Sometimes when trains run frequently on the Moel Rhos (usually in the summer months) I’ll leave a train in the tunnel, to save taking it off the tracks, but to give some shelter from any showers in the hours between running sessions. This pictures was taken through the northern tunnel with a train of full gravel tippers, poised to be called back into action.
Author: Simon Wood
A Mamod Boulton for the Moel Rhos
No. 5 arrived on the Moel Rhos in April 2020. It’s a Mamod Boulton – a steel-bodied battery-powered diesel outline loco with an MFA motor on an Essel designed chassis.
Continue reading A Mamod Boulton for the Moel RhosLego wagons
One of the first drawings I did to 3D print was for parts to make Christmas presents for my nephews and niece.
Continue reading Lego wagonsBoxing Day 2022
No trains running on the Moel Rhos today, unfortunately. But they were, exactly one year ago, last Boxing Day.
Here’s an album of photos from Boxing Day 2022.
Christmas Eve 2020
Merry Christmas everyone! Dipping into our virtual meet-ups from 2020/21 again, here’s a set of images from Christmas Eve 2020.
Continue reading Christmas Eve 2020A start in 3D printing
The biggest development on the Moel Rhos in the past few years has been the acquisition by the railway’s workshops of its first 3D printer.
Continue reading A start in 3D printingLooking back at lockdown virtual meet-ups
Back in 2020 lockdown came just in time to disrupt our (the South West Wales 16mm Area Group) programme of monthly meet-ups. But with everybody stuck at home – and in their gardens – what else was there to do but work and play trains? Our solution was to keep going with the monthly meet-ups, but to do them online…
Continue reading Looking back at lockdown virtual meet-upsMoel Rhos in the Fediverse
Just a little bit of housekeeping for those who follow this blog via social media. I’m dropping X/Twitter but you can follow us in the Fediverse (for example on Mastodon) now.
Continue reading Moel Rhos in the FediverseQuick 5 year update
I’m going to try to get back to blogging on here with a new approach.
Apart from the stock boxes post last August (which had actually be sitting in drafts for almost three years) I haven’t posted on here since my last update on Konrad’s cab in August 2018. And while I haven’t actually done much on the cab since then (though I did fit R/C and a whistle) I’ve made lots of progress in other areas, and this is part of the problem: I want to thoroughly document it all chronologically. But I’m never going to get round to doing that, so here’s the new plan…
Continue reading Quick 5 year updateStock Boxes from The Works
When I got my new stock boxes out at a (late 2019) garden railway meet, and explained they were from The Works, one of the other members asked me if I’d got the idea from the current* Garden Rail. In fact I hadn’t read it, but it seemed The Works boxes were all the rage, so in case my approach adds anything to that in Garden Rail I thought I’d better blog about it…
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