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Hi Evan, Welcome to the OO Garden Railway Forum. I was sorry to hear of your loss, I hope you find enjoyment designing your garden railway and also your writing. I look forward to seeing your future plans. Regards Mark

Been busy. Always wanted to try out z scale. I've been dabbling with some second hand items. The small z scale layout- Err, the small plan that us. -is temporary. just a place to run some trains. very rewarding though. No idea if I will get back to a garden railway or not. Been eying all the HO items I own though.

A-shunting we will go A few days later, another posing exercise was arranged to mark the arrival of some new wagons, although too late in the day to enjoy the earlier sunshine. Here, a short goods train has arrived onto the branch and makes its way slowly upwards. Two of the wagons, for Dorking's lime works, are detatched and taken forward. Meanwhile, the rear portion is well braked and awaits further action. Eventually the train is reformed... and heads away up the line

Hi Everyone I started construction of my layout in 1980 and the first experimental section is still running today. The layout has featured several times in Hornby and Model Rail magazines. I have noticed many questions about construction techniques, suitable plants can you have points outside. All these problems I have solved and the layout works as good as the best exhibition layouts. This year I will be having an open day for the 00 society and all those interested in garden layouts.Details will follow in due course. Should you have any questions please ask and I will endeavour to answer them. Here are a couple of pix''s to wet your appetite on what is achievable. Trevor

I've still not had a running session this year and nor have I made a start on repairing the damage to the viaduct parapet walls caused by the pigeons. In fact the viaduct walls have sustained further damage since my last post and it's even affected the sections I had cemented in place which makes me think that there's something else causing the damage too - cats perhaps? Yesterday I removed a large 'miniature' conifer from the edge of the track that I had allowed to get out of hand until it was just too large and overhanging the track itself. It also blocked part of the layout from view so in a way it was another reason to remove it. I can now see a good portion of the curve towards the tunnel. I need to plant something else here now behind the stonework that I can keep trimmed and in check and that doesn't entirely block the view as it could be a good spot for video and photographs if I ever get it up and running again!

A small update - Some pictures of how the outside section is looking, the plants are growing nicely and really help bring it all together. Inside work continues on the station area with a Metcalfe kit almost finished. I decided to add lighting to give some extra interest. Chris

Running session before the storms hit, Layout survived unscathed!

Hi All, here's my Network Southeast EMU on the garden railway

Yes, he often posts new videos during the summer months but while it's a really nice layout, I'm with Iain, as it's just a little bit too 'busy' for me with so many trains racing around. I'm pleased to see that his 'views' are increasing though because at one time his videos were getting very little exposure and it does deserve a much wider audience as I'm sure it's a layout that will appeal to many people.

Daws Heath is owned by a guy called Paul Barnard, who before his retirement, had a business building garden railways. I really like his railway, but his trains are always running far too fast for my liking.

Hi Griff, wow that is an awesome find, mine be similar design with continuous running coming into the station platforms , about 6 platforms , How are you going with the cold still snowing, look forward to the warmer weather as we look forward to the cooler weather 36 degrees, Tony from down under.

SBR is very durable - no problems with mine so far

It’s fixed with SBR and so far, it’s stayed put.....only another 84’ to do

Ballast! Probably a bit overkill in the garden, but I did say I wanted to take my indoor railway outside!