Welcome to the BZB
Welcome to my blog about my Gartenbahn or Garden Railway. At present it doesnt really exist in the garden (moved here in 2020) but does exist in a collection of boxs of items that I hope eventually will be a garden railway in G Scale or Garden scale ! Q&A HOW DID IT START: My father is at fault here ! My father always had a some sort of garden railway, We moved a lot and this went from an outdoor OO set (it never worked) to a Mamod 45mm "live steam" set (it never really worked, as raw Mamod engines hardly ever work) and probably purchased at a great model shop called Beatties in the Palisades shopping centre in Birmingham. For a few years in smaller houses my dad didnt do much, but then in the late 90s he discovered LGB ! I watched and enjoyed him create a railway while I was off at Uni and on the dayz of my 20s and it slowly took over the garden to my mums joy. His muse being the HSB Hartz railway. During one of his moves I acquired a surplu...