Patio Rails: My Garden Railway: A hard day's navvying

I promised more on the fruits of the May bank holiday and here they are. There's some lessons learned as well.

Track supports - LGB 50612 / 50613 and 50614. Clip together plastic track supports. After the first day's running with the grandchildren from next door then there was the realisation that the garden was very not level, and that bits of cardboard stuck under the track weren't really a solution. I knew that these existed but not especially cheap but surprisingly some came up on ebay or from one of the dealers, and then I tracked more cheap ones down to a shop that was heaving a clearance (I suspect getting rid of the last of its LGB stuff that had been lying around for years). With the ability to clip them together then they are adjustable and just the sort of thing whilst I'm planning.

Here's a view of the top right (see later post with map) curve showing the LGB supports in action Add caption

Here's the top left, coming out of the flowerbed - again showing the supports.

Here's the far side passing loops - not really big enough to take much in the way of trains but again part of planning.

New recruit since Christmas. I hadn't planned on getting one quite so soon, but the offer of one came at at reduced price so I took it. I've had it chipped with the Massoth bus sound card.

I was a bit concerned about overhangs on the route though. The Bus has quite a pronounced verhang and there's a couple of 45 cm long coaches (pictures yet to come) that are newly acquired and which might pose problems. What I hadn't envisaged was another problem that came up on the first circuit. This was catching on a wooden bridge (Ebay purchase) - the ladders on the side of the bus catch the sides of bridge. Reminds me of being a student when the bus drivers used to fold their wing mirrors in to get through the Westgate at Canterbury. For comparison I have photographed it on the LGB Plastic girder bridge - which does have enough clearance.