First Train on the Spiral

Devious Diesel has been granted the honour of pulling the first train up the, still to be completed, spiral. He successfully hauled a test train consisting of seven trucks from the branch line, up the spiral and onto the main line. You never know, perhaps he will become a useful engine after all?

The remaining gap in the branch line.

October 2022 Update

 A short video showing some of the latest developments on the railway.

A Recycled Railway

I began work on my new railway over two years ago and now a complete circuit around the garden is nearing completion, and it's amazing just how much of my previous railway has been recycled. Obviously the track is from my old railway, I've bought very little new track.

The Sandwell Valley Railway (SVR) embankment was clad with concrete wall sections purchased from Garden Railway Specialists.

These sections now line one of the sides of the cutting on the Wychbold and Stoke Prior Railway (WASPRly). 

A curved embankment on the SVR was clad with 'sleeper' walls.

The wooden sleepers have been in store for the last 5 years. They are now being used to hold back the garden behind the Salt Works Sidings on the WASPRly.

I built an aluminium bridge to carry a single track across the pond on the SVR.

This has been shortened and widened to carry double track. It now carries the main line over a single track branch line.

The Cain Howley viaduct sections have also been repurposed. The ones leading up to the bridge have been modified to take double track and the others will carry the branch line spiral.

The Single Track Branch Line

The top of the garden where the single track branch line will leave the main line. It will then descend on a spiral to pass under the main line.

Very much work in progress. Lots still to do but it's getting there.