Goings on at The Overdale Valley Light Railway

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Goings on at The Overdale Valley Light Railway

Post by Gralyn » Sun Jul 05, 2015 10:18 pm

I went to the LLechfan garden railway Gala this Saturday and got some early running slots. The attached video shows the first loco being run and then my Russell with the three coaches and then my GRS Hunslet.

https://youtu.be/H6ZCEzrZxjY
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Sun Jul 05, 2015 11:47 pm

Hullo - I was there but we must have missed each other! Cracking day.
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Post by Gralyn » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:56 pm

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:111913 wrote:Hullo - I was there but we must have missed each other! Cracking day.
We had the 11.30 and 12.00 slots then went for lunch in the station cafe.
Just finished in time for the 2.00 pm train which took about 2.5 hrs to get
back to Tywyn, a quick cup of coffee and a look around the museum and it
was time to set off for home. A long day but well worth it.
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Post by SapperAnt » Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:40 pm

Whereabouts in Stockport are you Graham, I'm in Reddish.

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Post by Gralyn » Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:22 pm

Not too far away in Romiley.
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Post by Gralyn » Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:25 pm

Recently I purchased a box labled 16mm narrow gauge from a collegue at
my local model railway club. It wasn't a completely blind purchase as I had spotted at least seven Big Big Trains tipper wagons in their boxes. After the purchase I had the chance for a good rummage and found a partially completed Saltford Models kit of a Simplex loco. It looked as if it could be set up to work on radio control using the space that the kit instruction said to use for 4 AA batteries. I already had a spare Deltang receiver and purchased a Zippy 350mah 7.2 volt LiPo battery which fitted the space nicely. The attached video shows it first outing on the OVLR and climbing the 1:40 incline that is part of this years extention programme. It wasn't the first loco onto the new level but it certainly was the first train.
https://youtu.be/p7_sdlHI6hI
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Post by ge_rik » Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:53 pm

Really like the look of that Simplex. Have you got any photos?

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Post by Gralyn » Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:38 pm

Still a work in progress at some time I must change the 7mm scale wheels he used.

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Post by Gralyn » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:30 pm

Just finished putting together video taken at The Admiralty Light Railway Open Day yesterday.

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Video of the event can be found here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCSUu9W4G-8
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Post by Gralyn » Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:45 pm

I went to the Elsecar Garden Railway show at the weekend and came home with a new Roundhouse Bertie. To the OVLR it will be No 11. After running R/C live steam and battery locos and free running battery locos, No 11 is a different thing altogether. I am still on the very steep part of the learning curve with this type of loco but I am getting the hang of the balance between the regulator and gas flow to get smooth slow running.
A Short Video can be found here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvGac-h17oQ
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Post by Andrew » Tue Sep 29, 2015 3:33 pm

It looks like you've got it running very nicely, a handsome wee beastie too.

I must get my Bertie up and running again, I think I messed up the valve timing when I took various bits off to repaint the rods and wheels...

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Re: Goings on at The Overdale Valley Light Railway

Post by Gralyn » Wed May 09, 2018 9:20 am

After two great days of running, the rains came to the Overdale Valley yesterday afternoon just after finishing a run of the new Lumberjack. One observation
made was that in the summer I must adopt a revised order for steaming up.
I have always adopted the

Gas
Oil
Water
then light-up routine and made up the train whilst waiting for the Loco to get steam up.
Steam Up comes so quickly in the warm weather that I am still fumbling with the couplings on the train when the safety valve lifts.
I am going to revise my routine to:-

Gas
Oil
Water
Make up train
Light up
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Re: Goings on at The Overdale Valley Light Railway

Post by ge_rik » Wed May 09, 2018 12:58 pm

Thanks for posting photos of the Simplex. Only just seen them (2¾ years later) - who says I don't pay attention??

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Re: Goings on at The Overdale Valley Light Railway

Post by Gralyn » Wed May 09, 2018 5:20 pm

ge_rik wrote: Wed May 09, 2018 12:58 pm Thanks for posting photos of the Simplex. Only just seen them (2¾ years later) - who says I don't pay attention??

Rik
Video of the finished article is about 4min 20sec into the following Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MnZJr5TZs8
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Re: Goings on at The Overdale Valley Light Railway

Post by LNR » Thu May 10, 2018 12:58 am

I'm in the same boat as Rik, don't know how I missed this. But then I'm finding a lot missing now. Watching the video, do I see some pieces of hand laid track in the new spur?
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Re: Goings on at The Overdale Valley Light Railway

Post by IanC » Thu May 10, 2018 10:08 am

I must confess I haven't seen this before either :scratch: :cry:

Glad I have now though. :D

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Post by tom_tom_go » Thu May 10, 2018 5:41 pm

This post was posted before the forum upgrade so this is likely why you missed out as you would not of got any notification of new posts when logged in and email notification was hit and miss back then.

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Re: Goings on at The Overdale Valley Light Railway

Post by Gralyn » Thu May 10, 2018 6:17 pm

LNR wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 12:58 am I'm in the same boat as Rik, don't know how I missed this. But then I'm finding a lot missing now. Watching the video, do I see some pieces of hand laid track in the new spur?
Grant.

Yes I bought some already made up on Ebay.
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Re: Goings on at The Overdale Valley Light Railway

Post by Gralyn » Fri May 11, 2018 10:49 am

Yesterday was a good afternoon for running trains. So I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Px4-MYny_Y
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Re: Goings on at The Overdale Valley Light Railway

Post by IanC » Fri May 11, 2018 11:04 am

I enjoyed seeing your railway. Sun and trains. a great recepie for a good time.

May I ask what make are the coaches in the video?

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