Saturday 20th March 2010. Day 1 of the 4th NZ Garden Railway Convention held in Masterton at Fernridge School
Hugh Keal during his figure making workshop.
Chris Drowley fitting decoders and sound boards
Wayne Haste demonstrating his scratch building techniques
Guest speaker Brian Innes from High Street Plants, Masterton lectures on plant selection and care.
And at the Culcreuch Fold Garden Railway Brian Innes demonstrated planting and pruning techniques in part two of his lecture.
Lunch in the sun while trains run at the Ian & Ann Galbraith's Culcreuch Fold Garden Railway
Yummy yummy, more food....
And more trains...
Chris Drowley's train visiting the Culcreuch Fold Garden Railway over lunch
Peter Cameron presented a slide show of his father's historic garden railway, these are some of the very original 1930 models....
Inside Peter's purpose built shed he continues to run and build on the 3/8th scale original railway. The quality of modeling belies the age.
That's Peter in the background. A lovely Canterbury J in the foreground.
Real or model? Recent build or historic?
Beauchamp & Joan Dickens' railway. An English feel to the railway with a cosmopolitan mix of trains running.
Main station yard. Beauchamp's trains are all battery powered.
An NZR Standard railcar in their original silver livery
The railway is about the size of a tennis court and has room for big trains...
Aristo-craft EWS class 66 with a custom paint job
Beauchamp's railway has aged subtly into the lush planting
Note the original hand made track.
All the buildings are scratch built.
Lots of places for train watching. The first wagon holds the batteries.
Afternoon tea in the shade as Beauchamps new K27 circulates on temporary display track under test on the front lawn.
Lloyd Dickens' railway has a large pond, the wharf scene gives reflections just waiting to be photographed.
Lloyd's Caledonia climbs his central spiral.
Live steam shay hauling scratch built log wagons.
Lloyd's shay steaming up the spiral framed by his sawmill
Lady Anne with a good head of steam.
There were some nice comfy seats to enjoy the railway in the warm afternoon sun.
After Saturday's layout tour there was time to study the models on show before dinner...
Some of Andy Whyman's live steamers
and other assorted models...
Chris Rogers WD train of IP Engineering kitsets in the foreground...
Some of Wayne Haste's scratch built DR models...
Sunday morning, more sun, more railways. Charles Collinson's railway first.
Signalman leans out to enjoy the sun as Charles FA passes by.
Charles's railway has a open pastural feel, filling much of his backyard.
Murray Clarke's railway next. Here his Piko Tarus works downhill.
Fancy sitting on Murray's deck watching the trains?
The lawn is slowly being overtaken with railway...
Murray's bridges are all scratch built.
Sunday morning tea was partaken at the historic Carterton Railway Station.
On to Jim McIntyre's railway, home of big US diesel's...
...and big trains with a long run...
Note the trains are running on his own aluminum track.
More sun and conversation!
7 doors further down the street is Lee & Christine Collett's Rosebrook Railway and Christine's tram
The shade was very welcome...
Lee's new two car Piko railcar set
The Rosebrook Railway paints a very picturesque european alpine theme.
Christine's tram is equal picturesque.
Last but not least on Sunday morning was Jeremy Were's US midwest railway.
Jeremy has sifted a lot of dirt to get to this stage, there is some big scenery developing here.
The track sits on Jeremy's own precast concrete roadbed.
Station area. The railway is fully fence to keep out farm animals grazing nearby.
Jeremy has sculpted all this terrain from a flat paddock.
After Sunday morning's layout tour Andy Whyman held a clinic on buying, operating and constructing live steam loco's
Andy's model of a Price loco was build as part of a model engineer's challenge, chains driven like the prototype...
Plenty of steam, racing along at a respectable slow logging loco pace...
Action everywhere on the model. And so ended the 4th NZ Garden Railway Convention.
