Earl & Countess at the Cathedral Mountain Railway

Here we have a Pearse Earl and an Accucraft Countess double heading on the amazing Cathdral Mountain Railway owned and built by Ralph Pitcher in deepest Wiltshire. Construction of this railway involved nearly 500 tonnes of clay and rock and has just under 700 ft of 45mm Aristocraft track. There are tunnels 11 ft long and serious gradients! Locos and stock are owned and driven very smoothly by Steve Jackson. Sound effects are from the Summerlands Chuffers - with no enhancement or special effects of any kind!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• 16mm
• g scale
• garden railway
• live steam
• Welshpool
• Llanfair
• summerlandsteam
• summerlands
• chuffer
• chuff pipe

[mychinostrip]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but why don't those engines have tenders?

[Summerlandsteam]

@mychinostrip - Loco tenders are really a large water tank with a coal bunker on top. These are "tank engines" (like Thomas the Tank Engine) as they carry the water in the tanks beside the boiler and the coal is in a bunker at the back of the cab. They are designed for relatively short journeys on the real railways. On these models the tanks are dummy and they are fired by gas instead of coal.

Cheers

Chris

[bingban]

The weather belies the location - I did think it was over the pond but well done to the landscapers and the bridge builders. The loco sound is magical and I can imagine tackling the inclines is tricky driving. Simply excellent

[Summerlandsteam]

Thanks Steve - and we were VERY luck with the weather that day. Ralph did all the landscping and bridge building himself - some seriously heavy, 8mm steel went into the curved one! Driving was a challenge - but Steve did a great job with two transmitters round his neck!

Cheers

Chris

[Firrboxfryup]

Wow, that's one amazing Railway!

A bit too Rocky, but, an outstanding railway non the less, and your engines looked amazing with it! ;-D

5*

Jamie

[Summerlandsteam]

Thanks Jamie - yes, I would prefer a few more plants, but it is seriously impressive as it is!

Cheers

Chris

[Summerlandsteam]

You are right Pete - it was inspired by Nick's line. Ralph has lots of big US outline electric locos but only one live steam at the moment. I will have to think about re-gauging my Fowler for a visit.

Cheers

Chris

[ColumbineMHLR]

Superb Chris, that lines reminds me a bit of Nick Trudian's 'Southern Cross' line, with all that rock and clay etc! Would love to see some big american live steamers on there, maybe even just a Fowler or Sandy River.

[Summerlandsteam]

Full marks Tulki!!

Cheers

Chris

[Summerlandsteam]

Not sure christopher - but I think about 16 all wighted with lead. We needed a banker when running with a single loco up front - watch out for future videos!

Regarding the landscape - it was designes for big US outline, track-powered locos - but it is huge fun with steam.

Chers Chris

[laalrattysbrother]

Nice video, although not sure the train fitted the landscape lol

How many wagons were on the drawbar?