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Trackbed and Badgers
I’m worried about badgers. Sure, lay track on soil or turf, and you’ll soon have problems even without any wildlife becoming involved. A couple of rainy or frosty nights later your trains will be rolling up and down newly emergent humps and hillocks. But badgers could really exacerbate the problem. I read plenty of advice…
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Wagon
I got me some wheels. I bought a wagon kit before I even began construction on the railway, because I wanted some track to play around with whilst planning. As it happens, Track Shack (who I’d recommend for their extremely prompt service – order before 3pm and it comes in next day’s post) give free…
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Site Survey
I’ve been asked for photographs after my last post in which I described the chosen location for the railway. Well, it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, though these aren’t great photos, so they might only be worth 7 or 8 hundred words.
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New Territory
The story so far… At the end of my gripping previous post on where to build my railway – I ended on a cliffhanger. Two possible locations, both suffering the limitations of my narrow, steep, garden. Which would I choose?
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Purpose
At one level, planning the course of a garden railway is simply a question of: “how would I like to lay out my train set?” But for an involving, operationally interesting and authentic railway, it’s worth thinking a bit about what the purpose of the line will be.
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Scale and Gauge
Size matters in the garden – if only because your N gauge train isn’t going to cope very well when it encounters a fall leaf or twig. Some people manage to run 00 gauge outdoors, but generally it’s the larger scales that are popular.
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Location, Location, Location
Having decided to build a garden railway, I just needed to make the simple decision: where to put it. (Apologies in advance for the cliffhanger ending tot his post…But it was almost 2 years before I cut the first sod.) My garden is long and thin; excellent for a railway if it weren’t for the…
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The Beginning
Welcome to my Garden Railway blog. This is where I’m going to record my efforts to build my first ever garden railway… I’m going to start with a few posts going back to the beginning, before bringing things up to date with the first tentative earthworks now underway.