Cheddar - track laying commences

Entry posted by ullypug March 3, 2015

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Some 46 years since the track as lifted in this quiet corner of Somerset, the permanent way gangs have returned once again.

After having expressed a desire to go down the flexi-track route, I have persevered with the original ply and plastic option as intended, for the time being at least.

Step 1 was to make a suitable jig from offcuts of plasticard.Pre-stained sleepers are then slotted in and the first rail added, the chairs having been threaded on.

I've printed off templates from Templot and stuck to the track bed having cut through the sleeper positions. The track edges are drawn on with a ball point pen and the rail positions pushed through the template into the foam beneath.

Step 2 is to glue down the sleepers with first rail into a bed of PVA, before completing the other rail using appropriate S4soc jigs.

It helps that I've managed to rig up space to allow me to work on 2 adjacent boards (1&2) up in my tinking room. Plan will be to complete scenic base layer for board1 before moving onto board 3.

Track testing so far is an assortment of wagons of varying wheel base and weight.

All is well.