Railway and Garden Re-configure Thread

Fantastic work Ian really starting to take shape :thumbup: I see that you have resulted in using child labour in one of those pic's :laugh:
 
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As long as you've still got a fridge, a kettle and a groaning dining room table, we'll be fine mate. :bigsmile::bigsmile:
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Ian, you should have announced an Open Day, threw down a circle of track on the patio and hand us a shovel each as we arrive.:laugh:
 
Excellent work Ian.....Would love to visit again when you have got it set up.

just a thought....
It is a good time to lay cables for lighting or point control etc and micro irrigation pipes (for lazy watering of new bushes/plants etc alongside the sleepers while it is all dug up.......
 
great idea.. just get a few tons of stone deliverd before they arive!! getting there matey:thumbup:

Ian Powell said:
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As long as you've still got a fridge, a kettle and a groaning dining room table, we'll be fine mate. :bigsmile::bigsmile:
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Ian, you should have announced an Open Day, threw down a circle of track on the patio and hand us a shovel each as we arrive.:laugh:
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Hi all, Mike that would have been a good idea- but i just finished burying it all and it was hard hard work. I have laid armoured cable under what will be the lawn so that both loops have a repeat connection half way around from the main power in the garage to help continuity. what cabling would i run under the ballast for point control? a bunch of twin cables?

Anyway some hard work today. cutting these sleepers is like concrete (almost literally) But they're in now and not coming out in a hurry! Progress:
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Fish and chips for tea, think I have earned it!
 
Apart from the creosote, some hardwoods get tougher with age and almost stone-like.

I remember a chippy telling me stories of trying to cut some oak roof timbers in Winchester that were a few hundred years old - they struggled to find a saw blade that could touch them.

Golden rule with chain sawing sleepers - buy a new chain once yer done :laugh::laugh::laugh:


Looking good, Ian :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
cables, think how meny you think you will need.. double it, ad 2 for luck, and your might be right..:thumbup:
 
Looks like good work there,

If it helps I found that the easiest way to cut railway sleepers is the run a circular saw along all four edges and then if needed finish by hand.

And people say that sleepers are a man lift, but I've heard stories about some p-way staff who have before now been seen carrying a sleeper under each arm . . .

Dan
 
I cannot believe I missed this thread, Ian. I must have been lost in Brigadoon. The work is coming along nicely. I'll bet the boys will be disappointed when all of the digging is done.
 
CoggesRailway said:
Hi all, Mike that would have been a good idea- but i just finished burying it all and it was hard hard work. I have laid armoured cable under what will be the lawn so that both loops have a repeat connection half way around from the main power in the garage to help continuity. what cabling would i run under the ballast for point control? a bunch of twin cables?
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Hi Ian
Caravan connecting cable is a good one to use. It is multistrand (up to 8 strands) and up to 1mm for each strand so enough for power and/or other uses.
I have used this for powering my three separate sections
 
Today we finished sleeper bashing with placing them around the void left by the old shed, ready to level the gravel up. Phew!

We have also started to level everything to try and avoid any of Cogges Railway's historic "unintended inclines"

I have also realised how much more space my yard has so I am going to have to think about the track plan... Pictures of today's progress...




 
More progress. Barrowed about a ton of "ballast" out the back. It needs leveling and the rain will wash the dust out of it and make it grey, but i am getting there. Threw a bit of track down to get an idea of the double main.
You can just about make out the curve of the R5 main line formation- lots of space for a few alpines and a station now:
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View of the double main straight with station/siding space. You can just see the armoured cable popping up which is just a repeat of the garage connection for continuity.
 
So while I licked my wounds in bed today, Cotswold Lawn and Turf arrived with rotavators, rakes etc. The once a year chicken poo and compost applied to my raised beds looks to have done wanders for the soil over the last 8 years!

After some consideration i decided that the lawn itself was going to be done by professionals and with high quality turf- i think it should pay off over the life of the lawn, and once I had bought turf and hired machines probably not that different in costs.


 
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So some track laying to come now before they come back with the green stuff.
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That's one heck of a rebuild Ian. Is the section in front of the patio windows getting relaid too? Additional storage in the garage? Lots of new jewellery for Lucy? :nail:

P.S. Hope you're feeling better. We missed you at Richie's today.
 
well done ian, im posative a;ll your hard work will pay divadents in the future:thumbup:
not only with the re built line, but with your familly too, nicely done mate:bigsmile::thumbup:
 
Thanks Chaps, yes missed you guys too at Richies. I am still knocked sideways by this virus but hoping it will pass soon.

Yes Peter a big rebuild. I had hoped to keep a lot of the track work in place, but it really needed doing properly - i have got it much more level than before. Yes i do want to relay the track in front of the house, but i think it will stay in place until i am up and running and make it a smaller discreet project- and yes more garage storage needed too!
 
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