Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
The lovely bank holiday weather has had Chris out in the garden thinking about it's future. Over the years the garden has evolved to it current design to suit both of us but the reality is that once the hard landscaping is done it's Chris that does the maintenance and enjoys gardening.
Her illness has made her re think many things and the garden is one of them. In an effort to encourage me out into the garden more we have talked for some time about possible routes for a garden railway and how it might be achieved.
The garden is handicapped by being on multiple levels and having an open land drain running across the bottom of it - marked in red on the photo below it continues behind the decking that you see in the right hand rear of the garden - The decking is built above the slop into the drainage ditch to give more usable space.
Having discussed it we are going to quite radically redesign the garden to make quite a bit of it flat and lawned. There is a planned housing development upstream of the drain which might in time make the drain dry up and be able to be filled but it might take a few years to get to that so we are working on the theory of it not happening and planning accordingly.
This will be the route of the railway once the changes are in place.
It is approximately 28 feet by 20 feet which when the corner is taken into account, will give me a an out and back run of about 40 feet. At the moment the plan is to double track it, with run around loops at either end.
Posting this thread is a little premature as we won't have the funds to start on it until next year but I thought that I would share the plans and update as it develops.
Her illness has made her re think many things and the garden is one of them. In an effort to encourage me out into the garden more we have talked for some time about possible routes for a garden railway and how it might be achieved.
The garden is handicapped by being on multiple levels and having an open land drain running across the bottom of it - marked in red on the photo below it continues behind the decking that you see in the right hand rear of the garden - The decking is built above the slop into the drainage ditch to give more usable space.
Having discussed it we are going to quite radically redesign the garden to make quite a bit of it flat and lawned. There is a planned housing development upstream of the drain which might in time make the drain dry up and be able to be filled but it might take a few years to get to that so we are working on the theory of it not happening and planning accordingly.
This will be the route of the railway once the changes are in place.
It is approximately 28 feet by 20 feet which when the corner is taken into account, will give me a an out and back run of about 40 feet. At the moment the plan is to double track it, with run around loops at either end.
Posting this thread is a little premature as we won't have the funds to start on it until next year but I thought that I would share the plans and update as it develops.