O Gauge Live Steam: David Meyrick Sept 2023

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O Gauge Live Steam: David Meyrick Sept 2023

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On a very warm (too warm ?) early September day we met at David Meyrick's extensive garden railway for a steam-up. Good combination of freight and passenger trains snaking round the open curves. See many passing shots as well as trains thundering through Earlstone station.
Thanks to William, Nicolas and Neil for use of their clips and stills
00:00 Intro
00:27 GWR King (David)
00:50 LMS Crab (John)
03:04 Royal Scot (Trevor)
04:25 Spider Driver
04:35 GNR Atlantic (Dave)
05:05 Mikado (William) coal fired
05:35 Merchant Navy (Alex)
09:09 LNER J27 (John)
12:52 LMS Compound (Rafe)
14:56 LNER J27 (Rafe)
16:44 LNER J36 (John)
17:56 BAT (Alex)
21:26 LNER J36 on cattle train
22:18 Tornado (Nicolas)
23:09 The Crew
24:02 Closing Credits

Пікірлер: 16

@lescobrandon3047 6 ай бұрын

I so enjoyed this video. Here in your former colony, most of our live steam uses larger scales.

@DrDave_63395 6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed these miniature live steamers

@robertwilkinson5632 8 ай бұрын

Loved the J27 with its train including a 'fitted head' trundling round, very realistic from memory. Thanks

@DrDave_63395 7 ай бұрын

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.

@robertcomerford375 8 ай бұрын

Yum, that and a nice evening cuppa..... I will sleep soundly tonight :>)

@eveninginspace3543 8 ай бұрын

Engineer Spider keeps loco ready to steam

@bambukouk 8 ай бұрын

13:57 my favourite moment 👍 how many wagons was that loco pulling? beautiful layout and great video thank you!

@davidwhiting1761 8 ай бұрын

33 including the brake van.

@bambukouk 8 ай бұрын

@@davidwhiting1761 it was very impressive !

@DrDave_63395 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@bambukouk 8 ай бұрын

@@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")

@scottyounger7948 7 ай бұрын

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 7 ай бұрын

Generally the cylinders are where they are on the prototype. FYI outside cylinder locos are generally easier to make as you have more space.

@scottyounger7948 7 ай бұрын

@@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?

@davidwhiting1761 8 ай бұрын

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.

@DrDave_63395 8 ай бұрын

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.