Garden railway, the Glossary
A garden railway or garden railroad is a model railway system set up outdoors in a garden.[1]
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Acre
The acre is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems.
Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Atlanta Botanical Garden
The Atlanta Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located adjacent to Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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Backyard railroad
A backyard railroad is a privately owned, outdoor railroad, most often in miniature, but large enough for one or several persons to ride on. Garden railway and backyard railroad are miniature railways.
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Bark (botany)
Bark is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants.
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Bekonscot
Bekonscot Model Village and Railway is a model village built in the 1920s in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK at a scale of one inch to one foot.
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Bonsai
Bonsai (tray planting) is the Japanese art of growing and shaping miniature trees in containers, developed from the traditional Chinese art form of penjing (盆景).
Boulder
In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) is a rock fragment with size greater than in diameter. Garden railway and boulder are garden features.
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Building
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.
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Butane
Butane or n-butane is an alkane with the formula C4H10.
Cargo
In transportation, freight refers to goods conveyed by land, water or air, while cargo refers specifically to freight when conveyed via water or air.
Cat
The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.
Children's railway
A children's railway or pioneer railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where children interested in rail transport can learn railway professions.
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Derailment
In rail transport, a derailment is a type of train wreck that occurs when a rail vehicle such as a train comes off its rails.
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Digital audio
Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital form.
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Digital Command Control
Digital Command Control (DCC) is a standard for a system for the digital operation of model railways that permits locomotives on the same electrical section of track to be independently controlled.
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Direct current
Direct current (DC) is one-directional flow of electric charge.
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Downtown
Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart.
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Dwarfing
Dwarfing is a process in which a breed of animals or cultivar of plants is changed to become significantly smaller than standard members of their species.
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Electric power
Electric power is the rate of transfer of electrical energy within a circuit.
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Electrical resistance and conductance
The electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the flow of electric current.
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Fuel
A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as thermal energy or to be used for work.
G scale
G scale or G gauge, also called large scale, is a track gauge for model railways which is often used for outdoor garden railways because of its size and durability.
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Garden
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.
Gardening
Gardening is the process of growing plants for their vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, and appearances within a designated space.
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Geography
Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.
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Heat
In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference.
Hexamethylenetetramine
Hexamethylenetetramine, also known as methenamine, hexamine, or its trade name Urotropin, is a heterocyclic organic compound with the formula (CH2)6N4.
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Hibernation
Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species.
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Lake
A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
Live steam
Live steam is steam under pressure, obtained by heating water in a boiler.
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Meeting
A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments.
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Metre-gauge railway
Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.
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Miniature park
A miniature park is a display of miniature buildings and models, usually as a recreational and tourist attraction open to the public.
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Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory
Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory (Mitchell Park Domes or The Domes) is a conservatory located at Mitchell Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
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MOROP
MOROP is a European association that federates national associations of railroad and model railroad enthusiasts.
Mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than.
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National Model Railroad Association
The National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) is a non-profit organization for those involved in the hobby or business of model railroading.
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Nest
A nest is a structure built for certain animals to hold eggs or young.
Plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.
Pond
A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially.
Pruning
Pruning is a horticultural, arboricultural, and silvicultural practice involving the selective removal of certain parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots.
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Raccoon
The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.
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Radio-controlled car
Radio-controlled cars, or RC cars for short, are miniature model cars, vans, buses, trucks or buggies that can be controlled from a distance using a specialized transmitter or remote.
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Rail transport modelling
Railway modelling (UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale. Garden railway and rail transport modelling are miniature railways.
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Rail transport modelling scales
Rail transport modelling uses a variety of scales (ratio between the real world and the model) to ensure scale models look correct when placed next to each other.
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Railroad switch
A railroad switch, turnout, or points is a mechanical installation enabling railway trains to be guided from one track to another, such as at a railway junction or where a spur or siding branches off.
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Railway of the Prince Imperial
The railway of the Prince Imperial (Chemin de fer du Prince impérial) was the first documented model railway in the world.
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Railway turntable
In rail terminology, a railway turntable or wheelhouse is a device for turning round railway rolling stock, usually locomotives, so that they face the direction they came from.
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Rain
Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.
Rechargeable battery
A rechargeable battery, storage battery, or secondary cell (formally a type of energy accumulator), is a type of electrical battery which can be charged, discharged into a load, and recharged many times, as opposed to a disposable or primary battery, which is supplied fully charged and discarded after use.
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Replica
A replica is an exact (usually 1:1 in scale) copy or remake of an object, made out of the same raw materials, whether a molecule, a work of art, or a commercial product.
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Ridable miniature railway
A ridable miniature railway (US: riding railroad or grand scale railroad) is a large scale, usually ground-level railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or petrol engines, live steam or electric motors). Garden railway and ridable miniature railway are miniature railways.
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Rock (geology)
In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.
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SE scale
SE scale is a designation used by some modellers to describe miniature (model) trains which run on either Gauge 1 track or O gauge track.
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Signaling (telecommunications)
In telecommunication, signaling is the use of signals for controlling communications.
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A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors.
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Sleep
Sleep is a state of reduced mental and physical activity in which consciousness is altered and certain sensory activity is inhibited.
Solid
Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter along with liquid, gas, and plasma.
Staircase
A stairwell or stair room is a room in a building where a stair is located, and is used to connect walkways between floors so that one can move in height.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.
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Sterno
Sterno is a brand of jellied, denatured alcohol sold in and meant to be burned directly in its can.
Sunlight
Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.
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Train station
A train station, railroad station, or railroad depot (mainly North American terminology) and railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries) is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both.
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Trapdoor
A trapdoor is a sliding or hinged door that is flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof.
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Tunnel
A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway.
Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.
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Wildlife
Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.
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Wind
Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface.
Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
1 gauge
1 gauge, gauge 1 or gauge one is a model railway and toy train standard that was popular in the early 20th century, particularly with European manufacturers.
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16 mm scale
16 mm to 1 foot or 1:19.05 is a popular scale of model railway in the UK which represents narrow gauge prototypes.
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See also
Miniature railways
- Backyard railroad
- Children's railways
- Garden railway
- Michigan AuSable Valley Railroad
- Miniature Railway Company
- Miniature Railway at Silver Lake, Ohio
- Rail transport modelling
- Ridable miniature railway
- Siam Park City Railway
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_railway
Also known as Garden rail, Garden railroad, Garden railroading, Garden railways, Garden trains.
, Railway turntable, Rain, Rechargeable battery, Replica, Ridable miniature railway, Rock (geology), SE scale, Signaling (telecommunications), Skyscraper, Sleep, Solid, Staircase, Steam locomotive, Sterno, Sunlight, Train station, Trapdoor, Tunnel, Weather, Wildlife, Wind, Wood, 1 gauge, 16 mm scale.