With the baseboards sorted and the trackplan pretty much finished, its time to start looking at track...

As mentioned in the outline, my method of satisfying the '5 things for 5 years of RMWeb' is the use of 5 different types of plain track.

This includes:

• Bullhead rail with wooden sleepers and BR chairs - Modelled using Exactoscale chairs and sleeper bases with the latter modified to remove the webbing between the sleepers. This will have track feeds following Jim S-W's design here.
• Continuously welded Flatbottom rail with E29 Sleepers and 'e' padrol clips, will also include a few odd E28 sleepers (basically the E29 but with a 3rd rail step) just to add in a little different (nothing to do with acidental filing...) - This are modelled using the exactoscale sleeper bases, all cut from the webbing and fitted to the rail at the correct spacing.
• Continuously welded Flatbottom rail with wooden sleepers and PAN11 baseplates - Copperclad sleepers with Colin Craig parts for the baseplates, this forms the mainline to the left after the pointwork and also the short track length between points.
• Continuously welded Flatbottom rail with BR1 baseplates - Again wooden sleepers and Colin Craig etched baseplates, this forms the branchline
• Finally Flatbottom rail with wooden sleepers and BR2 baseplates - As with the BR1 for construction, this will be used for a single short jointed pannel between the bay point and the bullhead track that forms the siding.

There will also be 2 different types of adjustment switch (fitted between points and continuously welded rail) with those on the mainline being built with flatbottom rail for the reinforcing bars in the centre, whereas the branch will use Bullhead (again there is not really much of a reason for this other than I want to build different versions....

I think I am now about half way through cutting the Up main's sleepers from the webbing, still a lot more to cut up though! Hopefully will have enough done to start adding them to rail tonight.....