Linz Gstadt Bahn 2

rhaetianfan said:
An excellent recreation, Paul! I've just taken a look at the August 1973 Railway Modeller to see your original inspiration - if you have an online subscription to Railway Modeller you get unlimited access to every back issue. Garden railways almost always feature in the August edition, but rarely LGB. The younger sibling, Continental Modeller, has shown a few.

Incidentally, I thought I would search the August '73 edition for LGB prices, but as far as I could see not a single advertiser was offering any such stock. Beatties of London definitely stocked LGB, as I worked a holiday job on the LGB counter at 112 High Holborn in 1970 - it took me 25 years to be able to justify (and afford!) my own garden railway.

Cheers
M
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I built my first Garden Railway in 1973 using recovered track from a relaid 0 gauge line, my interest was 16mm scale those days on 32mm gauge track. I did at the time consider LGB and I expect I would have gone that way had the 0 gauge track not been available plus I wanted Live Steam, at the time pretty well only available from Archangel, not at that time to my knowledge available for G1 45mm track. A fact I subsequently found out to be my lack of knowledge. Though as the wheels were to Fine Scale standards I would have had issues with points back to back standards.
 
The gravel depot is now covered in leaves unlike in this shot taken 3 weeks ago….
The other shot gives and idea of the leaves problem. Good job I have the kit to clear it all away - once they have finished falling.

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