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Another Railway! The WR, now the MGR

Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Sun Jun 12, 2011 10:15 pm

Well, today construction officially commenced of yet another railway! This one will be in my Dad's garden, he is currently doing it up (hence the large pile of bark and the bare flower beds) Again, this railway will be built on a tight budget. I was donated 10 lengths of 10 feet rails and two panels of mouldy old track. I have also been donated a sack of sleepers to get started and some screws for attaching the rail to the track. Today I assembled one track panel with the donated sleepers and screws and rails. Sleeper Spacing is every 6 inches giving 20 sleepers per 10 foot length. The the straight mouldy old panel was seen to next, the most rotten sleepers removed then the rest re positioned at 6 inch spacings, some new sleepers were required on this one. I have also been creating some new sleepers from pressure treated fence posts cut down to 1"x1.5"x10" on various saws. These will be drilled up for the screws on a jig. Anyway, pics...
The brand new section of track
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The mouldy old curve
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Some of the mouldy old sleepers
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The route...
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From by the hose along the rails...
down past where all that bark is, past the shed
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Then round the corner
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There will be approx 65 feet of track by the end. Oh and the best bit...
Hasn't cost me a peny!
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Sun Jun 12, 2011 10:38 pm

Ooops, forgot to say, yes, 5 inch gauge for the achilles to run on!
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Post by Hancockshire » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:40 pm

Spooky. My friend with the Local Garden Railway is making a 5" stretch so he can use his home-built engines. His Darjeeling B is finished as is his GWR 5700 & he's finishing a engine he started Forty Years ago; A GER 2-4-0 tender engine. I'll have to send a few pictures of his engines & the line's progress. It wont be a long run seeing as his garden is pretty small but it is level & I love the ideas of it.

It's good to see you are building a small stretch for your own loco & I'm sure we'll all look forward to progress reports
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:07 pm

A bit more progress.
I am hoping that with some bogies on the way and a steaming loco that next week end we should be able to run a few trains...
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I might also take the opportunity to remind you that this has cost me nothing so far! :D
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:45 pm

Well, this weekend I strapped some pieces of angle to some bogies and had a bit of fun... with no loco there (no blower) I had to punt/row my way along...
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The railway was already coming in handy...
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That's surly unstable! I hear you cry, but oh no! I rode along with it and it was quite stable!
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With the fun over I got down to preparing the chassis for welding up, it will be a sit at each end carriage with your feet in the middle in a foot well to lower the centre of gravity...
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Half inch angle iron, the carriage will be about 4ft 6inch long by 14 inch wide by 10 inch high...
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Post by Sir Clothem Cap » Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:51 am

So thats your first passenger and goods trains, Track gauge checked and gradient map made in head. Great progress ready for the motive power now!
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Post by Hancockshire » Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:33 pm

Looking good dude. But how come when I saw this pic
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I thought "Harry Potter & the low budget Hogwarts express" :lol:
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:55 pm

The passenger carriage has now been welded together, just the superstructure to go.
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Post by Sir Clothem Cap » Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:45 am

Some good solid welds there, Good work Mr Bond
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Post by Pendo Pilot » Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:28 pm

I had missed this thread so far. Looks superb Zach, will there be any ballast going in or just rural railway ballast (grass!). Look forward to seeing the progress.
Tommy Dodd may have an ARS key but I have a TASS button & a Rope Ladder, just like pirates, except the TASS button bit.
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Post by Nomis » Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:14 pm

Woo! another large gauger 8)

Are those compass house bogies?
What do you think of them?

Could you post a close up pic of how the chassis sits on teh bogies please? I am struggling to find the best compromise between flexibility & stability.

Good work by the way ;)
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:20 pm

They are compass house bogies, simple and affective but have an anoying habit of going out of square after derailments.

The fixing to the chassis is as follows:

The bogies have a main pivot bolt on to which a rubber door stop is put, then the bogie is mounted beneith the swivel plate before doing the nylock nut up. The bogies have alterable bolts either side of the main pivot bolt to alow for different amounts of "play"

I'll try and get a clower picture for you next time.

I was steaming up and down the garden the other day behind the achilles, most enjoyable.
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:43 am

Well on Saturday evening the WR finally saw steam.
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The trolley was fitted with draw gear to one end and we managed to run up and down the garden fairly successfully. Without proper seats the carriage was rather uncomfortable though...
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The loco steamed well and managed the severe gradients and rough track with ease. Very enjoyable...
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Post by Sir Clothem Cap » Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:51 am

Well done the first recorded passenger train, I do like your inventiveness on the wagon buffers.
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Post by Nomis » Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:05 pm

Good work 8)
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Post by Pendo Pilot » Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:19 am

Very nice, great to see the loco in steam. I bet that was a lot of fun.. :thumbright:
Tommy Dodd may have an ARS key but I have a TASS button & a Rope Ladder, just like pirates, except the TASS button bit.
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:16 pm

Did a bit more work on the carriage and the body frame is pretty much finished. So next fortnight will be the shell (9mm ply wood) and painting!
The design I have finally settles for is that of a 1/3 scale model of a miniature (15 inch gauge) carriage. This allows any loco Narrow gauge or Standard gauge to be run with it yet it will still look "right"
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Post by Nomis » Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:43 pm

This sounds very good 8)


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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:29 pm

Today's work saw the main frame completed. Just now to clad the sides in ply, paint it, apply the lining and seats and fit some coupling gear to the other end!
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Post by pauly » Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:30 pm

Theres something about your face and the way your holding yourself in the last picture Zach that I just find incredibly funny! :lol:
A steam propelled life-style.
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