Garden railway (model railway)
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 .
General
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
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.
Temporary or mobile system, systems separated (isolated) from the garden
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] |
See also
Web links
- 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)
- ↑ 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)