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The Dorking Garden Railway in 4mm scale mostly features 1950s and '60s trains.  The layout at present is a single track continuous run of almost 70 feet, with plans for double tracking.  The emphasis is on running trains - and videoing them.

 

Here are some typical scenes:

 

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There's a playlist of Dorking Garden Railway videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/Dorkingian

 

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After visitors arrived at the weekend with a bagful of old Tri-ang locos, we dusted them off and got them running, although old, coarse wheels don't go too well with Peco points.

 

There's a two minute video of the proceedings here:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvdKgb8b6Y4&list=UUd1ACIZyclJqIjOg3GWB2_g

 

Even includes the venerable Tri-ang Stephenson's "Rocket".

 

Previous Dorking Garden Railway videos are at the location below (I quite like the Australian one):

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsMgMXSgho4Uk3OLauEHcUKzqUzm1F7ei

 

 

Below is a still photo of the more mainstream locos from the weekend:

 

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 Yesterday we had a majestic Metropolitan visitor in the shape of Heljan's new London Transport Bo-Bo electric loco "John Hampden", complete with some LT goods rolling stock.  Looked good and ran well:

 

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Unfortunately there aren't any suitable coaches available to go with this loco, so we had to improvise:

 

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We spent the afternoon reminiscing about growing up in Metroland, and arranging plausible scenes to photograph, based on the line from Rickmansworth to Baker Street and the parallel ex-GC line to Marylebone (well, almost plausible, if you make allowances for the absence of conductor rails):

 

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I knew those old tinplate LNER teak coaches would come in useful one day!

 

 

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The Hornby Dublo tinplate coaches are very nice. I wouldn't have the heart to swap out all the Mazac wheels for plastic ones though.

 

These days only the HD Super detail coaches get a run from time to time. However my Father is building a 3 rail layout in his railway room that will once again echo to the sounds of tinplate, if we can only decide and source what controllers to use as time has been called for safety reasons of deteriorating insulation on the original A3s, C3s, T1s and A2s.

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Today I was lucky enough to discover some seasonal photos taken in the Fraser River Canyon, British Columbia, in the 1960s. They feature a pair of Canadian National F7As in zebra stripe livery with the 'wet noodle' logo, hauling a short freight train.

 

Let's see how the first photo turns out before I do any more...

 

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We recently had a German HO steam afternoon, courtesy of David from Reigate who brought an assortment of Fleischmann, Piko and other locos and rolling stock. We tried pairings of several different 2-10-0s and ran the Prussian P8. It was rather cold but great fun. The link to the video of the session is below these (low quality) screengrabs:

 

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The 6 minute video is here:

 

 

 

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With the help of visitors Geoff and Josh we had a German afternoon recently.  Josh produced a couple of short but very nice videos here:

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1_rnzKQTBBE

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1anOePZyQ

 

Do have a look at them!

 

 

Here are a few of the still pics:

 

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This Prussian P10 loco in ex-works undercoat is passing a waiting DB Pacific in the sidings

 

 

 

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Here the P10 runs rounds Sycamore Curve

 

 

 

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This early streamlined Deutsche Reichsbahn Pacific might look even more impressive without those smoke deflectors!

 

 

 

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This DB 03 electric is coasting over a gap in the catenary - or being towed backwards with its freight train by a loco we can't see...

 

 

 

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There are two more of Josh Barker's great videos of his visiting locos (both sound-fitted) on the DGR here:

 

 

Tornado:  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XvmLOf55gmU

 

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GBRf Class 66:  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NxLZ5Mxek_Q

 

 

And a couple of photos to match the videos:

 

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The Dorking Garden Railway was delighted to have visitors from Wakefield in the form of IanR and friend Mike

in early August. Ian brought a couple of beautiful locos to run - an A4 and an A3 - and a good day was had by all.

Here's the A3:

 

 

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A3 number 60047 'Donovan' on Foxdale Bank

 

 

 

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A3 'Donovan' coasts across Foxdale Bank

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A couple of photos from a running session on a bright and frosty January morning.

 

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Ivo Peters and his Bentley used to pop up all over the country!

 

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More photos are here:

http://www.oogardenrailway.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/354-the-dorking-garden-railway/&page=13#comment-16881

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