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The Heatherburn Garden RailwayBackground By Dave Bentley |
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I have always loved
trains
from an early age, but it wasn't until I started secondary school
that I really got hooked. Saturdays were usually spent on the end
of Darlington station train spotting with my school mates. During the
week we would all cycle down to the railway bridge over the east coast
main line near Aycliffe Village. Here we watched the last days of the
rats, whistlers and peeks. After leaving school we all went our
separate
ways but the love of trains stayed with me. Starting work provided me
with an income to spend on my new hobby - model railways. I started off
in
00 gauge but a house move to Darlington a few years later also saw me
change to N gauge.
The thing I liked with
N gauge was the space to run
full length trains, one thing I couldn't do in 00. My first real
encounter with 00 outdoors was an article in the Railway Modeler about
the Daventry Garden Railway. Ever since reading about this layout I've
wanted to build a garden line of my own. In June 06 we bought our
present
house. My current N gauge layout moved into the garage along with a
small 00 gauge layout built for my nephew to run Thomas on. At the last
Crewe Works open day I bought a hornby class 86 loco. I always had a
soft spot for the 86's and with the run down of the fleet I decided to
start collecting some models to display in a case. Unfortunitly I made
the mistake of putting the loco on the Thomas layout ...
Looking for somewhere
to run my growing collection of 00 led me to the
garden. About this time I stumbled across the Taw-Vale Garden Railway
website. Armed with ideas and with the full support from the missus,
work
commenced in October 06.
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