Tag: GardenRailways
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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.
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Lego wagons
One of the first drawings I did to 3D print was for parts to make Christmas presents for my nephews and niece.
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Boxing 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.
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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.
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A 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.
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Looking 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,…
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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…