Dorking Garden Railway - videos in 00 scale

[Dorkingian]

Continuing on her way

 

 

The West Country runs onto Foxdale Bank

 

 

 

Passing the commemorative platelayers hut

 

 

 

There was just time to grab a threequarter rear shot as she went by...

[Dorkingian]

and further on

 

the train rumbles past Sycamore Manor:

 

 

 

Meanwhile, the N Class reappeared on a local passenger train, seen here at Northdown Sidings

 

 

 

before finally heading past ECS in the sidings and along Bamboo Curtain Straight

[Dorkingian]

One more

 

 

[Dorkingian]

Another running day

 

Yesterday's weather was fine with cloudy intervals although I managed to capture some sunshine shots in between.  Here is the Hornby Dublo 2-6-4T on a stopping train.

 

 

 

There are more, and sunnier, photos here:

https://www.oogardenrailway.co.uk/index.php?/topic/354-the-dorking-garden-railway/&do=findComment&comment=20296

 

and a linked video here:

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/136029-Hornby-dublo/&do=findComment&comment=3948748

 

Edited May 3, 2020 by Dorkingian
video link added

[Dorkingian]

A Bulleid Pacific in action

 

There's a 2-minute video here:

 

https://youtu.be/80omXIR9zSs

 

Edited April 9, 2020 by Dorkingian
afterthought

[Dorkingian]

A few pictures from yesterday's running session

 

 

Black 5 on Foxdale Bank

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dorkingian]

A bluebell railway

 

Pictures from Wednesday's running session. 

 

First, the Black 5 on Foxdale Bank:

 

 

 

 

The same stretch of track, here with a Jubilee and 10 bogies:

 

 

 

 

Scene at Throstlebeck (note Powercab):

 

 

 

 

and Sycamore Curve in late sunshine:

 

[Dorkingian]

A quickly edited short video of the Black 5 selected from last week's running session:

 

https://youtu.be/pgrsnHZuGSE

 

and a still:

 

[Dorkingian]

Green and Black: 8F and 9F on a coal train

 

Just that:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dorkingian]

Yesterday's goods

 

 

[Dorkingian]

Black Ghyll

 

A new feature has emerged on the layout.  Black Ghyll is a large cavern, much visited by serious potholers because of the extensive cave system to which it provides an entrance.  It's very close to Sycamore Manor, but was previously obscured by vegetation, now cut back.  No doubt the local residents always knew it was there, but probably didn't want to encourage inexperienced cavers who often get into difficulty, particularly when unanticipated rainfall swells the underground rivers.  A close look shows what may be ropes left behind by potholers ascending to the lip before going down into the cavern.

 

 

 

 

 

[Dorkingian]

Back at Throstlebeck Sidings this week, the lucky photographer caught two trains passing:

 

 

 

 

and then saw the same two workings, coal and parcels, at a slightly different spot, presumably on another day:

 

 

 

 

After that, there were a couple of drone light aircraft shots of Black Gyll and then Foxdale Bank:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Astonishingly, the lineside photographer captured the Standard Class 4MT with its coal train at almost the same moment as the cameraman in the plane:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[peterfgf]

Wonderful, but amongst other things, I admire the straightness of the track.  Lots of care and attention I think.
From another Dorking resident.

Peterfgf

[Dorkingian]

On 30/05/2020 at 22:01, peterfgf said:

the straightness of the track.  Lots of care and attention I think.

 

Nothing there I can take credit for.  The track has been laid for about 8 years, and the timber base is gradually warping and in places rotting, so the running is increasingly unreliable, so the woodwork will certainly need some real attention before long.  Benign neglect has at least allowed the vegetation to flourish, which I think contributes to the ambience.

[Dorkingian]

Another running day

 

 

Yesterday saw a BR Standard 4-6-0 heading a cross country train back in the 1950s (no on-board refreshment provision in those days):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At Throstlebeck Sidings, a goods train was waiting for the road:

 

 

 

and was later seen crossing Foxdale Bank:

 

 

 

and passing Foxdale Carr Hall

 

 

 

 

 

[Dorkingian]

Another video

 

I decided to compile a 'video of the day' for that last operating session.  Here's the result.  Everything is running too fast, which isn't obvious at the time but becomes only too clear when the video is reviewed afterwards.

 

https://youtu.be/yJMtLYKqNw0

 

[Dorkingian]

Only one train today, and no sunshine to brighten up the photos. 

 

At first I thought it might be the Thames-Clyde Express, but research shows it can't be, as that had a restaurant car in the 1950s.  So this is just an anonymous express with no refreshment facilities, pulled by a very clean Jubilee.  Here it's seen passing Black Ghyll cavern, and then beyond.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There seems to have been a lineside fire on Foxdale Bank, presumbly caused by the proverbial stray spark from a locomotive.

 

[Dorkingian]

The video from yesterday's run:

 

 

[Dorkingian]

Just a few pics from today's 1950s running session

 

 

Nothing too unusual in the locomotive department: this Black 5 on Foxdale Bank

 

 

 

and here on Bamboo Curtain Straight

 

 

 

 

And a couple of shots at Throstlebeck of the 9F on a coal train

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Owd Bob]

Loving all those dirty mineral wagons and the Sunshine.

[Dorkingian]

Great Western delight

 

What a pleasure to have the first visiting locos of the year, especially Julian's finely wrought models.  And some visiting lower quadrant signals too.

 

 

King William IV enjoying the sunshine:

 

 

 

 

Earl of Mount Edgcumbe pauses near a shunting signal:

 

 

 

 

Details of the Earl's cab and tender:

 

 

 

 

A small Prairie drifts down Bamboo Curtain Straight:

 

 

 

 

and Resolven Grange heads home with a coal train

 

 

 

 

with a glimpse of the driver, eager for supper:

 

 

 

 

 

The tail end:

 

[Dorkingian]

And a 1.5 minute video of the King:

 

 

 

Edited August 7, 2020 by Dorkingian
video link

[Dorkingian]

Piling on the coal again

 

Here's the BR Standard 4MT waiting at Throstlebeck for departure with a coal train, alongside one of the recently donated and very elegant ground signals which really improve the general appearance.

 

 

 

and later caught (from a drone) passing Black Ghyll:

 

 

 

 

[dan_the_v8man]

How did you get the boards to follow the gentle curve? 

 

 

[Dorkingian]

On 26/08/2020 at 08:26, dan_the_v8man said:

How did you get the boards to follow the gentle curve?

 

Saw them with an electric jig saw.  Then the offcuts are cut into long wedges and bashed into the ground to fix the straight sections of trackbed to.  Now all about 8 years old.