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Incomplete signal box based not on a real prototype and most of time just the rear view will be seen so will aim to complete 

Edited February 12, 2020 by enginelane

Kiln Lane lives! Wired up and running on all tracks! 

Roughed in the Bridge that leads to fiddleyard A 

 

 

Points will be operated by simple push rods switching the frog under the board. Buffer stops and signals ( the ones the cat did not eat!) from another defunct layout  

Fiddleyard board made to rest the cassettes on to. Will simply join with a suitcase catch. Need to think how to power up the cassette. 

Little progress made due to bad weather but more due to spending time with my 8 month grand daughter who is visiting from Germany. Doing lots of granddad things. However last shopping trip with her mum meant  a little time to work on Kiln Lane.

 

End in place with cassette wired up and after testing it works!  Need to make up the base for the other cassette fiddleyard, end and back before finishing up the points.

 

 

Completed the box by adding back scene and missing end. 

Progress made today with all Leads soldered onto the cassettes and work on the exit bridges. One will be a road bridge and the other more an alleyway foot path.

Progress made on the road bridge at the A end of the layout. Still needs a centre pillar putting in place. The centre pillar hides some of the sockets that connect to the cassettes. 

B end. Managed to use the ends of A bridge and mixed it up alittle by having a wooden fence rather than a brick wall

Working on the backscene of Kiln Lane and managed to find enough brick retaining walls by using part of the defunct Engine Lane layout. 

Listening to Chelsea v Liverpool last night meant opportunity to build up the majority of the back scene. The large half relief building is crying out for some of the ghost lettering advertising often seen on such buildings. 

Added roof and chimney from spares box, need to find the lettering to create Kiln Lane Name boards.

Not the best of days as found out lost Exhibition venue for November 2020 but Kiln Lane runs! Need to tidy up the wiring and then work on track and scenery. 

No progress yesterday as at the TT1 meeting for NYMR.  Today built 2 simple folding trestles with a height of 108 cms. Made a shelf to support the NEC base unit and shelf stops trestles moving in or out.

3 out of the 4 trestles built and main board plus end A in place. Shelf in place to hold power cab and transformer 

Weather ended up not as bad as forecast so fourth trestle made and all Kiln Lane erected outside.

Brick paint and a black wash for mortar courses added to signal box and bridge at end a 

All bits more or less in place for Kiln Lane. Job list completed 

 

 

Cool but tolerable afternoon outside and backscene and bridges all glued in. Tested cassettes and Sod’s law tight against each other so modifications will have to be made 

Siding 1 should have a trap point.

 

Gordon A

It should but do not have one, using stuff I had in store or off other defunct projects.  I have a damaged point that I will see if I can make into one 

 

so far the layout has cost me the wood to make the trestles it will sit on and a tube of superglue. 
 

to complete it I have ground signals from an old layout, buffer stops from the same source. I might need to get some more ballast 

Edited March 15, 2020 by enginelane

Sorted out the cassettes, might still need modification, Trains ran from end to end, Big Cat decided to inspect first hand