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Very neat — and the video too. The ‘cheesy’ music is cool. “…boarded the 2:15 to Dinas Junction. Can ‘Russell’ outrun Rover?” But, after a tense journey, fraught with suspicion of seemingly harmless other passengers, he’ll find the train will have mysteriously terminated at a previously unknown stat...

Thank you all — glad you’ve enjoyed it (and relieved).

The moment I press the button to publish a new video is immediately before the moment when I cringe about not having taken a little more trouble with it…

33_600_2.jpg Thank you. And at last, the Class 33 makes it round the garden (with wagons), though without functioning directional lighting at present (see above*), in another noisy video, now posted in Videos > Semi-scale BR: Class 33 . https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=14387 *...

https://youtu.be/PMGxso8UvsA G-scale 33, supported by bashed Bachmann shunter, performs for the camera A sunny fun day with not too many derailments (usually the oversized ballast lodged against the rail, or more spectacularly, crossed-up couplings — keep watching at the end). With, inevitably, add...

33_runs_7.gif It goes! I’ve stuck a couple of large lead ingots over the bogies — and it runs pleasingly smoothly. It was time to finish wiring up the 33 and give it a go. Switching it on and fiddling with LocoRemote, you can imagine my surprise when the front, directional lighting glowed bright re...

“…to both build items of rolling stock and remember to take pictures…” Thanks. It’s useful to have taken snaps, I find, when you go back a few years later, to repeat, repair or modify — and you can’t remember what you did (especially electricals, which I’m clueless about). They fill up web pages to...

“…pondering what I built a garden railway for, really...” Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed it. I’ve gone on before about my early fantasies regarding an agreeably laid out, lush garden, with a lengthy railway meandering through it (not unlike the BLWR on this very forum!) populated by chirpy t...

pannier_clip_400x15fps_2.gif Cheeky tank engine and coaches. What more could I want? Now posted to 'Videos' is Semi-scale BR: the fantasy, Southern Region branch line, again , a few minutes with the coaches that began this thread, being pulled and pushed round the garden by most of the (battery-pow...

Steam (outline) locos do laps with the relatively recent coaches.

Little line-side interest (beyond the weeds) I’m afraid. With added noise, for those who like that kind of thing (like me).

Soar Valley Light wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 8:50 pm “Not many models would stand up so well to such close up photography”

Too right. Very nice.

I recall reading the suggestion that, inevitably, all garden railway builders will eventually succumb to doing a Garratt (I certainly intend to). This one will be terrific, I’m sure. Love it.

Giant bluebells and BR’s smallest 2-6-0 (and cobweb)

Thank you. It was all OK. I grabbed both, as the loco collided with the phone, fearful something was going in the pond. I may have had Lonsdaler’s gravity train, pond story at the back of my mind.

https://youtu.be/ccrhiVj2DOo It's a bit silly. More to come... I spent a couple of days digging the weeds and tidying up the permanent way, while the shunter trundled round (for the first time) at very slow, scale speeds —without incident, until I decided I should film it for a few minutes. Of cour...

“…the courage to start hacking the body about” The cab is moulded (and attached to the chassis) separately from the rest of the bodywork, so it could be used as a risk-free template for making a plasticard duplicate, with amendments as required… Shell-BP_1760_1.jpg A bit scruffy now — but it’ll loo...

Jon — Of course. Thank you very much. I’ll get in touch

John — Quite right too, that’s not hijacking the thread at all (and I’ve just got another one of those cheapo tank wagons, as well). You going to cut out the windows?

That’s terrific. It looks great.

Thanks, Aaron. The shunter could never have been a ‘scale model’ (obviously) but now, several weeks later, I’m inclined to think that I ought to have taken the surgery a little further. Reduce the height of that bit with the angled top, immediately in front of the cab — and the cab front windows and...

I was told recently, by someone engaged in magnificent, main line, steam loco restoration how, for a full-size replica of ‘Percy’ from the Thomas stories, rather than recreating the GWR original on which the character is allegedly based, in the US they referenced the Bachmann version. It’s true! Her...