aussietmrail Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Hi Thomas, thanks for putting me straight, I was looking at earlier class that was longer between the carriage door and drivers cab, it had four sets of seats, fingers crossed I can will the lotto tonight be awesome site with a 18 car long E230 Eurostar in the new colours be stunning indeed and very expensive train, both locos will have to be powered, can only dream. Tony from down under. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted August 27, 2016 Author Share Posted August 27, 2016 Meanwhile back in Dorking, here are some more pics of the German afternoon. Don't forget the recommended videos, at: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasI Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Hi Andrew. Nice to see a german electric in the garden, especially a class 103 which is my favorite german electric loco. What means I've at the moment 5 of them... Greetings Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussietmrail Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Hi Andrew love the latest lot of pics and the video clip pure awesome indeed, like the video of the gray loco on your curved viaduct, I only have one German lock and it is a tank loco by Piko got to be so careful with those detail parts, broke one of the fake running gear shaft, have to glue it back on. The GB103 red electric sure stands out I wanted to buy one on eBay but ended up buying another Austrains NR class diesel Indian Pacific colour scheme the latest colour scheme. I have just one GB 103 electric loco in standard colours, a friend gave me one he stuffed up by dropping it chassis was broken when I finely got it glued the chassis back together and found a bloke in Italy that rebuilt the power bogies. With the rebuild the loco runs very well can pull 10 wheat hoppers and five of the save coaches with ease nt bad for a Lima loco and runs quiet as well, I have other Lima locos that are very noisy. Keep the pics and video flowing love them. Tony from down under. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 8, 2016 Author Share Posted September 8, 2016 The DGR was delighted to have visitors from Wakefield in the form of IanR and friend Mike in early August. Ian brought a couple of beautiful locos to run - an A4 and an A3 - and a good day was had by all. Here's the A3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Last week Geoff and Josh came back for another visit, this time with British equipment, and we had a fun DCC day with Southern Region, Eastern Region and modern image trains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 Today's visitor to the DGR was David H, who once again brought a fine selection of distinctly Teutonic rolling stock for a very enjoyable afternoon: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 26, 2016 Author Share Posted September 26, 2016 Josh has now made a couple of nice videos of his visit to the DGR a fortnight ago, both featuring locomotive sound. The links are here: Tornado Class 66: and as a reminder of that day, a couple more photos: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 Talking of videos, here's the latest superb Gauge 1 epic from Duck End Pictures, called "Not Quite Cricket". Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 13, 2016 Author Share Posted October 13, 2016 We had more interesting visitors yesterday. First onto the track to enjoy the sunshine was Wrexham and Shropshire Railway Class 67 "A Shropshire Lad" (although without the special liveried Mark 3 coaches we were a bit stuck for anything plausible for him to haul): Then we shifted to London Transport's Metropolitan Line and electric loco "John Hampden" which seemed to manage very well on a train of commuter stock despite the absence of conductor rails: Showing off the re-bogied Hornby Dublo "teak" coaches masquerading as Met stock: Here JH is clattering past a London Transport works train: And here he is again heading into town with a trainload of commuters from the Chilterns: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 9, 2016 Author Share Posted November 9, 2016 Here are some seasonal photos from sixty years ago, showing a couple of BR Standard locos at work on Foxdale Bank: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Part of the reason I've done very little with my own garden layout since the early part of this year was the fact that I had become totally disheartened by the rising prices, shoddy products and poor customer service I had experienced at various levels of the hobby - most of which I've had a moan about over various forum posts. I even cancelled my long-standing Bachmann Collectors Club membership and personally informed them of my reasons for doing so. I don't expect it troubled then too much but one drawback of my cancelled Club membership is that I miss out on a 2017 calendar - or at least so I thought. Imagine my surprise when I opened my mail yesterday and discovered this: - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 The calendar, Mick, is really to mark my gratitude - also on behalf of all the users of this forum - for your years of consistent effort in managing this website which so many of us contributors appreciate, not to mention no doubt a large number of visitors who just enjoy looking at all the exciting railways we can see here. So thank you very much for your work which so many of us benefit from. A Happy New Year to you - and to all our visitors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Thank you Andrew on Behalf of the rest of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 There are a couple of new DGR videos just completed. The first is a tribute to Metropolitan Bo-Bo electrics (well, one of them anyway): The second captures some of the visiting engines that have called in at Dorking over the last couple of years: I hope you will enjoy them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Nice videos Andrew with a variety of loco's on view. I'd like to do something similar this year rather than having a single loco taking the leading part throughout - makes it much more interesting to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Andrew Managed to work my way through the thread restoring missing links to photos and so on. There may be one or two still not showing but I'll see to them when I locate the images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 (edited) Another very frosty morning with bright sunshine, so I decided to try a running session. First I had to clear the frost crystals off the track: Then I tentatively ran a train: Then I noticed that the Bentley belonging to Ivo Peters had also turned up... So we chased the train, and caught up with it at Sycamore Curve... Edited January 21, 2017 by Andrew editing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 Then we chased the train again as far as Foxdale Bank where. after a few photos, we watched it disappear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 Here's a cropped version of the Bentley belonging to Ivo Peters on the DGR: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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