Hi Steve, Absolutely fantastic. I've sat for the past 25 minutes and watched this video through twice! The layout is amazing, the smooth running from live steam is unlike anything I've ever seen before. Do you have a website where I can find out more about the layout? Its videos and layouts like that this that could really make me try 32mm live steam! Wonderful, well done. Rick
Thanks Rick. I don't have a website but there are couple more youtube videos if you search for Hambleden Valley Railway. There are three more Roundhouse locos that operate on the layout. There is also a write up in the Nov 2016 Railway Modeller.
Hi Steve, thanks for the reply. Off to the RM Back Issues tomorrow! Really is superb. I've toyed with the idea of going down 32mm live steam before, but the lack of realism in the running has always put me off. Is it due to be shown at any exhibitions this year? Be nice to have a chat at one if you have time, and learn a bit more. Keep up the good work! Rick
Love shunting. Your dirty oily track work is fantastic. 1. What's ya using for the lawn between the track works? 2. How big is this switching layout? Can we see overall view of it from above/drawing?
Brilliant stuff Steve, what magnets do you use please as when I have tried magnetic uncoupling I found you have to stop exactly in the right place for the choppers to uncouple properly and with a live steamer that is quite hard!
Thank you. The track magnets are75mm long. Their position is marked on the operator side of the rail with a pair of white dots. The key to the operation are the slomos fitted to the locos that makes them so controllable. The RC transmitter has a centre off changeover switch that is used to rapidly change the direction of the loco to release the chopper hook. I don't use RC transmitters with joysticks which in my view are only any good for model aircraft.
The magnetic couplings are homemade by fixing a piece of steel wire to the hook and placing a fixed magnet on the track. An article on this is due to appear in Garden Rail magazine soon. The radio is from Lococontrol.co.uk
@@stevehoward99Thanks for taking the time to reply Steve. Are they just normal 16mm chopper couplings other than that then? I don't normally get Garden Rail, but will look out for that!
@@marshlane2016 - yes they are, although I only have a chopper hook at one end of the vehicle. The other end just has a buffer, as I never turn the stock on my layout.
![Hambleden Valley Railway Live Steam at ALTON G/16mm [45mm] [2Dcopy - 3D originated]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VUNeft5JEeM/mqdefault.jpg)
... Slomo - action, very nice ...
By the way, in the cabin there seems to be Ringo, who has switched directly from a submarine to a locomotive ...
You absolutely had me for a minute there. Remarkable realism!
Hi Steve, Absolutely fantastic. I've sat for the past 25 minutes and watched this video through twice! The layout is amazing, the smooth running from live steam is unlike anything I've ever seen before. Do you have a website where I can find out more about the layout? Its videos and layouts like that this that could really make me try 32mm live steam! Wonderful, well done. Rick
Thanks Rick. I don't have a website but there are couple more youtube videos if you search for Hambleden Valley Railway. There are three more Roundhouse locos that operate on the layout. There is also a write up in the Nov 2016 Railway Modeller.
Hi Steve, thanks for the reply. Off to the RM Back Issues tomorrow! Really is superb. I've toyed with the idea of going down 32mm live steam before, but the lack of realism in the running has always put me off. Is it due to be shown at any exhibitions this year? Be nice to have a chat at one if you have time, and learn a bit more. Keep up the good work! Rick
The layout will be at Bressingham on 12th Aug and Exeter on 28th Oct.
Love shunting. Your dirty oily track work is fantastic.
1. What's ya using for the lawn between the track works?
2. How big is this switching layout? Can we see overall view of it from above/drawing?
Brilliant stuff Steve, what magnets do you use please as when I have tried magnetic uncoupling I found you have to stop exactly in the right place for the choppers to uncouple properly and with a live steamer that is quite hard!
Thank you. The track magnets are75mm long. Their position is marked on the operator side of the rail with a pair of white dots. The key to the operation are the slomos fitted to the locos that makes them so controllable. The RC transmitter has a centre off changeover switch that is used to rapidly change the direction of the loco to release the chopper hook. I don't use RC transmitters with joysticks which in my view are only any good for model aircraft.
Steve Howard so which RC do you use as I also find aircraft joysticks ridiculous.
I use Deltang which I believe Steve also uses.
Excellent video & loco, has your Billy got a Slomo fitted ? as i am thinking of fitting one to my Lady Anne KIt , Graham
yes, it transforms the performance. I wouldn't run a loco without one
Thanks , Graham
Steve, who makes the magnetic couplers that you use and do you mind if I ask whose radio control system you have selected for your locos? Rick
The magnetic couplings are homemade by fixing a piece of steel wire to the hook and placing a fixed magnet on the track. An article on this is due to appear in Garden Rail magazine soon. The radio is from Lococontrol.co.uk
@@stevehoward99Thanks for taking the time to reply Steve. Are they just normal 16mm chopper couplings other than that then? I don't normally get Garden Rail, but will look out for that!
@@marshlane2016 - yes they are, although I only have a chopper hook at one end of the vehicle. The other end just has a buffer, as I never turn the stock on my layout.