Garden Railway Forum

Last month I moved into my student house. It has a garden, of sorts... In this i decided to build a railway using spare track from the Dibden Valley Railway and DVR stock and locos. The line has one loco of its own, in the form of an 0-6-0 Merlin Major in black. This was none operational on the day, but has since been fixed. There will be more track arriving next week to extend the layout. On this particular day, a visiting locomotive from the Spowston and Norwich Light Railway was running services. Unfortunatley my internet is so bad, so Geroge will upload the pictures

Do I assume from the name of your line that you are somewhere in the Amber Valley area - in which case, you have a number of Forum members in the area to meet up with!

heres the pics, not only was this the first time my live steam loco had visited another railway, but it was also the first time one of my locos had visited another railway outside Norfolk during my ownership!!

anyway heres the pics

Not actualy in the Amber valley, but in Derby itself. Have visited Keith recently and now Merlin will be back in service!

Super! Is the AVR going to become a bit of a permanent fixture, or just lay it out when you want to? Will it expand?

It will expand... not sure about how permanent it will be. Probably get dismantled at the end of september until next summer. Merlin is going on loan to the S&NLR and then my own Dibden Valley Railway for christmas so from september its unlikely to come back till easter.