The Warren Point and Stow Railway
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:17 pm
Hi All I thought it time I started a thread on my Line.
It all started with a trip to the watercress line when I was a teenager I had already collected and run a whole host of mamod wheeled vehicles and a wilesco but then I saw a new mamod steam train set. Steam on rails what a novel thought so shelling out my hard earned money I spent the whole of six weeks wages on the set.
A slow gathering of extra track and points (no railway is a real railway until it has points), Another engine followed later on the Sl2 in blue and a car boot find of a whole railway (2 sl1s some rolling stock and more track) soon boosted the railway apart from one thing. The railway wasn't permanent and was laid out on grass run and put away again. unlike my OO railway in the loft which is built on base boards .
All was changed a few years ago when I found a book called a railway in your garden. It seemed to feature a lot of LGB which I think is too toy like and madly expensive (you may disagree but its my opinion) anyway it inspired me to go for a layout permanently in the garden. O gauge flexitrack was purchased then I found out that sm32 track was deeper and allows some of my stock to run without hitting every sleeper!
Track laying commenced in earnest and soon I had a single track that was slowly extended into a strange shaped loop as it fits a triangular shaped garden. As I have felt the need passing loops have appeared as well as the start of buildings to allow the railway to be more than some track round the garden.
Now you are up to date with the railway so far I will add photos and extra bits as it develops.
It all started with a trip to the watercress line when I was a teenager I had already collected and run a whole host of mamod wheeled vehicles and a wilesco but then I saw a new mamod steam train set. Steam on rails what a novel thought so shelling out my hard earned money I spent the whole of six weeks wages on the set.
A slow gathering of extra track and points (no railway is a real railway until it has points), Another engine followed later on the Sl2 in blue and a car boot find of a whole railway (2 sl1s some rolling stock and more track) soon boosted the railway apart from one thing. The railway wasn't permanent and was laid out on grass run and put away again. unlike my OO railway in the loft which is built on base boards .
All was changed a few years ago when I found a book called a railway in your garden. It seemed to feature a lot of LGB which I think is too toy like and madly expensive (you may disagree but its my opinion) anyway it inspired me to go for a layout permanently in the garden. O gauge flexitrack was purchased then I found out that sm32 track was deeper and allows some of my stock to run without hitting every sleeper!
Track laying commenced in earnest and soon I had a single track that was slowly extended into a strange shaped loop as it fits a triangular shaped garden. As I have felt the need passing loops have appeared as well as the start of buildings to allow the railway to be more than some track round the garden.
Now you are up to date with the railway so far I will add photos and extra bits as it develops.