Stoke Works Station

 The replacement station for Stoke Works has now been completed.

I'm also making G Scale gabions using 6mm welded mesh and pea gravel.

Autumn on the Wychbold and Stoke Prior Railway

There is now only a small gap that needs to be filled to complete a circuit around the garden.

Also construction of platforms for Stoke Works Station has begun.

The Garden at Twilight

 

The temporary station at Stoke Works has been removed. It will be used as a template for its permanent replacement.

The tunnel (in the foreground) has now been grassed over.

More Work on the Spiral

A little more work has been done on the spiral. All of the viaduct sections have been postcreted in and concrete blocks have been laid to form the basis for the embankment at the rear of the spiral. The blocks will be clad with concrete wall sections.

I also need to make two bridges - one to link the station area to the curved viaduct and another to link between the curved part of the viaduct and the straight section.

A view from the rear of the spiral.

Looking across the garden towards the tunnel.

Showing the woodland area and path.

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.