Garden Railway Forum

You're up a gum tree here.... sorry. That tree is at a heck of an angle by the look of it. Does it sway much in the wind ? That could affect the alignment. Is there no way you could keep the existing bridge? It is clearly a goodun and one that you are fond of. Can the approach to the bridge be reali...

No half measures here!

Its a charming item of rolling stock. Impressed by the elaborate curved sides.
The bust of good Queen Vic perched on the shelf is a testiment to the quality of trackwork on your line!

I never saw one of these during my younger years in NZ. How long did they last? On my local line it was class Da and and few De locos. The latter were an EE design too I believe and bore a family resemblence to the UK class 20's. Shunting and trip working at our local yard was mostly done by De or t...

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Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:57 am

Mostly shots of his indoor models, but inspirational nonetheless
http://www.swindonworks.co.uk/george-il ... rtist.html

Rik
A few more shots of the garden on page three - http://www.swindonworks.co.uk/page-three.html

Thanks Rik. Lovely to see his work again.

Yep, I could happily sit there and watch the trains passing while sipping on a coldie.

Not as old as some of the above but I've always been fascinated by the modelling of Mr G Llyffe Stokes. This gent was clearly no spring chicken when I saw a piece he penned about his garden line in a copy of Model Railway Constructor in about 1967/68. I still have the copy in my store of old magazin...

I could watch these large scale trains in action all day.

You always know that anything posted under the Semi-scale BR heading is going to be interesting, and refreshingly different. The latest offering doesn't disappoint ! You got the air smoothed Bulleid look to a tee. Well done. As to livery I'd suggest one or the other. Green or Black. Malachite? BR gr...

You have really done the railcar justice. Lots of us have a soft spot for the CDR railcars. It fits in perfectly on your line.

A grand build of an interesting and iconic prototype. If that is your first go at building in brass then hats off I say to a fine job!

Very good video. Nicely put together.

I'm fairly lucky I guess. My line isn't complete yet so not a lot of 'traffic' to draw attention. Fortunately we have so far been very lucky with our neighbours. All nice people. Our garden is L shaped and extends behind next door's garden so technically we have 3 adjoining neighbours. Behind our ga...

Impressive beast. It looks heavy.

Looks good. It's going to be fun watching this develop.