Many of you are conversant with the South Arbury Railway.

A Four scale mile run of double track with gradients of less than 1 in 200 & curves no tighter than 7ft radius. 

 Garratt Sunday - June 2007. Mick Browns NGG16 awaits it's turn of duty in New Chesterton Yard at the South Arbury Railway. 

The railway was first opened in 2001 with the main goal of producing a running line for large Garratt type locomotives & lengthy trains to be put through their paces.

The line served us well untill last year when we purchased the garden next door. The last train ran on that railway in 2008 before changes started to take place.

Currently, the line is being rebuilt to take in all of the new land & will emerge a much larger & more challenging railway than before! More tunnels, more bridges, more gradients, more spirals, more waterfalls along with easier curves - it has to be worth waithing for!!

We were originally looking for an October 2009 opening, but that date just whizzed by.

Work on the line is slow, but steady so things are progressing.

Looking forward to the re-opening in 2010!!

So - watch this page for details of the date, updates will appear as the work progresses...

 The start of the end...

The first bridge was taken out in 2008. This view is looking towards the bottom end of the land with the exsisting garden on the right (you can see the other line on the far right) & the new part on the left.