Railway Outdoors
A steam engine with a loaded coal tender and a blue-and-white railcar run through the garden, past half-timbered houses and waiting passengers. 67 photos from August 2024 to August 2025.
67 photosAugust 2024 – August 2025Playmo Gallery
Railway & garden railway
The big building site outdoors — from the first rail via the gravel works to the finished layout. Indoors and out.
Railway Indoors
A red steam locomotive and tender pass Fort Brave, while the lit half-timbered station Brunnadern-Neckertal waits with its clock and its passengers. 18 photos taken between November 2023 and January 2025.
18 photosNovember 2023 – January 2025
Branch Station, Self-Built
From kit parts on the carpet to a finished platform: a branch-line station takes shape in a single day, with a glass canopy, lighting and waiting passengers.
13 photosJanuary 2025
Building the Indoor Layout
First an oval of track on the living-room floor with the dog stretched out on the carpet, then ballast, mobile cranes and a blue diesel loco. Sixteen photos from late October to mid-December 2023.
16 photosOctober 2023 – December 2023
Station, Self-Built
Red roof panels, half-timbered walls and tower sections lie scattered on the carpet at first, then a tall station with a white tower stands finished. 14 photos from November 2023.
14 photosNovember 2023
Roadworks at the Garden Line
Beside the track bed the ground is levelled and ballast spread, while the white LCE express rolls past the half-timbered village with its red roofs. Nine pictures from one October day in 2023.
9 photosOctober 2023
Garden Railway 2022/23
A gantry crane and containers at the transfer yard, a steam loco by the red-and-white lighthouse, and the dog stretched out along freshly ballasted track. 59 pictures from a year and a half.
59 photosApril 2022 – September 2023
Gravel Works
A mobile crane, dump trucks and an excavator build a gravel works in the autumn garden, and in the end the excavator loads ballast into the open freight wagons.
64 photosNovember 2022
Building the Garden Railway
Surveying, pushing ballast, laying sleepers: a wheel loader, a mobile crane and helmeted workers build the track bed right across the garden. 130 photos from May to October 2021.
130 photosMay 2021 – October 2021