walk around a 5 inch gauge ride on garden railway. 

thank you, i am sorry yours is no longer with you, mine , he was awesome but sadly passed away a year ago leaving an unfillable hole.........

good stuff, glad you enjoyed it. it should get plenty of action, the red electric train is great, always ready to go for a spin if anybody visits......cant see it getting too much action from the steamer though....not for a while yet......

petesplace55 Yes the electric loco makes things easy to go for a spin, I suppose. A lot longer wait with steam! Still, all those winter nights on the way should provide a chance to crack on with the steam loco. Love the layout- nice and interesting. I'm planning mine but I have a similar level difference around the garden as your dad does. Could get rather industrial! I also need to span a driveway with some kind of swing bridge - it would be great to know more about the structure your dad used for that. Thanks again.

maybe over the summer on a nice evening we will go and have a proper look at the bridge and see how he has designed and constructed it and we will show you how it works. its all interesting, just too cold at the minute to faff around. Remind me if you still want to have a look sometime in the future.....

petesplace55 Just realised I misunderstood your last post so I removed my reply! Yes - it would be great if you do find time to do a video of how the bridge is built. One for the summer as you say! I'll stay subscribed and look out for it. Many thanks.

no problem, badly worded from my point of view, my dad wouldn't mind showing you around it anyway i'm sure however we could do a video first and see if that was enough of an idea......

Have a peek at some of the other videos of this on my channel, there are a few ride around.

ha ha.....can you imagine the health and safety police getting involved in that...........

Thanks for the comments Deebz270 they are much appreciated, i pass all of them on to my dad. He has been trundling on with the build as you can see in the video that i have just posted but it is slowing down a bit. we were going to wait until it was a rolling chassis and try the pistons/ cylinders mechanism on the track (not powered but just pushing) but that may be a way off at the minute so the last video is a quick look around to see where he has got to......thanks for watching.....

thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed it. not sure about the sleepers, my dad isnt around anymore to answer any questions on this. they look like little bars of plastic to me with small plastic fixing unions for the rails. although i have no idea where they came from...