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Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 11:25 pm
by McRuss
Hello,

it's been quite a while since I showed some progress from my garden railway layout. In 2017 I moved houses, and had no garden for a garden railway. I planned to built one in the garden of my parents but then a divorce stopped these considerations for some time. Because of the divorce I had to move again only one and a half year later. I moved in to my parents house, and last year they transfered it to me. I did some planing between the last two house moves, but then I wanted to incooperate a pond with my layout. And my first plan was not suitable for these because of the available space. But last weekend I laid out the track an marked its position, so that I could dug out the trenches for the trackbase.

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Some of you my have spotted the sugar pine in some of the pictures, these I could save from my old garden railway

Yesterday I started digging the trenches, and if the weathers is fine I will continue today with the construction of the track base.

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Markus

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 5:35 am
by Jimmyb
Markus, when I started my railway, it was not to dissimilar to yours, built on grass with trenches for the track. One piece of advice I ignored was to kill all the grass in the railway area before starting, this I have come to regret, as it is hard to remove afterwards. One piece of advice I half followed was the use of weed membrane, I did use it under the track, but you need to ensure it extends a good distance from the track.

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 5:41 am
by McRuss
Hello Jimmy,

thank you for your reply. I will remove the grass when I dug out the pond, and it is also planned to use a weed membrane.

Markus

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 6:35 am
by philipy
Markus,
As you may have realised your picture embedding hasn't worked. I've sent you a PM with better ( I hope!) instructions.

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 1:53 pm
by McRuss
Hello Philipy,

thank you for your PM regarding embedding pictures from Flickr.
I know it's nearly a year since my last post here.
In the meantime I built the foundation for my trackbed and dug out the pond.
Then nothing happend, I was thinking about the small bridge that is needed to cross the pond.
At last I decided to built the bridge from alumium profiles, available at DIY stores.
After motivation I built the bridge today, and I hope to lay the track in the next few days.

ImageBruecke1 by mcruss1, on Flickr

ImageBruecke3 by mcruss1, on Flickr

ImageBruecke2 by mcruss1, on Flickr

I also decided to change the name from Isle of Skye Raiway Mk2 to The Drunkards Little Railway. These is a homage to the former railway line from Seligenstadt to Volkach, which was called "Sauferbähnle" by the locals, and which would translate into english like drunkards railway.

Markus

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 3:13 pm
by ge_rik
Welcome back, Marcus. Good to hear from you. The new name for your railway reminds me of a line from GK Chesterton's Rolling English Road

To straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made

I can't help thinking that the trackbed for my railway could easily have been laid by a well oiled navvy

Rik

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 5:45 pm
by McRuss
Today I started laying the track.

Image1653927020980 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Image1653927020946 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Image1653927020899 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Image1653927020868 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Image1653927020830 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Image1653927020781 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Markus

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 8:28 am
by ge_rik
Great set of photos...... !

Rik

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 8:46 am
by -steves-
Looking really good :thumbup: :thumbleft:

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 9:04 am
by Andrew
That's looking very impressive, I love the pond and bridge!

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 7:54 am
by McRuss
Thank you for your comments.
Yesterday I was able to finish the trackwork.

Image1654009586997 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Image1654009587076 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Image1654009587150 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Image1654009587166 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Image1654009587184 by mcruss1, on Flickr

Markus

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:25 am
by Andrew
Looking good!

Ceremonial first train pictures must be imminent??!

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:02 am
by McRuss
It is planned, but on my battery loco after 6 years of out of use, it didn't run, and on my Ragleth I have to do some maintenance after six years in storage. I also encountered some problems with my PDF Models Quarry Hunslet. So today I will try to maintain my battery loco and the Ragleth.

Markus

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:48 pm
by McRuss
Today I was able to run my locomotives after six long years.



Markus

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 7:45 am
by ge_rik
Good to see locos and a train running. It sounds like the blackbird was enjoying it as well.

Rik

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:29 pm
by markoteal
Looks great and I love the running river - as well as the train :)

Great to hear the bird enjoying it - I bow to Rik’s better bird sounds knowledge than mine!

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2022 3:34 pm
by McRuss
Hello,

I wish all of you a merry christmas. Today I uploaded my last video for these year on Youtube. It contains an overview of my model railway activities during the year, and also a short preview of my planned projects for next year.



Markus

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 12:20 pm
by FWLR
Just read your post Marcus, you have done a brilliant job with your line. Love the pond and the bridge, it has some interesting features and I look forward to more videos of your locos running around the line. :thumbright:

Re: My Garden Railway still to built

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:04 am
by ge_rik
Some interesting developments there, Markus. Sounds like you have plenty of ideas to keep you busy in the coming year.
There can't be very many modellers in Germany with UK based railways and even fewer with a Scottish theme.

I love the scenery on your HO line. It does look very Scottish. I'd really enjoy seeing more of both your railways.

I hope you don't mind me giving some feedback on your video. You pack a lot of information into the spoken sections. Just wondering if you could break those up with relevant shots (even photos) of the parts of the railway you are talking about or even (if you have a good editing program) use your commentary as a voice over behind images of what you are describing. I think that would make it a lot easier for us to follow what you have done or are planning.

A merry Christmas and happy new year to you too.

Rik