ColinK

I have RGB+W strips that run on 24v and are very good. But for my next project our electrician has recommended CW or BW as you get more light than RGB strips

Hi, really pleased to hear that you enjoyed our exhibition. Makes all the work worthwhile.

A two hour drive home for me, not unloaded yet. A very enjoyable weekend and my layout ran well and seemed to be liked by many visitors. I might even consider taking it out again.

Took me three hours to get set up, happy with that as it is the first time I’ve had the layout out of the house.

That would make an interesting ‘might have been’ model. Mk2 DBSO with a pair of 20s pushing.

Van packed, but I only just got everything in. G scale rolling stock and the removable buildings take up a great deal of space. Cup of tea then off we go.

That just looks superp. Compared with what you started with, a very poor kit, it’s a brilliant piece of modelling.

That single coach electric railcar must be a rare beast worldwide.

There is a pub on the platform at Lancaster.

It may seem obvious, but make sure all the fishplates (rail joiners) are fitted correctly before fixing the track down. Don’t ask how I know, but it can be very hard to correct afterwards.

As I’ve (obviously) got to go to my Dad’s funeral tomorrow, my G-scale ‘Hexen Schmalspur Bahn’ is in bits all over the house ready for loading on Friday. Just hope I don’t get there and discover I’ve left something vital at home.

I totally agree. On the rare occasions I’ve had to stay overnight I’ve managed to find my own ‘free’ accommodation with friends. All I ask for is lunch and gallons of tea.

The rails on my garden railway went just like those on the original photo, looks rather realistic. When I moved the track indoors following a house move, I removed the crud with HP sauce - yes, really, and it worked.

Just in case it’s of interest, I had a joiner to build this framework in my railway room. It currently has a G scale layout on the top level and the lower level us used as shelving. However, after exhibiting this weekend the G scale layout will move onto the lower level and a new OO layout will be go on the top.

I’ve a 009 micro layout, it uses Kato N gauge track with their ‘setrack’ curves of 117mm radius. Locos are mainly powered by Kato 4 wheel chassis which go round the curves fine. However, some of the stock has problems on the curves as the couplings are not long enough, I’ve solved that by using home made wire couplings instead. I don’t think any 0-6-0s will go round the curves. Beware that at least one 0-4-2 loco actually has a well disguised 0-6-0 chassis. I’ve found that a lot of 009 stuff doesn’t really like shunting, so a countinous run is a good idea. The Kato track is designed to be assembled many times, so you could have a layout on a shelf, and just plug in the track to make the continous run when you want to run trains.

Many thanks, I’m helping a friend build a layout and am contemplatibg using them instead of my usual method of a piece of copper clad paxolin laid across the baseboard joint, often with several tracks on it, then cut along the baseboard joint.

What’s your thoughts on the sleeper things (sorry forgotten their name) you’ve used at the baseboard joint?

Long before I started school and in my pushchair my parents took me to sit by the railway near Newton Aycliffe. I think I must have been about two at the time. I still remember watching long coal trains slowly going past uphill hauled by black steam locos, fairly certain they were 0-6-0s and 0-8-0s. I’ve never managed to work out which line it was on, the ECML, the branch to Stanhope, the Bishop Auckland - Barnard Castle (onto Stainmore) line, the Bishop Auckland to Durham line (if it was still open). But I only remember steam hauled freights, not passenger trains, so that probably discounts the ECML.

Seeing all your interesting photos makes me wish we had spent some time exploring the trams in Poland during our visits there.

Looks great, well done,

Perhaps some of the Mk3s could find a use on mainline charters.

From what I’ve heard two sidings are going to be laid immediatly south of Horton for loading stone (it currently goes by road to Ribblehead). Because trains reversing into the new sidings will block the foot crossing to the northbound platform, Horton is going to get a footbridge, and - wait for it - lifts. The lifts are required to provide disabled access to the northbound platform. The locals are not happy as the lifts will be very visable. Note that the foot crossing is also part of The Pennine Way path, resulting in up to 3,000 people a day crossing the tracks.

My fully scenic G scale layout will be making its first public appearance at the Chapel show. Cleaned the track yesterday. Just needs lights in one of the buildings now.

I’ve used round tube on the cassettes mating with round rod on the layout track. Worked well. Once the tube and rod had been soldered in place, I covered the non-mating parts with Devcon epoxy glue.

I’ve enjoyed many trips to Koln too. One was timed so I could go to the model railway exhibition, much different to UK shows. One thing that mare me smile was the seemingly compulsory coffee machines behind each layout, along with bottles of beer and wine. Perhaps thats why many of the layouts were automated.