Just to put up a more recent post than the archive stuff i've been importing here is a sample of the plain lengths of track i've been working on for the re-laying:

There consist of 4 60ft panels each of 24 sleepers and are built from Exactoscale components. I only lay the one rail at home and the other will be laid at the club once its been curved to match the template and any gauge widening has been added in.

I'd previously done a length of 26ft panels that will go on the gauge widened curved. When building that panel we ran into a bit of a problem when I realised the chairs were opposite (3-bolt but one on inside, two outside) to the chairs laid in the goods yard. Hmm, which was wrong, well it turned out the new 8000 chairs we had were LSWR ones! Quick phone call for Andy G to Exactoscale who checked it out and they discovered they'd had 'S1' chairs back from the moulding company that were actually LSWR type. That slowed us down for a week or two until we could swap over our bits at Scaleforum. We are now back on track with the correct chair!

Unlike the LSWR chairs though the correct chairs feature flash accross the jaws of the chair, the more popular mould has obviously seen far more use. Its a bit of a pain as quite a few chairs decide to snap in two rather than slide onto the rail. We will need some of these in the future to cover up some rivets on pointwork though.

Show preparation, proper work and our etching has variously delayed group memebers but good progress is also being made on the new pointwork that we can hopefully start laying soon.

Craig