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  1. Levelling Up I was recently assessing what needs to be done on the garden railway site to reinstate the front part of the circuit and refurbish the rear part where the timber base has deteriorated after eleven years service. One of the key issues is to keep the whole thing as level as possible and avoid any gradients, to ensure best running. Although I possess a small laser level, it's not particularly useful in this context as the small size reduces its precision and in daylight you can't see the laser marker light across any significant distance. Then I went shopping in Lidl and found this: Costing all of £5.99, it seems like an excellent solution to my problem. Probably easier than trying to use the garden hose (which my friend Philip had found helpful when building his garden railway).
  2. New Year resolution? Ordering some new track was the easy bit. Talk is cheap, as has been mentioned on this thread before!
  3. Christmas curiosity This rather odd laser-cut plywood kit, possibly around 0 gauge 1:43 scale, was completed over the Christmas period after being received as a gift (so I had to take it seriously!). It all pressed together well, with interference fits on every joint. Although it's a bizarre model and has no moving parts, it has been very intricately designed and was straightfoward to assemble although took quite a while. Quite why the boiler sides aren't continuous is a puzzle. Now I'm wondering what to do with it.
  4. A very Happy Christmas to Mick and everyone here at 00 Garden Railway, hoping for good weather in 2024!
  5. The National Railway Museum were having derailment problems with a bubblecar on their 0 gauge layout when I visited...
  6. Another enjoyable FREMO day Many thanks to the UK FREMO group for an entertaining time yesterday operating the latest configuration of their German outline modular approach to model railways, complete with fully detailed timetabling which drivers and signalmen have to follow. Some Anglo-Saxon interlopers appeared on the track during the lunchbreak. Altogether an ambitious undertaking, but very rewarding to be able to share in it.
  7. Sadly there's been no garden railway action recently - but i have been to Paris:
  8. Nice photos thanks, Ken, although as you say, no sunshine. The fourth one with the hedge backdrop looks particularly realistic.
  9. Always nice to see full-length trains being run. From the photos I can't quite see if the HST set fits into the loop, but here's hoping.
  10. UK FREMO weekend Yesterday I was delighted to be able to help out as a volunteer driver at the regular gathering of the UK FREMO gang with their impressive and extensive collection of German outline modules all hooked together in a school hall. The aim is to run trains to a prearranged timetable, complete with pausing at passing stations and dropping off or collecting the odd goods wagon to add complication. Nowadays, thanks to a certain political event which-cannot-be-named, the UK FREMO lads are prevented from taking their modules to events on the Continent by new customs complications, so they make the most of these weekend gatherings on British (and in this case, Sussex) soil. Very grateful to them for inviting me along as a non-module contributor!
  11. That roof looks very ambitious, Thomas, and the results must be good, that is, cleaner track. I'm not sure what material you've used, although looks like it could be a fine mesh netting. Hope it's OK for high winds. Good luck.
  12. Now it's just a question of me filling the gaps, once the paving has been grouted:
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