CoggesRailway
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Currently my railway is a double track around the entire garden, passing behind my shed and through my garage. At the bottom is some sidings and a loop. The garden is split into two with a veg garden at the end. The lawn area is designed for small kids to play and this is why the track runs in mortar at this point. I have decided to abandon veg growing and the Mrs wants the lawn to be made longer to allow more running as the kids get older. Negotiations have resulted in me having a strip up the right hand side up to 7 feet wide. Not the whole way down - the aim is to have a curving properly blocked edge between the railway and the lawn, maiking strimming easy. My current plan is to keep the layout as is, but repalce the tool bunker at the bottom corner with a quarry 18 inches or so high, and build a quarry railway, with steep gradients. There would be a loop at the bottom to leave trains for the main line and a track configuration to allow mainline to be mixed into the quarry line or to run three seperate lines - inner outer and quarry.
Money and time mean this is not happening that soon but I want to be sure I have this right so sharing here. I would probably aim for an open day launch in autumn 13. As much input as possible please. Obviously the sktech is not to scale- I sat up in bed and did it last night. The quarry line would be a steep incline with a level r1 loop at each end- probably for battery operation only:
As is now:
Current thinking:
Money and time mean this is not happening that soon but I want to be sure I have this right so sharing here. I would probably aim for an open day launch in autumn 13. As much input as possible please. Obviously the sktech is not to scale- I sat up in bed and did it last night. The quarry line would be a steep incline with a level r1 loop at each end- probably for battery operation only:
As is now:

Current thinking:
