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Bristol Barrow Road - Back on track

barrowroad

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It's been a while since my last post but I haven't been wasting time. I purchased three magnificent scratchbuilt P4 locos after meeting Graham Warburton at the Taunton members day; a Patriot, 8F and Crab, all of which were in LMS livery. After much heart searching I made the decision to remove this livery and have them repainted and renumbered in BR livery to suit my 1950/60s modelling period. With the help of my friend Morgan all three had their paint stripped and removed and the 8F and Crab are currently with Morgan at his SWL paintshops.

 

You can see the result of the work on Morgans Blog

 

Morgans Blog

 

Meanwhile I have returned to work on the trackwork. First of all I needed to rework the north exit board containing the start of the incline leading to Fishponds Bank. I have decided to add extra track at the rear of the signalbox and this meant reworking the incline on this board in order to include this new trackwork. I had to remove all the existing trackwork and replace the original foam subbase with a new ply base.

Here is the result

 

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This photo also shows the C8 crossover on the mainline, the B6 north exit and double slip which gives access to the shed yard. All this pointwork was started a couple of years ago, before I embarked on the shed building and signal box, and has now been reworked to add Bill Bedford etched slide chairs, Palatine models etched droppers and Brian Morgan turnout operating units.

 

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Double Slip

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Base plate of Brian Morgan TOU

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Close Up of Double Slip showing Bill Bedford etched slide chairs and the Palatine Models droppers which have been attached to a rivet on the underside of the ply sleeper. As they form a mechanical joint I chose to solder it for additional strength.

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All still require the addition of cosmetic chairs but the majority of these will be added once the track is laid.

 

This evening I had a play around with some lengths of C&L track to plan the arrangement of additional trackwork at the front of the layout. I can get an extra track from the departure road next to the office which will run under the additional arch of Barrow Road to the side of the shed entrance steps. Turnouts from this lead to the carriage sidings - not modelled. This track will then divide into two tracks which will run behind the signal box.

 

This photo will give you an idea of the proposed additional trackwork.

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craigwelsh

Ah Paul did tell me he's been helping with a bit of mission creep when he phoned.. I hope the chat on Sunday was useful and it was nice to see the progress in person.

 

I'd recommend chairing and painting before laying on the mainline so that you can ballast at the same time, it saved so much effort on Slattocks and we only needed to fill in over the dropper tags once they were all wired up and tested. Obviously it isn't an issue as much with the ash ballast in the yard.

 

Those lines on the front look like you'll be having some interesting track/board joints to deal with!

 

I'll be interested to see how those turnout units work, I couldn't really make head or tail of their instructions!Too late to fit them to Slattocks but if they work well I might want to try them in the future.

 

Be good when some track is down for Paul to run his finished Jinty and TPO on though using those as a milestone probably gives you about 20 years.. ;)

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Mike G

Finished Jinty...whats' this! Craig is this for a fact or have you been at the sherry again?

 

Anyway...

 

That really is starting to take shape (36-24-36), a real beauty. Must PM you with a view to a visit...if that's ok?

 

Mike

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barrowroad

Ah Paul did tell me he's been helping with a bit of mission creep when he phoned.. I hope the chat on Sunday was useful and it was nice to see the progress in person.

 

I'd recommend chairing and painting before laying on the mainline so that you can ballast at the same time, it saved so much effort on Slattocks and we only needed to fill in over the dropper tags once they were all wired up and tested. Obviously it isn't an issue as much with the ash ballast in the yard.

 

Those lines on the front look like you'll be having some interesting track/board joints to deal with!

 

I'll be interested to see how those turnout units work, I couldn't really make head or tail of their instructions!Too late to fit them to Slattocks but if they work well I might want to try them in the future.

 

Be good when some track is down for Paul to run his finished Jinty and TPO on though using those as a milestone probably gives you about 20 years.. ;)

 

Craig - I think I might just leave the triangular board as a permanently attached feature thus avoiding the acute angle board joints. Fortunately all of the other joints apart from one turnout are normal track. Thanks for the info on the painting at the weekend - I think I will relay the C&L trackwork on the mainline with ply sleepers to avoid any potential problem with paint peeling.

 

I'll do some photos for you when I assemble the TOU's

 

Paul's TPO is a distinct possiblity - the Jinty :haha:

 

Mike, I'm sure we can arrange a visit for you PM me with some dates when you are free.

 

Robin

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