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Rik

Mine looks a bit like that at the mo anyway!

philipy wrote: Sat May 18, 2024 7:13 pm Mine looks a bit like that at the mo anyway!

Not just me then?

What a find.
Glad that she is going to restore it and not just rip it up and throw it away.

Wow, lucky! Sounds like it ended up in the right hands.

All I found in my back garden was 300 bricks and a bunch of trash!

Probably an ex deceased estate maybe and the family just put it up for sale. Lucky find though.
Grant.

Grant, yep, that what it says. He was 90 and his wife had predeceased him. He was on his own and he hadn't kept on top of things. Sad really, but likely to come to many of us one day.

After reading the whole article one thing that caught my eye was that she didn't want to "settle" for battery power, but planned to run live steam... I guess the battery mafia hasn't gotten to her yet!

I bet her kids would have a lot of fun with some battery locos-- mine sure do! Three years is definitely old enough to drive a train with a bit of training and supervision, and it's a big enough scale that they can rerail the train when "the wheels are bumpy" (as my 3yo son says).

Maybe We´ll see her on the forum sometime.

Scrat wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 6:05 pm Maybe We´ll see her on the forum sometime.

She has joined the 16mm Association Facebook group, and I believe she intends to join the Association itself.

I'm the guy who would do something dumb and buy the house BECAUSE of the Garden Railway.

drewzero1 wrote: Sat May 18, 2024 10:55 pm All I found in my back garden was 300 bricks and a bunch of trash!

Lol, I don't have to tell ya'll what I found in my back yard.

Who in here didn't buy their house because they could get a railway in it.. This just saves a step!

sjrixon wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 8:47 am Who in here didn't buy their house because they could get a railway in it.. This just saves a step!

I'll admit it was on my mind when we first looked at our big backyard... Then I ignored all that space and started building in a tiny corner.

sjrixon wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 8:47 am Who in here didn't buy their house because they could get a railway in it..

Well, I must hold my hand up and say "I didn't".
In 1997 when I bought this place, I was still firmly modelling in P4 ( 4mm finescale) with a 23ft x 23ft exhibition layout which had been under construction since 1990. I only started moving into the garden some 13 years or so ago.

philipy wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 5:02 pm

sjrixon wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 8:47 am Who in here didn't buy their house because they could get a railway in it..

Well, I must hold my hand up and say "I didn't".
In 1997 when I bought this place, I was still firmly modelling in P4 ( 4mm finescale) with a 23ft x 23ft exhibition layout which had been under construction since 1990. I only started moving into the garden some 13 years or so ago.

Similar for me. When we bought this house 43 years ago, I was more interested in the loft where I have a now much neglected 00/00n3 layout of Halesworth and Blythburgh. The garden was an added bonus which I only explored in railway terms about 16 years ago.

Mind you, there might have been a subliminal influence as I've hankered after having a garden railway since the 1960s when I first saw Don Neale's Kirtley Bank and Peter Denny's Trepolpen Light Railway in Railway Modeller.

Rik

Me neither. Despite having 16mm stock from portable layout exhibition use it never occured to me to build a garden railway until after the house renovation was complete. That was about 9 years later.

Guilty as charged your honour; I bought my place because it had 2 huge sheds and a big yard for the railway.
SWMBO wanted a swimming pool so when we found this place with a pool in the front yard all boxes were ticked.
SWMBO went to visit a friend the other day at an "over 50's lifestyle village" and she told her that a unit just down the road was for sale SWMBO replied "they are nice but there is no room for a railway" (do I have well trained or what).
Thinking about it the village is only 5 minutes from the 1:1 railway so it could be on the cards when I get to old to look after this place, so downsize the house and upsize my railway scale.

One of the concessions I made for this house was that I knew there was no way I'd be able to fit my childhood 4x8 HO layout in the basement. Who knows, if I could've made it fit, I might never have ventured into the garden!

Bad Droid wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 8:19 pm I'm the guy who would do something dumb and buy the house BECAUSE of the Garden Railway.

drewzero1 wrote: Sat May 18, 2024 10:55 pm All I found in my back garden was 300 bricks and a bunch of trash!

Lol, I don't have to tell ya'll what I found in my back yard.

We've found all kinds of old buried junk chucked in the various locations of the outhouse 150 years ago, but no railway yet...

Old sheds, pallets, rubble and unwanted trees and shrubs were my starting-point

Rik