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A trial layout to master some basic techniques. Monford Halt is a GWR line based somewhere around the Frome Bath area

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Track and ballast.

The track is laid, and the ballast is down. I have had some track movement during laying, that is due to me not checking the track before nailing it down. Lesson learnt there! I have a scale distance of 12 inches between the platform and the carriages, not sure what H&S would say about that gap!   I still have to wait for the Seep motors for the points to turn up, and then the fun starts!   One thing out of this though, I thought I would try white PVA form Poundland. After all PVA is
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Base board and bus wires

The base board is built. Apart from the problem that I managed when fixing it to the wall, to be under the misguided thought that I was using a smaller drill bit than I was. So that is to redo, it is attached but not as well as I would like.   The Bus wires are in as well. Two sets as I am thinking of going DCC.   The base board is a basic construction, 20mm marine ply (happened to be a section I had in). On top of a frame of pine.   I have put a layer of cork down on top to which I will b
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Geoff H

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The plan.

I am going to have a single lane of track in OO.   Three points, one to an engine shed, one to a coal yard and another as a general siding for the station.   All points are Peco Electofrog points, and will be operated by point motors.   Street and yard lighting.   At either end very small fiddle yards.   So is this the point to say that the last line I laid down was some 30 years ago! I know nothing about soldering apart from watching you-tube and scratching my head.   My rolling sto
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A beginning.

My father never made his railway, it was always when the kids are older, when the house is finished, when I retire. So all these mile stones came and went. His grand idea of recreating his youth of the GWR never happened. The 60 or so foot of loft space is still full of other things and not the railway   He is 88 this year(2016). In 2014 he passed on most of the things to me, knowing that it will never happen now. On one promise, do something with it and that does not mean Ebay!   So tw
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