Treweek Siding

[Sean C]

Here are a few photos of my railway. It is far from what I want it to look like, but I am happy with progress so far. My vision is of aneglected backwater somewhere in Cornwall. I have ancesters who worked in the Cornish slate industry, in fact some went to America to work in slate there.. The railway runs across the top end of the garden having 2 loops with a single lline between to allow continuous running.

The quary area. The mountain is an upturned plastic pond. This was the first area to be built, so suffered from beginners mistakes, but has recovered well



The station and siding (there will only be one siding, hence the line's name which emphasises that it a small railway

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Next a shot of my Billard T50 diseasel with a train of tippers. The loco is from a kit made by the French firm Atelier Vaporiste, run by my freind Pascal. Tippers are Binnie products, with ym own subtle blend of weathering




FInally for now, a photo of the Yak. This loco was built by Colin Binnie, the name derives frm the fact that it grew out of yakking on the 16mm yahoo group. The intention was to build a series of 12, each different to show different styles of small locos, mostly based around traction engine designs. I was fortunate that my wife persuaded Colin to allow her to buy the first one for my XXth birthday. He had made good rpogreess with the second one, but it was not finished as his wife bacame very ill and after she passed away Colin followed her soon afterwards. So you cna see I am very honoured to be the custodian of this piece of garden railway history.



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[tom_tom_go]

Hi Sean,

I think you should be very pleased with what you have achieved so far as your line blends in well with your garden rather than just being a load of track on wooden stilts.

Look forward to more pics.

Cheers,

Tom
RWLR

[Pendo Pilot]

Looks a great setup. I also really like that diesel, the Yak is superb & a piece of history as well. Very nice..

[Steven.T]

Looks good, nice simple little layout! I agree the diesel is very good, looks very narrow-gauge, worn and rusty! Brilliant!

[invicta280]

Good railway in the making there. That diesel is full of character too.
And what a privelidge to be keeper of the Yak.

[pauly]

I love the upside-down-pond mountain!

Thats a really great idea which I sam probably gonna employ myself at some point!

[90733]

Looks brilliant! I like

[LMS-Jools]

Nice

[Narrow Minded]

Excellent stuff and the fact that you've used two "ballon loops" on your line prompts a qustion (having thought about installing one myself ) - how have you arranged the turnouts?
Do you manually switch them while the train is in the loop or does the loco set the route? (If the loco sets the direction, have you modified the turnouts in any way?)

[Sean C]

points are standard Peco, they switch over as the train passes through. You have to make sure the loco is heavy enough to operate the point, but otherwise it just works. I have had to take the spring covers off a few times to clean out any dirt which gets in. I had thought of using a weighted point lver and removing the spring, but then trains would operate in the same direction all the time and I like the fact that being self setting means the track is run the opposite way each time the train passes through

[Dwayne]

I like it.

[Narrow Minded]

Thanks for that Sean, I'll be scribbling on bits of paper for weeks now figuring out where to try and fit a loop into the garden!

[Sean C]

My loops are no big as they are both made from Peco Setrack so are 30inch radius. This was forced on me by trying to fit the railway into existing spaces and not have it take over the garden. Having youngish kids means we need the lawn for playing. Having said that, fitting a railway into a landscape taking into account the lie of the land and avoiding obstacles is how real railways are built. I know that decisions made while building the railway restrict what can run on it, but building with curves and clearances to allow the biggest rolling stock to run would have meant having a railway which did not live up to my vision. I have had one open evening so far for our local group, which was very interesting as only one steamer ran, all the rest being small battery powered diseasels. Rolling stock that evening was almost exclusively goods stock, which pleased me as my vision is for a neglected backwater which may start getting some help froma preservation group who will carry a small number of passengers in little coaches.

[Gremlin]

Nice line and nothing wrong with being small, mines not big and we can run our locos . A bit of planting to break up the line and I like the track design as each run send the loco a different way round.
The YAK is lovely, I'm sure that will be well looked after.
I just run the engine to set the points too, great for ones that aren't easy to reach.