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Some recently built Garden Railways - most in Scotland

Last goods delivered to this station 21 May 2008

(Sound on this page is EWS Class 37 leaving Perth on the Roayal Scotsman luxury tour train in October 2000 - Thanks to C. Davis)

A new local railway showing the early stages and hopefully more pictures as progress is made. This will be a small diameter:

Overall view from above

Overall frm the front

Left side of layout showing home built church

Right side of railway showing station area

Back of railway showing with homemade bridge

Progress on the railway

Some detail

...and then, opening day, suddenly in colour

View past the station

The owner/driver on opening day, thinking of extensions - watch this space (well the space just below here)

Ploughing the snow in Edinburgh in March 2006
A USA Trains NW2 switcher switching in Blackpool


A recent line in Aberdeen

Mainly US stock but seen here with visiting French motive power. This is the Corpet-Louvet on the curve
And in the station we find the resident Mikado waiting untio the French train has arrived.
The terminus (now a through station) on another pleasant line


These three pictures show why you need wide curves with modern American trains. On a circuit completed two days earlier an Aristo-craft Dash9 and 14 Bachmann coal hoppers deliver the goods near Oban in November 2004.



This is an interesting battery powered railway in the woods - built on wooden foundations - three pictures. There is still a lot of planting and landscaping to be done here as well as an extension into the storage shed. Three pictures



Here we have a Circus based layout in Glasgow:




And a railway showing the very early stage - note the life sized Italian marble, This is now a long established line.







And another feature found on a local railway - a PIKO (operating) gravel plant - supplied by Scottish Garden Railways. Apparently the gravel is actually sessame seeds which the birds can eat when it spills.

In the East of Scotland is this really compact little railway using LGB Multi train system throughout. Everything can be run by remote control - including switching on the station lamps. - again almost all items supplied by Scottish Garden Railways.




This time you can see a totally different approach to a garden railway - layed directly on to decking in a few hours (by me as it happens). Very decorative and low maintenance.


Layout in West Lothian has lots of little interesting detail in a beatiful garden setting.


Two railways in Fife. First two pictures are of a long narrow multi level layout using US and European stock. Interesting to note that all the brown supports you see are made of plastic salvaged from roof edging boards.

The next two pictures show a railway built into a compact back garden and occupying almost all of it. All US outline stock


At last, a railway being constructed in Stirling. This was actually the first run on the complted circuit. Roofing felt cover will be added then maybe a tunnel, a station and some lights.


A novel use for Gnomy tram trailers (£1.50 plus postage from me) made by LGB. - NOTE these are NOT G scale