Moel Rhos

A 16mm scale narrow gauge railway in a West Wales garden…

  • Moel Rhos in the Fediverse

    Moel 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.

  • Quick 5 year update

    Quick 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…

  • Stock Boxes from The Works

    Stock 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,…

  • A Cab for Konrad (3)

    Between last autumn and this spring I put together the cab for my Regner Konrad (see my posts on designing, and cutting and beginning assembly of the cab). This post brings progress up to date – there are several finishing touches still needed, and paint – but at the time of writing I have at…

  • A Cab for Konrad (2)

    With a clearer idea of the cab I wanted to build, I started out (under the expert supervision of Mr Tony Bird) cutting pieces from 1mm brass sheet.

  • 3rd Tunnel

    The next civil engineering project in extending towards the shed was a further tunnel.

  • A Cab for Konrad (1)

    It’s been over a year and a half since I last posted on here, on the occasion of acquiring for the Moel Rhos a second steamer, a Regner Konrad.

  • More Steam

    Oops. I seem to have bought another live steam locomotive. I really wasn’t intending to.

  • No 2 Chough

    Another update from this Summer: As well as getting plates for No 1 Gannet I commissioned name plates from Narrow Planet for the Roundhouse Millie, so she is now named Chough, after another local bird I am always happy to see*.

  • No 1 Gannet

    While Summer is for getting outside and building, the clocks going back mean the unwelcome end of daylight evenings, but also a chance to catch up on blogging. I’m not only behind a progress update on the permanent way – but also on rolling stock. So here’s a look at Moel Rhos’ loco No 1, which…