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Hello all i'm Mitch and i'm Building a Garden Railway in 16mm scale 45mm gauge track in Melbourne Australia. i have 1 loco which is a Mamod/MSS 0-4-0 side tank 45MM gauge Tablet fired i am Building my line in a L shape in 11.5 meters by 5 meters. here is the Track plan of the line i hope to achieve the Picture of the Loco is the only one i have on my laptop i will Edit this on my phone. Hope you enjoyed the Post. Mitch

Hi Mitch and welcome to the forum.

The track plan looks impressive, looking forward to further updates and photos.

Tom

thanks Tom i"m a friend of Ronan Cool train on the Forums i"d like most of the Line done by Christmas but it depends How Time Goes. Mitch.

I like the fact that your planning on a couple of passing places within your railway we could do with at least one more ourselves don't be surprised if it grows from your drawing Ours did very quickly lol.
Good luck on your PW work take your time and enjoy
regards
Steph and Gloria from the PSLR

Welcome Mitch.

Nice to watch a railway grow from scratch, good luck and lots of photos please.

Hi Mitch. Is your line level?

Thanks All for the Lovely Comments. Really Appreciate it yes the line will be level when built and hoping to have Radio controlled Live steamers like a Lady Anne or a Sammie the Mamod will remain manual control for the Time being. Will Post Some More when i get out side more and some track. Mitch

Welcome aboard, Mitch. Looking forward to seeing how the line develops. Looks like an interesting track plan.

Rik

Thanks Rik I the put 2 passing loops in so
I can run live steam locos and multiple trains my main focus is getting the line started and finished before Christmas and scratch building some buildings. Mitch

Welcome Mitch, love the track plan, hope to see more updates.

Hi All Been a while since i last posted not much progress on the line because it has been raining a bit but the loco has been steamed quite a few times since i last posted.
Mitch

Looks a lovely line to have visiting locos with its passing places.
David

Thanks David. i chose that Particular area because of No trees and a 1 in 16 gradient that im going to level out to a 1 in 30.

Hi guys Sorry for no posts for a while ive finally decided on a track plan for the line its a basic station with a passing loop on the other side and a Steam up area
hope you guys enjoy the post. Mitch.

Quite a drastic change from the original plan, how comes?

I liked the 1st plan too.

Hi Folks. the reason why i changed the plan is because of money. i can only afford so much for my line and the final plan is it will end up as a L shape as mentoned earlier.
Mitch.

We all have a bit less money Mitch, well most of us anyway lol. I can see now how it will end up L shaped, take your time and expand when you can.

I myself have had a suggestion to run double track, for which i will when i can save some money, it won’t cost has much hopefully because most of it has been done with my two passing loops.

Thanks for the suggestion. ill consider it.

Mitch.

Hi folks. i have a minor update regarding the track instead of using the peco track i am going to use LGB track simply because its cheaper over here in Australia then getting the peco track shipped over here to Australia from dream steam.
i have ordered some IP engineering ezee kits to get a small train going for my MSS/Mamod loco i own, a Garden rail magazine subscription for 12 months and a association of 16mm ngm membership for Christmas. i have been given some track of a friends old garden railway i will hopefully collect before Christmas and have fun laying a L shape if i have enough to do so in the garden.
Mitch.