Two Grand openings and a Closure

This year has seen the premier and opening of 2 new Garden Railways; Pletten Railway and Hummelfjell Banen (Ry). Unfortunately this year also saw closure of a local Garden Railway; The Pine Hill Railway (PHRy), or 'Furubakken Hagejernbane' in Norwegian. PHRy was constructed and made by friend and former member of our Model Railway Club, Kjell, and was unfortunately reaching the end of the line as he was moving houses earlier this year.

I was privileged to visit his awesome and fully Scenic Garden Railway with my Roundhouse Live Steam W^D 'Billy' a while ago. Even if PHRy was gauged to 32mm, this was no problem for my W^D 'Billy' which usually runs on 45mm gauge, as this locomotive very simply and quick can be re-gauged to either. Kjell was kindly lending me a 'rake' of his 32mm gauge wagons to pull around his lovely Garden Railway Layout. Here are some impressions of our great day out on The Pine Hill Railway:

Getting ready in the Fiddleyard:

Trains running on Kjell's layout:

My War Department engine working the line:

There was a lot of details and scratchbuilt buildings on the layout:

When reading this RHRy is unfortunately history. Thank you for inviting us and your hospitality Kjell.
I'm glad some 'PHRy-History' lives on in my military trains as I bought one of Kjell's scratch-built flat cars.