The Rhubarb Triangle Line

[Robpulham]

Earlier this year Chris, my good lady suggested that we alter the garden to remove hazards for her and to give me the space to have a garden railway.

At that point the garden looked like this with the red lines marking the suggested route of the prospective garden railway.





The last shot gives an idea of the challenges involved because the red line in this one marks a water course that ran most of last year

[strang steel]

Looks good to me. I mentioned a similar idea for our back garden but was met with an instant NO! from SWMBO.

[manna]

G'Day Gents

I like the idea of garden layouts ! the water course, could be a problem though, but a pair of wellies could come in handy.

manna

[Danby Wiske]

the water course, could be a problem though

Good excuse for a viaduct...

[jwealleans]

Will the idea be that you bring the rhubarb out by rail, or take the horse sh** in?

[Robpulham]

Will the idea be that you bring the rhubarb out by rail, or take the horse sh** in?

Probably both.

[Robpulham]

Next job was to talk to a landscape gardener to get a price. The idea at this point was to plan this year and do next year - plans change!

While talking to the landscaper I asked about recycling and when he said that they didn't have room to store it and that it all went for crushing we decided to recycle as much as we could ourselves offering friends and neighbours anything that we couldn't make use of.

This is what the garden looked like after a couple of months of recycling upheaval.

[Bryan]

Are you going to recycle the gravel into Track Ballast?

Might mean sitting around a lot with a hammer though.

[Danby Wiske]

Are you going to recycle the gravel into Track Ballast?

Might mean sitting around a lot with a hammer though.

Or you could just build a larger scale railway - how about 1:1?

[Robpulham]

The landscapers were supposed to start on 26th of August (Bank holiday Monday) but we got a call on the Sunday afternoon asking if they could start 4 days later on the Friday as they were behind on a previous job. We agreed to this (I am not sure what he would have done if we hadn't - probably just not turned up).

But to give credit where it's due they arrived as promised at 8:30 on the Friday and this is what the garden looked like at lunchtime on day one.

[Robpulham]

Are you going to recycle the gravel into Track Ballast?

Might mean sitting around a lot with a hammer though.

I hadn't thought of that but... no

[strang steel]

It looks like a big job. How high will the tracks be elevated from the level of the garden, if at all?

I am just trying to visualise it all in my mind.

[Robpulham]

Hi John,

The plan is for the tracks to be at approx 3" above ground level at the highest point which is top right hand corner as you have been looking at most of the shots of the garden. Then it will be between 18" and 20" at it's lowest point - we think

[Robpulham]

When the landscapers left on the Friday night we had the weekend to straighten out the two sections of decking that had been built around the raised bed which was no longer there.

This was the end of day one.

[Robpulham]

And a few shots of the straightening of the decking....







It tidied up quite nicely in the end.