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Clovelly Road - Tracklaying 3


Steam_Julie

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I made the track laid yesterday slightly too short. But this was solved by pre-curing a short piece of track to place the point in the correct position.

 

The stages are remove the rail from the sleeper, then bend to the required radius. It is difficult to bend the last 20mm or so of a rail length. Therefore I allowed 20mm extra on both ends, bent the rail and then trimmed the 20mm off each end.

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It is essential with any track laying, that you don't trim the section to the exact length, until absolutely necessary. My grandma always said when cutting material, when dress making, measure twice and then cut once. I have found this excellent advice when laying track too.

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Once the track laying was complete I was able to trim the foam base.

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No Lisa my layout, as you see, is not totally pointless after all.

 

Julie

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Incidentally the sharpest part of the curve, 75mm radius, has been gauge widen by 0.35mm. This might so seem much, but it make the difference between the long wheelbase brake van when connected to the other wagon, from not coming off.

 

Julie

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Interesting tip there, making the rail over-length to bend it then cut the surplus off.  I haven't been as resourceful as that, although with my previous 00 gauge layouts I've made use of Peco Setrack curves mixing varying radii to make transition curves that will fit where one radius alone would not fit.  I then cut the final bit of curve to length.  But I might well give your way a try next time.   

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The rail bending tip came from the video by Bob Felphs in which he lays the track for an OO gauge model of St Ives made a few years ago. It was on the Peco Christmas CD.

 

Julie

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