Excellent. Are you planning to build retaining walls for your cuttings?
Thanks Paul.
I know that cuttings on garden railways can be problematical but I needed to have the line at ground level by the house and keeping it level has meant that it gradually sinks below ground level as it approaches the top of the garden. It should (fingers crossed) be at the correct depth to go through a tunnel which will carry the path from the lawn to the wooded area at the very top of the garden.
My plan (subject to change without notice) is to slope the lawn on the left down to the railway. This is a job for the spring when I can lay turf on the side of the cutting.
I will be using concrete walls on the right hand side to retain the planted border. I have 17 wall sections that I brought here from the Sandwell Valley Railway which I'm hoping to use.
In the new year I'm planning a jaunt down to Garden Railway Specialists to buy the tunnel portals and side retaining walls so if I'm short of wall sections for the cutting I can top up with these at the same time.
If all goes according to plan it should look very different and be much better integrated into the garden by this time next year.
Keith