Hi to all. I'm still relatively new here and although I've made one or two posts elsewhere on the forum I thought I would introduce my embryonic garden railway to you all. After dabbling with the smaller gauges as a kid (OO & OO9) I left off modelling for other important things (music, work, wife, sorry - wife, work, music 
) it's taken some 35 years to re-kindle my enthusiasm - working full time on the big railway tends to jade ones palate for anything else to do with trains in your spare time :- .
After having a house extension built over the last 18 months / 2 years the garden has been left to its own devices and it has got to the stage where it really does need a lot of work doing to it. I was not looking forward to this at all but browsing a well known internet auction site I spotted a substantial amount of LGB track, 2 Stainz locos and a few wagons and a Playmobil coach for sale. I started to watch it and as it got closer to the finishing time I broached the subject with the domestic authorities. My wife took the suggestion in good part and I started to mull plans for the railway in the garden. My bid was the highest and I was soon the proud owner of what appeared to be most of the contents of two starter sets and a station track set - all for about £250
I'd like to combine shunting operations, stage 1 and (eventually) 'round and round' operation, stage 2 (for those long summer days accompanied by cool beer
).
So - to the photographic evidence.
Laying out the track
) it's taken some 35 years to re-kindle my enthusiasm - working full time on the big railway tends to jade ones palate for anything else to do with trains in your spare time :- . After having a house extension built over the last 18 months / 2 years the garden has been left to its own devices and it has got to the stage where it really does need a lot of work doing to it. I was not looking forward to this at all but browsing a well known internet auction site I spotted a substantial amount of LGB track, 2 Stainz locos and a few wagons and a Playmobil coach for sale. I started to watch it and as it got closer to the finishing time I broached the subject with the domestic authorities. My wife took the suggestion in good part and I started to mull plans for the railway in the garden. My bid was the highest and I was soon the proud owner of what appeared to be most of the contents of two starter sets and a station track set - all for about £250
I'd like to combine shunting operations, stage 1 and (eventually) 'round and round' operation, stage 2 (for those long summer days accompanied by cool beer
). So - to the photographic evidence.
Laying out the track
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