Arnside Garden Tramway

1:16 scale Liverpool Baby Grand 245 and Barrow 45 on the garden tramway

On Saturday 24th June, the North Lancashire group of the Tramway & Light Railway Society held their annual monthly meeting in the picturesque seaside village of Arnside in Cumbria, the venue of the meeting being the 3.5 inch gauge (1:16 scale) garden tramway of Jon Allen. In addition to Jon's own garden layout there were two visiting G scale tracks, one running trams and the other narrow gauge steam locomotives.

1:16 scale Cardiff water car 131 towing a linecar trailer

A 1:16 scale Blackpool Boat having just passed through the modelling shed

A 1:16 scale model of Barrow 45 at the terminus

Belgian Vicinal car 9433 on the visiting G scale track in the front garden

A G scale Kitson steam tram locomotive and trailer

A 1:16 scale model of Darwen Corporation Milnes Voss Demi-car 15 built by Richard Hargreaves

A partly completed 1:16 scale model of Southport Tramways Company Demi-car 21

A live steam G scale model of 0-4-0 tank engine Wilhelm

Beware of giant female blackbirds feeding along the tram track