Garage Layout - 'Fiddle Yard'

The fiddle yard was orginally single track, have expanded this to two tracks by buying an extra point, luckily had sufficient spare track to make up the new siding.

Open Evening (2nd September) - Piccies

Garage Layout - work in progress

The layout in the garage is progressing well, its a small loop with feeder siding. Station has a couple of short sidings plus a small run round loop. Will be useful to do some shunting and allow for testing of new rolling stock when the weather is bad.

Summer pictures ...

The little people from the last post have now found their way outside and all my maintenance activities are finsihed. I've managed a few running session in the last couple of months. The garden and the railway are really growing together well now. A view of the model town ...

And a view from the other end showing the farm ...

Maintenance activities begin ...

I've completed the first of my winter maintenance activities - repainting all the little people who populate Beamish town.

When the weather gets a bit wrmer and drier (?) , I'll be repairing some buildings and replacing some split logs used to conatin the trackbed.

CVR Indoors MKII

I've now got power in my garage, this provides an opportunity to put a layout of some form there; so I've decided to move my CVR 'Indoors' G scale mini-layout to the garage and enlarge it to provide somewhere to run and test trains if the weather isn't suitable.

So far I am in the middle of building the 'baseboard' tables for it.

The opportunity for the future is to join the layout in the garage to the one in the garden - mind you thats a fair way off !

Car Transporter completed

Another little project completed, my car transporter wagon - it took some time to find a suitable load which wasn't too heavy (as some diecast cars are).