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Peter Butler wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:34 pm As I see it you couldn't have points in a worse position than that!

True, true. But it's no more than exhibition layouts have to put up with. I'm not giving up yet! (Well, I haven't started yet.)

Any advice for construction of the Northcastle extension gratefully received!

I have started threads in the Help and Advice subforum:

https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 29&t=12481

https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 29&t=12472

So, the extension is partly planned and the first challenge will hopefully be clear from these photos... 20190709_211855-01.jpeg 20190709_212419-01.jpeg The existing line might just be visible to the right of the photos. The new section needs to cross a path which is in regular use for accessing the...

A worthy winner!

Wonder if I can fit something to the next theme...?

Yes, I rather thought the inner edge of a 3-foot curve might be bending it too far. The purpose of the edging would be to retain ballast and/or hold back vegetation, so would go higher than the concrete - although I didn't do it last tine round I was thinking that maybe the concreting would end up n...

I used good old fashioned hardboard ( either reclaimed and/or from the 'it might come in handy one day' pile) for shuttering, simply held in place by wooden pegs, bricks, bits of rock etc. ... I'm always envious of those who simply seem to dig a trench, chuck in some hardcore and ballast and away t...

I'm almost about to start thinking seriously about construction of the CVLR's northern extension. I've looked enviously at some of the posted photos of concreting which is so much neater than what we achieved with the original circuit. What material is suited to shuttering for curved sections (three...

Thank you all for your comments. Well, it's exactly a year since I posted for the first time, so let's make a year-on comparison... Oh dear! 20190624_182136-01.jpeg It doesn't help when the lawnmower breaks... (Also not an operating day, so buildings, station furniture and figures haven't come out.)...

FWLR wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:03 am Brilliant photo again, I do love the way you capture the moment with your locos.

Thank you so much. The surroundings of the railway have got rather wild compared to some gardens shown in this forum, but that has its benefits sometimes.

Tom the blacksmith wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 10:10 pm Great shot CSL, keep em coming!

Thank you!
Got to say that my habit of taking ground-level shots with minimal scale cues is a cause of constant puzzlement to non-garden railwayers who can't work out how large the models are...

I like it too. Although since the CVLR already has a side tank (SL3) and a saddle tank (Bertie), I'm drawn to something that looks different if I can justify the expenditure: "coffee pot" Brunel for me, I think. Would give me both water level gauge and pressure gauge for the first time, too.

The buttercups have grown a bit since the last photo of the Mamod! And they weren't there at all at the start of this thread - when they first appeared early this year I decided to leave them to see what happened. I guess that's what ground-level garden railways are all about. 20190616_165235-01.jpeg

An interesting inconsistency (with the previous consistency) today. The Bertie ran smoothly round and round my little circuit without stopping - if at varying speed - virtually from the first turn of its wheels, instead of the usual first ten minutes of start-stop before steady running is establishe...

philipy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:21 am

FWLR wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:00 am Sanilrail has got my vote

Ummmmm.... Rod... That makes 4 entries that have got your vote!!

Gosh, I really feel left out now...

Am I allowed to enter a photo that I've already posted on my layout thread?
"On the approach to Swinbrook Viaduct" (Took the hint, philipy!)

A couple of runs with the Bertie over the weekend and it's nothing if not consistent! The stopwatch showed 9 minutes 45 seconds when it cleared that difficult curve for the first time neither too fast nor too slow, and carried on smoothly and without stopping for 17 minutes before the gas ran out an...

Pleased with these photos from yesterday.

... And now the critical sets of points are on order.
Bank holidays are truly slippery-slope time.

Well, I have invested in... some Wood Valley Works curve templates.
A journey starts with a single step, and all that.
(No doubt the existing curves will be revealed to be distinctly uneven when checked!)

Ooh, interesting... I really like the neat and compact character of your line, but an extension's always an exciting prospect... Most of my planned extensions fail to materialise, and that's probably a good thing - in one imaginary version of an extended (WH)WHR the whole of the lawn is taken up wi...