Garden Railway Forum

This is the completed wagon, when it's sunny I will attempt a video.

]I'm confused (quite easy when it comes to anything apart from signalling) - when you say that you've moved the old axleboxes "in" - what "in" do you mean? Do you a) mean away from the headstocks and "in" towards the centre line of the wagon or b) narrowed them in relat...

The wheels are held in the axle boxes and the body is epoxy glued with a coffee stirrer on the top of the wagon. Much of the railway is fixed / mended / built with a coffee stirrer!!

The axles are also a perfect fit for W&L Accucraft wheels too. I have mounted the Zecar so that only one axle is used, moving the old axle boxes in by exactly the width of 2 coffee stirrers per side so the axles of the Zecar can sit in the bearings. Its revolutionised my Silver Lady which always...

I have several buildings from Modeltown and British Outline Buildings. All were thoroughly washed with washing up liquid, primed with Halfords primer and then painted with either Pheonix precision paints or Humbrol enamel. After a year or so outside (and it wasn't a harsh winter) the paint is peelin...

I will try the Roundhouse website and see if it makes it clear! The Lady Anne kit apparently won't fit the Silver Lady, according to Roundhouse. In what way is the regulator different on the R/C model compared to the manual regulator?

I have a manual Silver Lady and am considering converting it to radio control for the reverser and the regulator. Roundhouse don't do anything to do this with, so any suggestions greatly appreciated. Its the in cab stuff I am stuck with more than the transmitter etc. Many thanks.

I have a roughly 3 year old IP Engineering Lucy. It has never run that well, whatever I do the wheels will not stay in the correct place and so it derails frequently (probably as a result of my construction). I took it out of storage yesterday only to find that it won't run (this has been an intermi...