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Offline Merddin Emrys

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Garden Railway
« on: September 16, 2010, 10:13:32 am »
I have yet to build the railway in the garden, but so far I have one live steam engine which is a radio controlled model of Linda on the Ffestiniog Railway and some wagons and bugboxes (small 4 wheeled coaches)




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Offline Merddin Emrys

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Re: Garden Railway
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2010, 10:19:45 am »
I've built this station too




and this slate wagon



Some time soon I hope to start building the line, the gauge is 32mm or one and a quarter inches and the scale is 16mm to the foot
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Re: Garden Railway
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2010, 06:13:08 pm »
The level of detailing is amazing on the wagons, they look like full sized ones! The station building is great, too.

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Re: Garden Railway
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2010, 11:09:39 pm »
This looks like a labour of love...and well worth it.
I can't get over the level of detail on that poster board, on the side of the waiting room !!

Nice one Andy ....when its finished it can deliver your sausages from the barbecue to your garden chair!
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Re: Garden Railway
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2010, 08:53:40 am »
Outstanding!  There's a chap in the Conwy Valley area who has a full sized garden railway all set out.  If you're interested, I could put you in touch with him?
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Re: Garden Railway
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2010, 09:05:09 am »
Outstanding!  There's a chap in the Conwy Valley area who has a full sized garden railway all set out.  If you're interested, I could put you in touch with him?
Is that the one at Betws Y Coed that I saw in someones garden?

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Re: Garden Railway
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2010, 09:11:23 am »
No - that's someone else.
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Offline Merddin Emrys

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Re: Garden Railway
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2010, 09:31:33 am »
Outstanding!  There's a chap in the Conwy Valley area who has a full sized garden railway all set out.  If you're interested, I could put you in touch with him?


 It's possible that I may know him if he's in the 16mm Association, I'm quite new to this scale of modelling, the good thing with this big scale stuff is that you can see it :)
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Re: Garden Railway
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2010, 09:34:38 am »
The level of detailing is amazing on the wagons, they look like full sized ones! The station building is great, too.

Thanks, the wagons are plastic kits, still take some time to make and paint them so they look ancient!
The station building  is also a kit made from resin and that took ages to build and paint (I am very fussy though :) )
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Re: Garden Railway
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2010, 11:59:47 am »
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It's possible that I may know him if he's in the 16mm Association,

I'll PM you with some details.
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Re: Garden Railway
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2010, 11:27:48 am »
Just seen this thread and it's great to see such great modelling.  I was a Model Railway enthusiast until some years ago and had a large layout of OO guage in a big room above my garage when I lived in the Midlands.  It all went as we moved up to Llandudno as the new property had insufficient room and it would also have been a pig to dismantle and re-lay.