Model Railway Forum

This film is one of a series produced for the BBC called Railway Roundabout and are on YouTube now well worth a look if you have a few hours to kill.

I certainly wouldn’t have liked to have been on that steep gradient going down it looked horrendous . But yes it was a very informative film

Here’s another archive film which I found very interesting it as something for everyone including dukedogs ,incline plain and an unbelievable steep gradient. Enjoy


https://youtu.be/GhDWKl-YPA8

That’s exactly what I was thinking, what would stop me connecting positive to one brass aligning pin and negative to the other aligning pin and just connect pins to the bus as previously said, surly it would be a much more positive connection or am I missing something.

I think it must have pulled the carriages because when I looked later both tram and carriages were gone and then later still carriages were back it was obviously hooked up because steam was coming from all the carriages.

Here’s another shot of it but not very clear.

Nymr have piglets toy in steam today .

I wouldn’t have believed this was possible where is the track inspector.

https://youtu.be/9X2A2f6E5DI

I heard that most of his locos are scratch built as well, but he does have an army of people doing the work so I suppose we have an excuse there, plus he’s a multi million heir so I think that helps a little also.

That’s all in o gauge as well.