Saltney. Green lumpy stuff.
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Firstly, must apologise if these entries seem to be coming a bit thick and fast. Just trying to bring it up to date without making each entry too big!
Steve had a bit of luck when someone gave him a load of photgraphic backscene sheets. OK they were seconds but very useful nevertheless. They were quickly mounted on boards and installed (to hide my point motors!)
A bit of work with the plaster bandage, paint and green lumpy stuff and a nice scenic area was the result.
I placed my detailed Alphgraphics LNWR Signalbox at the junction and a couple of locos were posed in the banker siding to see what the scene looked like.
The almost completed area showing the fearsome gradients to be encountered when climbing up from the LM junction.You can see how the up and down inclines were split to ease the upward gradient. Lack of space prevented both lines from being re-aligned.
Meanwhile, Steve and Les got busy with more green lumpy stuff around the tunnel mouth, and we now have one side of the layout looking reasonably presentable
Of course we had to have a play, and 51232 (Sevenscal kit with Slaters wheels and Mashy motor) surprised us all by trotting sedately round with a 24 wagon freight train.
Work then turned to the loco shed. Working of the layout will entail a lot of light engine movements on and off shed for turning so Steve installed a lot of isolating sections in the various tracks and set about adding lots of grime and atmosphere (and a bit more green lumpy stuff) to create an authentic looking environment.
2 areas finally got their finalised track layouts. The LM station and the GW junction. Much work ahead with the wiring (I now hate diamond crossings!)
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