Garden Railway Forum

You do get a (Blue Peter Badge) Phillip, that is some excellent work i must say, working a laptop out isa struggle for me haha, so 3D printing is a no go. All of your work especially the 3D stuff is some of the best i have seen. Do you have any thoughts on selling some of it to other’s. The seat, su...

Went to West Lancs Light Railway open day Sunday with the CEO, if you what to win them other take them to a show and get them on your side, i now have permission to start my layout which the CEO has named “Fairy Wood Light Railway” mainly due to the fact that this little water feature she wanted and...

Thanks John, You can’t beat good old Creosote mixed with old engine oil. My Dad used to make interwoven fence panels and sprayed the mix on...lovely

Health and Safety mean nothing to me, only interfering bureaucrats that make most jobs longer and harder to do...

Well Peter, maybe they have children to keep occupied and most of their time is taken up with them, i know when my own kids were younger, it was a full time job looking after them has well as doing my paid job, i was to tired to do anything else..

Just been reading your thread and wow, what a brilliant layout. I know Morecambe and surrounding area’s fairly well, Nether Kellett and all, and the landscape is truly breathtaking, i particularly love the winter months around there and just a stones throw from the Lakes has well, you really do have...

Thanks John (FBGR) for your reply and information, i went to a open day local to me Sunday and spoke with a member of the 16mm Association and he says he uses patio decking for his railway, so it’s some thing i will look into. Why isn’t Creosote sold anymore. I certainly hope your FBGR is still arou...

Not much happening at the moment although i have come across this stuff, it only goes up to 45cm, just under 1’ 6” which for me would be to low, i guess i could buy some longer post’s so it would be at a better height of say 3’. There is also an option to buy some wider tops that will do a 3 metre l...

What you do think of this stuff i have come across, https://www.filcris.co.uk/product/ladder-frame-kit-2--raised-kit-for-sm32-16mm-up-to-45-cm-high-ladder2 This is as high has they go with it, but i guess you could buy longer posts. It looks fairly easy to put up and there is some wider top boards a...

What a brilliant thread, just read it and some of the buildings are brilliant. :thumb right: The more i read threads on the forum, the more i am learning, i have used foam board how ever on my N Gauge layout to great affect and i can see how it works for outside, have you thought about using the Woo...

Being new to 16mm i can see what most members are saying about the smaller scales, however has i have said in my introduction to the forum, i have nothing against other gauges one bit, i see it has everyone is running trains however they run them, wether that is live steam, battery or mains. Every s...

Thank you tom_tom_go i will keep the acrylics, i do use them on my N Gauge stuff. Can you recommend a decent rail bender. Congratulations on fixing the pick-up, it looks to be a very nice model. Your garden shows great potential for a railway. Your options about track height above the ground are int...

I have now repaired the Pick Up and it looks a lot better, DSCN2648.JPG DSCN2647.JPG DSCN2646.JPG DSCN2645.JPG That tram body looks very nice, hope you got it at a good price. If you really want to repair the wood-wood joints, I'd clean them back to bare wood ( both surfaces) and then use Evostick W...

Well i have made a start with the BCATRR and i received my new purchase’s, although i am happy with both of them, i really love the Pick Up and the Tram is growing on me, disaster when i opened the box although it was well wrapped (not in original box) some of the parts have broken off, although it ...

I will post photos Peter, i don’t think it will stop me, seeing how great most of the layouts are, i will try to achieve something that everyone will enjoy either running or seeing. I just love trains and layouts, my partner says i should of started years ago when i was a bit fitter lol :D :D Happy ...

Thanks for your reply Dunitrong and i really love those coaches, shame they are not available any more. Looks like i will be going down the MDF route myself. I am like a little kid reigning in my excitement, i can’t wait to get my track and loco and run something. Happy Modelling :thumbright: :thumb...

Well i have finally read all your thread Peter and it certainly is inspiring, trouble is i will have to start again to take in all the information you and others have given lol. Seriously brilliant layout and truly brilliant modelling, i don’t think i will show any of mine when i get round to buildi...

Hi, I love this trains of yours, do you recommend the PDF models like the EZ trains and IP, i think they are quite inexpensive and for some one like me who doesn’t have any lathes or drill stands or anything of that sort, would they be easy enough to do. I would like to have them r/c also, where wou...

Brilliant, why hasn’t it taken off. I know it is our lack of sun most of the time but that system which was shown on the youtube site had one that recharged the batteries.

" when it comes to model railways. 16mm works for me as I like the heft of the thing, and it is big enough that scratch building is not a microscope job. Sometimes I think it would be nice to model a large area in a smaller scale, but then I remember I am not that fond of building scenery. The...

I would like to answer your question if i may. I am new to this garden railway hobby and i think does it matter what gauge you run, it is all garden related or is it “only the big stuff” the proper gauge to run. It is like the smaller model gauges that i run, the OO boys some of them especially hate...