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About this blog

There are numerous reasons for starting a "blog" on any given subject, but in the environment we find ourselves in at the moment it feels like a positive activity towards maintaining sanity. So here goes.

Lyghtondown, as I'm calling the railway  (you have to have a name, don't you) is the result of a series of events and actions spanning a few years now that has resulted in a layout that is 8 feet wide and 7 feet deep.  Within these confines we have tried to strike a balance between a Train Set and a Model Railway in a Sussex countryside branch line scenario.  Only time will tell if we achieve our goals.

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Lyghtondown

Bridging the gap

Flushed with a feeling of competence and an irrepressible desire to risk failure in the face of a public audience, I chose try my hand at another kit. The Ratio foot bridge, RO548.  I knew the Jujitsu kit bashing skill were unnecessary, but it looked like it would be a little fiddly.   What the heck, we were going away for a week so I packed the kit, some tools and an extra dollop of wishful thinking. Shame I forgot the instructions 🙄   Anyway, who needs instructions?  
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jeff_p in Lyghtondown

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Lyghtondown

Filling in a gap..

.. in Lyghtondown.  The good yard didn't have any form of cattle or livestock facility.  Given that the size of the yard in real terms is, well, really, really tiny, this was never going to be a trivial decision or subsequent action.   I had a choice of either putting a more normal dock in on the same siding as the coal staithes (?) where it could be basically rectangular, or "jamming" it between the good shed siding and the main good siding but necessitating some significant black bel
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