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I spent many years working in the UK. well remember the lovely summer evenings watching the garden railways of my fellow enthusiasts. great looking locos. are they ace models or ?. I brought back a large collection of british outline in 'oo' wish williams or lionel would make some in o scale at a reasonable price. thanks for sharing the photos.
Dear David, beautiful photos, on this side of the" Pond" most modellers do not know of Ace, Darstead or Bassett Lowke(Hornby). I am very fortunate to own a few rakes of passenger cars and freight vans with a variety of Ace/B-L/Darstead locos. They are a wonderful diversion from my Scale 2 Rail PRR weathered equipment. Cheers! John P.Dunn Sr. GaugeOGuild #20904
Dear All,

Many thanks for the kind comments. I am glad you like them.

It was a sunny day in Worcestershire and so I took these photo's. The loco's are Ace Trains with a Darstaed Pullman coach.

At the moment I don't have a full garden layout(only the glass shelf railway)but I am working on some ideas for a 'portable' outdoor layout.




All the best

David
Tongue in cheek response, I hope.
It is well documented that there are quite a few outdoor O layouts in the UK and in weather like this you can see why. When it rains, I/m not so sure!

By the way, what happened to the Lionel UK forum? Appears to be dead!



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Originally posted by Farmer_Bill:
You can't run O Gauge trains outdoors! It simply cannot be done! Wink
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Originally posted by BRIAN:
Tongue in cheek response, I hope.
It is well documented that there are quite a few outdoor O layouts in the UK and in weather like this you can see why. When it rains, I/m not so sure!

By the way, what happened to the Lionel UK forum? Appears to be dead!



quote:
Originally posted by Farmer_Bill:
You can't run O Gauge trains outdoors! It simply cannot be done! Wink


Good question about the UK forum. I'll email Tom when I get a chance.
Regards
Nick
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At the moment I don't have a full garden layout(only the glass shelf railway)but I am working on some ideas for a 'portable' outdoor layout.

Get going on that project, David! Document it with photos as you build it, and consider submitting it to me at OGR for a magazine feature.

That's one gorgeous assortment of British steam that you have there!
Very amusing about our weather, guys! Seem to have heard this before somewhere! Just remember that most of our weather comes from across the Atlantic! So anything we get is your fault! Wink

Operating outdoors trains in the UK is very easy. I expect to run trains on my 270' garden circuit all this week - and now I've acquired an MTH DCS Remote Commander, my U.P. locos will clang and whistle their way round - I hope my neighbours are OK with that! The weather is at this moment warm and mild, slightly overcast - ideal for running trains in the garden.

And I'm about to add another circuit to accommodate Big Boys etc and to provide a long enough station for the ten coach OE set.

Liam - a fuller answer to your question about Olton Hall is that the Great Western Railway built their own express and other locos (in their workshops in Swindon) with a strong 'family' likeness. This is due to the work of two remarkable locomotive superintendents: George J Churchward and his successor Charles Collett. The Castles were express passenger and perishable goods locos, the Halls were mixed traffic and not quite so powerful. These 4-6-0 locos compare very favourably with U.S. locos on a tractive effort to weight ratio but of course are much smaller.

David Webb is doing a great job here in the UK - I hope he'll be doing conducted tours soon!

Regards

David
Hi David, I love the look of your European trains. They always look as if they are going to pick up the Queen.
I hope you follow Allan's lead and send in some photos of your layout when it comes together. I would love to see O-Gauge pikes from all over the world.
I'm thinking of acquiring one of the MTH beauties, with coaches for use on my MJM RR at home.
If my prototypical friends complain I'll just tell them it's part of a "Lend Lease" deal. Cool
Thanks again everbody for the great comments about my loco's and photo's.

I am off to York, England this weekend and I will be visiting the National Railway Museum (NRM) again. The wife has asked to go as well !!

I want to see the 'Duchess' streamliner again - an engine Ace are promising to make one day.

Alan Miller - Thanks for your comments, when I establish an outside layout I will keep a record with photo's and let you have them. We might have to wait a while !

All the best

David
Makes me positively homesick! Spring in Cornwall; boating on the Helford and Fal, wild weather on Bodmin Moor, Jefferies ice cream and pasties for supper!

What have I got? Cold rainy Spring, too cold on Puget Sound for anything, Baskin Robbins and Burger King!

Ah well!



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Originally posted by Alibatwomble:
Dave, No that was taken on the 10th April 2011 our summer for this year!
James
I lived in London as a teenager in the late 1950s and was fortunate to see many of your locomotives still operating in mainline service on British Railways. I used to visit London's stations and watch trains along with the many English train fans. I never bothered to record engine numbers however. Thanks for sharing these photos and bringing back memories of a time long gone. Joe
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