Next major pointwork in
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The slip which allows access into our goods yard was laid tonight and apart from the double junction is the biggest section of pointwork needed to be laid on the scenic section of pointwork to be laid on the new look layout.
The tried and tested 'lay and ballast' method was used again and its being tweaked slightly before the selection of weights is applied. The small sections of straight track to the board joint will be filled in later using plastic sleepered lengths, old flexi was used to check alignments were ok before glueing.
Scenic changes to note are the hillside losing its ridge beside the track and the board next to the slip has been opened up a bit to be cut back nearer the track. We'd hoped to do this before laying but no one had a chance to get the jigsaw out. It should be ok doing it after though. It'll avoid an odd looking flat patch of wasted embankment or a step in the side of the embankment and allow a better view 'up' at the stock from model person eye level on the front boards.
Hopefully someone else can finish laying the goods yard while I continue on the main-line curve around past the camera, I have a large chunk at home now to solder dropper sleepers to and add brass chairs across the board joint.
The board joint was an interesting issue and shows why you should really build your boards to the track and not vice versa! Diagonal boards may not have been as easy but would have avoided having to shuffle the spacing as shown (also creating a 25 sleeper length). To be fair though we have eased this curve quite a lot from the original and it probably wouldn't have crossed a specially built board as nicely as originally anyway!
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