Pwll Dylluan Railway - Welsh NG in the mountains

[owlpool]

Thanks Mel -had fun smashin them too

Hercules letting off steam under the bridge
the whistle is mounted under the tender, and gives a good cloud as well as sound

 

[owlpool]

a heavy load pushing Hercules down the 1:33

 

[owlpool]

Russell with a W&L style timber train
would look better with logs though, and chains between the bolsters [plans.....]

 

[KentKeith]

Some more great pictures, Paul, looking really good.

=Wish I had some of those rocks - all we've got locally is crumbly chalk:wits:

 

[owlpool]

Some more great pictures, Paul, looking really good.

=Wish I had some of those rocks - all we've got locally is crumbly chalk:wits:

thanks Keith

the rocks - from various building / digging works, also a lot are just lying around in the fields

 

[robsmorgan]

Some more great pictures, Paul, looking really good.

=Wish I had some of those rocks - all we've got locally is crumbly chalk:wits:

thanks Keith

the rocks - from various building / digging works, also a lot are just lying around in the fields

Hi Paul (hope you've forgiven me for my offer to swap my sparrowhawk(s) for your mole(s) ) looks as if you've solved the problem pretty well, really looking good.....
must admit to having run out of my own supply of rock - will have to dig a few more gardening areas for my wife, sure to find a few more

Regards
Rob

 

[casey jones snr]

A most attractive railway.

 

[owlpool]

Some more great pictures, Paul, looking really good.

=Wish I had some of those rocks - all we've got locally is crumbly chalk:wits:

thanks Keith

the rocks - from various building / digging works, also a lot are just lying around in the fields

Hi Paul (hope you've forgiven me for my offer to swap my sparrowhawk(s) for your mole(s) ) looks as if you've solved the problem pretty well, really looking good.....
must admit to having run out of my own supply of rock - will have to dig a few more gardening areas for my wife, sure to find a few more

Regards
Rob

I'd swap anything for the moles - mind you they seem to have calmed down a bit since I've banged a lot of slates into the ground
the sheep is getting back in again now
good luck with the rocks

 

[owlpool]

A most attractive railway.

thankyou

 

[owlpool]

Just caught up with your thread Paul.....the new section looks great (I knew it would)

Hi Paul
cheers - loads to do yet
hope you're doing ok

 

[owlpool]

I thought it was time to spruce up my timber train as per W&L in Cartwright's excellent book
I cut logs to the longest I thought I could get away with
attached to the bolsters with rubber bands - temp arrangement til I can sort something out with chains

 

[owlpool]

the un-hitched wagons will need chains too

 

[owlpool]

The bolsters worked well and looked good snaking up through the bends

 

[owlpool]

photo by my son
his are better than mine usually
mind you - he can get down lower

 

[yb281]

Excellent Paul, just like in the book.

 

[owlpool]

Cheers Mel
looking forward to seeing that laundry in its new location too

 

[owlpool]

haven't posted for a while - everything seems to get in the way of railway activity

a bit more work on the landscaping though, a ton of slate chips, and some more stone on the quarry mountain

Russell and train bunker first, ascending the spiral

 

[owlpool]

from the other direction, with a log train

plans are afoot for a disused 32mm quarry feeder formation across the slate

 

[owlpool]

landscaping the half way station this week

 

[owlpool]

once the slate and membrane has weighed down and killed off the grass for a while, a roadway and yard can be laid