Mid-Cornwall Lines - 1950s Western Region in 00
At last my new railway room is complete and in use, the existing St Enodoc layout has been set up and I am ready to start building the new Mid-Cornwall Lines, but before doing so I thought I would tell you a little bit of history to put the project in context and, I hope, explain why a little slice of Cornwall is taking shape in suburban Sydney, Australia.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.
My life with model railways goes back to when I was about three or four. Not, as was of
Joists, joists and more joists.
I started by cutting and fitting the joists for the corner board under the electrical distribution box, where the Paddington and Penzance loops overlap. First I cut a joist to run along the diagonal edge of the void at the back, then one for each end of the board. I left these over-long so that they can be trimmed back flush with the baseboard tops when the front fence is fitted.
I screwed each joist to the L-girders from below, so tha
