Hornby Magazine Editor MIKE WILD starts a new three-part series on construction of his ‘O’ gauge garden railway, Western Banks, by explaining how he went about creating a timber framed trackbed which can be used for any scale.
LAST YEAR I introduced my ‘O’ gauge garden railway project through Staff Projects in HM146. I’d been quietly working away on it for a year by then and it was just about at the point where I would be able to run trains around the full circuit for the first time. It has been, and continues to be, a huge project and that first feature in the magazine offered a whistle-stop tour of the plan and what I was currently doing.
Fast forward to this year and the trackplan is now approaching completion, but there is much more to the story of this project which I would like to share. So that’s what I’ll do over the next three issues of Staff Projects. In this instalment I will focus on construction of the framework and supports for the main section of the running line, followed next month in HM158 with a detailed guide to building the return loop framework, some of the decisions that went into its creation and how I have distributed power. Finally, in HM159, I’ll go into detail about the el…
