A social visit to the Great Cockcrow Railway

A little day trip to the GCR to have a little out of season play.

[@geordieceltic2]

Great video . That Stirling Single is superb.

[@jamesritson1518]

Very nice new engine. Congratulations from Oregon !!

[@StanFerris]

Great day of steam! Thanks, Tom! Those red wagons look nice!

[@HawkerFury]

What a magnificent day out 👍

[@robw53]

Lovely loco! I was wondering if/when you would make the leap to 71/4” gauge. There is the Echills Wood standard gauge weekend 14th-16th July if you are interested.

[@TomsWorkshop42]

I will see what I can do, would be nice to get up there if I can.

[@69woodburner]

The Jinty is a nice loco, but I fell for the Stirling Single.

[@TomsWorkshop42]

The Stirling is dads, so I do get the chance to play with that occasionally.

[@69woodburner]

@@TomsWorkshop42 That's great news. I love the way they stride down the track

[@ianmcgee9945]

Hi Tom, this was superb. Can we please have a video about the Jinty? I'm in the early stages of building a 7 1/4" Jinty and I'd love to hear more about this one. 😀

[@TomsWorkshop42]

I will do a little look around it in the workshop some time this week. How far along are you?

[@ianmcgee9945]

@@TomsWorkshop42 Hi, Not far at all. The frames, frame stretchers, bufferbeams, and some of the small parts below the footplate are done.

[@legocityrulz2]

At this point Tom you could name your workshop Jinty Junction

[@andrewildish]

Just have to find a molly now to complete the trinity

[@TomsWorkshop42]

I had considered it, lol. That would be fiddly between the frames…

[@geoffjones6839]

Does this mean the garden railway will be dual gauge, or are you sticking with 5" gauge? Beautiful Jinty that.

[@TomsWorkshop42]

It does not, at the moment. I don’t think it’s big enough to go up to 7 1/4 really, I’d want to be able to run bigger locos than the space allows.

[@jimmynswgr]

Nice selection of engines. The inside cylinder engines seem to be more plentiful in 7 1/4”. What is the tanker behind the sterling single? Is it just a water gin or is he oil firing?

[@TomsWorkshop42]

It was just a piece of stock that was put behind so that a passenger could go out too. I think it can be used as a water tank, but in this case it was nothing.

[@jimmynswgr]

@@TomsWorkshop42 thanks Tom.

[@stewartdavis8618]

Tom is all the railway 7 1/4

[@TomsWorkshop42]

Yes, that railway is purely 7 1/4. We’ll worth a visit, it’s quite an extraordinary layout.

[@stewartdavis8618]

@@TomsWorkshop42 Maybe one day when we are down, its a long way from the N of Scotland 🙂

[@trainfan7179]

Very nice, but it's Cockcrow rather than 'Cockrow'.