The Sherwood Oaks Light Railway

[jameshilton]

A third to echo Paul (Stainzmaster)'s views... 'making a railway' is more than just some track in the garden. There are lovely little well thought out scenes in this line, and the plants are maturing nicely Talyllyn looks fabulous too!

 

[Cyclone]

I really like how (and I struggle to phrase it) how youve got the "ballast" to look "flattened" and worn in the sidings/shed areas. How is this achieved?

 

[sir haydn]

Well Thank You all for the nice comments, really there has been little forward planning to the line. I knew how I wanted the track set out but the scenics have really just falled into place.

As for the ballast, I wanted it to look poor and crumbley so its a 1-2-2 mix.
1 part cement
2 part yellow sand
2 part 3mm-4mm chippings
sweep it on with an old dustpan and brush then water it!

 

[Cyclone]

Thanks, gonna give it a try.

 

[sir haydn]

Water way to spend a day!
Today I have installed the stream at Harlow Wood, the station also recieved its ballast platform.
The bridge is still to go back in as I need to make some brakets to hold it to the block work.

 

[Shawn]

Very cool looking layout. Im guessing that would be o scale or something close to it???? Im bad with the numbers. I like the look of the track.

 

[Elmtree Line]

Matt.

I reckon you need to take a trip to the rolling stock cupboard and show us some pics with trains running

 

[sir haydn]

More visitors at the SOLR

 

[yb281]

Excellent railway Matt.

 

[garrymartin]

Some lovely stuff on show there ! I am also impressed by the fact the L.& N.W.R. still exists on the other side of your garden fence!

 

[Don Gilham]

Excellent looking railway Matt

 

[vsmith]

Very cool looking layout. Im guessing that would be o scale or something close to it???? Im bad with the numbers. I like the look of the track.

The track gauge is O but the scale is 1:19, this could be used as 18" gauge in 1/20.3, some also use 16mm track to model 2' gauge in 1/22.5.

 

[sir haydn]

Another loco rolls out of the works onto the yard

 

[Rosco]

Stunning pictures! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Shawn]

Awsome stuff. Keep them coming.

 

[sir haydn]

thanks for all the kind comments!

Today as the rain set in the lads had a clean up in the shed

 

[garrymartin]

Some interesting detailing there. I mean the Pratts fuel can !

 

[sir haydn]

Todays Open Day

Todays open day was a busy one.
A shot of the shed

The darjeeling is quite a regular visitor

On the steam up road with Carrie

an Accucraft/brandbright diesel

A rouge bather gets caught out

Dans Millie

And mamod 'robin' in the goods shed

The Amercians took over for a while with this shay

A DJB 'Lew' ran like a dream

Roundhouse Katie

Emerging from the tunnel

Now this must be a first (especially for a railway with less than a yard of 2.5" gauge track) a visiting standard gauge tender loco!

Locomotive evolution?

A vintage RH Jack

 

[sir haydn]

Finally finished some of my own coaches that I have been slowly completing since july to complete my TR vintage train.

 

[Steve]

Very nice a credit to you