Updates to TheRSR come all at once. I don’t apologise! :-)

Meanwhile, work has also been taking place helping Mr W build a new railway in an outbuilding at his new home in South Norfolk.

Mr W is a good modeller and over the years has constructed and painted white metal kits of various LNWR, L&Y and Midland locomotives from the 1920s – sort of pre-grouping/early grouping cross over period. Not content with locos are his kit built coaching stock and wagons. Oh and all fitted with three link couplings.

But he’d never built a railway and needed some help with track laying and so forth. The building was about 20 feet by 11 and a joiner who had been working on MR W’s home had constructed baseboards around the space about a yard to a metre wide.

Now these baseboards are not going anywhere – 3/4 MDF topped with sundela. The first job was to fix the latter to the former – it’s a big area and took almost a morning to glue and screw down. The other structural necessity was a lifting flap where the door is. The joiner while leaving a board to fit had not ‘fitted’ it.

With the need for a minimum radius of 36 inches to accommodate the three links, and Mr W getting withdrawal symptoms from not being able to run his trains we were able to get him set up before Christmas 2014 with a prototype layout comprising 2 circuits and a 10 road storage area..

Yes that is a Union Pacific ‘Big Boy’ facing a Heljan Garrett, unlikely but fun.

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