Last summer I received permission to construct a railway outdoors.

The garden is about 17m long by 8m wide. The veg patch at the rear is elevated by 1ft. The orange area is a "forest" of raspberry canes.

The rough plan is for some sort of station somewhere in the border with a return loop to the south around the edge of the patio near the kitchen. Heading up the garden the line climbs, does a circle of the veg patch then descends back to the "station" area.



We've got a fair few rhubarb plants and a lot of raspberry canes, so I intend to have some rhubarb wagons (bolster wagons) and some raspberry trucks (gondolas) to run for "play value".

ThIs is the top of the garden, where line will run around the edge of the raised veg area. It'll be behind the retaining wall though



This line will then curve around, crossing over the other line and hug the fence as it descends towards the house. (Imagine the plank is curved (about 3ft radius) and starts from where the paving slabs finish)



Meanwhile, the line that has run along the fenceline at the rear of the "plot" has started descending towards lawn level (I'm going to cut out 1 "brick" on the retaining wall in the corner by the fence), passed underneath a meccano bridge (to be built...) and is now running along the edge of the lawn/paving (It'll probably sill be a bit higher than it is in the photo).



The two seperate lines continue to drop towards the house where they meet in a bit of a balloon loop.





There is a storage area/branch in the garage, I'll describe that in a seperate post though.

Phil