The very same - hello Mr Dodd!TommyDodd:98332 wrote:Some features of this site look kinda familiar. Are you the guy who asked for WHR railway design suggestions on the NGGarden group a while back? (I replied, with something based on the General Undertaking).
I remember your plan, a complex, fascinating - and fully signalled - "might have been", with LNWR branches and all sorts, fantastic stuff. Unfortunately, as you'll have realised from this thread, a single line round the garden's taken years - that would have been a life's work!
Ian Stock came up with a tempting plan too, featuring Beddgelert and a spiral to make the two ends of a continuous gradient meet and allow a continuous run.
In the event such plans probably helped me to appraise the (small, multi-use, multi-user) garden a little more honestly and accept a certain degree of compromise. I looked at a couple of real WHR locations, and in the end decided on an imaginary branch with WHR features. At the moment those are limited to the rolling stock, a steep gradient, some wiggles in the route and a cutting, but some NWNGR and WHR-influenced buildings and bridges should follow shortly-ish. It will be an end-to-end run when the route is complete (in a month or two?), but with a temporary lower terminus that may become a connection to allow a continuous run if experience shows that to be desirable...
I miss the NG Garden group - missing, presumed dead? I was only a member for a year or two but found it to be a great inspiration. I really enjoyed Ian's lengthy and passionate discourses, Neil's rolling stock-building tips, David's wide-ranging knowledge etc etc. Happily I find some of the same stuff here...
All the best,
Andrew.