How I built my garden railway

ge_rik

ge_rik

British narrow gauge (esp. Southwold and W&LLR)
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Recently posted a video on Youtube showing how I went about building my railway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu1aJtd64bM

I used a freebie program called Photostory which is downloadable from the http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx < Link To Microsoft website. It enables you to stitch together a series of photos into a slideshow with a range of animation effects. Very easy to use, including composing your own music and/or adding a voice narration. I've used it with Windows XP and more recently with Windows 7 and seems very stable.

Rik
 
Thanks for posting the story.......so far? Rik :thumbup:

I suppose many would say the same, but aspects of your planning and construction are coincidentally similar to the way I went/am going about my modelling. Your brilliant swing bridge may be the answer in front of my garden shed :nerd: I used to model GWR & L&B in smaller gauges, but after enjoying visiting some US steam railroads, I have used that as my 'G' prototype.

More power to your elbow!!


Regards
Rob
 
Another great video - you wouldn't realise that they were stills. It looks like a Telford Toll House by your road bridge - is it? And I have always admired your stream - looks like you could do some white water rapid stuff!

Mick
 
What a brilliant railway seeing if from start to now was very intresting and has given me loads more ideas , right off out to rip mine up and start again .:bigsmile:
 
Thanks for the comments, chaps.

Like most , I muddle my way through this hobby. I think my railway must be about 60% of other people's ideas and 40% trial and error (with a fair bit of error). I hope my little video might help someone else who's at the dreaming, thinking or planning phase.

Rik
 
impressive and most inspiring
thanks
 
For me the "dreaming, thinking or planning stage", as you put it, seems to have stalled into the sitting on my fat a**e stage. Having seen your inspirational video offering I am now determined to get cracking clearing the garden in the New Year, and to have something running by late spring.

Yes, I know that thus far I have been more adept at paving the road to hell than preparing a trackbed, but this time I really mean it......

Peter P
 
robsmorgan said:
Thanks for posting the story.......so far? Rik :thumbup:

I suppose many would say the same, but aspects of your planning and construction are coincidentally similar to the way I went/am going about my modelling. Your brilliant swing bridge may be the answer in front of my garden shed :nerd: I used to model GWR & L&B in smaller gauges, but after enjoying visiting some US steam railroads, I have used that as my 'G' prototype.

More power to your elbow!!


Regards
Rob
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Thanks Rob. I must say I am impressed by the landscaping on your railway and the qualiy of the video produced by the keyfob camera. I also like the way you've edited the on-train footage with the lineside clips. I must have a go at something like that (when the weather gets warmer)

Rik
 
trammayo said:
Another great video - you wouldn't realise that they were stills. It looks like a Telford Toll House by your road bridge - is it? And I have always admired your stream - looks like you could do some white water rapid stuff!

Mick
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Thanks Mick.

It could be one of Telford's buildings. I bought it from http://stantonabbey.com/index.htm < Link To Stanton Abbey Pottery where it was advertised as a canalside building. I too thought it looked more like a toll cottage.

Thanks for the feedback on the stream. I spent quite a while trying to figure out a way of combining the realism achievable from concrete with waterproofing provided from a pond liner. It's been in place for four years now and seems more or less waterproof - though I've learned that the liner must feed into the bottom pool (or, in my case, a dustbin sump) as there is seapage from the concrete layer to the underlying waterproof membrane.

Rik
 
Nice one - good use of a new bit of software - thanks for the link.
 
Madoqua said:
For me the "dreaming, thinking or planning stage", as you put it, seems to have stalled into the sitting on my fat a**e stage. Having seen your inspirational video offering I am now determined to get cracking clearing the garden in the New Year, and to have something running by late spring.

Yes, I know that thus far I have been more adept at paving the road to hell than preparing a trackbed, but this time I really mean it......

Peter P
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Peter
All the best with starting your construction in the New Year. Let us know how it's going. I think we all like seeing how others are getting on ...... and for me, posting information on the forum and my blog sometimes acts as the spur to get me out into the garden or inside into the workshop (ie the conservatory) to finish off that job I've been putting off for a while.

Don't the Chinese say that every journey starts with a first step.........

Rik
 
Great video Rik really liked the stream you made :thumbup:
 
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