garrymartin
My Family,Railways, Beer and the Seaside
Some information first. My railway is a circuit 149 foot 6 inch in length . there is a passing loop at the main station. When I first started building the railway I was wanting to create the feel of a railway running through the countryside. This is still the aim but it sometimes proves difficult in a small back garden, where the illusion can be easily shattered by the intrusive real world necessities of items such as fencing.
The garden still needs a lawn for the use of my wife and children, and as the garden slopes I decided to build a railway that was ground level at the datum point and then ran into a shallow cutting ( on a gradient ) whilst the raised sections were atop a stone wall ( local stone ) supplied and built by one of my farming mates.
I may well be seeking photographic advice in the future!:callme:
The planting is in a state of flux , initially I used cheap stuff from Morrisons to see what liked where. I am now in the process of rationalising this stuff.
The only buildings are related to the station.
Locomotives are powered by steam, track or battery.
The real railway was built in the late 1890's to exploit local coal reserves and develop Seahavern ( somewhere like Hornsea ?) as a holiday resort/ port. It links with the standard gauge line and industries at Rotherfield (somewhere like Beverley ?) This would give a run of some 13 miles, narrow guage would lower the construction costs. The line being built by the impoverished local land owner The Duke of Holderness.
I only have enough space to explore the section around Hedgebottom station.
We are currently in the 1950's the line has been nationalised as has the distant pit. The harbour is now run by a trust , all these have running rights.
Rumour also has it that there is a similar railway in Central Europe and also another one in the USA , but they will have their own threads!
A copy of the timetable should you need one , I am still in dispute with the local printers who failed to change the name of Camp (Butlitz) station to Beach!
Loco number 7 rests at a deserted & cold Hedgebottom station on a Sunday afternoon in early January. an unusual sight as 7 is generally used for the haulage of freight.
More to follow as & when.
The garden still needs a lawn for the use of my wife and children, and as the garden slopes I decided to build a railway that was ground level at the datum point and then ran into a shallow cutting ( on a gradient ) whilst the raised sections were atop a stone wall ( local stone ) supplied and built by one of my farming mates.
I may well be seeking photographic advice in the future!:callme:
The planting is in a state of flux , initially I used cheap stuff from Morrisons to see what liked where. I am now in the process of rationalising this stuff.
The only buildings are related to the station.
Locomotives are powered by steam, track or battery.
The real railway was built in the late 1890's to exploit local coal reserves and develop Seahavern ( somewhere like Hornsea ?) as a holiday resort/ port. It links with the standard gauge line and industries at Rotherfield (somewhere like Beverley ?) This would give a run of some 13 miles, narrow guage would lower the construction costs. The line being built by the impoverished local land owner The Duke of Holderness.
I only have enough space to explore the section around Hedgebottom station.
We are currently in the 1950's the line has been nationalised as has the distant pit. The harbour is now run by a trust , all these have running rights.
Rumour also has it that there is a similar railway in Central Europe and also another one in the USA , but they will have their own threads!
A copy of the timetable should you need one , I am still in dispute with the local printers who failed to change the name of Camp (Butlitz) station to Beach!
Loco number 7 rests at a deserted & cold Hedgebottom station on a Sunday afternoon in early January. an unusual sight as 7 is generally used for the haulage of freight.
More to follow as & when.
