South Don and Flingel Railway
Our garden railway began early in 1996 and has changed many times during construction. We work to a scale of 1:20.3 (although some feature deviate from this slightly) on track 45mm gauge to represent narrow gauge railways running on 3 foot gauge. There is no specific prototype and you will often see a wide variety of stock on the railway. Locomotives are live steam or battery powered, mainly under radio control.
The photograph on the right captures a busy day at South Don station with a family about to board the directors coach.
The railway is built in a space 50 feet by 30 feet and currently has 476 feet of track winding around the garden ranging from ground level to about 3 feet above ground. Click on the thumbnail to view a plan of the railway.
Live steam - but not the correct gauge
Garden size 50ft x 30ft 14.9M x 9.24M (including sun lounge)
Track distances
| Flingel Bunt Turntable to Mountain junction | 89ft 6in |
27.25M |
| Middle circuit | 113ft 11in | 34.70M |
| Perfidia branch | 27ft | 8.25M |
| Large circuit | 140ft 7in | 42.8M |
| Small circuit | 67ft | 20.4M |
| Triangle branch | 4ft 1in | 1.25M |
| Flingle Bunt Sidings | 34ft 6in | 10.5M |
| Total Track | 476ft 8in | 145.15M |
Mountain Tunnel 9ft 10in 3.0M
Other tunnels 4ft 10" 1.47M
Wooden Bridge 25ft 1in 7.65M