Got a few days off to sort some railway stuff, got a small reverser loop in using faller metal track and a few points, this will be covered by a large engine shed right across it. The two outside lines are the continuation of the main loop eventually. Only small engines allowed in shed loop.
Category: August Bank Holiday Weekend 2020
FVLR work in progress at Sunnyside Farm
Tea Break !
R&B Tramway Birthday cake.
R&B Tramway
Virtual meet up post
In preparation for winter running,a requisitioned cheap plastic loco and our ‘Electric Mamod’ are out on test. They are approaching our 1 in 12 incline with a mixed WD train.Ray Waters
Testing the new bridge
The Silver Lady is the widest loco that the line has and the L&B coaches are the longest rolling stock, so the combination of them seemed the best train for testing the clearances on the new bridge, and no problems were encountered, thankfully!
GR photos
Railway in the valley of the mill
Progress outside has come to a grinding halt of late ( due to the weather) but progress on 3 D printed rolling stock has proceeded at a swift pace. Kerr Stuart 4415 and 2 Ashbury 4 wheel coaches are currently receiving paint:
R&B Tramway Storm Francis
A Bank Holiday Trip Around the Sling and Lavan Tramway
Mike Barton
North West Wales 16mm Group Coordinator
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Passenger stock clearance testing
Like many narrow gauge lines, Rheilffordd Moel Rhos began as a goods line (carrying a mix of freight traffic including slate, coal and hot cross buns). But with the possibility of extra revenue from passenger carrying, the line acquired a second hand coach (Newqida with steel 32mm gauge wheels). Purchased at Exeter a couple of years ago, for various reasons it only reach Moel Rhos metals this season, and today it was out for its second run testing clearances.
The flat wagon is there because the LGB style hook on the Newqida coach is too low to stay coupled to the Boulton.
I only plan for bogie stock to run on the (yet to be completed) large loop, as the small loop has a minimum radius of just over 3’ passing through two tunnels! So my main concern is that is passes through cuttings and tunnels on the line which is the only part of the large loop completed so far.
It squeaks through the tunnel with the narrowest of clearances – but an inch is as good as a mile (even if that is only an inch in scale terms). I had to remove some non-structural rocks that had been placed at the tunnel entrance for cosmetic reasons, but it’s through!
Clearance under the rosemary is less of a problem – it can be solved with secateurs!
Uh oh. Mike warned me about this last time!
Just for the hell of it, I decided to test run through the tunnels on the small loop anyway. To my surprise, it cleared the first one! Again, it’s tight, but it does clear it.
I hadn’t expected to be able to run passenger stock this far!
But – it jams solid in the northern tunnel! I may get the lump hammer and bolster out just to see if I can persuade enough rock to peel away to allow it through, having come this far…
My progress in recent weeks
Since the first of these events I have produced the train shown above. The engine is a PDF models Port class, my second kit built loco. I shall be seeking some help with getting it to run smoothly, I’m having problems with the worm and drive gears meshing properly! The green coach is an IP Engineering kit built and painted by myself and with some Brandbright extra detailing. The two red coaches are Jerry Irwin kits bought ready to run which I spent many hours getting to a satisfactory paint finish. They have Brandbright door handles because I kept breaking the originals. Passengers and crew are yet to be painted and installed.
Phil.
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