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Old Man Aaron wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 5:33 am Run 'em while ya got 'em!

"Curre ea cum te obtinuit eos"

The line's motto?

Yes, I just ran your line through Google translate...

ge_rik wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 6:24 am Rampant campanula was my problem this year.

I love campanula - but that means I can't use the long siding at Trefechan until it's finished flowering and I can cut it back...

philipy wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 7:28 am

ge_rik wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 6:24 am Rampant campanula was my problem this year.

Rampant moss is mine... I'm thinking of starting an export business - using rail transport of course, if I can clear enough of it to allow the trains to run!

Oooh, I'm imagining something like the Irish peat lines, maybe with those rustic looking wooden crate wagons for the moss?!

Andrew wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 6:43 pm
Oooh, I'm imagining something like the Irish peat lines, maybe with those rustic looking wooden crate wagons for the moss?!

That sounds wonderful! Put your railway to work. That's got me thinking, maybe I can run an extension out to the vegetable patch and compost pile

I'm reminded of this small working railway. I think I've seen the owner on this very site, once or twice :

Good to see Zach at home in his natural environment....

Rik

ge_rik wrote: Wed May 22, 2024 7:42 am Good to see Zach at home in his natural environment....

That's fantastic!

And also makes my annual plum train look positively sane...

So as I have about twice the area to play with, I suppose I could justify going to 7 1/4" gauge.


Beats harvesting blackberries in 45mm wagons..

Phil.P

Phil.P wrote: Wed May 22, 2024 1:50 pm So as I have about twice the area to play with, I suppose I could justify going to 7 1/4" gauge.

If it's double Zach's, I reckon you could go up to 10 3/4, although you'd need an awful lot of blackberries to fill a wagon...

Andrew wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 6:43 pm

philipy wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 7:28 am

ge_rik wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 6:24 am Rampant campanula was my problem this year.

Rampant moss is mine... I'm thinking of starting an export business - using rail transport of course, if I can clear enough of it to allow the trains to run!

Oooh, I'm imagining something like the Irish peat lines, maybe with those rustic looking wooden crate wagons for the moss?!

This years harvest is too big to mess about with crates! Hoppers are the only way to cope. The first moss train of the year is on its way!

That really made me smile - I love it!

Hi Andrew,

Glad you found the plates and got the road back in.

Creeping thyme is a great 'in scale' ground cover - but it does what it says on the tin, not only has mine engulfed the railway - it's over the path as well!

SVLR Andrew

philipy wrote: Wed May 22, 2024 4:34 pm

Andrew wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 6:43 pm

philipy wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 7:28 am

ge_rik wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 6:24 am Rampant campanula was my problem this year.

Rampant moss is mine... I'm thinking of starting an export business - using rail transport of course, if I can clear enough of it to allow the trains to run!

Oooh, I'm imagining something like the Irish peat lines, maybe with those rustic looking wooden crate wagons for the moss?!

This years harvest is too big to mess about with crates! Hoppers are the only way to cope. The first moss train of the year is on its way!IMG_0780.jpg

Thats a brilliant photo Philip.

Funny where things crop up. Hope the above video goes to show that you don't needs lots of room to have a fun railway - for smaller gauges, there was, many years ago, an article in Garden Rail which very much inspired me. A chap was running "proper" goods trains on a 32mm gauge railway. The wagons were flats which carried a rusty assortment of old 2lb baking tins for hauling birdseed as well as seasonal special strawberry harvest trains. Wonderful stuff.

Back on topic. Glad to hear you are back running again Andrew!

Hi all,

Apologies of the prolonged absence - I was on holiday for a while and haven't had a chance for any modelling since - not railway modelling anyway (no, not catwalk modelling either...), but more of that later.

In the meantime, I'm pleased to report that the (WH)WHR has been doing its civic duty, with Trefechan being used as a polling station:


All change please?

Love it! very up to date.
Grant.

Andrew wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 1:54 pm Hi all,

Apologies of the prolonged absence - I was on holiday for a while and haven't had a chance for any modelling since - not railway modelling anyway (no, not catwalk modelling either...), but more of that later.

In the meantime, I'm pleased to report that the (WH)WHR has been doing its civic duty, with Trefechan being used as a polling station:


Polling station.jpg


All change please?

Which there has been hey Andrew....

FWLR wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2024 6:59 am

Andrew wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 1:54 pm All change please?

Which there has been hey Andrew....

In the style of the infamous 1997 headline, "It's The Sun wot won it", "It's the train wot gained it"??!

Hello again!

With "Daisy" up and running in her new guise, yesterday the railway finally saw its first passenger service of the year. It was running about five months late - passenger trains were supposed to recommence at Easter. Oh well...

Further passenger workings should take place soon - before the line reverts to being goods only again for the winter!

In the meantime, here are yesterday's services...


Cheers,

Andrew.

My eyes must be worse than I thought! I had to literally look at the last picture 3 times before I worked out that the station building isn't on wheels behind the loco and that the grey of the van is blending into the grey of the building!

Just in time for the inevitable Indian Summer when the kids go back to school!