So, as the blog wheezes back into life; a little update on the garden railway.
This was a 45mm line at the in-laws house, which was built to a budget, and which suffered more delays in construction than HS2. It had to be completely dug-up and lifted, then re-laid, multiple times due to problems with the pipework under the garden needing to be dealt with.
So come Spring 2024, and the aftermath of the winter storms, the railway died for good. The collapse of a fence panel, subsequent tramping of the railway when we tried to fix the fence, and then impending arrival of scaffolding to fix the roof led to us deciding to throw in the towel.
Despite how good the railway had been starting to look, it was taking a lot of work to get trains to run reliably given the track kept getting walked on. It wouldn't survive being lifted and rebuilt yet again, so the decision was taken to scrap the whole damned thing, and sell off almost every train, all the track, and return the garden to being a garden.
This was an issue however, as after over a decade of trying, I'd picked up a regular gig writing for Garden Rail Magazine. Purists might therefore point out that one of the things you need, in order to write monthly for a garden railway modelling magazine, is a garden railway.
Happily, this all coincided with us deciding to move house, and we realised there'd be space for a new line (smaller of course) at the new place, so not all was lost, and it also means I can continue Garden Railway Saturday here on the blog...
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