Steam Powered Garden Railway

A model railway system set up outdoors in a garden is known as a Garden railroad or a Garden railway. hile G is the most popular scale for garden railroads, 16 mm scale has a dedicated and growing following especially in the UK. Model locomotives in this scale are often live steam scale models of British narrow gauge prototypes. 16 mm scale (which runs on 32 mm track, the same gauge as O gauge is probably now more popular in the UK than G scale.

A garden railway's scale can be anywhere from 1/32 (Gauge 1) to 1/20.3. 1/32 scale is also called "three-eighths scale" meaning 3/8 of an inch on the model represents one foot on the real thing. For similar reasons, 1/24 scale is also called "half inch scale".

The following pictures illustrate my garden railway built around the garden, with a bridge across the pond. "BRAZIL" the 16 mm Live steam loco is the only train operating at present.

A train station, along with structures, buildings, lamp and signal posts will be added in the near future.

Video of the Garden Railway