Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 1987
Date 03-Jul
Volume 159
Issue 3,804
Page 21
Category Garden Gauges
Part
Title Building a Garden Railway
Author Francis Dobson
Notes Gauge "1" feature, track bed construction for railways in the garden, planning a garden railway, is it for live steam running? Is it to be a miniature railway? How big?, At what height above the ground? What radius curves are needed? Are gradients needed? What length of train will be operated? Constructional methods. Ted Leech's LNWR "Pegasus", high level systems, timber, brick and stone, concrete, GE Super Claud, LMS Jubilee, low level systems, earth works, formation at ground level, solid construction at ground level