Hi, Im from the Halton Miniature Railway, kids dont really do that no more tbh, some times, but not a lot,,, you should come back, love to hear for you, :)
Thanks for watching the video, glad your railway does not have kid trouble like they used to have when I visited this amazing railway, I had lots of enjoyment whenever I and my family 😀were there and the members were so friendly, it was so funny though when the kid got the surprise of his life when he got a boot up the backside from the driver, I really need to pay a visit to the railway again.
Sorry for the delay in replying to your question about the original article,it was in a very early edition of Engineering In Minature,the exact number I am afraid I have forgotten I think it could be issue 4 or 5,I do remember that on the front cover it showed a picture of a 5 inch gauge Evening Star built by the late Jim Ewing the author of the pop valve of which he discribed in the magazine,I still have the pages of the original article which I kept when I disposed of the magazines,but sadly there is no date on the pages,hope it was of use to you,and thanks for watching the video.
That is interesting,nearly 77 years old,one of my favorite railways,look out for my short upcoming video of the Whistlestop Railway,also known as the Kirklees Light Railway,thanks for the info and thanks for watching the video.
Are you sure that these lock gates are the tallest in the country? Tuel Lane Lock in Sowerby Bridge is very deep and has a rise of 6 metres in one lock. So the lower gates of this lock must be considerably greater than 6 metres high. (I wasn't aware of this lock until I did a walk along part of the Rochdale Canal in summer 2022.)
Thanks for watching the video,you are probably right,I was repeating what I read in an article about the locks,I am no expert so thanks for the correction.
The loco at 1:50 looks a lot to me like the Irish Peat Board’s Andrew Barclay 0-4-0s - not sure if they were a standard type used elsewhere or not, or if that’s what it’s based on, but that’s what jumped out to me
Thanks for watching the video,I beleive the loco is based on somthing similar to what you mention,the designer of this model was Roger Marsch,he might have been inspired the engine you mentioned.
People are moving because it’s company owned site . Rip off site fees and also over inflated caravan selling prices. They don’t tend to take care of their sites as other family run would . These sites tend to be rental vans also which means you get any Tom. Dick and Harry on them and they don’t tend to respect other owners or caravans. Certainly wouldn’t pay a premium ground rent for this kind of place, when there are nicer sites and definitely much nicer places than dreadful Skegness. Skegness is rough as hell and a filthy tip. Shocking!!
Exactly,this is one of the reasons we sold up,as the original Richmond site was family run and we loved the site and they did not enforce rules like Haven do,the momment we sold the caravan to a private individual they took off our perfectly good hut and disposed of a washing machine and dryer which we left for the people buying it, thanks for watching the video
When mum and dad were alive, this was their go to site(Not far from town or the station)I do hope the Richmonds are still involved,they made the holiday great. Thanks for this update
Thank you for watching the video,dont think Richmond are anymore envolved with the site since Haven took over,still a great site but to me it seems not to have the same vibe as the old Richmond.
Thanks for watching the video,yes we did think about renting to try and cover some of the costs but in the end the distance travelling and maintainance put us off,in retrospect we should have rented.
Love the engine! How much coal would she burn on say an afternoon of running with passangers? If you dont mind me asking, what loco would recommend for a newbie/first loco? Cheers
Ths engine does well with coal,I also use the ovoids which is composed of crushed, I think anthracite,not too sure but I use both and its not a lot for an afternoon run,never really checked.Well the type engine depending if you are wanting a severn and a quarter inch gauge or five inch gauge I would recomend the Romulus severn and a quarter inch gauge, fairley straight forward to build,or if five inch gauge definitely a sweetpea,if three and a half inch gauge loco, Maise hope this is of use to you,and thanks for watching the video.
@@popperkeg1234 Thanks for you reply, I will have a look in to these but must admit I don't think I'd have the skill to build. Would have be bought built and running! Always fancied a conway in 3.5 but heard there hard to fire. Do you know if northcliffe offer and experience days with starting from cold and driving? Cheers
Thank you for watching the video,it's a little known way of grinding like this but when I was working for a couple of tool makers years ago this was the method of grinding the flutes of all kinds of reamers and certain drills in the rough state straight from hardening,they were all hand ground and then sent to the finish grinding section for taper grind and od grinding to size,then for the bevel to be ground at 45 deg,it was found that grinding the flutes like this we had more control and "feel"this way and was very quick,more so than machine grinding the flutes.
Thanks for watching the video,nice,we hope you liked the caravan,we loved having the van and had a brilliant 10 years with that van,we really miss it but he increase in ground rents and other fees made it impossible for us to carry on.
It also puzzled me also as to why they did not do it out of season,I think it is the norm with Haven,they are not bothered about the disruption it causes to holiday makers,thanks for watching the video.
nice video i wend on friday i filmed behind a double header to worth was awsome when we wend uphil thad sound 😁 i subscribed u chanal cheers from netherlands
Glad you enjoyed the ride on the railway,it really is a great railway center and like you say the engines sound great on the way uphill,thanks for your comment and thanks for watching the video.
Enjoyed your video of yet another brilliant gala at K&WVR, was there myself on Thurs / Fri as its my local heritage line, always nice to see what others have filmed, i have subscribed to you...Mal
Thank you very much for the video. I have the same model Boxford as yours, but without the cross feed. Some time i will make a thread dial indicator to enable disengagement of the tool during threadding.
Thanks for watching the video,you can grind on the lathe ok as long as you keep to a high enough rpm, your main concern though make sure the lathe ways are protected from the grit.you also need to dress the wheel course and not to fine as a fine dressed wheel will glaze over and not cut well,I find an 80 grit wheel just about right for cutter grinding,hope you are successful with the lathe method.
Thanks Harold really interesting vidio, I think I'll have no problem with my Tich boiler, I was always dubious whether I would have enough heat just with propane. I do have the Seivert burners including the large one plus the cyclone burner to do the stays, so I should be okay. I have started soldering the boiler together, I was just concerned I'd have enough heat when I got to the foundation ring, thank for the confidence building vidio from the good old 1990's when things were still normal.
Glad you found the old video of use,when I built the boiler for my tich it was silver soldered without any problems using the Seivert torch,it really is a powerfull setup is the seivert, I compleatley silver soldered a Maisie boiler with the gear,I just recomend that when you come to the foundation ring you are best to carefully pack round the outside and inside with some broken firebrick or somthing simmilar to keep the heat,and thank you Martyn for watching the video.
Great to see. As far as I know the first grey 0-4-0 shunter was actually Ron Keighley's which I have now owned for many years. Norman's is the blue one with taller bodywork we see a glimpse of later in the video.
Thanks Russ for watching the video,nice to know to you have Rons loco,I have often wondered where Normans is though,driven Normans a number of time at Northcliffe ,lovely loco.
Thank you for watching the video,well you certainly need "feel"to do the grinding of reamers like I do,there is so much automation these days that the old skills are fast disappearing at least I try and keep my hand in.
Thank you, As a new owner of a Clarkson Mk1, this series of videos on basic cutter grinding is the best I've come across. Don't worry about the lighting and camera, for me the content is much more important.
Glad you found the video of use,lucky, wish I had a Clarkson,very good tool and cutter grinder,once worked on one grinding ball nosed cutters,they are worth their weight in gold,look out for my upcoming video in grinding side and face cutters,and thanks for watching the video.
I love Bury market and travel regularly from Wakefield in West Yorkshire even though i hate shopping. That DVD stall you mentioned is my first port of call and they also trade online.
thanks for watching the video,I dont think I have any other video,I will certainly look through my old videos to see if I do have any,and if so I will upload them,the only ones at the momment are the ones taken of the railway at about this time which are on my channel.
Glad you liked the video,I will be uploading a couple more from my archive in the not to distant future,I allways liked the Ravensprings club,was once a member many years ago,would like to try and get a run there with my Romulus sometime later in the year,thanks for watching the video.
Hi,thanks for watching the video,these type of flat valves are really simple the round disk sits on the knife edge of the cone and sits aprox .015" below the rim of the outer diam.When the valve blows off the disk is held more or less floating above the seating,you would think it would be disloged but this is not so,with such a large area of the bore of the cone open you get rapid escape of steam which then shuts down quick,actually my valves really need adjusting slightley to give a more rapid closure,I really did not set them as they should be as I wanted to run the loco as soon as possible,well worth making instead of ball valves.
Hi thanks for watching the video,yes I have toyed with the idea a couple of times but I think it might not be ths same as if I had built my own,I missed my chanch of building a large showmans many years ago when my friend started to build his,we could have built them side by side,his turned out to be a magnifcent engine,bigest regret of mine,trouble was I was so much into railway locos and now a bit to old to start one,never mind.
