Garden Railway Forum

img]./myff/1911959/DSCF4001+resized.jpg[/img][/url] Track laying has started but I became carried away and laid it where the blocks aren't pointed. However, only a few screws to remove. The min line is on the left and the track layout will now (probably) be - point at the far end of the main line to...

I started putting in an update about my railway just now but can't work out how to resize photos with Windows 10. Can anyone help please?

Thank you all for your replies. Close up photos of other peoples railways and methods are so very helpful to new boys.

That's a very crude model - look at the very basic 'cab', the strange 'tender' and also the great gap between the burner nozzle and the backhead of the boiler. I'd worry that the capacity of the burner gas tank is greater than the capacity of the boiler and if you read the spluff the cardboard insul...

I'm hoping to use Chad Valley track in my quarry and the radius is about 15"! The wagon wouldn't go round without the wheels lifting. 28mm is the 32mm gauge back to back standard. Perhaps Wonkeyblue will see this and make his frames narrower!

I have one of these wagons and think it is superb for the price. I hope to run a couple of rakes for my chalk quarry. I have a problem though. The chassis is 28mm wide and the wheels have a boss on the back so it is impossible to set the wheels at 28mm back to back. I've removed the bosses and can n...

Thank Peter.

Thank you both. I shall try that and I think I might experiment with various other methods this autumn and see how they fare through a winter.

Has anyone tried Rowlands mix on larger areas than just ballast please? I wondered if it was suitable for a goods or loco yard area to bring it up to rail level. I'm laying my track on lightweight concrete blocks and eventually want to hide them all! Thanks, Howard

./myff/1906676/IMG.jpg The Plan. Subject to alteration the next time I sit outside my workshop with a cup of tea. Sorry for the crude drawing. The area designated for railway use is about 22'0" by 9'6". The station area is about 18'0" by 4'0". The quarry will be laid with Chad V...

I'm off to drive a traction engine to the Weald of Kent Steam Rally http://www.wealdofkentsteamrally.co.uk/ first thing in the morning but will post a plan, or a plan of what I may or may not do because nothing is firm yet, after the weekend.

I'm in the process of building a garden railway, 16mm/ft narrow gauge on 32mm. When driving on the Kent & East Sussex Railway I much prefer a day shunting to a day charging up and down the line. It's the same in the garden so I'm building a fair sized station with a relatively small running line...

Thanks for the suggestion but I actually recently doubled the amount of track that I had by buying quite a lot from ebay for about a tenner!

I'm intending having a chalk quarry on the garden railway I'm building. I have quite a lot of Chad Valley O gauge track - brass rail with (I think) steel sleepers, which is sort of similar to jubilee track (I found it in a dump about 40 years ago and knew that it might come in useful one day!) I als...

Has anyone considered machining grooves into the wheels and fitting O-rings to reduce the inclination to slip and thus reduce the weight required? This works well on an old Faller Playtrain tank engine with plastic wheels that belonged to one of my sons and that my grandson now plays with.

Easy with a good power reverse, tedious with screw reverse and hardest with lever reverse. Actually quite easy with a lever reverse if the loco has piston valves but somewhat hernia inducing with slide valves! My Grandfather reckoned to drive a King Arthur from Waterloo to Southampton without movin...

Get a bit of 4 x 1, fix some track to it and raise it at one end 'till you find your answer!

I'm rather taken with the little battered two foot gauge locos that ran in sand quarries so I thought I'd build one on an HLGW four wheel drive chassis. This loco is supposed to have had most of it's steel plate work rotted away and it's been replaced with timber. The driver was fed up with getting ...

I have a 9mm ply board with a vee cut into one end to use with my fretsaw. I put one wheel on the top (with the axle right in the vee) with the axle and other wheel hanging under it and drove the axle out of the top wheel, using a copper mallet (hard wood and a hammer would do) until the axle was fl...

Thank you all for the kind comments. Once I start building the railway I'll endeavour to keep you updated.