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The <strong>Garden</strong> <strong>Whistle</strong> - <strong>Apr</strong>il <strong>2012</strong><br />
The Fraser Line<br />
Three loops at the main station allowed slower trains to pull in to allow faster trains to over take.<br />
Text & photos by Glen Anthony (Christchurch)<br />
In complete contrast to what we experienced<br />
when we last visited on the garden railway convention,<br />
the weather at Ross and Gwyn’s this<br />
time was very pleasant; no wind, sunny and hot!<br />
Rather than hiding behind the garage to get out<br />
of the wind, we were hiding under the trees to<br />
get out of the sun! A brief last glimpse of summer<br />
on a stunning 27deg day.<br />
As you will see elsewhere in this issue, the<br />
railway was measured at 136 metres long at the<br />
recent garden railway convention, and it is the<br />
longest one in the Canterbury area. The long run<br />
was fully utilised with three or four trains running<br />
at any one time during most of the afternoon.<br />
(One on track power and three on various<br />
battery powered systems).<br />
First to start running trains was the Paterson<br />
family who bought some of their Thomas the<br />
Tank Engine trains. Kelly (age 4) was in control<br />
of James, followed by Lorraine (age 5) who<br />
drove Percy.<br />
The line quickly became very busy as more<br />
and more trains rolled out of the indoor set-up<br />
yard and down the incline to the ground level<br />
track. Having many trains on the line was much<br />
more interesting than just watching one. Luckily<br />
the line has two places for passing. One is the<br />
main yard which has a number of loops. Slower<br />
trains occasionally pulled in to let faster trains<br />
Engine & driver swap. Kerry, Kelly & Lorraine Paterson<br />
Ian Galbraith’s railcar passing some of Ross’ signals<br />
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