THE FISKERTON LIGHT RAILWAY

The first bit of Terry Pearse's railway that you get to see is the terminus which is near to the house and uses a turntable to turn and release incoming locos from their trains.

The MDLR's Lady Sybil waits to depart.

The branch then curves through 90 degrees.......

........before running down...............

..........to the triangular junction........

............ and joining the main line. Thus far, the line has been contained within dwarf walls............

........... but now the main construction method reveals itself! Notice there is NO plywood WHATSOEVER!

You then arrive at the "far" station..............

............... which has echoes of the Great Central, with the central island platform accessed from below.

There are some sidings here................

........ but the large steaming-up area is inside the main circuit............

..........which continues round to Fiskerton station, from whence it's possible to take the other arm of the triangular junction to go back up the branch to where you started from......................

........... or just keep going round, as Lady Sybil did.

2016 saw a radical remodelling of the line. The bushes down one side of the garden had gone, to be replaced by a new branch line terminus. The (cardboard) loco shed in the foreground was there merely to check whether clearances were adequate with Other People's Stock, before committing to a "proper" building.

The line runs down the side of the garden..........................

........... and looks like it's going to join the main line...............................

........... but in fact it doesn't. You CAN actually do this, but it's possible to avoid the main circuit altogether and run up the original branch, to operate a point-to-point service..