garden railway

A bit of background for this thread, I have for a number of years been building a garden railway in 16mm to the foot scale, narrow gauge. It comprises six stages of construction, stages 1-3 have all the support structure in place, stages 1-2 have all the trackwork down, stage 3 should have had...

So… I've started designing my layout… to accomodate my live steam and battery operated Gauge 1 locomotives. The part of the garden I can use is 30 meters long. On the left side it's about 9 meters wide and on the right side about 12 meters. The plan is to start with the yellow oval, so I...

Hi All, I thought I’d say hi before I start asking loads of questions. After selling my OO gauge layout several years ago I was suddenly taken with the desire to once again build a layout. Having already modelled in N and OO I decided to go one bigger and try O gauge this time. My original plan...

While looking for some plastic boards and posts to make new raised beds in the veg garden, I came across this web site. I don't know if the products are truely useful and leave that judgement to those of you who model in the great outdoors. Recycled Plastic Garden Railway Products - Filcris...

At last a little bit of dry weather and I have marked out the circuit for the new line in the garden . This is all very exciting and I hope all goes to plan. I'm sure that with your help it will all go well. The plan is firstly to work out how to post pictures and text on the forum so that it...