Lyngford Light Railway
A 5 inch gauge garden railway

Track Plan & Tour

Sketch of the bridge construction. The bridge is constructed from two lengths of 50mm x 50mm steel angle placed as shown in the cross section sketch above. 25mm square section steel was cut to 5 inch long and welded between so that the steel angles form the rails that the trains run on. Further peices of 25mm square steel were welded to the out side of the angles to support the plank deck. As the angles were too short to span across the pond, I lengthened them by welding more square section steel to the ends. This was positioned so that the aluminium rail could be bolted to them at the correct height. It is my intention to add sides to my bridge to a 'through truss' style.
The bridge in place and in use before the wood deck was added	The bridge with deck in place. There is now a point and track running off to the right on the other side of the bridge by the gnome.
The start of the cutting. The clearance through here is rather tight!	Leaving the cutting and crossing a path.
Across the path and round the bottom of the garden.	An early view back towards the cutting.
Across the bottom of the garden.
	A point here now leads into the workshop to the right of the blue water butt visible in the top right of this picture.
Pond siding Workshop sidings Triangle	This track panel had been in the ground for about 5 years. The creosoted softwood sleepers show little or no signs of rotting!

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©Terry Bowden. 2009