Fairy Wood Light Railway

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by bazzer42 » Sun Nov 05, 2017 1:43 pm

I'll be murdered if I go down the brio route...already got Duplo, Vtech and Playmobil. That said I did buy a wooden brio type train at Perrygrove the other week so it would be rude not too.

Lovely to hear a youngster interested in actually building things, keep it up :D

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Mon Nov 06, 2017 8:23 am

[quote=bazzer42 post_id=129424 time=1509889404 user_id=832]
That said I did buy a wooden brio type train at Perrygrove the other week so it would be rude not too.

It would Derek. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Mon Nov 06, 2017 8:25 am

bazzer42 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2017 1:43 pm

Lovely to hear a youngster interested in actually building things, keep it up :D
I will try my best, but he doesn’t need much encouragement though, he loves messing about with the scenic side of the layout, as well has playing with the trains. :thumbright:

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by Peter Butler » Mon Nov 06, 2017 2:29 pm

FWLR wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2017 8:26 am
Today hopefully I am going to try to get some wooden stepping blocks down by the track near the garage to help stop the lawn getting damaged, all depends on this great British weather lol.
A word of advice if I may Rod, from experience I know that wood blocks and planks can become extremely slippery when wet and might cause a problem when set into your lawn. Possibly ornamental slabs might look as good and perform better?
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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:19 am

Thanks Peter, i have got something sorted and hopefully i will be able to post some photos later of them.

In the meantime i had a little run of β€œBilly” yesterday before we went out for meal with the middle Daughters Birthday. Had some trouble trying to get her fired up, don’t know why, took ages, over one and half hours, took out the gas jet and cleaned it out with a blast of gas, putting it back was an heck of a job, i seemed to have moved the connector from the gas tank ever so slightly, getting it back just has it was...well it wasn’t clean air in the garage i can tell you....lol.

Some photos of her running on the line, taken by Anne, she did fine job considering so is left handed,( no problems with left handers ) but she kept on putting her left hand over the sensor on the camera eyepiece, so it thought she had put her eye there and the flip out screen kept on going black, bless her, she got it right once i explained it to her.
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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Thu Nov 09, 2017 10:52 am

That's a lonely looking loco out there, needs something to pull?

You thought about double tracking your line Rod as it looks quite simple to do on your layout and would add interest as you can run electric and live steam at the same time.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by Big Jim » Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:34 pm

Steam engines can be temperamental beasts this is why they are referred to as 'She'.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:38 pm

I love my steamy girls :mrgreen:

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Sat Nov 11, 2017 7:33 am

tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2017 10:52 am That's a lonely looking loco out there, needs something to pull?

You thought about double tracking your line Rod as it looks quite simple to do on your layout and would add interest as you can run electric and live steam at the same time.
I do have some rolling stock Tom, but i just wanted to see if i could get used to the controls on the Tx, it’s still new to me so i thought just about running her first for a few times. :)

What is double tracking please Tom, i did run the tram and pickup when the Grandsons were here with my live steam. :)

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Sat Nov 11, 2017 7:35 am

Big Jim wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:34 pm Steam engines can be temperamental beasts this is why they are referred to as 'She'.

(Runs off down the garden to hide.........)
:laughing3: :laughing3: Very good Jim.....

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sat Nov 11, 2017 8:02 am

Double track, build two loops so you can run two trains on their own lines.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Sat Nov 11, 2017 8:16 am

Ermmmm I don’t think the (CEO) Anne would like that, but I do have half of it built already don’t I...... :thumb right: :thumb right: Might just drop it in conversation.... :lol: :lol:

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway ( Update )

Post by FWLR » Sat Nov 11, 2017 8:22 am

Has promised some photo’s of the stepping stones for the garden, I was going to lay them side by side, as they are advertised by Homebase has railway sleepers, but I got these cheap from a store in Southport that is closing down, only Β£3.48 each...I think they will be ok, they are rubber, so hopefully no slipping issues.....


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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Sat Nov 11, 2017 8:24 am

They only had these 9, they are normally priced at Β£9+

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by Peter Butler » Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:16 am

If those are made for the job they should be much safer in use than timber. The enhanced grain pattern will help with grip.
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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway (Update Rolling Stock Box )

Post by FWLR » Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:05 am

A few photo’s of my promised Rolling Stock Box, the last photo has a divider in it, not sure wether to go with it or not.
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The boxes are sealed with Teak Oil.

Total cost with one board of 405cm x 810cm, (i had all the rest) was Β£10.00.

Going to a one day show on Saturday in Southport, so I will see what kind of response I get, I will be making some more for my other stock...they do keep all the dust and other stuff of them...

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by Big Jim » Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:22 am

They look rather good. I need to think about doing something similar for my stock as I am rapidly going off using plastic crates and bubble wrap. It seem that no matter how careful you are things still get damaged.
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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by Peter Butler » Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:12 pm

What?.... Grass but no ballast! What is the world coming to?
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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by bazzer42 » Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:30 pm

They look good. Agree with Jim, I need to do something here, storing tippers 3 high on top of each other is a disaster waiting to happen.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by markoteal » Thu Nov 16, 2017 10:25 pm

bazzer42 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:30 pm They look good. Agree with Jim, I need to do something here, storing tippers 3 high on top of each other is a disaster waiting to happen.
Sounds familiar :oops:
Where did I put that uncoupler?

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