Bryn Garman Railway

🚂 Building the Bryn Garman Railway
🏔️ Welsh-inspired OO9 narrow gauge
💚 Talyllyn • Skarloey • Welsh NG
🇮🇪 Built in Ireland | BGR

[Joshua @jtok93]

City’s titles

[Michael McCarthy @punishablepress]

Unironically did this.

[In play, fun(s) @TJenksTampa]

This is genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life. I read the caption and still couldn’t have possibly prepared myself for how funny it would be.

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I’m certainly not setting out to recreate the Skarloey, but the aim is to include elements and details that fans might recognise!

Hopefully we’ll be in the new house in the next few weeks, and construction of the BGR can finally begin.

I can’t wait. 💚🚂

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🚂 The Bryn Garman Railway has been founded!

With my move to OO9, Norton Junction no longer felt right. The BGR will be a fictional Welsh-inspired narrow gauge railway, winding through the Garman Hills on a 2m x 1m layout.

A new railway. A new chapter.

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The BGR will take plenty of inspiration from the Talyllyn and other Welsh narrow gauge lines, while paying homage to elements of the Skarloey Railway.

As a 90s kid who grew up on the Rock ’n’ Roll VHS, Season 4 completely captivated me. To me, the railway never looked better!

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Seriously considering making the move to OO9, I really like the Fourdees kits and the smaller scale means a bigger layout…

Do any OO9 modellers on here use DCC? - conscious a lot of the kits use the Bachmann Thomas 009 range chassis’, is it possible to fit decoders to them?

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@Possy92 Are Rails of Sheffield paying a fairer price I wonder?🤔

Highly doubt it though.

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Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond my control I’m probably going to have to part with most of my loco collection. Who tends to give a fair price for buying second hand stock?

(I say second hand, most have only been out the box to be run in for an hour) #TMRGUK

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@Possy92 Jesus wept. That’s the condition most of mine are in, as I don’t have a permanent layout to readily use, some genuinely haven’t even been out the box yet.

Absolute chancers!

I won’t bother with them then. Thanks for the advice!

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@Possy92 Really? 1/3 of the value!?

The cheek of them considering the price they list their pre-owned stuff for.

Reluctant to do eBay tbh, only had bad experiences selling on there with time wasters and bidders who never want to pay, plus you could have items on there for months.

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

#OnThisDay 1980: Cornish vicar Rev Peter Denny showed Small World his mesmerising model train set-up that recreated railways from 1907, albeit with an Automatic Crispin computer.

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@desk_railwayman Thanks Matt, worked a charm!

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Looking to add an narrow planet etched nameplate to a die cast loco, any particular glue to use? (Or similarly, any to avoid? #TMRGUK

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Thanks both, I’ll give it a try!

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@Modrail @TheUnluckyTug No worries!
I’m reluctant to glue the NEM pocket in place, so have had to completely butcher the body and cab to be left with the die cast base, to be able to screw the pocket onto. Then I’m able to fit the E2 body over the top of it. But it doesn’t look great from low level 😑

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@Modrail @TheUnluckyTug Hey, he used mounting putty, I’ve tried a few different ways but mounting putty works as well as anything. The issue I’ve got is with the NEM coupling, it screws through the chassis into the body, so there’s no thread to hold the screw in place, unless the body is on, so annoying

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@TheUnluckyTug It is sparkshot’s design yeah, thanks for the advice! Big fan of the channel 👏🏻👏🏻

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Hey @TheUnluckyTug, two quick questions, how did you manage to
A) Remove the speaker from the Terrier body?

B) Get the baby E2 body to sit (and stay) on the Rails Chassis?

Want to get any cutting of the body done before I start priming.

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@TheUnluckyTug Thanks! I’ll get some mounting putty today👍🏻

Did you have to cut/file these bits off?