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JANUARY 2019 ISSUEMARCH 293 2016 ISSUE 105 ail RE-PLUMB STEAM LOCOMOTIVE CAB FITTINGS, WE SHOW YOU HOW THREE PROJECTS TO SUIT ALL LINES INSIDE THREE VERY DIFFERENT PROJECTS TO SUIT ALL LINES INSIDE THIS ISSUE. > 01 £4.75 | JANUARY 2019 JANUARY www.garden-rail.co.uk 770969 952085 9 WE VISIT THE BISCUIT TIN RAILWAY, A SCRATCHBUILDER PARADISE BUILT ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET. 2 Garden Rail 293 | January 2019 Contents IN SHOP • DIGITAL • MOBILE • APP 4 VIEW FROM THE END OF THE PLATFORM 6 TIME TRAVEL IN A 1929 RAILBUS ail Dave Skertchly 16 THE BISCUIT TIN RAILWAY Incorporating GARDEN RAILWAY WORLD Larry Sampson Issue 293 • January 2019 22 ROBERTSON’S “RE-CYCLED Publisher: Steve Cole RAILWAY 2018 [email protected] Lew Robertson Editor: Phil Parker [email protected] 24 HEREWARD THE WAKE – T: 07879 664 383 THE BODGING Design: Neil Sayer Garden Rail: Published monthly Advertising: Bev Machin John Rogers by Warners Group Publications [email protected] T: 01778 392055 30 Allison Mould THE CATHEDRAL MOUNTAIN Next Issue: 294 [email protected] T: 01778 395002 RAILWAY On sale: 17 January 2019 Production: Pat Price Ralph Pitcher Email [email protected] T: 01778 391115 Advertising Designer: Amie Carter 34 A BASIC ENGINE SHED IN Email [email protected] 16MM SCALE Marketing Manager: Carly Dadge 34 Email [email protected] Ray Byde Columnists: Mike Buttell, Ray Byde, Chris Dowlen, 36 Steve Howard, Alan Macfarlane, Greg Oehm, John Perkin, CONSTRUCTING THE SWIFT SIXTEEN Ralph Pitcher, Lew Robertson, John Rogers, Larry Sampson, UNCOVERED WAGON Dave Skertchly Greg Oehm www.warnersgroup.co.uk 38 ANNIE Steve Howard 42 GIANT’S CAUSEWAY TRAMWAY ©Warners Group Publications plc 2019 All rights reserved. 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News Trade – Warners Distribution T: 01778 392417 Model Trade – Warners Trade Sales T: 01778 392404 Overseas Agents – Japan Erei Co, Ltd 1-1-12 Toyotama-kita, Nerma-ku, Tokyo 176 Subscriptions T: 01778 392465 F: 01778 421706 (UK & Overseas) [email protected] UK: £57.00 12 issues (1 year) (UK DD: £11.99 Quarterly, £49.99 Anually) Rest of Europe: £71.00 12 issues (1 year) Rest of World: £83.00 12 issues (1 year) You can now manage your subscription online at: www.garden-rail.co.uk www.warners.gr/gardenrailrenewals Back Issues T: 01778 391180 [email protected] West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH Garden-Rail.co.uk | 293 January 2019 3 WELCOME VIEW FROM THE END OF THE PLATFORM On track with some railcars his month, we have a bit of a railcar theme thanks to the Tarrival of several articles from builders of this very useful type of train. As the cold weather reduces the enthusiasm for nipping out to the garden just to run a train, our lines can be very quiet at this time of year. However, just like the real thing, a single car train can be perfect for services in the o -peak season. Dave Skertchly feels this way and builds his to try to save the Vale of Weedol Tramway from nancial ruin as passenger journeys drop. From the middle of the 20th century, full size railways were trying the same thing, an example being the County Donegal railways who experimented with a wide variety of designs. Sadly, few of these charismatic vehicles survive, but one pair that escaped can are a little pour into a boilers can do more hard be found on unconventional. than good it seems. the Isle of For true odd-ball Sticking with steam, next month, Tag Man, and Manx modelling though, how Gorton is back with a new series for live resident Mike Buttell about e Biscuit Tin steam beginners. With real locomotives builds models of Railway? 10mm scale on being such great value nowadays, there them on page 46. At 16.5mm track is a rare are always people who need this help, present, the prototypes combination, but one that and a few old-timers who can pick up are sat in Douglas shed in pieces, could appeal to many some new tricks and tips. their restoration having stalled. A scratchbuilders. Let’s face it, the Of course, it helps to have a ne combination of lack of funds and mechanisms are readily available, if set of Garden Rail back numbers on lack of suitable tra c means sadly the kids have broken their train set at the shelves of your railway salon, but they don’t look like being completed Christmas you have a start! not all of us enjoy that luxury. e any time soon. It seems that just as Garden Rail exists to support the good news is that the digital world Dave nds, railcars aren’t the perfect modellers and one aspect that I nd o ers a solution that will save your solution after all. especially challenging is working with bookshelves from strain. Both these builds are from scratch live steam locomotives. When I read For just £8.99 a quarter, or £39.99 a using lots of wood and ingenuity, that someone has moved a pressure year, you can have access to 154 issues something that applies to the two gauge I don’t really know what this of the magazines, going all the way layouts within this issue. means. Assuming I’m not alone, back to 2006 plus every new issue as it Lew Robertson’s “Recycled railway” we will be running some articles comes out. returns to these pages, but has needed demystifying the process, starting Visit: shop.exacteditions.com/gb/ some work to bring it back into use, with John Rogers plumbing the cab of garden-rail for more details and to sign making it the “Re-recycled Railway”. Hereward e Wake. up. Don’t be like your Editor and nd A smaller scale than our normal fare, it In a similar vein, Alan Macfarlane is yourself looking at the shelf over your gives it’s builder and his family a lot of looking at water. You thought it was desk and thinking, “ at’s coming pleasure, even if some of the methods all the same? Apparently not. What we away from the wall isn’t it...” ■ 4 Garden Rail 293 | Jamuary 2019 CONSTRUCTION 1:19 Time travel in a 1929 Railbus Ernest and Mabel, loyal customers from Hudders eld, who enjoy walking in the foothills of Mount Bluddifrizin, nd it strange buying their pensioners discounted tickets from the mobile ticket office, although they will in future be able to post their souvenir cards on the return journey. Dave Skertchly travels back in time to 1929, the year of the Wall Street Crash, to see if a railbus could have saved the Vale of Weedol Tramway. rom time to time photographs of short nal chapter the author cute, quirky little railbus models comments that he has not Quirky railbus turn up in this magazine and I was included engineering details projects, are a feature of F Garden Rail projects and Dave inspired to make one. because they are boring, not was inspired by this example restored I searched for a suitable design to so! ere was only one way by Carl Malone, regrettably we do not know the scratch build but could nd none. In left to nd out why there were no 2ft original builder. desperation I made the observation on gauge rail busses on the British narrow Facebook that there seemed to be no rail gauge and that was to go back in time busses on the British 2ft narrow gauge and make one, a kind of experimental come up with a solution to our nancial which, I added, it seemed strange given archaeology. e technique, I decided, problems, while all that you engineers those lines parlous nances in the great would be valid since our garden railways can do is sit and grumble? All you have slump of the 1930s. I was recommended are actually real railways running in a to do is x an engine and driver to the to read “ e Light Railway Railcar in real world environment. front of a railway carriage using bits Western Europe” by W.J.K Davies. is I imagined myself in 1929 at a crisis o an old lorry...” Arthur Run, the excellent book is ruinously expensive, board meeting of the Vale of Weedol Chief Engineer of Bodgeit and Run but Pauline, who obviously loves me Tramway. Gladwys Topnote, the Locomotive Works, felt the hardened more than I deserve, presented me with Chairman, berated the rather shame sole of Sir Wilberforce Bodgeit’s patent a copy along with my favourite Easter faced Directors across a dingy smoke leather shoe impact with his shin and by egg.
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