I went along to a winter meeting of the West Hertfordshire group. It’s a bit of an oxymoron to call it an indoor meeting of a garden railway group, but that’s what it is. I can imagine the headlines already: “Garden railway group meet indoors to avoid the cold weather.”
The West Herts group do meet in gardens throughout the summer months, and have the use of a church hall and a temporary layout for use during the winter
Here are a couple of videos of the brand new “L&B” loco, named Lyd, now coal fired, on trial at Boston Lodge and Minffordd on the Ffestiniog railway.
and in other news, this time-lapse video shows the replacement of an victorian brick bridge with a modern structure near Reading station
this is part of the refurbishment of the Reading station area, started the previous year
A round-up of other train photos on the internet…
Some Swiss metre gauge pictures on Ron Fisher’s Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/train-pix/sets/72157627398038167/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/train-pix/sets/72157627401283371/
I’ll be adding to this list as things come my way.
I thought I’d better post something, simply because there’s been nothing written since May! I’ve been working on other things, including moving house, making maps of Minecraft as a way of learning Python, and re-skinning this blog so it matches my main site.
The weekend of 14th-15th May 2011 saw a festival of vertical boilered locomotives (coffee pots) at the Leighton Buzzard Railway
See photos on www.flickr.com
and a video:
from Andy Sleigh
Another video:
Rhos Helyg Locomotive Works http://www.rhoshelyg.me.uk/index.html
Cliff Barker provides useful bits for trackmaking in various gauges, including Gauge 1 trackmaking. Some of the components, e.g. the point levers, may be useful for other gauges.
(3 Feb 2019: Updated Link as www.cliffbarker.talktalk.net has gone offline)
Convert from track-power to battery power: see http://www.largescalecentral.com/LSCForums/viewtopic.php?id=6389
Rik (of Rik’s Railway) describes how he created a “Fowler” Diesel loco, for his 45mm gauge railway.
http://riksrailway.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-i-converted-playmobil-diesel-into.html
The chassis is a modified Playmobil/LGB Toytrain chassis and the body is a scratchbuild based loosely on a cross between a standard gauge Fowler and a 2′ gauge Fowler.
Some of Colin Binnie’s workshop doodles have been preserved here:
users.bart.nl/users/summer/16mmngm/Articles_htms/ColinBinnie/CBWJ.htm
