Babs G Scale Garden Railway

Babz said:

Good Afternoon Landscapers turned up 24 hours early Good News. I Just let them get on with it some more Pics.
Babs

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Good luck with the project Babs, that's something I've always fancied
Regards
Alan

Babz said:

Alan Thank you.. well it has been a stressful day one way or another. I been toiling buying a Track Bender for G Scale Track they are herendous in cost and you may only use a few times. The American version solid bit of kit is over $350 Us plus sending $ 89 UPS plus UK VAT and if Customs have not got a clue what it is there will be Duty on Top
It must be my lucky Day on G Scale Trading page i managed to pick up one Secondhand for £50 plus £7.00 postage. It must be my lucky day. Babs

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Great buy Babs
Is that to make custom curves or just to save on buying pre formed ones ?
Regards
Alan

Hi Alan It is a bit of Both because the LGB Geometry is a bit quirky There is no set curves for 4 radius so will use my Flexi track and with the bender to make a 4th radius curve..
Babs

Have you considered using Piko track? There is quite a range of curves in that.
Gaugemaster usually have good stock.

David

David Good Morning. I just received a couple of Pieces of radius 7 Piko Track from MSL and it is excellent not very different to LGB. I will send you a Pm about Gaugemaster in the near future.
Babs

We had a garden railway made of LGB track just laid on fine granite ballast (about 10-12mm) over compacted earth along the border of our garden approx 150 feet loop, it was laid loose on the gravel but I did use the LGB plastic centre track joiners which hold them together and filled each fishplate with copaslip on assembly/construction, it ran successfully for over twenty years with zero maintenance except after each winter I sent the LGB track cleaning Loco around, but to be honest sometimes I didn’t bother and when we got snow in Winter I would just plonk a Loco on for fun and it’d run around clearing the way, those LGB locos are/where brilliantly made.

It also has a bit of life steam run in it occasionally and was never the worse for it.

Babz said:

Alan Thank you.. well it has been a stressful day one way or another. I been toiling buying a Track Bender for G Scale Track they are herendous in cost and you may only use a few times. The American version solid bit of kit is over $350 Us plus sending $ 89 UPS plus UK VAT and if Customs have not got a clue what it is there will be Duty on Top
It must be my lucky Day on G Scale Trading page i managed to pick up one Secondhand for £50 plus £7.00 postage. It must be my lucky day. Babs
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Why can you only use it a few times?

I had a track bender (U.K. made I believe) and it lasted fine, mild steel with SS bearings as I recall, might even still have it rusting away somewhere. It needed to be held in a vice and the track gradually bent a turn at a time.

I see what your doing there, I like it……trains running at the level you can view them from indoors.

Babz said:

You got it in one

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Hi Babz, well done to you, it’s finally started for your garden Railway.
What a great start will follow with interest for sure.
Do you have an onverall track plan in mind.
One thought might be, even with using the Composite boards, leave a rain gap / space between the window cill edge and the railway baseboard - as a lot of water will fall off the glass !
Great progress - Thx Norm

Hi Norman & Everyone We are going to leave a Gap between the window ledge and the first composite decking strip. ( But i did not think of the rain flowing from the windows, it was more for the window cleaner )Thank you Norm The brackets we have are extra long for to put 3 decking widths so i can have 2 tracks and a passing loop on this section with the possiblity of a station.
I do have a track plan on Anyrail i will see if i can work out how to get it from there to the forum

Looking good Babz

Babz said:

Hi Everyone After my partnergot the landscaping done we realised that the old Patio laid 30 years ago and in comparison to the New slabs we decided to get it redone ....

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Always a bit of a risk when doing new bits!

Regards,

Cameron

Cameron You Ain't Kidding