New From North Sussex

Hitting all the right notes here.....on the border of Shropshire myself (Oswestry)......and love anything LGB Swiss/RHB. Welcome to the group.....and a huge vault of information on all aspects of the hobby. Enjoy.
Kev
 
Northsider said:
Welcome to the Forum -and good to see you've got something running! Those bridges are quite something, aren't they? Did you build them yourself, or commission them?
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lgbmad said:
Hitting all the right notes here.....on the border of Shropshire myself (Oswestry)......and love anything LGB Swiss/RHB. Welcome to the group.....and a huge vault of information on all aspects of the hobby. Enjoy.
Kev
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Thanks for the welcome.The bridges were built for me The silver one which is not galvenised and painted yet was built by A Guy on Ebay and he puts the money to Charity.The bigger bridge was built in Switzerland by a Guy called Lorenz kohler He does everything bridges some of his work is amazing all built to order.I will try and get a link He is mainly on facebook.TTFN Babs
 

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Being a Sussex resident with similar interests I feel I should welcome to the group too. I moved to the Sussex coast nearly 18 months ago. I have just completed a railway round the garden. It is almost at ground level most of the way, although a sloping garden means it is roughly a foot off the round nearest the house. All the track is reclaimed from my last line in Bromley Kent. Alas the new garden is not quite as big. I can, for the time being, get down to put stock and locos on and off the track. From building work in my house I had a large number of bricks so the design used all these as the foundation for the railway.
I have three different types of German railways. Largest collection is 750mm narrow gauge, Meyer, VIK, VIIK etc, I have some HSB and other metre gauge stock, including the T3 railcar, although I was impatient and bought the early red livery. I do not mix the two together so I run either 750mm or metre gauge. Recently I discovered 7/8ths, 1:13 in Germany. I like it because I run small cheap diesels. I think I have enough(too much LGB). The 7/8ths locos have a bought chassis with scratch built plasticard bodies. They are battery powered radio control, ideal when I don't feel like cleaning the track. 45mm is a very flexible track gauge. When it gets too much carrying the LGB locos and getting down to clean the track, I think the railway will become a Feldbahn with battery powered radio controlled locos, German of course, O&K, Schome, Diema etc.
It is a wonderfully diverse part of the hobby and there is a wealth of knowledge on this forum. Good luck with your line in Crawley. l hope it provides years of fun.
 
MaybachMD said:
Being a Sussex resident with similar interests, I feel I should be welcomed to the group too. I moved to the Sussex coast nearly 18 months ago. I have just completed a railway round the garden. It is almost at ground level most of the way, although a sloping garden means it is roughly a foot off the ground nearest the house. All the track is reclaimed from my last line in Bromley Kent. Alas the new garden is not quite as big. I can, for the time being, get down to put stock and locos on and off the track. From building work in my house I had a large number of bricks so the design used all these as the foundation for the railway.
I have three different types of German railways. Largest collection is 750mm narrow gauge, Meyer, VIK, VIIK etc, I have some HSB and other metre gauge stock, including the T3 railcar, although I was impatient and bought the early red livery. I do not mix the two together so I run either 750mm or metre gauge. Recently I discovered 7/8ths, 1:13 in Germany. I like it because I run small cheap diesels. I think I have enough(too much LGB). The 7/8ths locos have a bought chassis with scratch built plasticard bodies. They are battery powered radio control, ideal when I don't feel like cleaning the track. 45mm is a very flexible track gauge. When it gets too much carrying the LGB locos and getting down to clean the track, I think the railway will become a Feldbahn with battery powered radio controlled locos, German of course, O&K, Schome, Diema etc.
It is a wonderfully diverse part of the hobby and there is a wealth of knowledge on this forum. Good luck with your line in Crawley. l hope it provides years of fun.
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Thank you for your very warm welcome I only knew Bromley from the 70's on my way through from Colindale NW9 to Biggin Hill Moved to Crawley 1983 and been in the same house ever since 43 years Back in the 80's I did buy 2 roundhouse Dampf's Helene, and another but they were 32mm and not Convertable Due to my insepreable friend Mr Arthritis I have needed another running stable other than the loft Which I am unable to get in at the moment.Hence the Garden railway and a Visit to the Harz a few years ago sold me on the 2-10-2 WOW And of course the Brocken & Weringerode amongst other viliages & Towns on the Network which we all know was in the DDR.So for me 45mm was the gauge to go for. Most of my stock was secondhand and when I managed most of my buys were sent for refurbs to Paul Lamming @P & S Hobbies
The Swiss aspect of my rolling stock was because I used to frequently work & stay in Switzerland and after travelling on the Double Deckers & the Rhb that was it bank Balance never wasted now over 70 my garden layout was going to be on the ground and at a level I could put rolling stock easily.I suppose a garden railway is never finished.Thanks for the warm welcome My input will be a little eratic as I am having knee Surgery at the end of the month.TTFN Babs
 
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