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Sandy Taylor, Stirling, Scotland, UK


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Scottish Garden Railways

Train announcements:

19th.January - How about another indoor railway for the cold weather to mirror your garden setup? This time with a European look from Liliput and ROCO- See my H0e page

14th January - Another new locomotive from PIKO. This time a US Mogul, very well made - £240 - See PIKO page

2nd January - I now have in stock a good supply of the TRAIN radio controlled locomotives at £130 and matching coaches and trucks- See my "Train" Page

See a locally produced buildings range at DKL model buildings

28th.November - A few more secondhand items added - see my secondhand page where there are already reductions

19th.November - A new locomotive from PIKO and it is very nice - The BR194 mainline Crocodile - See PIKO page

9th.November - Look out for Bachmann G scale Brass track. Initially 1ft/3ft straights and 4ft/5ft and 8ft diameter curves. Uses screw joining. Due very soon. See The Bachmann Europe website and also from Bachmann in 0n30 a Heisler-Stearns locomotive, DCC fitted and with a sound system available.

11th.October - New DB mainline coaches from PIKO. These are 817mm long with full interior - very impressive. - See PIKO page

5th.October - In September I visited the Avon Valley Railway for the first time. There are some pictures on my full sized railways page

4th.October - "Train" budget coaches and gondolas in stock. These are German railway style coaches and pairs of open trucks. Don't expect miracles but they are great value at £38/coach (£75/pair)-GREEN or RED and £32/boxed pair trucks-yellow or grey.

I can also supply Oxford diecast in 1:76th (00 scale) and in 1:120th (n scale) 1:43rd (0 scale) to order. See my vehicles page

9th July - LGB page changed a bit. I get most LGB to order these days but it is still around - see - changed LGB page

27th June - Bachmann 2-4-2 Tank loco. Baldwin, LYN, black and Green unlettered (shown). - £165, Note LYN now available. More details on my Bachmann page. Also now here is the Accucraft Earl/Countess, live steam in Green. See my Accucraft page

29th June - Bachmann Emilys coach and brake coach. Dark green, 3 axle, metal wheels and clerestory roof. Great for modifying for narrow gauge (no markings or faces on the ends. SEE THOMAS page (this is a new separate page for Thomas and Friends)

27th.June - Accucraft - I can now place an order for you for a very limited number of Lynton & Barnstaple LIVE STEAM "LEW" locomotives in green. Expected RRP £1500 manual and £1800 radio-control fitted. I will match the market price at the time they come out. Due 2012 Quarter 1.

See - http://www.accucraft.uk.com/

Other items which may be of interest:

Check out The Railway Herald - free railway news and great pictures every week

If anyone is looking for ATLAS 0 gauge 2 0r 3 rail or KATO n/ho I can now get these to order

To spread the word on Garden Railways see my article on the Howtodothings website


Next Shows and dates (as I find out about them):

February 5th - Sunday 13:00- 16:00- Monthly toyfair in Graeme High School, Falkirk. - see McLaren Models website

February 12th -Sunday - Scottish G scale society meeting. Members and invited guests.

February 24/25/26th. (Friday, Saturday and Sunday)- Model Rail Scotland 2012 SECC Glasgow

March 18th - (provisional) - Sunday 10:30 - 15:00 - Carlisle Model Transport Fair , Borderways Exhibition Hall, Carlisle

(Full details Contact me - sandy@gardentrains.co.uk)

PIKO US 2-6-0

Train locomotive

Train Locomotive

H0e

H0e train

DB194 Crocodile loco

BR194

Coaches for the Crocodile to pull

DB coach

Budget coach - green or red

Budget coach

Budget trucks - in yellow or grey

Budget trucks - yellow

Baldwin 2-4-2T in unlined green

Baldwin

And as LYN

LYN

All Thomas and Friends are approved by Harry

Harry and Percy

Emilys coach from the Thomas rangeEmilys coachYet another new PIKO loco. This time a diesel. DB BR260 V60

PIKO diesel

Isle of Man bogie coach

Isle of Man bogie coach

PIKO Train set - go to the PIKO page to see a bigger picture and the loco

PIKOs first G train set

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Latest Pictures
60007, "Sir Nigel Gresley" visited Bo'Ness and I saw it running there on 22nd.April 2011
Sir Nigel
While 60007 was at Bo'ness a friend posed his hand built gauge 1 model with the real thing. A picture reminiscent of early Hornby publicity.
60007 and 60007
A few days before the Down North Britain went through Stirling. This shows the two Black 5 locos just South of Stirling
2 X 5s
Also running at Bo'ness with Sir Nigel was the Roberts Number 1. Remind you of anything?
Number 1
 
 
New PCC cars from Aristocraft. Trams? Interurbans? Railcars? These cars ran all over the USA and could also be found in many European cities. Number 1147 from The Netherland, built under licence in Belgium which can be seen in Crich tramway museum in Derbyshire, UK. - http://www.tramway.co.uk/ - The Aristo model is shown here, San Francisco style, others available. Currently £225. NOW ARRIVED
PCC San Francisco
Four recent new locomotives -
Accucraft have a new live steam 16mm locomotive - "LEADER", based on a Kerr-Stewart prototype. This is an 0-4-2T in black, blue, green and red with choice of spark arresor or straight chimneys. Can also be regauged 45mm or 32mm (two sets of bogie wheels in the box). Manual control only.
Leader - blue - front
Another new Accucraft live steam 16mm locomotive - "RAGLETH", available in blue, green, maroon and black with or without radio control. Can also be regauged 45mm or 32mm. Chassis only also available.
Accucraft Ragleth
PIKO have another new model of, this time the DBAG BR204 main line diesel locomotive. A model of a mainline locomotive in a startlingly bright red livery. Fitted with 4 wheel bogies.
DBAG BR204
PIKO have also introduced this very nice model of the Harz railway class 199 diesel locomotive. This is a standard gauge engine which towers over the HSB narrow gauge coaches. A powerful model with 6 wheel bogies.
PIKO HSB diesel
Now available - Thomes in G scale from Bachmann. There is also Percy, coaches and trucks. James the red engine plus several different trucks now available. Thomas and Percy sets and individual items are in the range. Run on any G scale track and power suppliy. I have fitted DCC and sound in Thomas and Percy and they work very well.
Thomas is here
Aristocraft 1:29 scale class 66 - Now here again with new liveries.
Shown is GBRf. Also available are DB SCHENKER, FREIGHTLINER, EWS 66068 and MALCOLM LOGISTICS
Aristo 66 GBRf

Here's a very large local G scale railway
Large Railway

 
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Aristo-craft (TM) logo Bachmann (TM) Logo ACCUCRAFT TRAINS Phoenix sounds MASSOTH

USA TRAINS

HLW

Scale vehicles

  Vi-Trains 00 Tscale. Train logo
DKL Model Buildings          

 

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Buildings, people and animals from POLA, PIKO and Preisser Stock/prices Buildings
   
Bachmann 0n30 trains and O buildings 0n30
   
Find SGR at Project Word under Hobbies PROJECT WORD

If you want to know how a steam locomotive works, thanks to some friends of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway here are some diagrams to explain it.

Find out about the KWVR - Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

What is going on?


 

Stirling Castle (click for a bigger picture)

  For anyone who is interested in Stirling this is a view of Stirling Castle from very close to where I stay (click on the picture for a larger view)

   

The Scottish Garden Railways

"Company Car"

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Trains were last shunted here on

January 24, 2012

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