@kajajm Glad you liked it... The weather here in England is very unpredictable. There is an old saying that goes if you don't like the weather in England.. wait 10 minutes :-) I'm glad to say as it's August it's a little bit warmer than in this film!
I am in the process of building my outdoor layout and keep looking at your videos to see how you braced the ply. Hard to tell though. Are the guard rails on top the main source of support for the long sections?
I hope to get a video up as soon as some track is down.
also, how old is most of your stock and motive power? I own a lot of old 70's stuff and wonder how you coped with DCC conversions. I own a Digitrax zephyr for control.
@ccolimon That may be so, but in essence mine is a "running" railway rather than a strive for realism. When viewing the garden as a whole the lights actually complement the railway on a warm summers evening and in winter assist me in being able to find a train if it gets stuck!
This is one of the best (if not THE best) train videos on YouTube. The Music is so perfect for the visuals and it's amazingly relaxing. I do get annoyed at people who submit videos that are either out of focus or they move around too much so you can't see anything. Your trains and video are a breath of fresh air. Very nicely done. Thomas - not the train :-)
Nice videos mate, Class 50's are awesome, I have Subscribed to your videos, Please check mine out, Just started recoreding some videos of my dads layout which is underconstruction :D
@stuartthegrant It was VERY cold. Seems strange watching it in August though.. winter seems such a distant memory! However it lurks only to return in the future so i'm sure there will be more freezing moments on the line!
Forgive for asking jules but what type of british snow is that? Is it the ultra wet flakey kind.The reason I ask when i lived in london back in the 80s BR Stopped running because of this stuff. Standing in liverpool street like a fool we believed them. God bless Yeh another GREAT posting.
The trains in this video are "any other" OO gauge trains and are running without modification at all. Water and or snow does not cause the track to short.
i am fasinated about ur garden railway and would love it if you could send me a track plan of the layout or if not, could you send me a video of you walking round the layout in one go!
If you look at some of myother videos I am sure i have followed a train round the layout in one of them so you shoud get some idea of the layout. It really is a very simple twin track circuit with a couple of loops to hold trains in.
i'm from liverpool, penny lane area, where hattons now is. used to be up smithdown road abit in wavertree. when i go home to see my parents, as you can imagine, i pop in. usually shop with them online now. great shop, great site, great prices folks! that said, this isn't an ad! love westerns, how are the lilliput ones? do they run okay??
is that right? fantastic. my hornby and lima struggle abit, too. lima, maybe the better?? i won an emperor on ebay. quite pleased about that. where did you get your empress?-by the way?...
No they are both DCC fitted Heljan Westerns. "Western Ranger" is the blue one and "Western Empress" is the green one. Lima locos don't like outdoor running much, mainly because they are fitted with Traction tyres. The Heljan ones are driven on both bogies and can pull an amazing load
nice...i live in vermont usa,2 GE locomotivs pushing a snow plogh dumped a 5 foot wall of snow in my back yard....lol no way can i have a set up like that.....
I do have a keen interest in the Underground yes, although I preferred the older stock like the O and P stock that you mention I do not at present have a model of either. I do have 4-car 1959 and 1938 tube stock trains though
Yes i have been aware of the ex Harrow Model shop underground models for some years. Unfortunately they are way too expensive to justify on my layout so i stick to the Ready to Run stuff
Hi again Jules. We've ran in snow before, heavy snow(!), but how much rain is too much rain for you as it were?? We've ran in showers before but not heavy heavy rain. What are you opinions on running in rain? 5*
Well although I have run trains in the rain in the past I would not recommend it in heavy persistent rain. I would not recommend running your best loco in the rain either and definitely not a sound enabled loco (the speaker would get wet and disitegrate). This running day was a bit of an experiment really to see how long I could keep the trains running.Sadly the cold got the better of me (It was freezing!) and i had to retire indoors. As on the real thing, my points froze too!
1st rate Jules.Brilliant.any tips on how to clean track outside.Ive tried track erasers but they don,t last on annual clean in spring.Considering using 1200 wet and dry paper
Well having had previous experience of outdoor layouts about 20 years ago I found that by laying the track directly onto the timber without any ballasting and raising it up as I have on a viaduct, reduces the amount of cleaning needed to almost that of an indoor layout. I use a Peco Track rubber most of the time and as none of my locos have traction tyres i can get away with a weeny bit of WD40 on the layout if I can't be arsed to use a track rubber!
a garden railway setup looks fab, but how does the weather affect the tracks? and electrics is there alot of maintenace on them? do you have to use nickle track as steel would rust quickley would'nt it? great vid....!
I don't have any real propblem with the tracks. the only thing that does happen is that the rail joiners disintegrate after about 2 years so I just replace them on a rolling replacement progrsmme. Other than that the electrics have stood up well. The track is made of nickel silver not steel
No it isn't my house, it's a shed which houses my trains, my workshop, a few garden tools and a heater! The heater was what kept me going to enable the filming to take place
WOW. That video was great! The snow and trains just work perfectly together. I have almost finished my garden railway and can't wait to run my first train!
Hi there mate.I see you're using Bachmann Pullman Cars,the BR ones. I have 2 Hornby Pullmans and they tend to have problems with derailing. I am therefore thinking of buying 3 or 4 Bachmann Cars to make a more "reliable" fleet. Would you say the Bachmann Pullmans are a good buy? Steampics
They are lovely models and i haven't had any trouble with them at all really. I only have the two Bachmann ones, the rest of them are the older non illuminated Hornby ones. I also have a rake of the BR blue "Golden Arrow" Pullmans, one coach of which is in this film
Thanks for that info mate.Now, another question.We wish to illuminate our stations and other buildings such as the sheds, shops, houses, signalboxes etc. We have illuminated one station using a 12V bulb salvaged from an old Playcraft Wagon. This worked OK. However, we then purchased some 12V "Lilliput" bulbs and these lasted only seconds before "blowing up"! However, the Playcraft bulb has no trouble at all! What would you advise for affordable yet convincing interior/exterior 00 lighting??
I too have had problems with "Grain of wheat" bullbs as they are better known. They do not like getting wet and that is when they blow. The lamps on my station were all ready made and bought off ebay and they seem to have worked ok. Another option is to use LEDs which I have for some of the street lighting, LED's need a resistor though (down to about 1v, if you attach LED's to 12v it will blow straight away.
Blimey thats annoying. your engines run fine in the snow, whereas at least 30% of mine, including the new hornby HST are almost overwhelmed by sitting in a cold attick.
How odd. Its mainly the Bachmann ones which run whatever the conditions on my layout. and anything made by Lima just die's from about October till April
Tha Bachmann locos run in the cold...just a little bit slower that's all. I have eradicated Lima locos from the garden layout now. The last to be replaced was the Inter-city 125 power cars with the new Hornby one
I didn't think it would be possible to run in the snow. The weather has stopped construction on my railway at the moment should be up and running properly this summer (full midsummer day service I hope).
Once again brilliant video very much enjoyed. edoc2
Thank you very much. I have to say this railway gives me hours and hours of sheer delight and pleasure. It is something I have always deamed about having myself and that dream was realised when i built this line.
None whatsoever. As mentioned at the end of the video evry item used was checked over, cleaned lubricated (where needed) and dried. The mechanisms were not affected at all.
The Locos are both Hornby West Country class loco's The darker green one is 34041 "Wilton" and the lighter green one is 21c123 "Blackmoor Vale" The coaches are a mixture of mainly Hornby pullmans with a couple of Bachmann Mk1 Pullmans in the rake.
Down here in the "Sunny South" of Mississippi, in August...that really cools me off. Well done and I do like the background music.
Bernard
kajajm 6 months ago
@kajajm Glad you liked it... The weather here in England is very unpredictable. There is an old saying that goes if you don't like the weather in England.. wait 10 minutes :-) I'm glad to say as it's August it's a little bit warmer than in this film!
metadyneman 6 months ago
I am in the process of building my outdoor layout and keep looking at your videos to see how you braced the ply. Hard to tell though. Are the guard rails on top the main source of support for the long sections?
I hope to get a video up as soon as some track is down.
also, how old is most of your stock and motive power? I own a lot of old 70's stuff and wonder how you coped with DCC conversions. I own a Digitrax zephyr for control.
More videos please :)
traingeekboy 7 months ago
The Christmas lights detract from the realism of your railway.
ccolimon 1 year ago
@ccolimon That may be so, but in essence mine is a "running" railway rather than a strive for realism. When viewing the garden as a whole the lights actually complement the railway on a warm summers evening and in winter assist me in being able to find a train if it gets stuck!
metadyneman 1 year ago
The beauty of garden railways, you cannot model this is anyway shape or form. I think they look better in the snow, especially the buildings.
littleimproadshow 1 year ago
Mmmmm - snow = 300mm : 12" Railway = 4mm : 12" Going to get interesting!
waldenhouse 1 year ago
@waldenhouse It did a year later! We had 4 inches of snow . There is a sequel vid to this which shows it
metadyneman 1 year ago
This is one of the best (if not THE best) train videos on YouTube. The Music is so perfect for the visuals and it's amazingly relaxing. I do get annoyed at people who submit videos that are either out of focus or they move around too much so you can't see anything. Your trains and video are a breath of fresh air. Very nicely done. Thomas - not the train :-)
tdfisk 1 year ago
What gauge is this? Really good video :)
horatiocaineiscool 1 year ago
@horatiocaineiscool It is OO Gauge
metadyneman 1 year ago
Nice videos mate, Class 50's are awesome, I have Subscribed to your videos, Please check mine out, Just started recoreding some videos of my dads layout which is underconstruction :D
dugdug03 1 year ago
Well dont those Bullieds look the business. As for the weather it sure looked cold.
Great stuff Jules, a really good film.
thanks again..
stuartthegrant 1 year ago
@stuartthegrant It was VERY cold. Seems strange watching it in August though.. winter seems such a distant memory! However it lurks only to return in the future so i'm sure there will be more freezing moments on the line!
metadyneman 1 year ago
this video is one of my favourites
birdy20034ever 1 year ago
Forgive for asking jules but what type of british snow is that? Is it the ultra wet flakey kind.The reason I ask when i lived in london back in the 80s BR Stopped running because of this stuff. Standing in liverpool street like a fool we believed them. God bless Yeh another GREAT posting.
rutlandplace 1 year ago
hello, I'd like to know how you resolved as electrify the switches.
hello max
maxrani88 2 years ago
would you consider making an all westerns trains vid? just for me at least? hehe!
thepofmeister 2 years ago
how did you weather proof the trains? if you tried that with any other OO gauge trains they would short out
Amtrak1194 2 years ago
The trains in this video are "any other" OO gauge trains and are running without modification at all. Water and or snow does not cause the track to short.
metadyneman 2 years ago
i am fasinated about ur garden railway and would love it if you could send me a track plan of the layout or if not, could you send me a video of you walking round the layout in one go!
thanks
jakedcps 2 years ago
If you look at some of myother videos I am sure i have followed a train round the layout in one of them so you shoud get some idea of the layout. It really is a very simple twin track circuit with a couple of loops to hold trains in.
metadyneman 2 years ago
Can you mix peco and hornby track and trains????
jakedcps 2 years ago
Yes you can although older hornby track is made from steel which is no good outdoors.
metadyneman 2 years ago
i'm from liverpool, penny lane area, where hattons now is. used to be up smithdown road abit in wavertree. when i go home to see my parents, as you can imagine, i pop in. usually shop with them online now. great shop, great site, great prices folks! that said, this isn't an ad! love westerns, how are the lilliput ones? do they run okay??
thepofmeister 2 years ago
is that right? fantastic. my hornby and lima struggle abit, too. lima, maybe the better?? i won an emperor on ebay. quite pleased about that. where did you get your empress?-by the way?...
thepofmeister 2 years ago
Bought her new from Hattons in Liverpool
metadyneman 2 years ago
good man, good man. i love those whizzos. i think i spotted a lima western pioneer? is that right?
thepofmeister 2 years ago
No they are both DCC fitted Heljan Westerns. "Western Ranger" is the blue one and "Western Empress" is the green one. Lima locos don't like outdoor running much, mainly because they are fitted with Traction tyres. The Heljan ones are driven on both bogies and can pull an amazing load
metadyneman 2 years ago
hope those westerns were dried off and put warmly to bed, sir????
thepofmeister 2 years ago
Indeed they were. They still form part of my front line loco fleet.
metadyneman 2 years ago
cool what happend when the snow melted did it rust your track/
joseph6505 2 years ago
No the track is not made from Steel so it doesn't rust.
metadyneman 2 years ago
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MrDanny5man 2 years ago
where did you get the track
MrDanny5man 2 years ago
You can buy it from most model shops it's made by a company called Peco. Google "Peco"
metadyneman 2 years ago
nice...i live in vermont usa,2 GE locomotivs pushing a snow plogh dumped a 5 foot wall of snow in my back yard....lol no way can i have a set up like that.....
MegaDavid1960 2 years ago
Is that just standard hornby track?
snbrvideos 2 years ago
No it is Peco Streamline track
metadyneman 2 years ago
I dont get it. If small drops of water were on my train set. The electricity will short out like how you put a coin on it.
toyotaprius79 2 years ago
No it wouldn't.
metadyneman 2 years ago
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olliemetro 2 years ago
I do have a keen interest in the Underground yes, although I preferred the older stock like the O and P stock that you mention I do not at present have a model of either. I do have 4-car 1959 and 1938 tube stock trains though
metadyneman 2 years ago
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olliemetro 2 years ago
Yes i have been aware of the ex Harrow Model shop underground models for some years. Unfortunately they are way too expensive to justify on my layout so i stick to the Ready to Run stuff
metadyneman 2 years ago
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olliemetro 2 years ago
Fantastic video!!!
mudplugging 2 years ago
That station in the snow is just fantastic!!! :)
sexyjamie93 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
i added it 2 my playlist
andy123412345 2 years ago
this is an amazing video and nice trains and carrages, cool layout with the snow :)
best train film iv seen
andy123412345 2 years ago
Very nice soundtrack with your video. Nice looking railway too!
DocterJones 2 years ago
Great video.
jtaship 2 years ago
an amazing vid! release the inner child!
darthtater323 2 years ago
Great Video! I tend to shut my garden railway, the Ribe Valley, down for the winter, maybe I should keep it running! Fantastic! Cheers! :-)
philquine 2 years ago
nice layout for ur trains :) an u should put a wireless cam on top of ur line :)
crobertson22 2 years ago
Hi again Jules. We've ran in snow before, heavy snow(!), but how much rain is too much rain for you as it were?? We've ran in showers before but not heavy heavy rain. What are you opinions on running in rain? 5*
steampics 2 years ago
Well although I have run trains in the rain in the past I would not recommend it in heavy persistent rain. I would not recommend running your best loco in the rain either and definitely not a sound enabled loco (the speaker would get wet and disitegrate). This running day was a bit of an experiment really to see how long I could keep the trains running.Sadly the cold got the better of me (It was freezing!) and i had to retire indoors. As on the real thing, my points froze too!
metadyneman 2 years ago
Brilliant video!
DocSponk 2 years ago
I can't watch this enough. perfect video and soundtrack.
newsgodaz 2 years ago
Enjoyed, Thanks
johntealon30 2 years ago
cheers John
metadyneman 2 years ago
1st rate Jules.Brilliant.any tips on how to clean track outside.Ive tried track erasers but they don,t last on annual clean in spring.Considering using 1200 wet and dry paper
7360451 2 years ago
Well having had previous experience of outdoor layouts about 20 years ago I found that by laying the track directly onto the timber without any ballasting and raising it up as I have on a viaduct, reduces the amount of cleaning needed to almost that of an indoor layout. I use a Peco Track rubber most of the time and as none of my locos have traction tyres i can get away with a weeny bit of WD40 on the layout if I can't be arsed to use a track rubber!
metadyneman 2 years ago
I dream of arailway like that ! enjoy sir , I will dream again tonght. thank you.
atreewithnolife 2 years ago
I used to too...now i've got one the dream has become real :-)
metadyneman 2 years ago
same
Gusunder 2 years ago
a garden railway setup looks fab, but how does the weather affect the tracks? and electrics is there alot of maintenace on them? do you have to use nickle track as steel would rust quickley would'nt it? great vid....!
abcmarkooo 2 years ago
I don't have any real propblem with the tracks. the only thing that does happen is that the rail joiners disintegrate after about 2 years so I just replace them on a rolling replacement progrsmme. Other than that the electrics have stood up well. The track is made of nickel silver not steel
metadyneman 2 years ago
I noticed how the trains go into a building. Is that your house? and if it is isn't it cold letting all that air come in?
MagicCat3 2 years ago
No it isn't my house, it's a shed which houses my trains, my workshop, a few garden tools and a heater! The heater was what kept me going to enable the filming to take place
metadyneman 2 years ago
WOW. That video was great! The snow and trains just work perfectly together. I have almost finished my garden railway and can't wait to run my first train!
Well done mate that was truly great. Paul
madon37411 2 years ago
I wonder, was that scale snow!!!
doctorwhom01 2 years ago
12" to the foot scale yes! 4mm to the foot no :0)
metadyneman 2 years ago
Wow, not one cancellation, you should work on the Railways!!! Ha
roden81 3 years ago
What a sight, Snow and Model Railways.
Wow!
stuartthegrant 3 years ago
wicked !!!
love the atmosphere
rog (rogace)
rog1957 3 years ago
Cheers Rog .. I had great fun doing the filming but it was bloody cold
metadyneman 3 years ago
More reliable than the real thing!!
timvins 3 years ago
Hi there mate.I see you're using Bachmann Pullman Cars,the BR ones. I have 2 Hornby Pullmans and they tend to have problems with derailing. I am therefore thinking of buying 3 or 4 Bachmann Cars to make a more "reliable" fleet. Would you say the Bachmann Pullmans are a good buy? Steampics
steampics 3 years ago
They are lovely models and i haven't had any trouble with them at all really. I only have the two Bachmann ones, the rest of them are the older non illuminated Hornby ones. I also have a rake of the BR blue "Golden Arrow" Pullmans, one coach of which is in this film
metadyneman 3 years ago
Thanks for that info mate.Now, another question.We wish to illuminate our stations and other buildings such as the sheds, shops, houses, signalboxes etc. We have illuminated one station using a 12V bulb salvaged from an old Playcraft Wagon. This worked OK. However, we then purchased some 12V "Lilliput" bulbs and these lasted only seconds before "blowing up"! However, the Playcraft bulb has no trouble at all! What would you advise for affordable yet convincing interior/exterior 00 lighting??
steampics 3 years ago
I too have had problems with "Grain of wheat" bullbs as they are better known. They do not like getting wet and that is when they blow. The lamps on my station were all ready made and bought off ebay and they seem to have worked ok. Another option is to use LEDs which I have for some of the street lighting, LED's need a resistor though (down to about 1v, if you attach LED's to 12v it will blow straight away.
metadyneman 3 years ago
Blimey thats annoying. your engines run fine in the snow, whereas at least 30% of mine, including the new hornby HST are almost overwhelmed by sitting in a cold attick.
Benjy5997 3 years ago
Some of my locos don't like the cold much.. mainly the Bachmann ones.
metadyneman 3 years ago
How odd. Its mainly the Bachmann ones which run whatever the conditions on my layout. and anything made by Lima just die's from about October till April
Benjy5997 3 years ago
Tha Bachmann locos run in the cold...just a little bit slower that's all. I have eradicated Lima locos from the garden layout now. The last to be replaced was the Inter-city 125 power cars with the new Hornby one
metadyneman 3 years ago
Nice video must get one of those ploughs for my garden railway though as mine is covered with 6" of snow!!
lindisfarnemusic 3 years ago
It's a bit of a cheat actually.. What looks like a snow plough is in fact a large wedge of snow the loco picked up as it went round the layout!
metadyneman 3 years ago
lol
snow=ballast ure garden railway is really good...
do you have to take the trains off the tracks and take them indoors or do you have a line that drives them indoors?
reece
cech1444 3 years ago
I could feel the cold from here. Great job.
ATKFOH3 3 years ago
Brilliant Jules
I didn't think it would be possible to run in the snow. The weather has stopped construction on my railway at the moment should be up and running properly this summer (full midsummer day service I hope).
Once again brilliant video very much enjoyed. edoc2
edoc2 3 years ago
Awesome again jules.
My Garden railway at the minute is coverd in a lot of snow lol so i wont be running for a long time yet.
porter6669196327 3 years ago
What an inspiration for those who would love a railway in the garden. Simply superb!
flmabhwd 3 years ago
Thank you very much. I have to say this railway gives me hours and hours of sheer delight and pleasure. It is something I have always deamed about having myself and that dream was realised when i built this line.
metadyneman 3 years ago
Fantastic! Did you have any problems with the electrics, or snow getting into the loco's insides etc?
SirSim25 3 years ago
None whatsoever. As mentioned at the end of the video evry item used was checked over, cleaned lubricated (where needed) and dried. The mechanisms were not affected at all.
metadyneman 3 years ago
sorry only just read the description, my apologies.
PoliceAndTrainMadNat 3 years ago
excellent, what gauge is it?
PoliceAndTrainMadNat 3 years ago
OO Gauge
metadyneman 3 years ago
great, you have some very nice coaches behind that steam loco, where are they from?
PoliceAndTrainMadNat 3 years ago
The Locos are both Hornby West Country class loco's The darker green one is 34041 "Wilton" and the lighter green one is 21c123 "Blackmoor Vale" The coaches are a mixture of mainly Hornby pullmans with a couple of Bachmann Mk1 Pullmans in the rake.
metadyneman 3 years ago
oh right, Golden Age Models do decent Pullmans, but at a scary price.
PoliceAndTrainMadNat 3 years ago
Yes and if I could afford those I certainly would not be running them in the garden.. snow or no snow !
metadyneman 3 years ago
good idea!
PoliceAndTrainMadNat 3 years ago
Wow!
VoxRail 3 years ago
great vid 5* i would love to see what happens now as i have 7-8 inches if snow i wonder what your layout is like now
class377matt 3 years ago
Having checked the layout this morning.. it is buried under 6 inches of snow!
metadyneman 3 years ago