GARDEN RAILWAY ATTACKED!! Unbelievable footage of trains being attacked
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Hello and welcome to this impromptu video showing some amazing footage of my garden railway trains being attacked!
Is this the culprit who knocked my 40 off last month.
You are going to have to build a branch line for it to sit on.😜
That's "pointless"
probably thought the jinty was a Wrenn. sorry....
Brought a smile to my face Dan, looks like he's saying get your railway out of my garden !!
Amazing video, Dan! Thanks for taking the time to observe and record.
Great funny video Dan, time to run The Black Bird Express thanks for sharing John
Wrongly or rightly worded i think this video was brilliant because its unique and well captured thanks dan
Fun film, thank you!! Similar behaviour on my railway occasionally but at 16mm they don't manage to derail anything.
My signals are regularly knocked wonky by a robin though!
He will stop this game soon. If only he could tell you why. Please be kind to him. God bless you.
I have plastic garden mesh around the outside and inside of my 3 feet high garden railway test track. I used a staple gun to fix it to the decking boards on which my track is laid. The mesh is cheap but takes time to cut the lengths and height required. I too have had a blackbird swooping down on running trains but it never made contact.
Thanks for all the videos 😎👍🏻
That Blackbird was sure F off at the trains. Made me laugh 😂 when he 1/2 entered the tunnel. Made me think he was saying..."🐦⬛Your tea's oot, Come ahead, who's next" Thanks for this great comical vid, cheers Kevin 🙋♂️👍🤝
I remember reading a article about a garden railway in an edition of the Railway Modeller where the author said that you don't realise how much wildlife and there is in a garden and how family pets act. From slugs and snails on the track to mice taking up residence in a tunnel, birds throwing dead leaves onto the track when looking for insects and spiders and webs ending up on the locos as well as the family rabbit running along the track thinking its a train and the family cat deciding that the bridge that carries the railway over the pond is a great place to stalk the fish. Which is why mine is fully demountable when not in use. It takes a little while to set up but it saves a lot of aggravation.
In deed. But lovely to have wildlife around. Slugs even get into our pantry, but we cope.
I think you are right, from it's stance I would agree with territory protection. Quite why an inanimate object should attract attention I'm not sure. He must have learned to associate it with the moving trains. And possible answer to the 40's mishap. Well caught action. Perhaps a warning to other garden operators, of whom there are many. 👍👍👍👍
Hi there , he might think it’s a snake ! Good luck with that. 👍🏻🤓👍🏻
As a birder and Garden Railway person this is fascinating, the Blackbird is definitely acting as if the trains are a threat/predator. Bet the nest isnt far away. Never seen this behaviour before !
That blackbird just don't like trains for some reason. Maybe he thinks they are snakes or something.. But it's amazing to watch .
Yes. This bird has done Dan a favour, we are all watching and subscribing if not already.😂
Yes thats Blackbirds for you. One watched me plant my sweetcorn then proceded to dig up every seed and eat them. Luckily they dont present a problem to our local rolling stock in Tywyn.
I've got blackbirds, squirrels and various other things to contend with. Not sure how they will react yet, as I have not laid any track! At night Badgers, Foxes, Roe Deer and Muntjacs all come through. So I am planning just track in O gauge and maybe some gauge 1. See how it goes, It will be live steam and clockwork/battery RC, so there won't be any power supply issues to have to deal with, such as gnawed cables etc.
Fascinating! I've never seen that, even though I've been feeding the birds etc. by model railway for a few years now. Maybe he sees it as another male blackbird? I have seen blackbirds muscle in on jays who were feeding from the wagons. Also (I've just remembered) many years ago I had an N Gauge outdoor layout and had a blackbird attack a train. Only happened once.
Great video Dan Jeff at branch Brothers
Something has Run Afowl on this railway.
Blackbirds are apparently declining in the UK and should be encouraged not deterred. Perhaps a long removable tunnel from the entrance might suffice as the bird will probably lose interest outside the nesting/mating season.
A reincarnation of Beeching or Marples perhaps?
He needs a name!! How about Mr Beeching? :)
Reckon you need a brush prototype on there. Hawk, Kestrel or Falcon would keep him away.
Great funny video - I reckon this Black Bird is an aggrieved competition entrant who didn't win so he's taking his revenge 🤣😂
Like a Pterosaurus attacking a Jurassic Parc visitor`s Mk1-coach! Perfect movie!
His nest could be in garage or he wants to live in garage blackbirds are incredible intelligent and super good at hiding nests I would sit in garage very quiet and there maybe a young trapped
I’m in the garage/workshop everyday. There is nothing in there at the moment
That is ace I have never seen that before lol
great...looks to me that "Black bird has spoken"....lol
Build a plastic tunnel over the bridge using perspex
Brilliant perhaps he fancied the entrance to your shed as a nice safe nest site . Lucky it was only a black bird and not a Hobby , get it 😂😂😂 for those who don't know a Hobby is a raptor , swift like in shape , a lot bigger and fast .
maybe he thought it was a slip coach that stopped short of the station and he was just trying to help out lol
It's the Giant Claw! (I don't recall the Giant Behemoth or Gorgo attacking a train.) Maybe you should equip your steamers with a smelly smoke unit? Or like Ewhurstgreen said, run some bare wire on the telegraph pole's insulators to form an electric fence.
See if you can find a hawk silhouette to cut out and paint from the plywood you have there. Might deter the blackbird perhaps?
Hi Dan.
That blackbird has told you before to get O gauge. Doesn't like oo. 🦅🦅
Thumbs up thumped 👍
....Pete....
Reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"! Funny though 😃
Quite bizarre! In OO gauge this amounts to an attack by a monster bird - the stuff of horror movies!
This blackbird just wants to play trains with you dan!!!!
I like what you put at the end of the video
He probably wants that hole as a nest, perfect size . He probably thinks that object is taking a good nest that he wants
He might be planning to make nest in the tunnel!
The bird probably has a nest nearby and sees the trains as a threat to his young.
Yes I was thinking this too.
Maybe you need a tunnel guard like the do on the main line
I bet the passengers were scared.
The bird is a reincarnation of Marple’s and Beeching, he is trying to shut down your railway. Probably wants to build a motorway over it.
Bird's mate probably got killed by a mainline branch train then it sees smaller trains and wants to retaliate. Hopefully it will stop attacking and give you head peace.😅
Go for a bigger scale, G would give him a serious headache.
Should have added Alfred Hitchcock theme from the birds
Start modelling overhead electrics with live catenary perhaps? 😉
_Seriously though, assuming the attacks are only taking place at that one location, a couple of wires strung above the track may offer sufficient deterrent....._ 🤔
yes plugged into the mains!!
A bit like Alfred hitchcock The birds
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Obviously a Scalextric fan 😁.
Bizarre
That's not a bird. That's a winged mini T-Rex! 😃
Surprisingly, the nearest living relative of T-Rex is the common chicken. Unbelievable but true
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He may think it’s a snake
Is it a Luftwaffe bird? 😂
It's doctor beeching. He has been reincarnated as a black bird 🐦⬛. 😊 he looks a fiesty one 😂
WANTED: Territorial black bird
Crimes: Disrupting Model Railway survices and damaging property.
"911, what's your emergency?"
"Yes, hi, there's a territorial black bird attacking my garden model railway!"
".......................... You serious? What the hell you want us to do???"
Maybe the bird took the full train for a snake and tried to scare it off!
Hi Dan. Don't know if you recall, but this was my guess when the 40 got attacked. I think I suggested it may have been a magpie...
Yikes it`s RODAN!
The reincarnation of Maggy Thatcher. She was anti railway.
😂
Although railway privatisation occurred under John Major.....
No, she came back as an old crow?
Much as I hated the auld boot ( her who shall not be named) . Her one redeeming feature ( apart from inventing mr whippy ice cream)
Was she was against privatisation of the railway she knew it wouldn't work .
Doesn't matter if was Thatcher or Major, they are all as bad as each other.
😮
Mr. Black bird is a friend of Rosa's. That means all pigeons are known as Rosa. Not very keen on the British stuff, because your couplings are on truck/boogie. I have ho (Santa Claus) gauge. My couplings are on the body. I said that to someone running N gauge on TH-cam. And the said it just has to work. My answer is if a train run on it's roof! Would anybody run a train just because it works! My point is I want a train to act & behave like a train. Not just because it works. It's how rails guide the system.
HF track cleaner!
Name the bird "Richard" (those who know history will get it}
Ernest would be better.
Cheeky
Your things are invading the bird's territory. Leave the bird alone.
Theres your dinner for tonight
He's still short 23.
Brilliant 😂