Garden Railway

[@jb3222]

It's rare to see a model railway so well integrated into a garden - both the railway and garden look great. I'm so jealous!

[@Trains_At_York]

Thanks 👍 took ages to build it all around each other but definitely fun and worth doing.

[@teammoont]

Beautiful railway. Great to see scale length trains. And thanks for not ruining the video with some horrible music.

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you! I know exactly what you mean too with the music. Some videos are good with it but others aren’t if done wrong haha *cough* * cough* TikToc haha

[@geordieceltic2]

Wow, great railway and perfect running. That viaduct is so impressive. Well done.

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you!! We try our best to make it great haha, but at times it deteriorates as seen in the video but thankfully things like the viaduct have had some TLC to it

[@NTCGRR]

I to love concrete roadbed. and now a raised loop. Love your GRR

[@Trains_At_York]

You can’t beat concrete! Always the best for the track bed.

[@NTCGRR]

@@Trains_At_York Do you have any casting or build photos of your bridges? They look great. I had to come off the ground now because of my back problems. I down sized a lot. thanks

[@Trains_At_York]

Sadly photos aren’t currently available to me but I might make a video in the future of how they were build etc when I get the time and photos. Thank you👍

[@Flymochairman1]

I'd looked away for a second as the Deltic came up, the Deltic Scream was so definite there! A fantastic garden railway. Most gratifying. Thanks for posting The Rocket and the Deltic too! Cheers!

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you so much. Genuinely very much appreciated.👍

[@therealdeal6846]

OMG the noise from the Delitic is brilliant whole layout brilliant you've inspired me to actually have a railway out the back of my garden!!..thanks for sharing I envy you sitting with cuppa or beer chilling watching them do their thing brilliant

[@Trains_At_York]

Hi. Thank you so much. If you would like any tips, feel free to ask.

[@ba14eagle]

A gorgeous garden railway - has a feel of Trevor Jones' Great Wakering garden railway. And the trains are travelling at at a sensible / realistic speed. Brilliant all round. subbed.

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you 🙏

[@W0wVibes-25]

Full length trains outdoors is the best...and that viaduct....fantastic stuff

[@Trains_At_York]

Yes it is great to see! Love seeing them curving round the bends or going over the viaducts.

[@markedwards1511]

This is an amazing 00 garden railway, it must rank in the top five on KZbin in the UK. Well done! Please more video's like this. It should be in one of the UK Model Railway Magazine's.

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you so much. This means a lot to us. More videos should be coming soon hopefully.

[@oogardenrailway]

I'd lost my modelling mojo for a few months recently and only just managed to get back into it. Layout's like this leave me with no choice! You've clearly put a lot of work into it and it's certainly paid off. It looks great and the long trains look totally at home. Must have been a cramped working space getting that viaduct in amid the shrubbery on the curve.

[@Trains_At_York]

Hi. Thanks for the nice comment. The grey viaduct was built about 20 years ago when hardly any of the trees and shrubs seen in the video weren’t even planted. And the main bigger viaduct as seen at the start of the video, that was a bit hard as you say because the tree was a bit in the way as that was only a few years ago.

[@michaelholmes7172]

Really like this, would be amazing to see in the flesh. You should have as an attraction. Haha! Would be interested to see a video explaining how bits were done as would provide a lot of inspiration im sure

[@Trains_At_York]

Haha. Thank you!👍 I’ll take the idea into consideration for explanation videos. Some are in the pipeline already.

[@kirkwise6118]

Inspirational I only wish I could have seen it built! I’m sure there were LOTS of techniques I could have learned. I’m hoping to do something in S Gauge and can only hope that mine is half as nice. Love the viaduct!

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you. We wish we could’ve shared it as it was building built too but the majority of it was all done before KZbin was around in 2003. Maybe one day an explaining video of how we built the viaduct and other parts of the layout will have to be done.

[@cjohn153]

Brilliant ! I'm green with envy .

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you😊👍

[@stephenwhite5057]

Wonderful garden railway, so much detail. Fantastic

[@Trains_At_York]

Thanks 😊

[@caroleast9636]

Beautiful garden railway , but definitely built by someone who enjoys building viaducts!

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you! We definitely love building viaducts and have built 4 over the years. The architecture and construction of them is great to do.

[@RonsGardenRailway]

Very Nice Garden Railway and track is well lade love the Rocket viaduct is fab. Regards Ron s Garden Railway 00.

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you

[@UKRailsandMore]

Fantastic garden layout with some impressive engineering structures, thanks for sharing have subscribed to the channel and all the best, Paul

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you. Very much appreciated 👍

[@alantoms3263]

That's a very interesting model railway! You must be very proud of it. I did find myself asking things like 'where's the freight?' and 'those high speed passenger trains normally go faster don't they?' Criticism aside, it was very entertaining. Thank you for sharing. Al.

[@Trains_At_York]

Hi. Thank you! It’s definitely great to have although it can be a struggle sometimes. More videos will be coming soon hopefully (when the weather is actually sunny) and the speed for the trains is a bit of an odd one because of camera FPS and to make the trains actually stay on the track when going round corners ect.

[@darrelldeltic807]

What a beautiful garden railway, that Deltic sounded incredible! I’m guessing it’s got an EM2 speaker inside ? I’ve subbed to hopefully see and hear more of this one , cheers Darrell

[@Trains_At_York]

Yes it does have an EM2 speaker. Thank you

[@ColumbusGardenRailwaySociety]

Fantastic garden railroad!

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you😊

[@markcousins9337]

Love the viaduct. So much nicer than nasty wooden trestles.

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you. The viaduct will definitely also last much longer than wood too with it being constructed out of concrete and steel.

[@davidbrown3231]

Hi guess these are 00 gauge -sorry for my ignorance but i assume you do not run trains when it is raining - does the track need to be covered if its raining ?

[@Trains_At_York]

Hi. No inconvenience at all. We don’t cover the tracks while raining or any time of year apart from during the winter due to frost. We don’t use it while raining or from about October to March/April time because it’s so cold and wet most of the time.

[@Trains_At_York]

And yes, these are OO gauge trains, buildings ect

[@owddroner7124]

Absolute quality can I ask where you get the viaducts from or did you make them regards Mark

[@Trains_At_York]

Hi. Thanks for the nice comment. Both viaducts were scratch built all made by us. We made the designs, chose the materials and everything else. Hope this helps👍

[@neilrobinson9806]

Great stuff👍👍👍

[@Trains_At_York]

Thanks 👍

[@petrtrain7942]

Fantastic,I love it.

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you👍

[@paulsotheron710]

Fabulous.

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you 👍

[@class158productions]

Fantastic video, love it!

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you 😊👍

[@TacticalTeapot]

Amazing railway, absolutely love the Deltic! What were/are the biggest challenges you faced building an OO garden railway?

[@Trains_At_York]

Hi. Thank you. One of the biggest challenges was building the viaduct on the first video clip. It took a few years to build but worth it in the end.

[@mikebuick2332]

This is ace! The viaduct is something else! Do you have a description on how you built it please? Even though I have Oak Road I miss my garden railway because I could just sit back and watch the HSTs really stretch their legs. Not sure why there’s five people that don’t like this?!?! 👍👍

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you. We are hoping to try and make a video all about how we built the different points in the railway. We love seeing our HST and other rolling stock stretch their legs too, a real good way to see them do it is outside.

[@stephenhargreaves381]

Superb , well done !

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you😊👍

[@standclear502]

OO’h so very nice 😍 defiantly up there with great wakering love the integration into the garden 👌🏻 good realistic running speed & that deltic 😍. What sound chip are you running? Oh and the omission of ole with those electrics, get a 57 or 68 propelling then👍🏻

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you. The deltic sound is LegomanBiffo sound.

[@standclear502]

What wonderful viaducts 😍 What did you use for your track bed? & how have you fixed your track down?

[@Trains_At_York]

Thanks👍. The trackbeds are made out of concrete flags so they can withhold the weather and don’t rot, or crack or anything. The trackbeds have been down for about 20 years and have never caused any harm or done any damage and are still in a brilliant condition. The track is fixed down with some metal pins from B&Q, fencing pins, similar to Hornby track pins but just a lot cheaper and last longer ect🤣

[@standclear502]

@@Trains_At_York are the metal pins set into the cement joins? between the concrete flags?

[@Trains_At_York]

Sorry, I got my info wrong a tiny bit. The pins are taped through the plastic sleepers as part of the oo gauge track and into wooden dowel underneath. The wooden dowel is set into the concrete by drilling out the concrete then glueing the dowel in after. We then painted over the top of the dowel and concrete flags. I hope this helps. If you have anymore questions, feel free to ask and I’m more than happy to help.

[@standclear502]

@@Trains_At_York Thankyou that makes more sense 👍🏻

[@Trains_At_York]

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[@GDGRailway47712]

That is a very impressive garden railway and the viaduct is an incredible feature. Can I ask what it is made of?

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you. The viaduct is made of concrete and with steel inside to make it stronger and more stable. The brick texture I can’t remember what that’s made of. I hope this helps. Feel free to ask more if you’d like to.

[@AussieGunzel]

Definitely got to have nerves of steel to have a garden railway in HO/OO scale.

[@Trains_At_York]

Yes, that is a very true statement😂. Especially with Hornby’s new Rocket and the Locomotion APT-E.

[@GandZscale]

Terrific Railroad there sir.

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you 😊

[@Dorkingian]

You might like to come and say Hello to us on the 00 Garden Railway Forum.

[@Trains_At_York]

This sounds interesting. What’s the name and where on?

[@Dorkingian]

@@Trains_At_York I don't think it's possible to put URLs in KZbin comments, otherwise I would have done so. So please try searching for 00 Garden Railway Forum.

[@Trains_At_York]

I’ll take a look

[@lucaknight_]

How do you keep you track operating after bad weather

[@Trains_At_York]

Hi. We can’t use it while the rails are damp so we have to wait until dry and we use paper that’s normally used for ‘wet & dry’ to clean the main dirt off. And run a cleaning train round with a cloth at the bottom to take off the rest ready for a normal train to come round. We might make a video in the future about this.

[@lucaknight_]

@@Trains_At_York please do id love to make an ho scale layout since i dont have indoor space

[@Trains_At_York]

Oh cool👍

[@cheeseysponge944]

This is sick !

[@Trains_At_York]

Cheers 👍

[@rob60]

Great video. 👍 I need to improve my video skills

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you

[@seich-of-lacan-getter514]

ITS THE ROCKET!!!!

[@Trains_At_York]

Sure is!

[@seich-of-lacan-getter514]

@@Trains_At_York i need more content on model Rockets, in my life

[@Trains_At_York]

I’ll try to make more😆

[@grumpyoldpianist3251]

Excellent model railway, but a pity the pantograph engines have no catenary to get their power from!

[@Trains_At_York]

Thanks. It is annoying about the electrical/OHLE but sadly it isn’t that possible to have the catenary outside.

[@grumpyoldpianist3251]

@@Trains_At_York Thanks for the pointing out the problems of railway modelling. When I run an electric train with no overhead wires, I put a diesel engine at the head and imagine the pantograph engine has been routed off its usual line and has to be hauled with other motive power. This seems to make it more authentic in my mind!!! Just a thought.

[@Trains_At_York]

This have been thought of before but annoyingly with the hornby 91’s, they don’t have a coupling on the front to allow us to drag them and the cv’s are different between the locos being dragged and dragging. If you have any ideas how to get round this, feel free to say.

[@ericmarc7529]

Not a fan of the same shots over and over but a awesome garden railway

[@steveluckhurst2350]

Wow! No further comment necessary.

[@Trains_At_York]

Thank you!👍