Garden Railway Forum

Might be worth keeping an eye on what materials are being used by the builders in case there is somthing useful to you that can be cadged, a few blocks or a bit of timber maybe.

How about a slightly improved offer to your young friend to carry out some exercise with one of those new fangled shovels?

Lazy little swine managed 4 blocks before he gave up and said it was too hard. Mind you, you should have seen the coughing fit

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Yes we are above roof hight!
The garden continues behind the picture another 60ft but the slope has got really silly by then.

Finally sorted the pics out. Now this may sound like bravado but I intend to have some track laid and a train running on the lower section by the time it gets dark on monday :lol: If you look at the picture of the garden from below there is a retaining wall in front of the shed. The plan is to have ...

Pics now up.
Sorry about the gargantuan size but I can't seem to resize them. If you click on the images you can see them on flickr in a much more user friendly size.

Some Pics. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3798/11259237285_49f81d8878_o.jpg [/url] DSC_0167 by bigjimiflash , on Flickr[/img] The alps from base camp. [/i http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2851/11259275013_9276ed70b3_o.jpg [/url] DSC_0170 by bigjimiflash , on Flickrmg] The slopey problem [/img] http://fa...

Don't you worry about the cricket,
What ever the England team was playing it was certainly not cricket

Spades? Spades? Spades! I have heard of these devices..... But in all seriousness, I wanted a digger in for three main reasons. Firstly the amount of muck I wanted to move would have taken far to long to shift by hand. Secondly the soil is full of roots and rocks and is a swine to shift by hand. Thi...

Slight problem, I can't get the digger into the garden as the ground is too steep and too soft. Oh well back to the drawing board.

Oooh nasty, if any of it ends up in Wales I will send it back. Not just me that is having a bad day then.

While not railway related I can vouch for the efficacy of superglue having had various parts of my anatomy (including a large cut to the bonce) repaired with it!
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hmmm, perhaps I will use a brass chassis instead as this loco is a bit hefty for one of motor rail's offerings. Interestingly although they are mainly known for the simplex in various guises, they did build many other types of smallish loco and various tram type items including some real oddities. Q...

Very, very nice. Do you fit an slr to the end of the telescope or is it more complex than that.
As for the weather, I live in Wales, next question please!

I had another dull and boring day in work today so I started working out plans for Motor Rail Loco I want to build. (for those who are interested it is the six wheel shunter that they built as a stock item in 1930 and were never able to sell.) I had a idea that the Cambrian Chassis Kit would fit it ...

Ahhhhhh.
One Coventry Climax coming up.

FLT?
Sorry probably being stupid.

I will just say that again.
Please note this is bloody dangerous and bloody stupid as you end up with molten metal flying around

Matt. I don't know if this will help but there are ways of removing excess solder and cleaning the metal down again. Desoldering braid is available in various thicknesses. Just place it on the solder to be removed and heat with the iron. It takes a little work but I have salvaged a few badly put tog...

I think they were the chaps mentioned, thanks very much. Any other suggestions still very welcome.

I think one might have to be ordered for my son and heir. It looks much better than the very recent Thomas books that seem to have no real relationship to the original "Railway Series"