The Milford Hill Light Railway
The Milford Hill Light Railway
Hi Everyone,
This is my first post on this forum, encouraged by Mr Bond who i've been chatting to about his Momentum Van, he thought some of you might be interested in my little railway. It's called The Milford Hill Light Railway and is hidden away in a tiny corner of Wiltshire. It's a very small railway, my back yard is only 9' by 12' but it manages to run an assortment of steam and battery locomotives plus various other contraptions! Anyway this http://www.alspcs.com/TMHLR.html is the website where i chronicle the railway's development and below are a couple of pictures as it is today.
Cheers,
Alan.
This is my first post on this forum, encouraged by Mr Bond who i've been chatting to about his Momentum Van, he thought some of you might be interested in my little railway. It's called The Milford Hill Light Railway and is hidden away in a tiny corner of Wiltshire. It's a very small railway, my back yard is only 9' by 12' but it manages to run an assortment of steam and battery locomotives plus various other contraptions! Anyway this http://www.alspcs.com/TMHLR.html is the website where i chronicle the railway's development and below are a couple of pictures as it is today.
Cheers,
Alan.
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Welcome to the forum, I read almost your entire site after Zach sent me the link last night. Im very impressed with how much you've got in such a small space and how natural it all looks.
Dan,
James: "Dan, can you use your hearing and tell me if that trains coming ?"
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James: "Dan, can you use your hearing and tell me if that trains coming ?"
DLR
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Brain, the 'Thingy' at the end of the steam up bay is an IP Camera which (if you're really bored!) you can access here http://002iqnc.nwsvr.com/ . The username is user and the password is Purdy1 . It will work with any web browser but if you are using Internet Explorer you will have to download the plugin. The video stream isn't exactly hi-def as it is a fairly cheap camera :-)
sstjc/Dan, thanks for your comments. Due to the geography of my back yard it is impossible to get a picture of the whole line. What i must do is stitch together another panoramic shot as the line has changed a lot since i did the last one.
sstjc/Dan, thanks for your comments. Due to the geography of my back yard it is impossible to get a picture of the whole line. What i must do is stitch together another panoramic shot as the line has changed a lot since i did the last one.
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Hello!
What a wonderful little line! It must be good to make (part of) me wish my garden was actually smaller! I particularly like the station building, lovely.
Interesting to see life imitating art - the WHHR have just repainted carriage 6 maroon to match your model!
Looking forward to further updates,
Andrew.
What a wonderful little line! It must be good to make (part of) me wish my garden was actually smaller! I particularly like the station building, lovely.
Interesting to see life imitating art - the WHHR have just repainted carriage 6 maroon to match your model!
Looking forward to further updates,
Andrew.
The camera is great for watching my neighbours cats investigating the railway and at night you can see the occasional bat
The black thing you can see off to the right is the hi-tech very expensive turntable weather protection system. A £4.99 plastic washing up bowl with a slot cut in it!
Andrew, that's amazing, thanks for posting that photo. I'm very fond of my WHR No.6 Carriages, they were the first kits i ever buit and have been behind pretty much every loco i have ever run on TMHLR.
If i remember i will post on here when i'm out playing trains
The black thing you can see off to the right is the hi-tech very expensive turntable weather protection system. A £4.99 plastic washing up bowl with a slot cut in it!
Andrew, that's amazing, thanks for posting that photo. I'm very fond of my WHR No.6 Carriages, they were the first kits i ever buit and have been behind pretty much every loco i have ever run on TMHLR.
If i remember i will post on here when i'm out playing trains
Oh, Andrew, the station building was scratch built and my first attempt at scratch building a building. As such i made several mistakes. The basic structure is 3mm pdf with lolly sticks for the planking. Even though it was heavily waterproofed it's showing signs of water logging. So we learnt not to use pdf for anything going outside I also used superglue to fix the plastic roofing tiles to the wooden roof. Seemed like a good idea at the time but every so often the roof has to be reattached
Can't think of one, but with those nice square wndows and minimal detail it shouldn't be a difficult model to scratchbuild. I reckon the corners would be trickiest because there's so much window and so little wood...sstjc:103684 wrote:I was wondering if anyone other than IP do a WHR No6 or similar. Haven't found anything yet. I think they are a lovely coach.
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