I have a passion for the railway. You can find all sorts of stuff on this website from my models to my volunteering stories and everything in between.
Our Ride on Railways driving truck was back on the workbench today, some additional holes were drilled in the stirrup supports to allow the running boards to be bought further up from the ground. When we were at the club track on Sunday we couldn’t use the truck as the lowest part was catching on […]
Today was spent in the MPD yard classroom learning about all manner of things for MIC2, this is required to gain access to the footplate, the course covered basic shunting signals, coupling & un-coupling, signals and basic track safety. Being taught how to couple and un-coupleThe day incorporated a PTS (Personal Track Safety) exam which […]
Last instalment of the driving truck series. I wanted to make sure that raising the stirrups didn’t cause issues when sitting. We were concerned that the metal would stick in our legs or the side boards would dig into the top of the thighs. It works perfectly. Suitable and functional.
Today I spent the day cleaning 7754 & 3802. 3802 undergoing bottom end overhaul had plenty of caked on dirt that needed removing, diesel and scrapers used to get most of it off. 7754 having had service over Santas needed the inner frames and motion cleaning along with wheels and rods, diesel and a rag […]
So, my battery charger stopped working (no it isn’t because the cables are cut) it was working fine on my battery then started reporting the battery was flat without any reason or error code. Took the battery to Halfords and they tested it and it said it was 100% charged and reporting an ok state. Contacted […]
I have been attending my local Model Engineers Club for a while now with Banana Castle and decided that I wanted to try my hand at building something of my own, I am not quite ready for diving in at the deep end and building a steam locomotive and to be honest I don’t really […]
