Some photos of my last work: a small workshop along an industrial track. The track is ‘hand built’ and the ‘Workshop’ is made of woods, paperboard covered with plaster. The others piece are home made like the oil station and the lighting.
The track and especially, the turnout
The oil station, two drums in aluminium, some plaster, [...]
A great place to see 2′ narrow gauge steam and diesel in action in the South of England is Amberley Working Museum. It has regular gala days which also include narrow gauge models, layouts and traders, and there’s plenty of other attractions to amuse those members of your family who rather strangely easily tire of [...]
Chelfham Station – photo taken by S Miles-Davey 1930s
I have been given permission to publish these two photos of the original Lynton and Barnstaple railway which show very good detail of the track and pointwork as relaid by the Southern Railway. (Click pictures to enlarge)
Bratton Bank – photo taken by HGW Household 1927
Of course the [...]
The companion O-14 Yahoo group has now be renamed to O14 so as to be consistent with this website. The new web address for the group is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O14/. This is just a rename and all existing messages, files, photos and group members are preserved, i.e. if you were a member of the O-14 group before, [...]
KBscale have recently produced some Tee shirts with our logo and at the same time we had a batch with a large O14 -
These are available for £8.50 each (p&p extra) in L and XL size. Only limited numbers are available at this time so it will be first come first served basis – send us [...]
Gilbert Gribi is a narrow gauge modeller who lives near Lausanne in Switzerland and has made several stunning layouts in various gauges and scales including an O14 model of La Vernarède (a real village in the South of France). He has given me permission to feature some photos of it here. See here for details [...]
Examples of track on my slowly gestating Pentewan Light Railway and as shown in the articles in Narrow Gauge & Industrial Modelling Review – now available for download on this site here
Note that in my history the Pentewan was rebuilt in the 1920s as a 1′ 11½” line using ex-WD equipment and managed to survive [...]
Although the gauge is out by 8″ or so for O14, there are some great details in the trackwork of the Volks Electric Railway in Brighton that could be a useful reference for anyone working on a “tourist attraction” type railway rather than serious functional narrow gauge!
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Here are some photos I took in June 2006 on the Vale of Rheidol railway in Wales at Aberffrwd station. Note the substantial nature of the track (c. 60lb/yd) and modern pointwork which is typical of modern preserved NG railways in the UK.
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I’ve been asked to place these photos of Festiniog and Penrhyn Quarry railway chairs on the site for everyone’s information.
The hardware was supplied to me by Adrian Gray when I showed a willingness to produce brass masters of them for castings in 7mm. scale. I also decided to do them in 1/32nd scale, should anyone [...]
