As many of may be aware, there has been a world wide shortage of the plastic drive chain we use in out little locomotives.
We happy to say that we have now received a supply of this chain from the USA and we can now take orders for our Ready-To-Run locomotives and kits.
Unfortunately the European Union introduced some new legislation in December 2024; called the “General Product Safety Regulations”. Whatever the true motives behind this piece of legislation, it means that it is no longer economically viable for a very small business like ours to post our orders to our customers resident within the EU.
We are therefore unable to ship any of our products to customers within the EU. We are monitoring the situation and should the situation change we will be happy to resume sales to the EU
The Royal Mail have resumed deliveries to the United States of America. Please note that the new US Import Tariff will be calculated and applied at checkout page for orders going to the USA
Please note this has been increased to 15% on 21 Feb 2026
We are pleased to announce that we have obtained a new range of British made insulated steel wheels for our range of laser cut 7/8 scale wagon kits. Manufactured to the same high standards as our 16 mm scale wheels, they feature wider wheel treads to give a more chunky appearance whilst still negotiating SM32 and G scale point work.
Currently four sizes are available
12 scale inch diameter, 32 mm and 45 mm gauges
16 scale inch diameter, 32 mm and 45 mm gauges
Over the next few weeks we are re-releasing our existing 7/8 scale kits to include these wheels. Our first new kit to include these wheels is our new skip based flat wagon.
The home builder can also purchase these wheels together with matching 3D printed nylon axleboxes.
Our standard 16 mm scale 24 mm diameter wheels on the left; our new 22 mm diameter 7/8 scale wheels on the right
We are pleased to announce that after over a year in development, our next Locomotive kit , Nutty , should be available this November. Again, like our Greenbat kit, this is a joint project with Harry Billmore . Harry volunteers on the Welshpool and Llanfair railway which was Nutty’s home where it last ran and is one of his favorites .
Our Sixteen Mill model will available as both a kit and a Ready-to-Run locomotive. The kit will feature a pre-assembled , four wheel drive chassis together with many 3D printed parts. The kits being produced using our latest high resolution resin printers.
Bole Laser Craft has just introduced its Trefor quarry wagon as the first of its 7/8 scale garden railway kits.
Cut from premium quality poplar plywood with pre-coloured 3D SLS printed nylon details, this kit makes into a model of the wagons used at the Trefor quarry in North Wales. Kit includes Slater’s 7/8 scale 15 inch wheels to provide a fine looking and running wagon for your 45mm gauge 7/8 scale railway.
Please visit our shop pages for fuller details.
Bole Laser Craft is please to announce the first in a range of locomotive kits
Greenbat locomotives were built by Greenwood & Batley Company in Leeds. The company specialised in electric locomotives, particularly battery-powered types for use in mines and other hazardous environments. These were produced in a variety of gauges from 18 inches up to standard gauge.
Our new Greenbat locomotive has been based on one currently working on the Steeple Grange railway in Derbyshire (although some liberties have been taken to allow an eighteen inch gauge to run on 32mm gauge track). The locomotive features four wheel drive from a 12volt micro motor and gearbox. The model runs quite happily on either a 6 or 9 volt battery and is supplied with simple manual control.
We are selling this locomotive in two forms
Price £145. Manual control in green livery (driver figure not included)
Price £90. Kit features a prebuilt and tested, working chassis (no soldering required).
We are pleased to announce a new range of 3D printed garden railway wagon couplers suitable for use on small industrial rolling stock.
They are based on “Bell Mouth” couplers as supplied by the likes of Hudsons of Leeds; Orenstein & Koppel and Decauville. As in the prototype, the modeller couples the wagons by first inserting a “link bar” into one coupler mouth and dropping a “T pin” down through a hole in the body to trap the link. The link bar is then inserted into the bell mouth on the next wagon and the other link pin is inserted. This allows the wagon to be both pushed and pulled round tight bends.
To provide compatibility with other makes of coupler; the new Bole Laser Craft coupler may be connecting with a traditional three link chain looped over the top of the “T pin”.
The couplers are Selective Laser Sintered nylon with an attractive “charcoal black” finish. An engineering grade nylon is used to give a tough and compact coupler.
These couplers are included as standard in the new Trefor Quary wagons and are now available separately for the home builder.
All our kits come with fully illustrated instruction sheets. We have now added a new page that prospective customers can view these instuctions on-line before making their purchase.
This week we have added two products to our range, a sleeper build buffer stop and a cable drum.
The buffer stops are cut from exterior quality plywood and designed to be filled with gravel to represent a ballast filled pair of buffer stops.
View the Wooden Buffer Stops in our shop
Next we have a little kit to make a cable drum on a stand. This can be used as a wagon load or in a goods yard.
View the Cable Drum in our shop
