Early garden railways

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Re: Early garden railways

Post by RylstonLight » Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:23 pm

Peter Butler wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:57 pm Possibly some of us were influenced by these?.......

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Re: Early garden railways

Post by Nomis » Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:38 am

I had forgotten about Topsy - a really interesting model.

I wonder if there would be a market for a version scaled to the normal "garden gauges" (7/8" maybe)?

Have there ever been any details / photos of the railway it ran on? I think a couple of pieces of track were found at boston lodge, but I am unclear whether there was ever a permanent garden line built....

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Re: Early garden railways

Post by invicta280 » Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:18 pm

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 magazines.
I would love to see more photos of his garden line.
He was also noted for very fine small scale model buildings on his indoor layout. It was probably he that first piqued my interest in outdoor model rail.

Incidentally MRC was, in my opinion, the best of the model rail press in its time.

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Re: Early garden railways

Post by ge_rik » Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:57 am

invicta280 wrote: Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:18 pm 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 magazines.
I would love to see more photos of his garden line.
He was also noted for very fine small scale model buildings on his indoor layout. It was probably he that first piqued my interest in outdoor model rail.

Incidentally MRC was, in my opinion, the best of the model rail press in its time.
Mostly shots of his indoor models, but inspirational nonetheless
http://www.swindonworks.co.uk/george-il ... rtist.html

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Re: Early garden railways

Post by invicta280 » Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:15 pm

ge_rik wrote: 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

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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.

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Re: Early garden railways

Post by steamyjim » Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:03 pm

Some lovely lines, from a different world completely.

I'd love to see more of the lines from the early days of 16mm scale in the 70s and 80s if anyone has anything they'd like to share, perhaps in another thread?
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Re: Early garden railways

Post by tom_tom_go » Wed Jul 22, 2020 6:32 pm

This popped up on my YouTube feed today:


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Re: Early garden railways

Post by tom_tom_go » Sat Jul 25, 2020 8:13 am

Tramway in the garden, 1958:


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