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WVLR:76732 wrote:Horray, after months of waiting I now have the correct loco to haul my Penrhyn rolling stock.



Mike

Cool,

Even more so as it means that I should get notification that mine'll be ready soon.

R/H must make release them in mini batches?

Found it.....

Click here for the jpg drawing. It's very big, about 2.5Mb.

Annie,

I'm pretty certain I've got some drawings for the Kerr Stuart SKYLARK, would you be interested?

Hi, sorry for not posting sooner I've not been near a PC and I hate posting using my phone and predictive text... Andrew, is your longer link soldered closed? If not, do you think it will pull apart from a train load? I have soft soldered the link (brass) ends together. I didn't do so for reasons of...

Rivets make good pins. :) I am trying out larger pins (note the huge loop pin in the image), my fingers aren't that small any more (to many years of manual labour) and I can't be fiddling with tweezers just to couple up.... Another thing I've discovered is the large link-loop I've made. This also m...

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:75070 wrote:An excellent result and it looks great too!

Thanks, the next loco to tackle is a R/H Penrhyn Hunslet.
However, I'm not so sure the chunky feel of these couplings will look so good on the finer lines of a saddle tank?

I've been building a coupling system that will allow my stock to travel freely on my railway. A view of the back of the Prince quickly reveals the amount of swing from centre. Although the locos freely traverse the 2ft 6in curves & pointwork, keeping the stock following was more of an issue.... ...

On closer examination of the Stackton Tressel Light Railway we have discovered a series of holes by the old loop line. Is there any way of identifying where these holes my have been mined or their age? The company clerk is currently searching the railways records to establish where these hole may ha...

I've just read this topic and felt the urge to type. I adore your ideas Annie, it's very important to maintain a sense of perspective when modelling anything!!! As for the post-hole mine, well that could have come straight from my late fathers idea box. His own particular cause, and the basis for ma...

Of course Christopher's absolute "Pride & Joy" is this massive 15 inch gauge Penrhyn Hunslet built for him by a well known maker of miniature railway locomotives. Although based on Penrhyn CHARLES, this locomotive has the addition of a tender (like the Ffestiniog Hunslets), for the ful...

Never been one to accept the norm, so I've indulged a little fantasy... I know that this has been worked out before but:- 32mm is equal to 1 1/4 inches 1/12th scale is (of course) 1 inch to 1 foot Therefore - 32mm in 1/12th scale is exactly 15 inch gauge 1/12th figures are readily available from the...

Slight variation to the track plan, now includes a turntable at the terminus. This allows me to move the two right-hand points and create another passing-loop/station on the right-hand balloon-loop. The only problem being, I'll need to build a turntable... However, in view of some of the locos I wan...

Hi, Although my experience of "Small" live steam is still limited, I do have something to add to this thread. Experience with small live steam might be limited but my experience with live steam dates thirty five years! One thing I've always sworn by is "Graphite Grease", as expla...

Spent a few minutes with AnyRail to create a track plan. The plan is not 100% to scale as I'm using trackwork not in the AnyRail library. Of note on the plan are: How much I've been "ALLOWED" to squeeze into such a small area! Use of the new Peco 38" radius curves, these are used (45 ...

The ballast looks great Andrew. Look forward to more updates. Cheers, Tom Tom, I've just realized that I found the "Gritstone" from a post of yours, in your "RWLR Begins" Thread, HERE . So many thanks for the heads up on this. The mix of 2 parts Gritstone, 1 part fine sand &...

Another quick shot, this time of a Penrhyn Hunslet.
This view is from my workshop door, as I use the workshop on a daily basis to earn a living I can know say I have a steam railway next to my place of work...

Thanks for the comment guys. A quick update, IMPORTANT:- I love narrow gauge railways that squeeze through narrow spaces, to me this is the most important aspect that makes a narrow gauge railway unique against other lines. I've now built the rest of the embankment in front of my workshop. This was ...

Or buy an adaptor from Chuffed2Bits...

http://www.chuffed2bits.com/page9.html

I've finally made a start on my railway and I thought I would try and keep a photographic diary of construction. Initially a few images of the area where the line will run. The line will run along the trellis on my workshop side, at either end of this image the line will dive into the garden on the ...

You know, I believe this to be down to nothing more than experience. And more to the point, experience with STEAM. When my RH Rheidol loco arrived (R/C and my only R/C) I found I could drive it perfectly, even down to performing a few shunting manoeuvres. This was a brand new, straight from the box ...