In the beginning.....

We moved to this house in March 2002.

When we moved, we left behind the trackbed of the original CSLR, what the new occupants of that house think we may never know! However, with a good quantity of stock, good condition, recently lifted track and a steam engine which needed to be run, plans evolved quite quickly...

You are one of:

Thanks for visiting!

Sir Frederick basking in the May sunshine. Note the loss of the power van - a slimmer battery pack is on the wagon allowing more variety in the trains.

This is the continuing story of the
Castagnola South Light Railway,
a railway in my back garden.

The railway runs on 45mm gauge track and is generally of a scale of 16mm to the foot. I say generally, because this translates to 1:19, but some of my stock is 1:22.

I have four electric locomotives which run from batteries fitted inside them, two of which are controlled by radio. A fifth engine runs from batteries in a van towed behind and fitted with radio control. I also have three live steam locomotives, which are radio controlled.

The main circuit scales out at just short of 1 mile in length, giving the trains a good run and some real work to do up hill and down dale.

Key Milestones

• 2002 - The Beginning
• 2003 - Progression
• 2004 - Bridges and Engineer
• 2005 Southdown & Deviation
• 2006 - Spring/Summer
•  JULY 2006 OPEN DAY - click here
• 2006 - Demolition?
• 2007 - A year of change.
• 2008 - Completion of the circuit, and a new Loco
• 2009 - Cold beginnings. Snow in Feb!
• 2009 May - New wagons and some maintenance.
• 2009 June - A visit to Swanwick