Bristol Barrow Road - New Baseboards
Bristol Barrow Road now has a full set of baseboards - 21 in total - to enable the layout to operate as a continuous circuit with Up and Down main lines and a 20ft plus fiddle yard.
All the baseboard construction is the work of my friend Chris Yates who has made all the additional boards over the past 12 months. The curved boards at both ends of the layout have proved to be an interesting exercise the sides formed from three layers of 3mm ply glued and clamped around former jigs. Board 19 lifts out to enable access without the need to perform a limbo dance under the layout.
Here are some photos:-
Edit:-
I've been looking for underlay for the new boards and discovered some black self adhesive wood floor underlay, 2mm thick, in B&Q. Bit expensive @ £50 for 10m x 1m but I found the equivalent on ebay for £17.
This afternoon I fixed some to Board 21 - first cut to shape using a Stanley knife and then fix by pealing off the backing - voila job done.
The trackwork is the turnout for the siding that held the banker engine - usually a 4F - used to assist trains up the 1 in 60 gradient ( max ) to the summit at Fishponds Station.
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