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Like many people,I started garden railways in the narrow gauge scene. I chose 45mm as my track gauge and built the railway using LGB flexible track. One piece of advice that I was given was to make the curves as big as I could fit in the space available. This has proved over the past 18 years to be ...

Tim Thankyou for your helpful comments. I had found the G-wire option, but ruled this out because it uses the 900MHz band that is not available in the UK. The Tam Valley ideas, again found in my research, are very interesting in that a European version at 869MHz is available. Some web pages express ...

Tim Thankyou for your comments and suggestions. I have looked at the Airwire 900, but as far as I can find out, it is not certified for UK use and I am told that it would not comply. When I started in the garden I bonded the first few sections of track with a view to using track power, but with the ...

I have been involved in garden railways for more than 15 years, starting with 1:19 to 1:22.5 scales on 45mm track using a mixture of live steam and electric locomotives. In the past 2 or 3 years I have also started running 1:32 scale, again both live steam and electric. I have converted all of my el...

I have only just joined this forum and so have come a little late to this thread. I note the comments about G1 being expensive and this has been a problem for many potential enthusiasts, but the market has changed substantially in the past 12 to 18 months. When I was looking to buy or build an A4 I ...