Morcombe Light railway

made-in-england · Post by **made-in-england** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:18 pm

Hi all FINNALLY got permission to build my line in MY garden, its going to be just a simple cirlce of PECO track set on breze blocks.

This is very much going to be a open topic i hope where you can tell me to add things to my track plan advise me on first locos and stock ect

so please help by giving as little as ADVICE today call 0800....

hehe

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:59 pm

Excellent, finally persuaded you to use some breeze blocks

.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:31 pm

Good to here that you've got permission. A quick tip. Make sure that your track is screwed down properly. I read in a Garden Rail article that in winter, water can get under the sleppers, then freeze and expand, causing a lot of damage to the track.

made-in-england · Post by **made-in-england** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:13 pm

Im not sure on the track front, I keep wondering if a siding or somthing would be nice but i dont know :S

MuzTrem · Post by **MuzTrem** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:16 pm

If you can afford the point, defintately go for the siding...it'll make life a bit more interesting than just going round and round!

ACLR · Post by **ACLR** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:20 pm

great news look forward to seeing it running

made-in-england · Post by **made-in-england** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:26 pm

Graham,

Have you got the time to wait?!? LOL

Will be another long term project as 1. the site needs clearing
2. this cannot be done on sundays as this is twyford day.

fitting it in with oil engines and other toy steam and family comitments

We WILL get there tho! oh and pete next time im down ur way and i have a loco me folks sed i could seing round

ACLR · Post by **ACLR** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:39 pm

mate have a life time to wait

I know what its like to build a railway as I have been building mine for 12 months now and its a never ending project

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:17 pm

made-in-england wrote:Graham,

Have you got the time to wait?!? LOL

Will be another long term project as 1. the site needs clearing
2. this cannot be done on sundays as this is twyford day.

fitting it in with oil engines and other toy steam and family comitments

We WILL get there tho! oh and pete next time im down ur way and i have a loco me folks sed i could seing round

ok....

made-in-england · Post by **made-in-england** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:21 pm

Wots that menna mean!??!?!?!

bungle80a · Post by **bungle80a** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:10 am

Matt wrote:Good to here that you've got permission. A quick tip. Make sure that your track is screwed down properly. I read in a Garden Rail article that in winter, water can get under the sleppers, then freeze and expand, causing a lot of damage to the track.

however dont screw/nail it too hard as it bends the sleepers and pulls the rails in, which WILL cause derailments!

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:01 am

made-in-england wrote:Wots that menna mean!??!?!?!

OH KAY durrr....................ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:45 pm

I'm not getting anything of the conversation between made-in-england and mhlr. Could you two put it into english please?

On the track front, is one solution to put the sleepers in a gravel/cement mixe so that one it looks realistic, and two, water can't get under the sleepers and cause damage?

made-in-england · Post by **made-in-england** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:35 pm

made-in-englad dont get the convo betwen him and pete ither LOL

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:27 pm

made-in-england wrote:made-in-englad dont get the convo betwen him and pete ither LOL

you're the one who said that u were coming to cornwall for a visit so u were coming to the MHLR, as i said u could, so hence why i said OK. Then you asked what OK meant, so i spelt it out in its phonetical form. Does that help?!

made-in-england · Post by **made-in-england** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:57 pm

LOL ahhh you see i read "ok...." in a sarcastic way but thats just me eh?

soz!

made-in-england · Post by **made-in-england** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:40 pm

UPDATE

Motive power has been chosen and in the words of rolf...

" can ya guees wot it is yeet?"

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:55 pm

erm no cos you havn't givern us any clues yet

looking forward to seeing this railway progress though

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:14 pm

Hm, you said something about getting a RS1 set, so I'm assuming it's a mamod.

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:56 pm

you are planning to buy a oval of Peco track, with set curves, a Lollypop Railcar + wagons, and one day save for a MSS then you wanted to save for an EDRIG!!!!!!!!

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