@@svemeraldspirit681 we will be running live steam at the Wigan GoG show 7th Dec. Come along and say hello. We will be running again at Kettering GoG 1St March

@@schutendohkji548 In 7mm o gauge there is very little commercial live steam so unfortunately you have to build from scratch. On the other the track is widely available are are the wagons and carriages. You can mix and match scales of course and run them on the same track. Many years back I converted the wheels on my Lady Anne to GOG standard wheel profile so I can run her on the same track.

@@DrDave_63395 I C. Thx. I c some of ur locos have more and better details than our factory produced 1/32 scale Ga. 1 mainline ones. Yes, i've got a Rndhse Lady Anne too. Incidentally, her wheel profile followed G1MRA standard though she can b re-gauged betwn 1 1/4" - 1 3/4" (32mm/45mm) gauges. Yes, i can c u had to scale down her feet as perhaps, her flanges r too fat, picking the turnout points, run over the frog's trough, do same on the guard rails etc. But still, i don't like no fillet betwn the tyre and the flange on either the 1/32 or 1/19th scale whl profile. The generous fillet radius provides keeping the flange away from the rail edges for its protection/longer life. I was a car inspector also to gauge the tyre profile for pass or fail test so i learned what the out in the field can do to the wheels, including sharpened like a Pizza Cutter flange, even a welded tyre bc. of the brake rubber had worn out and the steel portion of the shoe got welded onto the tyre, totally blued steel, ugly patched steel pieces. I noticed that the UK prototype wheel has sharper flange and not much fillet vs. the US's FRA standard. I don't know if dat's how the whl came out new from the factory or just got worn out. Yet, ur famous LNER A3 Flying Scotsman did like 10K miles across the US Continent. Wonder if her tyres (tires in the US) had 2B turned by then. Sorry, nuf details. Superb looking and superb running 0-scale engines on the layout. I don't dink(think) there r any live steam 0-scale club or a dedicated 0-scale brass live steam hobbyist here in the States so it's so wonderful 2C ur video. Thx again!

@@Roy-gi5ul actually the 4MT is battery RC. However the LNER O5 is!

@@olli2447 most are scratch built. Sometimes we use a kit for the superstructure.

@@DrDave_63395 Thanks!

Many thanks!

@@allanegleston4931 indeed it as a fun couple of days

@@paulgalyet5308 yes there was a good representation of LNER locos.

It’s the Crewchester Junction station building. Have a look at my video ‘Crewchester at 70’ where Graham describes his custodianship of Crewchester kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqPJhqhof9CIqbMsi=ztyIi0m-U0WmAcjJ and kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYWoe4OYnrljpJYsi=qid5OGsMMySa56pJ

@@colinbooth2421 the double heading with two NER 0-8-0 was my highlight

@@UncleFester84 some of the steam locos have governors which means they run at a constant speed. So need for RC. The battery locos are all RC

@@__Dusty_ Yes Nicolas is an excellent modeller. Having his battery RC models on hand means there is never a gap in traffic. Indeed at one point we had 3 trains active on two running lines.

By building them. You can find some online once in a while if you're lucky.

Unfortunately most of these engines are scratch built. Details of how to do so are in the Live Steam book available in the Gauge O Guild store. You can find commercial built externally fired locos (e.g. Leech Jinty and Bassett Lowke Mogul) on the Internet occasionally.

@@bambukouk thanks for our comments. The long freight trains are a particular highlight of this video

Running in the garden is great. As a builder you have to think about similar civil engineering problems that face the 12" to Ft engineers

In 1954 l was given a magazine which had Jack Rays first article about his new Crewchester. I was ten and blown away by it. Wow, a railway in the garden...and l immediately set about 'planting' my Honby clockwork in our garden in Brighton. Crew hester was then in Ipswich. Thirty years later l came to live in Colchester, garden railway urges still prevailing, and with Jack just up the road, we soon met up and over the course of the next twenty five years became close friends. I continued to develop my own railway and in 2003 helped Jack dismantle his. He was nearly ninety. Hence "Crewchester" in substance and name was relocated on my layout, that you see here today. Jack was delighted with the transition and was here very often. He died in 2011, aged 95, and has left a wondercul legacy (and a number of cd's, available from the Gauge O Guild, of his own railway. Meanwhile the hallowed name lives on and l have a responsible custodianship to maintain. The garden railway bug has been with me for 70 years, total joy. If you're inspired to start on, DONT DELAY !! It'll keep you young.

I should clarify that it was the Crewchester station buildinds that came here, not the whole layout, which was course scale, but none the less very realistic. GS

@@532bluepeter1 there are several videos on the Gauge O Guild archive of the original Crewchester. Jack Ray was keen to use photography and video to promote the hobby.

@@DrDave_63395Thank you for your response. Is that exclusive to Gauge '0' Guild members?

@@532bluepeter1 afraid so. when I tried this morning it asked me to log on using my Guild password. But then the Guild offers a one month free membership

Jack made five or six full length vhs records of his layout in operation. That ended in 1998, when Jack baqecame full-time carer to his wife. The layout was dismantled in 2002 and l helped with that, hence l have the Crewchester buildings here on my layout that you see now. Jack was delighted with their new home and often came here to run, and latterly just to watch. He died in 2011, aged 95, leaving a huge garden railway legacy. He has been my inspiration since l was ten, with all his magazine articles over the years. In 2022 we celebrated Crewchester's seventieth birthay. Though you bemoan the loss of the original Crewchester l hope you have enjoyed David Robinson's brilliant records of steam days at the current one. Thankyou David, (7400 hits in six days is phenominal ) and thank you Jack for your vision of a great way to use a garden. Graham Sheppard

I enjoyed Jack's book "A Lifetime with O Gauge". Being in the US, it doesn't make a ton of sense to join the Guild long term but I may have to look into doing it for a bit to enjoy his and some other railroads he talks about in his book (along with I am sure many current ones). Thank you Graham for sharing what happened with his layout and buildings and thank you Dave for making these videos. As a side note, I am quite impressed with the clockwork in Europe. Here in the US, it was relegated to cheaper sets and not very good. Cheers!

@@jandoerlidoe3412 thanks. BTW if you are commenting on the Q6 at the end of the video, it has a governor to keep the speed down to a prototypical rate.

@@robertmatthews8302 Graham has done much to integrate his railway into the garden as well providing many scenic features including signals we engine drivers often demolish!

Track is Peco with Peco points. I also use Markway points outside

@@DrDave_63395 Merci

Your welcome, If you want more information about Crewchester layout, in my video kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYWoe4OYnrljpJY Graham explains the history

@@geordieceltic2 Graham’s planting of Loniceria Nitida is an excellent way to hide the supports for the raised track section

@@tonywise198 I did half think about dropping that clip😀

@@robertcomerford375 yes. Actually Alex is Bob Lovells grandson. Bob did much to popularise Telegov regulated clockwork engine back in the day.

That’s amazing - I love clockwork and have some of the big vintage Bassett Lowke pacifics plus a Walker-Fenn with the gramophone regulator- would love a telegov loco. The live steam is also divine as always. Again - I have some vintage steamers but these are so refined 👍

@@davidparry1982 advantage of high pressure internal firing. 😀

@@DrDave_63395 He couldn't run anything not so equipped then :>) I think how many phones went to scrap years ago, their dial speed regulators could have been put to good use!

The capacity really depends on the prototype. My LNER Q6 (NETTA) boiler has a 90ml capacity but I usually start with 50ml. The axel pump will raise the water level during the run. The tender is mainly water with a meths tank holding 65ml. The run is governed by the amount of meths at about 30 mins - by which time the lubricator needs topping up again. As you see from my videos, we also top up the water in the tender on the go.

BTW we will be running O gauge live steam at the Gauge O Guild show in Kettering next weekend.

Glad you liked the video. My Q6 is basically the NETTA design from LBSC but with a fire tube boiler and the cylinders closer to scale. In some of my other videos there is a BAT or two. Most of the other engines are scratch built from own design. That said, follow the words and music of LBSC and you’ll have a working live steam engine. If you do built an LBSC design, go for 29mm back to back wheels. Btw another source of inspiration is the Gauge 0 Guild ‘live steam’ book - still available from the Guild bookshop.

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed seeing these little steamers in action

Glad you enjoyed these miniature live steamers

You are welcome