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rogerzilla

Legendary Member
Pendon is nuts...some of the cottages took literally years to make and the thatch is individually-placed human hairs! There are a couple of buildings from Wanborough, where I lived for 12 years.
Just following up - one of those buildings (the old shop on Church Road, derelict for a few years) is being redeveloped*, so Pendon is the only record of it now. Which was the whole point when Roye England started it.

*it looked as if it may have been purposely allowed to decay - the roof was stripped off and it was left open to the elements for a couple of years
 
In the last issue of the N Gauge Journal, there is this size/depth/distance comparison

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On a somewhat larger scale..................

Whilst we were 'out & about' this afternoon (13 additions) we travelled back to York, via Ampleforth & Gilling East

Of course, I had to turn off onto PotterGate:okay:
Sadly it was track maintenance day, not a running day

I have seen it in operation before, as quite a few years ago I rode a CX in the woodlands of Ampleforth College not too faraway

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Get your hankies ready, for when you start drooling.........

https://rsme.org.uk/index.php
 

classic33

Leg End Member
On a somewhat larger scale..................

Whilst we were 'out & about' this afternoon (13 additions) we travelled back to York, via Ampleforth & Gilling East

Of course, I had to turn off onto PotterGate:okay:
Sadly it was track maintenance day, not a running day

I have seen it in operation before, as quite a few years ago I rode a CX in the woodlands of Ampleforth College not too faraway

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Get your hankies ready, for when you start drooling.........

https://rsme.org.uk/index.php
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There's a smaller track in Brighouse
 
On a somewhat larger scale..................

Whilst we were 'out & about' this afternoon (13 additions) we travelled back to York, via Ampleforth & Gilling East

Of course, I had to turn off onto PotterGate:okay:
Sadly it was track maintenance day, not a running day

I have seen it in operation before, as quite a few years ago I rode a CX in the woodlands of Ampleforth College not too faraway

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Get your hankies ready, for when you start drooling.........

https://rsme.org.uk/index.php

There's a similar setup on Plochingen, built as part of a state garden festival a few years back. It's quite good fun with public trains and private models running through a park.

From Wikipedia:


The Park railway in the Neckarauen (dt. Parkbahn in den Neckarauen) is a Park railway operated by the Club Dampfbahner Plochingen with 127 mm (5 inches) and 184 mm (7.25 inches) gauges, which was built in 1998 on the Neckarauen, the place where the Landesgartenschau Baden-Württemberg took place at that time.

The track is 1.5 kilometers long in total, of which 1.2 kilometers are regularly used. The travel time is about 10 minutes. In contrast to most other park railways, which only have a simple track oval, the park railway in the Neckarauen region has several interlocking circuits.

The operating association Dampfbahner Plochingen e.V., founded in 1980, owns eight steam locomotives, of which the 1:3 scale and the locomotive
Plochingen, a replica of the locomotive of the "Heilbronn" type, regularly pull the visitor trains, which run every weekend from Easter Monday to October.

I think I prefer your location though...
 
Latest edition of the N Gauge Society magazine

Falkirk Wheel
Motorised too!!!

Apparantly, someone on the design team, gave the modeller access to the architects plans, & he transposed them to scale!!:notworthy:

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I’ve never heard of the Falkirk Wheel, I have just googled it, what an extraordinary construction.

@EltonFrog

Senior Management & myself had a (self-catering) week in Scotland last October

Our first two nights were at North Queensferry
THIS was the sight from our room!!!^_^^_^^_^

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We also got up to the Falkirk Wheel
(& The Kelpies!)


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There's a smaller track in Brighouse
I think there's one some where near Morley too unless the person telling me was getting con fused?

There is (or was?) an 'abandoned' minature near Pudsey
lt could be seen on a 'Google Earth' & similar mapping
 
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I've just rode 7 miles up the side of the Bure Valley railway, it's 7.5" gauge, between Hoveton/Wroxham & Aylsham, bit disappointed it wasn't running today. There was another at Ashmanhaugh a private collector, but there's a message on the website saying it closed last August, that it is with sad regrets that it has had to close, was open from 2002 to 2020, that was a 7.25"
 
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There's a smaller track in Brighouse
I think there's one some where near Morley too unless the person telling me was getting con fused?

There is (or was?) an 'abandoned' minature near Pudsey
lt could be seen on a 'Google Earth' & similar mapping


Brighouse; https://www.bhme.co.uk/

Morley (well.... between Morley & Beeston); http://churwellwoodlandrailway.simplesite.com/423638325

EDIT @ 13:20, Tuesday 25th

https://www.secretleeds.com/viewtopic.php?t=739
https://www.geograph.org.uk/stuff/list.php?title=Miniature+Railway,+Fulneck,+Leeds&gridref=SE2132
 
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I am slowly watching next door installing his garden railway, seems at one time there was one at this house, and it ran through part of the house, can still see the steel lintel now bricked up where it went through house.

Yes had triang railway as a boy, sister had really small one, but never had the room, got son a wall mounted system with space craft like units, but never really had the time or room, so today I play with a 2'6" gauge 8 miles long, I enjoy it, but they are a tad heavy to make mistakes with, plus carry general public so some rather strict rules.

Not sure what it weights but Zillertal is rather heavy. Just looked it up seems only 7.5 ton a lot less than expected, but errors 591067 can be expensive, car written off, it scratched the engine, but it was not allowed to move until investigators arrived so had to bus all passengers, car drivers fault it seems.
 
I am slowly watching next door installing his garden railway, seems at one time there was one at this house, and it ran through part of the house, can still see the steel lintel now bricked up where it went through house.

Yes had triang railway as a boy, sister had really small one, but never had the room, got son a wall mounted system with space craft like units, but never really had the time or room, so today I play with a 2'6" gauge 8 miles long, I enjoy it, but they are a tad heavy to make mistakes with, plus carry general public so some rather strict rules.

Not sure what it weights but Zillertal is rather heavy. Just looked it up seems only 7.5 ton a lot less than expected, but errors View attachment 591067 can be expensive, car written off, it scratched the engine, but it was not allowed to move until investigators arrived so had to bus all passengers, car drivers fault it seems.

I spent many a happy summer volunteering on that railway
 

palinurus

Velo, boulot, dodo
Location
Watford
I'm glad this thread has appeared. Not that I'm a modeller, but I came across these little bicycles that look a lot of fun. HO/OO scale, they run on a magnetic track hidden underneath the road.


View: https://youtu.be/go1o0HPBcLs


What am I doing in this thread? I just watched a model train video, and now this. I should be putting out the washing and going to pick up my prescription.

I am envisaging a layout with no trains, just cyclists going places. To buy pastries and stuff.
 
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