Garden Railway Forum

https://i.ibb.co/9q7Z1sf/BMH-000.jpg Brand new from Bowaters Models, Welsh Highland Railway Modern Coaches! New from Bowaters Models, we're pleased to reveal our brand new Welsh Highland Railway Coaches in 16mm scale. The first 3 of our new Welsh Highland Railway Coaches! Shown are coaches 2021 (BM...

Stage 1 of the rest of the railway has happened! A small shunt release at the northern end by the household bins. http://i66.tinypic.com/208ip81.jpg Shunt release in place. Maximum train length to make use of it and the runround loop down the garden is set at 2 WHR coaches. Makes a nice sized train ...

Some more images of the now semi-regular running on the line. Also some images from my visit to that lovely Matt Towell who has fitted Radio Control to my Superior and Excelsior. He's got my Leader for fitting right now. He also repainted and renamed Superior into its proper name. It looks absolutel...

Hi Jon, Just a quick one; have you looked at the possibility of making WHR carriage 1001? This is ex C&U so would be a "duel range" kit that you could provide? I know it also ran on the W&L so it could appease them as well? Hi, Been asked a few times about this. In theory, yes. In...

After some running through the snow with mostly long trains of Ffestiniog Railway Coaches, nothing has really run on the line. After some minor repairs (Hedgehogs are destructive to railways I've found), time to run some trains in the sun. Both the Lawley and my Leader ran with the new Sandy River s...

To celebrate the addition of our new Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad Range to our Narrow Planet webstore, we're pleased to reveal a Narrow Planet Exclusive Sale! From now until Midnight on Sunday, we are offering you a one-use code to get 10% off your order from their website! The offer code...

Just a quick update to reveal the latest prototypes of our Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad Range. There's only one now outstanding but we are working with our supplier to get it resolved. https://i.ibb.co/gPqbmHy/BMS-102.jpg ] BMS-102 SR&RL Box Car 28ft https://i.ibb.co/drHPjTH/BMS-202.j...

Can we have more detailed pictures of the flat car please as trying to understand why it costs £70. Does it have detailing we cannot see? Unfortunately, those cars are not cheap to produce either! Without giving too much away, just on Bogies and Couplings alone our bill is £31.50 per kit. That's be...

http://www.bowatersmodels.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC0168.jpg With just over a week to go until Peterborough (Stand G2 next to Roundhouse in case you're wondering!), time to reveal the prototypes of our new Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad Freight Stock. We have a range of 4 Boxcars...

My naming scheme?

Whatever the loco is called normally! So my Millie is called 'Millie', Leader 'Leader', Excelsior 'Excelsior' etc

The only engines not named are my Battery Electric Battery Electrics because they would look weird named in my opinion.

Jon

Peter Yatton does VoF and its WHR twin. At some point, I'll get one because those are meant to be very powerful especially the 4 motor versions. I have heard a rumour that Swift Sixteen were working on an FR diesel at some point plus the PDF Models Baldwin is in theory convertible into Moelwyn (I th...

There are 3 people off the top of my head who can cover you coaches wise. Wagons I can't advise on. Bowaters Models has a popular range of 10 (soon to be 15) Modern FR coaches which would be perfect for the Roundhouse loco (DLG being the youngest of the fleet (for now)). They also have announced a r...

Thanks for all the comments guys! This is all looking good. Trains before Christmas!!! Grant. Wasn't quite before Christmas. More like yesterday! I was waiting for the weather to be warm enough/sunny enough to take the hacksaw into the garden to cut the remaining track joints which I did. After abou...

JMORG wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:11 am Is Lineside hut still going? I thought they shut up shop last year?

They're back. And producing some lovely stuff once again. His return has seen the cancelling of a few of our projects as a result.

Jon

You planning on making more vintage carriages after these 5? Carriage 15 should be very easy to make as well if you're doing 16. Also, with carriage 21 in the final stages of the build it might be a good idea to look at that one as well? Match-boarded like the summer carriages but with a stepped fl...

Very exciting Jon! Look forward to the WHR stock! Just had a quick look at the gallery section, your cherry red rake looks terrific! Just needs some Edinburgh tram lettering to complete! With the FR's recent carriage plan revealing that the C-set (high summer relief set) will be used as a "mod...

Now, we've had some subtle clues as to what our 2018-2019 range will be following on from our hugely successful 2017. It's time to reveal exactly what we're up to! As previously mentioned, we are releasing two ranges in 2018 and expanding two others. Over 2018, we will be expanding our range of Ffes...

I run a purely manual fleet and I've never had issues with a train running away. That said, it depends on A, the loco and B, the kinds of train you want to run with it. Most trains I have don't tend to go beyond 4 coaches long which has never caused a runaway but I've never let the engine go uncheck...

Couple of days later than planned, it is done (almost). It took two of us (me and dad) 6 hours to complete but its been worth it. http://i68.tinypic.com/5ey5hy.jpg The first job was the remove the turf from the section of garden. Surprisingly easy to do but still took a long time. http://i68.tinypic...

Hi Jason,

I'm sure I can guess what these are for! I recommend Humbrol Ivory and Crimson as the closest match I've been able to find.

Cheers,

Jon