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  6. Tim Hall

    Cruel close ups

    By Tim Hall,

    https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1472078786229698/?t=10
     
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1472080349562875&set=pcb.1592464890866521&type=3&theater&ifg=1
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    Little films

    By Tim Hall,

    Hopefully visible to most of you:
     
    https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1322301394540772/
     
    https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1299748610129384/
     
    https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1285028824934696/
     
    https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1253606708076908/
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    Saturday randomness

    By Tim Hall,

    Having recently taken delivery of an extra Class 33 (1990s railtour condition), SDJR Jinty, and West Highland liveried MK1 (Fort Bill-Mallaig mid 80s), I posed some little cameos.
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    Onwards into 2015

    By Tim Hall,

    Three circuits, a fiddle yard, and a small branch line terminus appeared, as did a rather unconvincing fourth track crossing from the 2nd circuit to inside the 3rd one via diamond crossings, though I found that I rarely used it.
     
    The "Hall" mock up nameplate was made by friends at the railway I was then a volunteer at, to celebrate my half century.
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    Having relaid and remodelled some of the track at the end of 2016, I left it a few months to see if I was happy with it all.
    Eventually, this autumn, I decided crack on with bits of scenery (see photos) and some ballasting (50/50 water/ pva, a few drops of washing up liquid and some black poster paint to weather it a bit). The shed areas had black poster paint added later to try to reproduce the grime of such areas.
    There is still a lot to do, but I'm pleased with the progress so far.

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    2016, a few changes

    By Tim Hall,

    Late in 2016, after a long period of playing trains, but not doing much with the layout, I decided to remove the little used "freight loop" and with it the diamond crossings and three way points that caused more derailments than I was happy with. By asking handyman Mark (whilst visiting to do some work in the kitchen) to put a larger fillet in one corner of the fiddle yard, a siding could be extended, and brought all the way round the layout to become the 4th circuit.
    This gave the opportunity for another platform, which soon became an island platform (mainly from spare piece of timber just the right depth.) and finished in the same style as the others. Because of a lack of space it's very narrow, and slightly shorter than the others (approx. 6 Mk1s, whereas the other 3 are 7 Mk1s). A shortened Airfix/ Dapol footbridge provides access to it, and a lengthened Airfix/ Dapol footbridge spans the four track mainline elsewhere.
     
    I also moved the steam shed a bit, to utilise a redundant area and create a larger area for a village.

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