RICE RAIL

13/10/2026

Slightly later than anticipated. We are now back and accepting orders following the smooth delivery of a Elizabeth into our family!

While away, where time permitted, development continued on various fronts and we have added universal tie bars into our offering, available now from our eBay outlet. Heres a link, https://ebay.io/m/OsQFOZ

As we move forward into the Maintenance season, focus will be on our stocks of point motors and equipment, with continued development on both the tamper project and the Colin Edmondson Lister.

31/08/2026

To all our valued Customers.
Due to the expected arrival of my first child, I will be temporarily suspending orders. I plan to be accepting orders again towards the end of September. Our communication lines remain open, however there may be a delay in response. Thank you all for your continued support. I look forward to serving new and existing customers as soon as I can.

Here's a reminder of some of our products, with a teaser of new items we will be launching in October. Universal tie bars, suitable for M5 & m6 fixings. Some of our products remain available from CMD Engineering. See you all soon. Tim Rice

28/06/2026

Heres a little snippet of what were working on of late. Any guesses as to what it will be!?

18/06/2026

Some recent workshop activity here. A bit of a bespoke job for a customer including signals, a control system and custom 3D printed parts. Some elements of which may become added onto the product list of items available here at RICE RAIL.

11/05/2026

𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹
Freshly machined axles and wheels, pressed into 48 wheelsets today. 😅
Ready to begin the bogie assembly marathon 💪
Excellent teamwork by Chris and Tim in the workshop today.

11/04/2026

A small batch here of our 12v linear actuator point motors being assembled as designed by us at RICE RAIL. Showing just some of the individual components that go into their make up.

Avaliable now to buy through CMD Engineering https://www.miniature-trains.co.uk/product/point-motor-rice-rail/

Also available via our ebay shop. https://ebay.us/m/nMHujr

28/03/2026

28/03/2026

Some recent activity in the workshop.

- Work continues on the prototype tamper. Here we are assembling the “head” of the tamper. The business end.

- Lister loco side weights. These are avaliable as part of our kit designed by Colin Edmondson. Avaliable from CMD Engineering. This particular side weight is destined for our very own loco.

31/01/2026

Continued relations.

Our 12v point motors are now available to buy from CMD Engineering. Head over to their website via the link for more information.

point motor designed by Rice Rail. Suitable for 5" and 7 ¼” gauge track. powder coated, easy installation and set up. moving points with ease.

10/01/2026

Heres a little teaser of something developing in the workshop.

We are working on exspanding what is currently offered for the stumpy locomotive deisgned by Colin Edmondson.

Here you can see we are making good use of laser cutting technology to product a chassis kit. This is the initial cut showing most of the parts, as well as some parts from the existing kit already available from CMD Engineering

More news to come.