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Nice!

Lovely stuff mate.

 

Kind regards,

Nick

Some nice track work on there. Always interesting to see the work involved in getting the track right.

 

Cheers just now,

Jim.

Hi Robin.

 

Looking at the third pic, you might need to do something about the track alignment on the board joint on the outer track. Otherwise, looking great.

Mmm... I was going to say something similar, but it might be an optical illusion caused by the position of the two black strips under the track. From some angles, they definitely make it look like there's a distinct kink but it's not so apparent if you look at the rails instead.

It'll be interesting to see Robins response.

I am also intrigued by the sleeper gap in the outer track, adjacent to the loco tender.

Good to see steady progress with the track though.

Dave.

Hi John & Dave,

 

The track alignment is an optical illusion caused by the misplaced card - the short lengths of card moved when fitting the 12BA brass cheese head screws which I use to secure the rails at board joints. I've since used a black marker pen to remove the kink in the card.

The gap is to insert a sleeper with rivets and palatine droppers for electrical connection. I need to remove a sleeper per 60ft rail length.

 

Robin 

The track looks great - as does the quality of the construction of the boards.
Rob