I have learned a lesson from this video. When I have a garden railway, I am going to have guardrails on the sides where there is risk of my trains falling off the track from a height. I recommend installing guard rails about 2 inches high. It will save a lot of pain in the long run.
I have started a little garden railway and guardrails are essential. if i didnt have them, i would have propably already lost just about 1000 euros in engines
@@BoxtankEngine Great idea buddy. When I do make mine. I plan to make it radio controlled so I won't need to worry about dirty tracks as such. I plan to have a bridge over a pond as well so I will need to add guardrails on that at the entrance and exit points so the trains will not land in the water. Also my model trains will have lithium polymer or lithium ion batteries inside rather than track power so I can run my trains smoothly. I think they call it dead rail in the US where there is no track power just rails to guide them. The conversion is easy enough as you only need a receiver from the remote that goes into the track power inputs and the battery into the receiver. There is a lot of videos on how to do this on TH-cam and I find it fascinating buddy :).
Hi Dan. At least you had a new bit of content. Glad the 40 is ok. Could it have been a bit of foliage or a small twig that you couldn't see. Well done with the recovery, loved the crane. Thumbs up thumped 👍 .... Pete....
I’m this incident and rapidly learning from it if I was u I would be rapidly installing side protector barriers to prevent locos falling off the boards. Just helpful info. For you Dan. Good luck with repairing. These are so delicate nowadays and akward to mend
Trouble with my neighbour over that. While out she came in my garden jungle and cut down two trees and bushes with blackbirds nests in as well as brambles. It started when she said there were rats in my garden. She puts loads of food out on her lawn and I don't, there are fields behind the house and probably rats come from there, but almost certainly do not live in my garden, never seen any sign of them only squirrels, which do climb trees rats don't. Now have a lock n chain on my gate.
Definitely look into installing safety barriers or guardrails or something along those lines- the last thing you need is for more giant squirrel attacks
Had the same thing happen with my class 47 I was lucky that it missed the pond and it landed in the rockery I still don't know what happened as I do have side to stop this it manages to put back on the track and run ok Ron's garden railway
Do you think it would be an idea to put walling or fence along that stretch of railway so it would never happen again! These locos are not cheap to be falling 3-4feet to the ground ?
Disaster has struck the 40! i wish you luck getting it repaired, it could have been a small leaf or a rock that did it, dropped by an animal, most likely a tiny rock that dislodged the front wheel and it caught on something.
i love how when a train derails, he’s not like “oop, put that back on.” he says “bother, let’s get the cranes.” just shows how much fun he’s having.
I have learned a lesson from this video. When I have a garden railway, I am going to have guardrails on the sides where there is risk of my trains falling off the track from a height. I recommend installing guard rails about 2 inches high. It will save a lot of pain in the long run.
I have started a little garden railway and guardrails are essential. if i didnt have them, i would have propably already lost just about 1000 euros in engines
@@BoxtankEngine Great idea buddy. When I do make mine. I plan to make it radio controlled so I won't need to worry about dirty tracks as such. I plan to have a bridge over a pond as well so I will need to add guardrails on that at the entrance and exit points so the trains will not land in the water. Also my model trains will have lithium polymer or lithium ion batteries inside rather than track power so I can run my trains smoothly. I think they call it dead rail in the US where there is no track power just rails to guide them. The conversion is easy enough as you only need a receiver from the remote that goes into the track power inputs and the battery into the receiver. There is a lot of videos on how to do this on TH-cam and I find it fascinating buddy :).
@@BritishRail60062I ran my express train through the guard rails.
Hi Dan.
At least you had a new bit of content. Glad the 40 is ok.
Could it have been a bit of foliage or a small twig that you couldn't see.
Well done with the recovery, loved the crane.
Thumbs up thumped 👍
.... Pete....
I’m this incident and rapidly learning from it if I was u I would be rapidly installing side protector barriers to prevent locos falling off the boards. Just helpful info. For you Dan.
Good luck with repairing. These are so delicate nowadays and akward to mend
I reckon it was an animal assault. An inquisitive magpie or a stroppy squirrel, perhaps?
Love the fact you got the breakdown crew out. Brilliant.😂😂😂
Pleased you were able to fix your beloved 40, Dan!
Nice model. I suspect squirrel trespass as the cause… 🤔
Brambles and nettles, great for the wildlife and lots of beautiful blackberries. Don't understand why people have a problem with native plants.
Trouble with my neighbour over that. While out she came in my garden jungle and cut down two trees and bushes with blackbirds nests in as well as brambles. It started when she said there were rats in my garden. She puts loads of food out on her lawn and I don't, there are fields behind the house and probably rats come from there, but almost certainly do not live in my garden, never seen any sign of them only squirrels, which do climb trees rats don't. Now have a lock n chain on my gate.
Definitely look into installing safety barriers or guardrails or something along those lines- the last thing you need is for more giant squirrel attacks
One of my favourite models jumped out of the track similar to yours. Just go and check your track gauge in that area.
Very interesting, no need to access the block box?
Crewe Works did a good speedy job on the accident repairs... 😜
Had the same thing happen with my class 47 I was lucky that it missed the pond and it landed in the rockery I still don't know what happened as I do have side to stop this it manages to put back on the track and run ok Ron's garden railway
Trim weeds brambles etc right to ground level and you can find all the little missing bits
all those nettles and brambles...... i feel a bit of gardening coming on..... you know it makes sense..... before it spreads over the tracks
Hi Dan
Great video sometimes locomotives have mind of their own
Lol
The Whistler takes a tumble Dan, love the garden railway Ktf J
Do you think it would be an idea to put walling or fence along that stretch of railway so it would never happen again! These locos are not cheap to be falling 3-4feet to the ground ?
So why do you not have some anti-fall protection on the outside track?
Yea that is the reason why i would not build a model layout that high of the ground with out some kind of safety rail to stop the models sky diving
Disaster has struck the 40! i wish you luck getting it repaired, it could have been a small leaf or a rock that did it, dropped by an animal, most likely a tiny rock that dislodged the front wheel and it caught on something.
That could have been a lot worse, At least the 40 survived to tell the story.
Rather than Trash to Track it was an episode of 'Track to Trash, Back to Track', still an entertaining vid :)
Probably cats, if you watch any cat videos you will see they will bat anything just for the hell of it.
I wonder if it was a bird or squirrel
Or cat
Glad you got it running again! The class 24 sounds amazing, what speaker & sound chip combo has it got in it? Cheers!
The 24 is a new version bachmann factory fitted sound, as it came. I’ve not altered it.
Wow ......hope the driver was ok
Time you got rid of those brambles and nettles kind of spoils the effect of the railway and if you let them grow they’ll take over the garden.
Will there be a Network Rail inquiry in to the causes of this accident? Bill from California
the orr has been notified and raib inspectors are on their way
Possibly a bird or the nettles blown in the breeze over the track?
1co co1 big pain.
Luckily no one was hurt.
Bird strike ?
So I'm not the only one who gets the recovery crane out. Lol.
Awesome video 😊
Attack of the 80 foot stinging nettles
New meaning to the term "bird strike"?
R.I.P Andy
good vid on the layout thanks lee
Make the railway wider and put fencing around it
squirrels. always squirrels.
Take this “Bowler” Away!
well thats not good
NO SYMPATHY thats why you should ALWAYS have guard rails either side of layout................could be an expensive lesson
not always there should be no reason for a train to derail on a straight bit of track so why would there be a need for gaurd rails