009 Narrow Gauge on Cuckoo Junction Model Railway | The Railway Room

Today on The Railway Room is a look at Cuckoo Junction, a large 00 gauge model railway which runs on a shelf around the edge of a room. In addition to the 00 standard gauge, it also features a 009 feeder line which runs from a terminus on a ledge above the standard gauge fiddleyard down to the main junction station. This video focuses entirely on trains running on the 009 section, whilst a video showing the rest of the layout will be uploaded in the future.
The rolling stock seen is resident on the line, comprising a mix of new RTR items with kit-built items retained from the now dismantled Rheilffordd Coed-y-Bleiddiau. Most of the buildings are also held over from that layout. Rheilffordd Coed-y-Bleiddiau video: • Rheilffordd Coed y Ble... The locomotives are mostly visiting from my own (now also dismantled) layout Dolgarreg Ddu. Dolgarreg Ddu video: • Dolgarreg Ddu - Welsh ...
Locos seen are:
'Sybil Annie' - Chivers Finelines Quarry Hunslet kit running on an Arnold chassis
'Dolgoch' - work in progress Dolgochification of a Bachmann Rheneas, using the Narrow Planet kit
'Robert' - Mosskito Kerr, Stuart WHR diesel kit on a Bachmann Plymouth chassis
'Henry' - kitbash using leftover parts of a Mosskito Kerr, Stuart diesel kit, running on a Kato 11-109 chassis
'Jenni' - Roxey Mouldings Kerr, Stuart 'Hampton' kit running on a Fleischmann 7000 chassis
'Blanche'- Bachmann Penrhyn mainline Hunslet
'Earl of Merioneth' - Bachmann double Fairlie
'Heron' - kitbash railcar on Kato long wheelbase chassis
No 2 - Minitrains WW1 Baldwin 2-6-2T (repainted)
'Princess' - Kato/Peco small England
The audio is all taken from my own videos on real narrow gauge railways, and can all be found on my TH-cam channel. There is more info on my model railways on my website: fortheloveofste...

[@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY]

My grandson loved seeing the narrow gauge running. He's hoping to get some more work done to his 009 layout this weekend 🙂👍

[@FortheLoveofSteam]

That's great, hope it goes well! I really ought to get some more work done on mine too...

[@robertfoxcroft7777]

Excellent sound its like being right next to the trains.

[@FortheLoveofSteam]

Thank you very much! The sound is all painstakingly edited together using audio from my own videos on real narrow gauge railways

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Great entertainment 👍

[@FortheLoveofSteam]

Thank you, happy you enjoyed it!

[@MrLosttheplot]

amazing

[@FortheLoveofSteam]

Thank you!

[@chrisburton9645]

Good stuff as ever.
Have you considered doing sound files - if you are this good at editing.
Sven at Tramfabriek does his own so maybe it's do-able

[@FortheLoveofSteam]

Thank you!
That's an interesting idea, and probably doable in theory. I wouldn't know how to format and package then for a decoder though, and as a DC user I wouldn't be able to use them myself

[@IanHenderson-g9i]

Great video. I am interested in the provenance of the locos and rolling stock. I am currently building a model of 4415 and just wondered who produced the one in rhe video.

[@FortheLoveofSteam]

Thank you. The 2 Kerr, Stuart diesels were both constructed from the same Mosskito whitemetal kit. Robert (in green) uses a replacement plasticard footplate to fit a Bachmann Plymouth chassis. The kit includes a number of alternate pieces to build a later Sudan version of the loco, so I used these parts with a number of plasticard scratch built pieces to construct Henry (in blue) on a Kato 109