Arty
Western Thunderer
Having just carried out some refurbishment on my line outside, I thought I would start a thread.
For a more complete story it made sense to start at the begining - 12yrs ago.
My usable garden is approx 8x8mtrs, so it was a bit difficult to guess what my minimum radius could practically be, so it after playing about with Autocad, I produced a plan.
The railway was always going to be a test track - ie a circuit around the perimeter, initially a single
line for G1 using Peco track.
After going out in the garden with my tape measure and my plan, I came to the conclusion it needed a more practical approach.
so I chucked the plan away and played about with a big nail, a bit of string and some small sharpened stakes. Plotted out a route with what looked like the largest radius pushed as far as possible into the corners. Once it looked ok, I then set the levels of these stakes with a long piece of aluminium section and a spirit level.
The garden slopes away from the house, and from "ground" level at the house end it falls about 300mm ( a foot) and suprisingly as I worked my way around the route and returned to the start, my levels looked pretty good.
I decided that half of the trackbed from gound level to approx halfway around would be built from Celcon blocks, set in a cement bed. s the trackbed rose, it would be constructed with fence post stakes and tanalised timber.
Carefully laid out !
Stakes in the ground, short bits of fence posts inserted and longditudinal timbers fixed either side of the uprights. On the left you can see some block work.
To be continued.....................................................
Richard
For a more complete story it made sense to start at the begining - 12yrs ago.
My usable garden is approx 8x8mtrs, so it was a bit difficult to guess what my minimum radius could practically be, so it after playing about with Autocad, I produced a plan.
The railway was always going to be a test track - ie a circuit around the perimeter, initially a single
line for G1 using Peco track.
After going out in the garden with my tape measure and my plan, I came to the conclusion it needed a more practical approach.
so I chucked the plan away and played about with a big nail, a bit of string and some small sharpened stakes. Plotted out a route with what looked like the largest radius pushed as far as possible into the corners. Once it looked ok, I then set the levels of these stakes with a long piece of aluminium section and a spirit level.
The garden slopes away from the house, and from "ground" level at the house end it falls about 300mm ( a foot) and suprisingly as I worked my way around the route and returned to the start, my levels looked pretty good.
I decided that half of the trackbed from gound level to approx halfway around would be built from Celcon blocks, set in a cement bed. s the trackbed rose, it would be constructed with fence post stakes and tanalised timber.
Carefully laid out !
Stakes in the ground, short bits of fence posts inserted and longditudinal timbers fixed either side of the uprights. On the left you can see some block work.
To be continued.....................................................
Richard