Garden Railway Accidents

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:56 pm

Have any of you had any accidents with garden railways, big accidents and small ones????

Ive had a fair few in my time

Mainly small burns, problems with RC- causing derailments and the occasional meths fire

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:33 pm

Ben-Ben (now CoS steamyjim!) once flew across the floor on it's wheels on a wooden floor and a solid tablet caught it on fire and we had to blast it with the extinguisher!

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:05 am

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:14 am

Try not to have too many accidients, cus the government may ban Mamods as they're an elf n safety risk!!!!!!!!

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:20 am

Its pathetic isnt it

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:24 am

IMG]http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x228 ... cs3039.jpg[/IMG]
Aye and like the full size the signalman was two busy having a conversation.

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:25 am

Got it that time.

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:26 am

During trials guenever lost a connecting rod and trew herself onto her side.

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:41 am

Whilst double heading a radio wrekin lost control and accelerated down a hill over a bad track joint brinking the lead engine (king arthur clean off.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:21 pm

Great stuff! Of course using a mamod I get a never ending trail of accidents, and somtimes stuf de-rails, but I've never had a collision yet, becuase my railway is too small!

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:15 pm

I havent got a vid of it but on a downhill tramway my mamod left the rails and continued down the path then re railed itself at the bottom. Unfortuenatly no one had a camera turned on.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:34 pm

ptlrcecil wrote:I havent got a vid of it but on a downhill tramway my mamod left the rails and continued down the path then re railed itself at the bottom. Unfortuenatly no one had a camera turned on.

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:36 pm

Great pics

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:56 pm

wicked!

grumpfuttock · Post by **grumpfuttock** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:05 am

The worst accident that has happened to me, was when I was building my first garden railway at my old house. I had built a new section of track, the last yard of track was approx 1 foot off the ground supported on a couple of posts. I decided that I would try my modified Mamod on the new section, obviously stopping well before the last yard. Well the R/C fitted was 27Mhz and around me, 5 neighbours had walkie talkies set up, and unfotunately in DK the walkie talkie frequency is very close to the 27 R/C frequency. Well the loco set off, at nice steady pace up oneside of the garden, at this point, I guess some neighbour decided to say "hi" to a friend, because suddenly without any input from me, the regulator opened full and the loco hurtled around a bend and down the newly laid straight track. I never managed to catch up with it, and was shocked to see it launch itself off the end of the track, fly through the air and then plunge downwards and proceed to bury itself in the earth !

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:31 am

Oh dear. Was the loc damaged at all.

grumpfuttock · Post by **grumpfuttock** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:10 am

Luckily it landed in earth and it just got extremely dirty. I quickly managed to stop the wheels from churning around in the sandy soil and when cool, stripped it down and washed off all the earth paying particular attention to the bearings and moving parts. I was extremely lucky that no particles of sand had damaged the "o" ring on the piston rod gland.

That happened once to my other Mamod, after it had started to rain. I got the loco into shelter as fast as I could The loco had been standing on a siding where the ballast was mostly sand. The raindrops must have splashed sand onto the piston rod. I failed to think of, or, notice this, so when the shower stopped, I steamed up the loco, after a couple of turns of the wheels, steam poured out of the backends of both cylinders, and the loco could no longer move itself, which was very inconvenient as a local TV station was filming my friends railway and my loco was the next due to be filmed

Both "o" rings were ruined and had to be replaced !

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:15 pm

Nasty

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:22 pm

Hi. Since I only own Mamods and a Jane, and my line uses sharp mamod track, derailments are common on my line. One of the most serious crashes involving one of my engines happened on a line in Carlisle, when one of my mamods ran full speed into the frount of a stationary Mamod. Mine survived without damage, but the other loco rolled over and lost its funnel and chuff pipe! Sorry to who owned that Mamod.

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:43 pm

Ouch. I've not really had many derailments, good driver ya see!

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