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Tracklaying continues

rovex

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blog-0663205001339100953.jpgWork has commenced on laying the pointwork at the North end of Brackhampton. I've been waiting until Hayfield of this parish (who has been very patient with me and long suiffering) had built enough of the various pointwork to allow me to lay the mainline almost all at once. I didn't want to lay each piece as it was built only to find I had miscalculated and it didn't fit. These first two photos shopw the point work for the mainlines with the trackwork leading to the eastern bay platforms. blogentry-7075-0-52368400-1339100573_thumb.jpgblogentry-7075-0-56403500-1339100589_thumb.jpg

 

This next photo shows the crossover between the main and relief lines. These haven't yet been laid but will be the next to go down.

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the pointwork for the rest of the eastern bays and the relief lines as they feed into the western bays has yet to be built.

 

For the technically minded the track is laid on 1/8 inch cork sheet and is stuck down with Evostic spray glue, care being taken to protect the moving parts of any pointwork.

 

Soon I will start building the platforms starting at the South end and working North. As the platforms will be scribed to show the paving, I've been puting this job off.

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Hi Rovex,

Didn't someone once say: "I love the look of newly laid track on bare baseboards in the morning" - well they darn well should have!

That complex of trackwork is already looking good, it'll be a joy to see it taken to completion.

I'm just glad I chose the easier early layout option, and I will of course continue to follow with the greatest interest.

 

Regards, Gerry.

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Hello Rovex

 

Looking good. After your comments I had to have a peep at your layout. I have to say that ballasting the track was a lot more tedious than scribing (and there was a lot more of it)!. I love the gas holders - are they scratch built?

 

Regards Ray

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I'm just glad I chose the easier early layout option, and I will of course continue to follow with the greatest interest.

 

Regards, Gerry.

 

I don't know Gerry, your track layout outside the station seems complex enough to me. Mine just runs striaght into a fiddle yard - or will do.

 

Hello Rovex

 

Looking good. After your comments I had to have a peep at your layout. I have to say that ballasting the track was a lot more tedious than scribing (and there was a lot more of it)!. I love the gas holders - are they scratch built?

 

Regards Ray

 

yes I am not looking forward to ballasting which in the past I have found not only mindnumbing and frustrating in equal measures - but also my normal method of flooding the ballast in diluted pva leaves me no sound deadening qualities at all but a deafening din whenever a train moves.

 

The gasholders are two Walthers kits, one was built as supplied except for an etched brass rail round the top of the tank. The other was modified mainly by beefing up the frame with some plastruct girders and adding some whitemetal finials to the tops of the columns to give it a more Victorian flavour. They are the ones supplied by Scale link and intended for 7mm GWR signals.

 

There isn't a gas works near the real Snow Hill, but as these and the others gas works fittings came off my old layout I am going to find room for them on this one.

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