The Danycoed and Rosser Light Railway

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The Danycoed and Rosser Light Railway

Post by SidSanders » Tue May 18, 2010 8:33 am

"The Danycoed and Rosser Light Railway is a new venture being built jointly by the Blackwood Valley Railway/ Nantlle Vale Tramway Consortim and The Mid Staffordshire Farm Light Railway in Aberystwyth

Hello.. bumphy blurb out of the way... The DRLR is a joint project between my flatmate and I that we shall be building in the garden of our house next year, its something I have always wanted to do, and the same for him

A late night on ebay got me this:
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Which for very little money is complete and in great nic

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The body just clips off....and an alternitive body that clips on and off will be made at some point

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We had to test it... and my girlfriend quickly bagsed the controller, leaving my flat mate to look on!

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Yep it works.


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These are my excuses for buying the Faller E-train set... I want the oval of track to run my IP Engineering Simplex and Binnie skips on.

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This is my garden railway at my parents house, which is just a few lenghts of peco put down to play with.

Anyway this is the beginings of the DLR, I need to clear the overgrown back garden and work out what space we have, but we're hoping to have quite a long continous run, with a passing loop or two and one or two sidings. We'll see. Anyway I now have to disappere of to a Geology exam.

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Post by Narrow Minded » Tue May 18, 2010 9:05 am

Thanks for the pics of the embrionic DRLR and best of luck with the exam :D

I look forward to seeing your progress as you keep us up to date on your new railway :thumbup: (Exciting times!)
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Post by made-in-england » Tue May 18, 2010 11:19 am

Faller locos are fun, im in the processes of modding mine into something "really usefull".

I think Titan who is a member here has some track pick up faller engines for sale :?:

best of luck with the project
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Post by taliesin001 » Tue May 18, 2010 3:54 pm

interesting pics :D

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Post by 90733 » Tue May 18, 2010 4:12 pm

Very noce, do like the simplex ;)
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Post by mhlr » Tue May 18, 2010 7:21 pm

Supoib! Lovely Simpy, nicely detailed! Looks like you'll transform your girlfriend into a train enthusiast then?! :lol:
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Post by Endless, Nameless » Tue May 18, 2010 7:45 pm

The Faller locos are pretty awful but the track is really good, I had some for a while and was quite impressed with it.
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Post by MDLR » Tue May 18, 2010 9:21 pm

It's also nice to see that the girlfriend wants to be involved - keep her on side by naming a loco after her!
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