Building the Fairfield Railway

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Post by bungle80a » Sat May 31, 2008 11:33 pm

i'll post todays progress tomorrow Graham! in brief, its blocks n gardening, oh and a tunnel! Plus a cameo from some rolling stock from a railway featured in the latest SMT, and its not the PTLR! Oooooh! LOL!
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Post by ptlrcecil » Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:41 pm

SillyBilly wrote:You should persuade the PTLR to build one!
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Post by SillyBilly » Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:56 pm

ptlrcecil wrote:
SillyBilly wrote:You should persuade the PTLR to build one!
No
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Post by ACLR » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:16 pm

this has gone quiet
is there anymore progress ?????????

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Post by bungle80a » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:16 am

Well, its been a while, so this will be a very abridged version of what has been done since the last update. Cant remember the exact order of things but here we go...

The section nearest the house has stretched right down to the launch off point. There is to be a crossing near the launch, and how to build it still hasnt been completely decided! At one stage we considered building a tunnel across the line using a big paving slab, but unfortunatel, to accomodate the tallest piece of stock the step over would have been too high...
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So now there will be a concreted crossing with a small slab in the midle with 2 lines running either side!
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When laying the foundation for this section of line, it gets so wide it looked like we were laying 12in:1ft scale 2ft gauge...
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Up at the top corner, the loop has now been returned to garden,
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which has had a rather nice rockery built in it by the creative director of the Windy Ridge Railroad.
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Since this photo was taken, the area behind has been filled with gravel/shale to make it accessible incase of any problems round the back.

At the other end of the line, posts have been planted for the next 13 foot of line, with 3x3 inch posts along the outside to join them.
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Since that pic was taken, I have boards ready to screw down and level, but it is finding the time and weather around work and working on the PTLR CGRL and PTLR (N)!

Will try to keep updates a bit more, how do i say it, up to date from here on in!
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Post by ACLR » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:54 am

wowow looking great mate look forward to more updates.
thanks for sharing

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Post by SillyBilly » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:03 am

Great progress there Bungle!

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Post by bungle80a » Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:45 am

Finally got some boards screwed down yesterday afternoon! That was easir said than done as the timber supplied varies in thickness greatly, and as i'm laying 3 boards wide to make each section, levelling was a nightmare! I've got about 15ft of board length laid across the back of the garden.

The plan has changed slightly in order to get the circuit in (due to it taking quite a bit longer now i'm working and helping with the CGRL). Instead of laying the full 3 line trackbed in all at once, I shall now be constructiong a single line circuit for the rest! The next bit to do is the 10ft radius sweeping curve at the back of the garden to bring us back towards the house!
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Post by SLRmidge » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:59 pm

Can't wait to see it up & running Bungle, well done !
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Post by bungle80a » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:24 pm

It seems like forever since an update, and your gonna have to wait a little longer, but it is certainly still progressing towards completion. The first steam trials have been run in the last week or so!! And as chief engineer on the job, I had the pleasure of driving the first steamer on the line! Which was fun as i'd not had much experience of using an R/C loco before!
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Post by ptlrcecil » Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:29 pm

Well after a huge gap in the notices and pictures (Bungles been too busy building the railway) The Fairfield railway is officially open!
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This turned up and surprise surprise, It didnt work. Should have gone to Locobox Virgil.
Sorry I didnt get much pictures of the line but I was too busy getting videos for a new upcoming er Video for youtube that bungles going to put together, so stay tuned for that one.
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Post by SillyBilly » Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:41 pm

Looks good, nice one Bungle. If chose are the PTLR IofM coaches then I'm not going to ask how long you spent re-gauging them :lol: .

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Post by mhlr » Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:06 pm

Looking great, nice garratt (if it worked!!)
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Post by laalratty » Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:37 pm

The Garratt, did not work though the whistle sounded nice :lol:
Can I just say Bungle should be well pleased with his work, that is a well engineered railway, and thanks to FRthunderbolt and all at the Fairfield railway for an enjoyable, if slightly damp opening day, my pics will be on when I have uploaded them from the camera
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Post by ptlrcecil » Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:03 am

SillyBilly wrote:Looks good, nice one Bungle. If chose are the PTLR IofM coaches then I'm not going to ask how long you spent re-gauging them :lol: .
Not long.
Probably about 5-6 minutes per coach.
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Post by laalratty » Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:13 am

Here are my pics
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LGB mallett during the short period of electric running on one of the high level sections
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Curlew from the Silverdale Light railway with an American freight
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Archangel Darjeeling
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My caradoc and PTLRcecils Superior King Arthur double head on a long freight train
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The forum paparazzi is seen in action, however i couldn't get Bungle, PTLRcecil and SLRmidge in the same picture!
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Post by SLRmidge » Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:12 pm

Some nice pics, pity I'm on one of them :oops:
You've done a great job there Bungle, well done. Some pics from me of the event......
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I think the gnome is a little overscale :lol:
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Post by MuzTrem » Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:20 pm

Lovely pics both of you, the railway looks great and some very interesting stock on show too. Well done to all invovled! :D

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Post by mhlr » Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:36 pm

Excellent lads, nicely done! I like the Accucraft line up!
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Post by bungle80a » Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:41 pm

Dont really think any of the pics I got on the opening day differ greatly from those already shown above, so i'll not bother posting.

However, there have been developments since the line opened a few weeks ago. One problem we found, was the single line section meant that the trains had to be driven at all times and couldnt be left to run. It was also a bit precarious (sp?) in places as the track round that section was all 'set-track' and it got dangerously close to the edges of the boards! Today has seen the completion of doubling that section. Over the last 3 weeks, the boards have been ripped up, new posts sunk and a construction similar to the rest of the wide sections built to replace it! Today I have completed the doubling of the line, finishing the work by torchlight! There was no way I was stopping when I only had about a foot left to do!

So what is left to do?

- The 32mm line, it has been decided will now be SM32 instead of 0 gauge, so this will need to be laid. (About 20ft already done)
- The cross over from inner loop to outer loop is moving (apparently).
- A passing loop will be installed on the thermalite block section (was used as a siding on the open day)

Then, next Spring/Summer...
- A Step and level crossing will be built for better access to the top part of the garden
- Proper lift out bridges will be built for better access to the lower part of the garden
-A steaming Bay will be built
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