Fourteen Days of Christmas (Tier 4)

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DAY ONE

 

One tradition in the UK is the 14 day TV Guide, AKA Radio Times Bumper Christmas Edition with covers the period around Christmas and the new year.  Rather than watch TV for 14 days I though I would set myself the challenge during those 14 days of converting this

 

into a working layout . As we are now in Tier 4  I don't have a LMS available to me and we have passed the last posting date for Christmas everything on the layout must come from my in house stores

 

The  board is an 80cm x 150cm piece of 9mm ply with 25mm sq battens. The layout will be N gauge.

 

My micro layout thread

 

Gives an indication of how I will tackle this project. So after 15 mins work I have the basic track layout completed and am running trains

 

 

At the moment the entire layout is Kato Unitrack but that is about to change.

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Day 2

 

Actually written on day 3.

 

The scenic sections of this layout will be built on separate boards.

 

 

So here is the front board, the Kato track replaced by Peco streamline concrete sleeper track and laid on foam board.

 

The board was then removed and ballasting took place.

 

This also gives the first indication of the layout. Very simple two track mainline passing a level crossing controlled by a signal box, a river runs close to the  railway at this point.

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Day 3

 

Not at lot to photograph on day 3 as it was taken up with wiring the track and points. I then test ran a number of trains - a couple of minor issues needed attention but all OK.