The Wychbold and Stoke Prior Railway - The First Five Months

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Caving, Garden Railways & more caving. Fan of TTTE
Three years after dismantling the Sandwell Valley Railway and moving house I started work on a new garden railway. This video shows how far I've got.

 
Paul M said:
Excellent. Are you planning to build retaining walls for your cuttings?
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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
 
Yes, you're much better off with 45mm track - that yellow hose was far too small for a hyper-loop :oops::oops:
 
I love that you have created a totally "Thomas" themed railway. The series of trains from Bachmann fits in a garden railway setting perfectly.

One thing to note however, if that was you on your knees on the cold wet ground, start using a kneeler or knee pads. You're young and too much of that type of work catches up with you.
 
Madman said:
I love that you have created a totally "Thomas" themed railway. The series of trains from Bachmann fits in a garden railway setting perfectly.

One thing to note however, if that was you on your knees on the cold wet ground, start using a kneeler or knee pads. You're young and too much of that type of work catches up with you.
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Hopefully it won't be completely Thomas themed. I do have other locos and rolling stock. However as you know I do like making videos and the Thomas characters lend themselves so well to story telling, and adding real people and facial animation is great fun. I've written a story for when Diesel eventually appears and the aim is to have enough of the railway completed so that I can make the video next year.
Oh, and thanks for the tip. I do have kneepads and a kneeler. Essential kit for the more mature garden-railroader.
 
PhilP said:
Will be glad to follow your stories, from a simpler, more innocent time.. :):nod::nod:
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Thank you. I like to think that my videos/stories are within the spirit of the original work by both Wilbert and Christopher Awdry where the engines had to abide by proper railway rules. Before I disabled comments I lost count of the number of times I was told that Annie must be next to Thomas at all times. The modern stories obviously don't show how locos have to run around their trains at the end of the line. A very sad state of affairs. Now there's an idea for a video!
 
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