996, ISBN 1-85780-045-1)? Great big listings of locos and railcars, though no drawings. And there was a video as well (also by ...

This is my plan. Either have the track running onto the wall as it is now, or have a free standing curved timber bridge...... Looking really good. In the corner with the paving bricks underneath I'd see about moving the wall outwards or building a new small wall to support this stretch. The other c...

Not yet - this year has been a year of railway building, rather than stock building, and it's sat safely in the garage waiting for me to strip it down and paint the bodyshells. It did get a run earlier in the year at Pendo Pilot's line, and acquitted itself well - has been running much better since ...

This is looking really good. The signal box mock up looks just the job too. Glad you like it - having fun, but happy to have nearly finished in that awkward corner now. The signal box is flipping huge - scaled from photographs of Tooban Junction box. Might end up shrinking it a bit. This will be a ...

Loving the sign! When I get round to visiting (prob October) I will have to pay attention to this ;) The sign should be gone by then - very much planning to have the continuous run completed by then (which links the line here at Tanyperth up with the sharply curved branch that enters the opposite e...

We've got a bit further at the Tanyperth end of the line - this section was a bit of a swine to build, being less accessible than some other parts. (I do fit, so stock can be retrieved when necessary.) ./myff/1602233/DSCN3544.jpg (The length of track beyond the buffers is just laid roughly in positi...

laurence703:85884 wrote:Mr. Coulls?
Be nice to venture through there sometime...

The very same; we were around the TR, and students in Aberystwyth, at much the same time.

I'll enquire. (I have in my garage two Mamods and a whole pile of other 16mm stuff belonging to the Senior Curator, Rail Vehicle Collections, who was my best man.)

Definite preference for the scenic, ground level look here (or at least, approximately ground level) but needs must in our garden, and as others have said each man to his own. The raised trackbed down the left hand side should be disappearing in a sea of foliage very shortly, in any case, however ra...

Hope to goodness Vic doesn't read the EHLR thread - he might realise that we've carried on extending the line without completing all the tasks he left us with after his inspection... Actually I'm not sure we've completed any of them

Is Vic in there somewhere? Is there a railway in there somewhere?

Just doodling in cardboard... crumbs, it's big.







Compare http://www.signalbox.org/overseas/ireland/toobanjcn.htm

Hurrah - look forward to seeing the photos. Everything in the garden was late bursting forth with new growth this year, but look how fast it's all growing now! That seems to include the railways, too.

The attached 'plan' therefore is not a plan at all.  It is an end result after all the track had been finally laid. ./myff/1590574/IMG_1126.JPG Very many thanks, Peter - it all makes sense now! Wasn't quite clear if the outdoor terminus connected straight into the lines into the shed. Two termini, ...