garden

Hi, I really need some help! I have surveyed my garden, agreed the layout with my wife, and worked out how I am going to build the infrastructure (scaffold poles and jacks, cable trays). What I am in a complete quandry about is what running surface to attach to the cable trays. I am sure this...

While ‘between kits’ I have spent a fair amount of time browsing the live steam and garden railway threads. I came over all nostalgic and thought I would write an account of the ten years spent evolving my garden railway, now regrettably a distant memory. I must apologise for the quality of...

Following the demise of my previous garden line, I've spent most of this summer and autumn replacing fences and starting on the build of another garden railway. The big difference is that this new one is a continuous circuit to exploit the use of my live steam engines - something my end to end...

With all the work proceeding on the base for the garden layout, I thought it best to start thinking about a locomotive to run on it. the choice was a MacIntosh Class 782 tank - the Caledonian workhorse 0-6-0 tank as shown here in LMS days...

This is not my first attempt at a garden layout - I've had three previous attempts. The first two attempts were in my house in Scotland which was located on the side of a hill so the three quarter acre garden was terraced and the two attempts there consisted of a lot of digging and barrowing to...

Having just carried out some refurbishment on my line outside, I thought I would start a thread. For a more complete story it made sense to start at the begining - 12yrs ago. My usable garden is approx 8x8mtrs, so it was a bit difficult to guess what my minimum radius could practically be, so...

Hi My wife has always wanted a garden railway. I have always refused to build one. I didn't see how a garden railway could satisfy my finescale desires. Then Steve went and built his Castle and my wife and I visited Simon's layout, and Fred Phipps is about to release a D600 warship, and I...

Embryo G1 Garden line I'm a bit embarrassed posting this here, because it has been seen elsewhere and progress is so pitiful, but anyway here goes. This is by way of a "place marker" for my garden line which I have at last started actually building. Building in the sense that I have track...