Garden railway (model railway)

Garden railway LGB steam locomotive "Stainz" in the IIm gauge

A garden railroad is a model railroad that is set up either permanently or in a removable manner outdoors as a model railroad system. For operational reasons, model railways of nominal size 0 or larger are mainly used. The IIm gauge , sometimes also referred to as G - G for garden railway - is the most widespread . They are not suitable for passenger transport .

The garden railways of any kind are standardized in the standards of European model railways (NEM), but not the park railways .

Garden railway track 1 (Märklin Maxi)

General

Garden railway model railway in Switzerland in the 0 and 0m gauge.

In general, model trains from nominal size 0 are considered suitable for garden use. Smaller nominal sizes are also suitable for the garden with appropriate care, but model railway systems with a smaller nominal size are rarely found.

The tracks , rolling stock and garden railroad accessories must be robust and insensitive to the weather. For this reason alone, there is a certain minimum size in terms of scale or track width .

The gauge IIm with a gauge of the model vehicles of 45 mm, which was initiated in 1968 by the Lehmann-Groß-Bahn (LGB), is widespread . This is a meter- gauge model railway in nominal size II .

Garden railroad systems are often privately owned on private property, with several family members often participating in the maintenance of the system and garden. Systems belonging to associations or even private companies are less common.

Due to the large scale and the much smaller risk of fire in the garden, models powered by real steam (called " real steam " after the original of the steam locomotive ) can be found here regularly.

In contrast to model railroad systems , garden railways are located in the open air.

Plant types

Gauge I garden railway in the miniature landscape of the Bekonscot Model Village (England)

Model railway systems in the garden can be divided into two types of system. The transition from one category to the other is primarily dependent on the effort involved in creating it, as well as the integration or separation of a garden landscape.

Fixed system integrated into a garden

These systems are mostly complex model railroad systems integrated in a green garden landscape or in a rock garden. High and low, flowering and non-flowering plantings should be connected together with the tracks, tunnels, bridges, lakes and structures to form a harmonious landscape. The planning of the track system and the garden greening are coordinated. The maintenance of the system and the care of the garden are often complex.

Garden railway track 1 track and track ballast

Temporary or mobile system, systems separated (isolated) from the garden

Temporary garden railway at the Aue city festival in 2006

Temporary or mobile garden railways are created on tracks that are laid with simple means, with little or no landscape. Garden railway model railway systems of this type often have only a gravel bed, an asphalt surface or even just a grass surface as the subsurface. Such systems can also be found at exhibitions and trade fairs with materials that are easy to assemble and dismantle. For example on wood chips where the landscape is indicated with potted plants. The maintenance is usually minimal.

Systems of this type are also permanently installed or set up in the same location for a longer period of time. If the corresponding systems are permanently installed, the actual garden usually only begins at the edge of the actual garden railway system. Similar to a model railway system indoors or in a hobby room, the system is limited to a space that has been defined in advance.

Public garden railways

Germany

state	place	Nominal size	from	to	operator	items	Notes and source
Baden-Württemberg	Hardt , Hardt amusement park	LGB					[1]
Baden-Württemberg	Sachsenheim , Hohenhaslach	LGB	1970s		Heinz Knodel		[2]
Bavaria	Freilassing	LGB	January 2011		Freilassing locomotive world	"Western Railway"	[3]
Bavaria	Rettenberg -Kranzegg	LGB	2007 (approximately)	2011 (approximately)	Alexander Volk	"VOMOLAND"	[4]
Brandenburg	Elsterwerda , Elsterwerda Adventure and Miniature Park, Furtbrückwiese 1	IIm	April 6, 2007		Adventure and miniature park Elsterwerda	Adventure and miniature park Elsterwerda	also has 184 mm (7¼ inch) attachment
Hesse	Burgwald - Ernsthausen Marburger Strasse 25	IIm	2009	2014 [5]	"Burgwaldbahn" hiking room		1000 m² garden railway system with excursion restaurant, 750 m track
Hesse	Waldeck House Eichendorffstr. 50 64347 Griesheim	IIm	2009		Community of interests Griesheimer Gartenbahner eV		https://iggev.de
Hesse	Bahnhofstrasse 51 63695 Glauburg	IIm			Stockheim model station		https://www.modellbahnhof-stockheim.de/
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Göhren , train station	LGB			Model railway association narrow-gauge railway " Rasender Roland " eV		Plant with 12 m²
Lower Saxony en	Horstfeldweg 9 29646 Bispingen	IIm	April 03, 2020		MOUNTAIN & VALLEY ADVENTURE RESORT "Snow Dome"	https://www.spur-g-blog.de/2019/10/modellbauwelten-in-bispingen-starten-2020/	https://www.ablebnis-resort.de/modellbauwelten/
North Rhine Westphalia	Krefeld depot	IIm	1991		LGB Friends Lower Rhine		https://www.lgb-niederrhein.de
Rhineland-Palatinate	Koblenz-Lützel , DB Museum, Schönbornsluster Str. 3	IIm	2005		BSW Group for the Preservation of Historic Rail Vehicles Koblenz	DB Museum Koblenz
Rhineland-Palatinate	Neustadt / Weinstraße , Railway Museum , Schillerstraße 3	LGB	Sep 2000
Saxony	Chemnitz , Küchwaldring 24	II, IIf	October 31, 1997		Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz gGmbH	Chemnitz Park Railway
Saxony	Rathen , Elbweg 10	IIm	2007		Railway worlds in the health resort Rathen	Railway worlds in the health resort Rathen	4600 m of track, 35 trains, 88 points. With boarding houses and restaurants, the world's largest facility of this type from LGB and PIKO
Saxony	Werdau , Holzstrasse 2		1992?			City and Steam Engine Museum Werdau	Scale 1:20 / 1: 22.5 [6]
Thuringia	Wiehe , Am Anger 19 (north of Weimar )	LGB (2 systems)	November 1997 January 2001			Wiehe model railway	a) 380 m² with the theme "Harz" b) 1625 m² with the theme "USA - East to West"

Austria

place	Nominal size	from	to	operator	items	Notes and source
Strasshof at the Nordbahn Sillerstraße 123				Strasshof Railway Museum		[7]

Switzerland

The highlight for decades was certainly the private, no longer existing standard-gauge model railroad system by Arthur Oswald on the Dietschiberg on a scale of 1:10.

Canton	place	Nominal size	from	to	operator	items	Remarks
Bern	Bolligen	IIm	1979		Private		Stockerenbahn
Bern	Hindelbank	0, 0m and 0e	1978		Railway Model Club Hindelbank		has cog railway sections
Bern	Wengen	IIm			Private		hotel
Lucerne	Dietschiberg	1)	1932	between 1987 and 1990	Private		1)
Ticino	Melide	2)	1959		Swiss miniature	Swiss miniature	has cog railway sections
Ticino	Mendrisio	IIm			Galleria Baumgartner
train	Red cross	IIm			Breitfeld mini golf		Breitfeldbahn
Zurich	Cat lake	IIm			Katzensee steam train		See also garden railway, Switzerland

1) Aborted. Overgrown area. 1:10 scale. Former private standard gauge model railway set by Arthur Oswald. The vehicle fleet as well as some original documents are now in the inventory of the Verkehrshaus Luzern.

2) Scale 1:25, replica of standard-gauge railways and narrow-gauge railways with prototype gauges of 1435, 1000 and 800 mm.

France

region	place	location	Nominal size	from	to	operator	items	Remarks
Dep. Isère	Chat (Isère)	2, route de Lyon				Le Jardin ferroviaire		[8th]
Dep. Ardèche	Soyons (Ardèche)	Route de Nimes	LGB			Le jardin des trains Ardèchois

Netherlands

region	place	location	Nominal size	from	to	operator	items	Remarks
North Holland Province	Velsen-Zuid	Genieweg 38a	IIm	2011		Modelbouwvereniging het Y
Friesland Province	Sneek	railway station	LGB				"Snitser Berg-baan"	[9]

Web links

Commons : Garden railways - collection of images, videos and audio files

Garden train - The fascination of the garden train

The garden railroad magazine for the I and IIm gauge

Gartenbahn Profi - International magazine for large model railways

Volldampf - The independent magazine for the big rail fan
G gauge blog - daily online magazine for G gauge garden railways

Individual evidence

↑ Garden railway system at www.Parkeisenbahn-Chemnitz.de
↑ www.minigolf-breitfeld.ch Breitfeldbahn ( memento of the original from September 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed July 23, 2012) @1@ 2
↑ Model railway on a scale of 1:10 on the Dietschiberg: the technical masterpiece of Arthur Oswald. by Thomas Bauer, Inkwil / CH.
↑ Website MBV-HET-Y (accessed on February 11, 2016)

[1] Garden railway system at www.Parkeisenbahn-Chemnitz.de

[2] www.minigolf-breitfeld.ch Breitfeldbahn ( memento of the original from September 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed July 23, 2012) @1@ 2

[3] Model railway on a scale of 1:10 on the Dietschiberg: the technical masterpiece of Arthur Oswald. by Thomas Bauer, Inkwil / CH.

[4] Website MBV-HET-Y (accessed on February 11, 2016)