It’s the Crewchester Junction station building. Have a look at my video ‘Crewchester at 70’ where Graham describes his custodianship of Crewchester ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PrfUu2JkUsQ.htmlsi=ztyIi0m-U0WmAcjJ and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-STEJPbiT0n4.htmlsi=qid5OGsMMySa56pJ
@@__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.
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.
I have enjoyed watching all of your videos, but... this one is by far the best you have produced! Not only editing but camera work was great. I particularly loved double heading and very long train. Thank you!
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.
@@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!
First time I've come across this fantastic layout - what a huge effort that must have been to create it, and the motive power and rolling stock. Thanks for sharing.
Your welcome, If you want more information about Crewchester layout, in my video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-STEJPbiT0n4.html Graham explains the history
Shear perfection! The raised track that is obscured by the hedge is really effective and looks like an embankment. The planting is very impressive. Well done and thank you for sharing.
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 👍
@@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.
I would love to have 0 gauge live steam on my railway. I will be running my collection of Hornby live steam on the 00 gauge section of my garden railway. Thanks for subscribing to my channel.
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.
I'd be curious to see what cars they ran with the Bowman trains. I have one of the larger Bowman trains myself but I haven't seen any cars for sale yet.
As an American I have to say I am in LOVE with these british trains. I own a Bowman I found here in the states but I'm thinking of perhaps picking up a Basset Lowke or something where you can control it's speed. The Bowman looks amazing but from what I've read it's kind of a light and let rip loco. lol
Great videos. I'm wondering if the track maintenance is a lot of work? I know that you also have a ground level railway as this one is partially, does that add a lot of effort over a raised track?
Ground level track on a firm foundation (e.g. concrete base) and the track glued down is relatively easy to maintain. Indeed much of my track all I need to do is sweep off the leaves / grass and then run trains. I can run my petrol lawnmower wheels over the track without damaging it.
On live steamers of this scale are the outboard cylinders the ones doing the work or is there another inboard cylinder that is actually doing the work and propelling the locomotive? I'm from the US and I'm a welder by trade but I do have some machining experience and the idea of making an O scale live steam model of an American locomotive has always intrigued me.
@@DrDave_63395 Thanks, that's what I was thinking but wanted to know for sure. Do you know of anyone in the O gauge Live Steam scene that has made a model of a US locomotive or does everyone that you know of stick with UK prototypes?
John is keen to get the right head codes when he runs. Indeed he will often have some spare lamps in his pocket and change the code between light engine to coupled to the train.
Just what is that Mikado? I would think it's a P1, but the tender doesn't look like a Nor' Eastern tender and I didn't think you'd see a belpaire firebox on a Nor' Eastern either.
Its a freelance loco inspired by the LNER mikados. Its also coal fired with (for O gauge) a massive firebox. William recently acquired it and this is the first time he ran the engine in public. As you can see it was a very successful run.
@@davidwhiting1761 Thanks for saving me the effort of counting🙂 Actually there were a couple of broken wagons (headstock pulled out or axel box failure) during the day. David's near level track and open curves makes these very long trains possible and a joy to watch.
@@DrDave_63395 it was indeed a joy to watch and one of many reasons I love live steam in G0 - realistic long open curves 👍 Talking about "near level" - what would be max gradient they can cope with, please? (1in 70 seems prototypical and it is recommended in G0 "Handbook of Garden Railways")
