Hi everyone,

Just catching the blog up with my progress from the last few months. Last June we finished replacing our internal doors. Salviging the old ones, I cut the baseboards for Burwood. the West board is shown below. Where cuts were made I planed the edges and reinforced the cavity of the hollow door with some 30mmx20mm pine strips.

I took over our living room for a day to fit removable pin hinges which I am going to use to join the boards. (sorry, I forgot to take a picture of this step)

Having made sure that all the boards would go together repeatably, and hold rigidly when assembled, the southern board made its way up to my 'cave' for building, with the others going into storage for the time being.

As I've mentioned before, I'm going to develop the south board completely before starting the others. It is the least complicated design, and I did the track layout to make it a self-contained terminus layout in case I never finish the rest of the layout.

I built the trackbed in laminated hardboard/fibre underlay - as described in a previous post. The picture below shows the board during construction.

First action was my Peco Collett Goods up the incline with two very anachronistic BR WR Mk1 coaches. An exciting moment!