Jan - Mar 06

This page contains the photos submitted to the Gallery between January and March 2006.

John Davidson's Sandwell Island Railway, Rugby Having moved to a new house at Rugby in 2003 I decided it was time to fulfil a long held ambition to have a garden railway. So at an auction held at Rugby in January 2004 I purchased a second hand LGB Goods Starter Set. This was followed shortly afterwards by more track and stock until in April 2004 I was ready to start laying the track outdoors. I decided to use coarse grit as ballast for my track laid loose as per a real railway. After more track laying I upgraded from the 1 amp power controller I got with my starter set to an LGB Digital Starter Set in September 2004. SIR has continued to expand since and there is still more to do in the future. The best purchase of all was of course my G Scale Society Membership.



Photos by John Davidson

Christopher Allenby's Railway

My line is a fairly small circuit with just 9 turnouts (5 large radius), two sidings, a station plus an engine shed. It is designed for electric operation with rail joints jumpered with wire.
As I am on a strictly limited wage and under restrictions from the local land owners (Mum and Dad) my line is only 50ft by 7ft.
In my loco collection I have now got a LGB track cleaning loco, a converted Otto (which I hope to write about), a standard LGB Stainz and 4 Playmobil locos - these are the western 4-4-0 Steaming Mary, one green and one black 0-4-0, and a 2-4-0 Pennsylvanian railroad tender engine.
Rolling stock is limited to a converted 'Troublesome Truck', a LGB green wagon, 3 skip trucks and two toy train carriages (green).

Photos by Christopher Allenby

Richard Ede's Rocky Ridge Railway, Wolverhampton


Photos by Richard Ede

Phillip Corbett's Wix Light Railway, Essex


I started L.G.Bing way back in 1987, my first garden railway appeared in the G-Scale journal in 1992 under the name of the B.L.R.( Bellevue Light Railway) in late 1999 we moved and I left the railway behind. However a new one was soon under way and the M.T.E. (Mede Tal Eisenbahn) was built, the pictures of this are on the G-SCALE web site. In early 2004 we again moved but this time I brought the railway with me, it was getting too expensive to replace. My third garden railway or technically railway in the garden is now nearing completion it is M.T.S. It cost a lot to chip all my locos but worth every bit as the running has been transformed. Slow shunting, a prototypical running back e.m.f. and all that. No more isolated sections and complicated wiring and switches.

Photos by Phillp Corbett