My name is Graham Powell and I have enjoyed an interest in railways since I was small boy ....many years ago now. I have always been interested in railway modelling  and in the early 70's took up modelling  in Gauge 0. At the time very little was available for the scale and consequently I had to learn how to make things myself. Most of the models you will see on this website have been scratchbuilt in my small but well equipped workshop.  I hope you enjoy looking round the site which I add to as new models are built.

* 3rd February 2012. At the bottom of this page is a picture of Nr 95 on its return from Fred Lewis after being weathered.*

 

Hunslet 0-4-2 tank engine built for the Timoleague and Courtmacsherry Branch light railway  in Ireland. Model made from a Tyrconnel Models kit obtainable from Alphagraphix .This kit can be built as a standard gauge locomotive or to suit the Irish broader gauge but I'm not sure how, as clearances are very tight on it. The connecting rod is also the wrong length . I made a new one from scratch. Apart from that, its a nice little engine that would look well on a Colonel Stephens or other variety of light railway.

 

 The single wheeler is another Irish loco from the same source based on some 2-2-2 well tanks built by Fairbairn of Manchester for the Midland and Great Western Railway. A nice little engine that needs to be driven carefully otherwise it goes off like a rocket. Despite its small size it will pull three four wheel brass coaches.

 

 

 

 48305 built and painted by myself from a David Andrews kit. Split axle current collection all round. Powered by a Cannon motor with an ABC gearbox. The superb weathering is by that master of the weathering art, Fred Lewis. ( Link to Fred's Welsh Wizard site on my links page)

 

 

 GWR King  6008 King James 2. This is another engine built specifically for running on my garden track. Consequently, its probably a bit over engineered!. Most of the cast iron wheels and the Leakey motor were obtained second hand. The middle drivers are sprung and the piston valves operate from  eccentrics on the leading axle. It all breaks down into manageable units for painting purposes.Engine and tender bodies were constructed from a Firmco kit which I purchased for £25 including the chassis.When the warmer weather arrives (!) it will be painted in the early blue livery.

 

 A model of an  industrial Garratt "William Francis" made from  the Avondale kit.The etched valve gear was virtually unusable so it all had to be scratchbuilt. It has two 1220 Mashima motors driving 40:1 gears with split axles  all round. The body etches went together well. Not an easy thing to build or get running properly . Not sure I want to build another one...

   

 

GWR Armstrong class locomotive Nr 16 "Brunel". Built from a Scorpio Models kit . Painted and lined by myself. The locomotive has split axle pick up on the tender and is fitted with a Zimo DCC chip and Ron Chaplin gearbox.The various plates and numbers are by Guilplates.A very elegant locomotive.

LNER A1 Pacific 60156 "Great Central" built by myself from a limited edition DJH kit. The superb painting and lining is by the models owner Mr W H Tooke of Plymouth.

 

Ready for the paintshop is a model of GWR nr 95 one of the old Rhymney Railway engines reboilered by the GWR in the 1930's.  The model has a compensated chassis made from 18thou tinplate. The body is mainly nickel silver and the boiler mountings turned up from brass etc. A small JH motor does the driving and it is  a very quiet and smooth running model. Its job is to pull a train of coal wagons on the garden railway.

 

 

 Number 95 now resplendent in its BR livery. A very nice little engine that runs extremely well.

 

 

 Here is Nr 95 now weathered by Fred Lewis. An excellent job with which I am absolutely delighted . Roll on summer when it can stretch its "legs" running round the garden.