And now a garden layout

[STUARTR G]

Having been running Vintage Tinplate (and wood) Gauge 1 layouts for a few years now the need for a small garden railway has always been there. I now have enough LGB track now to build it in the summer and currently planning it.

I have a mixture of New and used track so cleaning the used items has been necessary. Dismantled tghe track and cleaned tghe rails in a Vinegar and table salt bath, then polished up on a nylon brush wheel. Worked out OK.

 

[Jasper]

Cool! What features will your layout contain? Station? Loop? Scenery? Tunnel?

 

[playmofire]

Pictures, always send us pictures!

 

[Chris Vernell]

Pictures, always send us pictures!

He did. The glare from the new-polished rail defeated the image sensors.

 

[Gizzy]

Welcome to the forum Sir.

And yes, we like pictures....

 

[Pipalya]

He did. The glare from the new-polished rail defeated the image sensors.

Can't see any pictures??

 

[Paul M]

Welcome to the forum, just beware of the humour! The advice given is good though

 

[Madman]

Welcome aboard. And I'll echo everyone else, post pictures please when you can.

 

[STUARTR G]

Still in the planning stage, however below a few photos of the vintage tinplate layouts that I run with teh G1mRA Vintage Tinplate Group. These are loose laid each time so a more permannet layout will be welcome.
Bear in mind that most of the rolling stock locos etc are pre WW1.
The buildings are Bassett Lowke.

This is why I want to go with G gauge in the garden. The idea for the layout is a ring around the patio with a couple of sidings, and then a long track across the back of the garden possibly with a passing loop, returning to the patio forming a Chord type junction. Of course I will be able to run some of the G1 items if I wish.

When I get going I'll post photos etc. and probably be looking for advice now and again.

 

[FatherMcD]

Chord type junction

Not familiar with this term. Could you define it, please?

 

[playmofire]

It's a way of creating a short cut to connect two separate lines:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Northern_Hub_-_Manchester_schematic_improvements.jpg

Just to be unhelpful, in the above example it is described as a curve, but it's also a chord, all chords are curves but not all curves are chords.