The Blue Line OO Garden Rail

[paulsrail]

The Blue Line is being constructed as a result of having a load of timber left over from a loft conversion. The first stage will consist of a double loop of approx 30 metres The method of construction was determined by the shear volume of timber available

[glegalee]

Sweet.

[Andy316]

Nice,
have you got any roofing felt and/or oo track left over from loft conversion as well?

[paulsrail]

Two bridges will be conrtructed to allow access to the garden from the kitchen and consevatory [ [ The timber was painted with bitumen felt adhesive then covered roofing felt

[paulsrail]

Here are some more pics showing the timber painted with bitumen adhesive [[/img] [[/img] As you can see some of the timber was 8" x 3" the rest 6" x 2.5" or 4" x 2.5.

[rb277170]

Really smart Paul. Please keep us up to date with your building of the garden railway. have often thought about it, so I would be very interested in hearing of your experiences

Russell

[paulsrail]

The next syage was to cover the Bitumen treated timber with roofing felt. The two bridge sections were covered on both top and bottom because when not in use they wil be left folded back in the open position. [[/img] When all the felt had been nailed on,the next step was to edge the trackbed using feather edge boarding which i purchased from Wickes in packs of 10, [[/img] [[/img] [[/img]

[Andy316]

That looks very nice....

Have you done all this work recently or are you drip feeding old photos?

[paulsrail]

All the work has been done in the last few weeks. Progress was quite rapid because all the timber was all-ready in place, and i have a well equiped workshop as a result of my other hobby which is building wooden Nelson era ship models. There is a layout in the workshop which links to the garden layout via a tunnel in the wall. Progress will slow abit now as i have to buy the track.

[paulsrail]

A hole was made in my workshop wall to enable a tunnel to be constructed to link the layout there with the garden layout.
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An incline from the garden railway to the tunnel exit was constructed.
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[paulsrail]

The garden railway is called the blue line because i wanted the layout to be a Railway in a garden, not bits of garden in a railway layout. In other words i wanted the Railway to blend in as much as possible, so to this end a lot of it was painted blue.
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Other parts of the layout will be painted brown.
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There is no track laid yet the rolling stock was iust laid on odd bits of track for the photographs

[glegalee]

So simple to build and yet such an achievement. Superbe layout, if I had the room I would be inspired. Just a question, how do you keep the track clean? It would seem to me that you would be out cleaning it all the time? Never the less, loving it!

[paulsrail]

I don,t know yet how the track will react to the welsh weather, but even indoors when using dcc the track needs regular cleaning. I will purchase the track which is guage-master flexi, being cheaper than peco, a few lengths at a time.

[sishades]

Would a few holes be a good idea to let rain water drain away?

[paulsrail]

I have thougt of drilling holes in the feather edge boards which are treated, as opposed to drilling straight down into the softwood which could cause problems in the long term.