I always enjoy your vids Alex - there is something very therapeutic about them. The pace of the train and the sweeping course of the railway through such beautiful landscape seems to strike a perfect harmony. It's interesting how the plants, bricks, pvc pipe and various other bits and pieces along the line don't look out of place despite the scale - it's like everything is exactly as it should be. I also like the varying colour and texture of the ride - open grassland, dark and rocky tunnels, scenic flights across sunlit valleys, dense green arching foliage, and the track itself nestled in amongst the moss and bush litter. A true bush railway!
I love to see videos of your line! Most garden railways that I know about have an artificial landscape build around them, but your line perfectly fits into the landscape. It looks wonderful ^^ Greetings from Germany
Thanks! Some parts of the landscape here were built from scratch here too, though that was to rehabilitate degraded environment and plant native vegetation as well as to provide landscape for the tramway.
That's like the railroad tracks are leading through some kind of an Alice in Wonderland jungle. All these different sorts of real plants, huge like you'd never see them on planet Earth, grass the size of trees, lizards big as dragons, trees as gigantic as skyscrapers (!), tropical birds' voices, the sunshine, a swarm of flying insects of a size of ten to twenty or so centimetres. And everything's really alive! A tunnel like an old mine, and the best: somewhere down in the green canyon, below the railtracks, there's a peacefully friendly giant taking care of this magical dream railroad. 😍
Stunning! Amazed to learn as well that the overhead wire supplies the power. Is it one continuous circuit or several loops? It must be a nightmare to identify breaks!
I absolutely love your garden tramway (and your blue-tongued assistant). Everything just blends together so well and looks like a full-scale railway in the woods. Bravo! What beautiful country. Did you build these trams too?
Eeey! What a beautiful video! A fantastic mixture of atmosphere, sound, sunlight- and shadeeffects in a breathtaking almost untamed flora (and... ...fauna). A little magic wonderland the ride takes us along and how perfect the track fits in. Hope you can enlarge your layout to some unseen area? I would looking forward. Thank you for that!
Quality entertainment just what I needed at the end of a workday. Great video. What is your camera gear? Background noises come through so nice and clear.
This was filmed with a gopro hero 7 black. It's definitely an improvement over the various drone cameras I was using previously, much better sound quality too.
Looks like you've been busy with some new overhead fittings and masts? Do the trams ever encounter wildlife such as blue tongued lizards, on the track, in tunnels etc?
Possibly there is some new ones? Little incremental changes happen all the time, either for maintenance or improvements. It's definitely possible to meet various wildlife, including the (very unintentional!) near miss with the bluetongue on this trip.
Hello, I love your channel, I would like to know where you buy those trains and railway lines to be able to do something similar in my garden or some web page that you recommend to me to import it to my country. greetings from Chile.
Hi Sebastian! This is what is broadly called "G gauge", which is a general term for any trains running on 45mm gauge track. Within that though there are quite a few different scales depending on which real trains you model. In Chile you might have the same problem that I do in Australia, where because most of the manufactures are in Europe and North America shipping costs are often prohibitively expensive. Because of the large scale though it is easy to build trains and even the track from scratch using common parts. This is pretty much required anyway if you want to build models of local trains and trams. There are some facebook groups: facebook.com/groups/814561258654535/ And forums: www.gscalecentral.net/forums/ that are good for reading about what people are building and what sort of parts are available. I look out for second hand stuff on ebay too, though unless I can find something for sale locally the shipping is usually too expensive there too.
What a totally fantastic railway! I have just found your channel. The whole setting works so well, the plants and trackbed along the ground - so good! What track do you buy? I really need a diamond crossing which I see in your video here at 0:20, where did you buy this, or did you make it? I need two of them for my layout. All the best for 2021, W :)
The track is a real mixture, I think I have just about every common rail profile because it was all second hand. New track can be pretty expensive to buy here unfortunately. That crossing was one that I built out of code 332 brass rail, as well as all the other points up to 1:45. You could probably put one together from four standard sets of points and a diamond crossing though, but maybe with the track centers a bit further apart? I built that one to fit the location with the tracks fairly close together.
I just love the way everything blends so naturally into the terrain and vegetation.
Yeah right, that's so beautiful
2:07 0_0
I always enjoy your vids Alex - there is something very therapeutic about them. The pace of the train and the sweeping course of the railway through such beautiful landscape seems to strike a perfect harmony. It's interesting how the plants, bricks, pvc pipe and various other bits and pieces along the line don't look out of place despite the scale - it's like everything is exactly as it should be. I also like the varying colour and texture of the ride - open grassland, dark and rocky tunnels, scenic flights across sunlit valleys, dense green arching foliage, and the track itself nestled in amongst the moss and bush litter. A true bush railway!
love to see your rail lane expand after years
I feel peaceful watching your video.
I love to see videos of your line! Most garden railways that I know about have an artificial landscape build around them, but your line perfectly fits into the landscape. It looks wonderful ^^
Greetings from Germany
Thanks! Some parts of the landscape here were built from scratch here too, though that was to rehabilitate degraded environment and plant native vegetation as well as to provide landscape for the tramway.
That's like the railroad tracks are leading through some kind of an Alice in Wonderland jungle. All these different sorts of real plants, huge like you'd never see them on planet Earth, grass the size of trees, lizards big as dragons, trees as gigantic as skyscrapers (!), tropical birds' voices, the sunshine, a swarm of flying insects of a size of ten to twenty or so centimetres. And everything's really alive! A tunnel like an old mine, and the best: somewhere down in the green canyon, below the railtracks, there's a peacefully friendly giant taking care of this magical dream railroad. 😍
Stunning! Amazed to learn as well that the overhead wire supplies the power. Is it one continuous circuit or several loops? It must be a nightmare to identify breaks!
I absolutely love your garden tramway (and your blue-tongued assistant). Everything just blends together so well and looks like a full-scale railway in the woods. Bravo! What beautiful country. Did you build these trams too?
Eeey! What a beautiful video! A fantastic mixture of atmosphere, sound, sunlight- and shadeeffects in a breathtaking almost untamed flora (and... ...fauna). A little magic wonderland the ride takes us along and how perfect the track fits in. Hope you can enlarge your layout to some unseen area? I would looking forward. Thank you for that!
Wow, really great! I see a number of track branches in areas that I hope are for future expansion.
Yep there is some more line under construction at the moment.
Missed your cab rides ❤️
I love it so much, it's very relaxing to watch
Looks like you have a nice yard for some horseshoe pits, you play.
Thanks for the great video! I’ll add you to my favorites.
2:07 snake🐍🐍
its a goanna
Blue tongued skink 🧐
Absolutely wonderful ride and nature. Thanks for sharing. How long is the distance of this round trip or track?
This trip is about 120 meters, or 2.8 kilometers in 1:24 scale.
Forgot how beautiful the railway is, are you ever extending beyond Grasslands?
Possibly at some point in the future, though new construction is a lot of work!
Great, relaxing footage, thank you!
Man thank you for giving us a ride through Jurassic Park!🦎👌😂👍👉❤️Is like going through a real jungle in railway 🚃 loved it!
if only i have a big area like this
I'm pretty lucky to have so much space, though there are plenty of very nice garden railways built in small spaces too!
Fantastic - just great :)
A wonderful ride. Thank you for showing
The tracks reminds me of the lush green old abandoned rusty tracks
Nice vibes
Quality entertainment just what I needed at the end of a workday. Great video. What is your camera gear? Background noises come through so nice and clear.
This was filmed with a gopro hero 7 black. It's definitely an improvement over the various drone cameras I was using previously, much better sound quality too.
Amazing to sea a RhB ABe 4/4 in Australia. Cheers from Graubünden, the home country of the RhB
It's a long way from home!
👏😊
Much better than the original thanks!
Looks like you've been busy with some new overhead fittings and masts? Do the trams ever encounter wildlife such as blue tongued lizards, on the track, in tunnels etc?
Possibly there is some new ones? Little incremental changes happen all the time, either for maintenance or improvements. It's definitely possible to meet various wildlife, including the (very unintentional!) near miss with the bluetongue on this trip.
Like 9 beautiful video, greetings from Asturias 🚋👍🙋♂️
I have to ask what part of Melbourne is this amazing garden?
This is in Eltham
Hello, I love your channel, I would like to know where you buy those trains and railway lines to be able to do something similar in my garden or some web page that you recommend to me to import it to my country. greetings from Chile.
Hi Sebastian! This is what is broadly called "G gauge", which is a general term for any trains running on 45mm gauge track. Within that though there are quite a few different scales depending on which real trains you model. In Chile you might have the same problem that I do in Australia, where because most of the manufactures are in Europe and North America shipping costs are often prohibitively expensive. Because of the large scale though it is easy to build trains and even the track from scratch using common parts. This is pretty much required anyway if you want to build models of local trains and trams.
There are some facebook groups: facebook.com/groups/814561258654535/
And forums: www.gscalecentral.net/forums/
that are good for reading about what people are building and what sort of parts are available. I look out for second hand stuff on ebay too, though unless I can find something for sale locally the shipping is usually too expensive there too.
How often do you go in and trim the leaves on the line
Or your trains Electrified through the tracks or the catenary, cause their pantographs seem to be in constant connection with the wire
Yes the power is supplied by overhead wire
What a totally fantastic railway! I have just found your channel. The whole setting works so well, the plants and trackbed along the ground - so good! What track do you buy? I really need a diamond crossing which I see in your video here at 0:20, where did you buy this, or did you make it? I need two of them for my layout. All the best for 2021, W :)
The track is a real mixture, I think I have just about every common rail profile because it was all second hand. New track can be pretty expensive to buy here unfortunately. That crossing was one that I built out of code 332 brass rail, as well as all the other points up to 1:45. You could probably put one together from four standard sets of points and a diamond crossing though, but maybe with the track centers a bit further apart? I built that one to fit the location with the tracks fairly close together.
Please tell me that is your snake
Fantastic.
Wow ! Love the established, landscape. What a great ride. A true labor of love.
Cheers from Detroit, USA🇺🇲
Make a video with rail switch system
COOL !
Thanks for the ride, I thought I was going to be late to have tea with the Mad Hatter. "Cheers Mate"
Very realistic very good and beautiful the wagons kept very well the lizard seemed to me rex braviii
love it so much :D Pls do more stuff like dat :P hust hust
Класс! Мне понравилось :0)
Upload terus dong
Very good video! Thank you!
5:39 Speed restriction for heat buckle
Could you let the trains run at night?
I should make a night video! I'd need to do some lighting upgrades so it looks nice.
That was enjoyable, awesome garden railway
👌 👍 Amazing
I have a silly question. Does the train really run by electric wires overhead or do the locomotives have a battery??
The electric trains and trams are all powered by the overhead wires. The diesel locomotive is actually battery powered though.
1:59 nice Spidey web on the catenary lol
That's just one you can see! There's lots of spiders in the tunnels.
@@melbournesparks3828 I bet there is lol, spiders make their homes anywhere they like, no consideration for other beings
The speed on the long straight is almost scary!
well, its completely safe at that speed because its the flattest and straightest part of the railway
Yes, but you never know what herbs or animals will suddenly appear and cause a derailment.
Where does the track go after the level crossing 40 seconds in to the video?
That's the line to the new depot and stabling sidings.