Solderpete

When I trained on diesels in 1971 as far as I remember there was no rule about which side the lights should be lit only that if travelling light engine on the main line you must have one white light displayed at the front and one red at the back. When shunting in a yard or in station limits you must display one red and one white at both ends.

As you will know many later diesels only had the train description number lit at the front and no other lights displayed on the front.

Peter.

Thanks Robin, I see how you've designed it now.

The legs certainly look nice and sturdy and I would imagine give a really solid platform for the layout on top. One thing that crosses my mind from experience of our layout, East Dean, is that occasionally we need to do some remedial work under the boards at exhibitions, and at the very least need easy to access to the underneath to ensure all the board connections are tight etc.

Have you found the X braces get in the way of accessing the underside of the boards at all? I'm asking as I'm toying with building a new O gauge layout which will require double width boards in places such as yours and if I can get the foundations right it will make construction and setting up at shows so much easier.

I'm very much enjoying following your build - thanks for taking the time to share it with us all.

Pete.

Hi Craig,

 

I know my friend Chris Yates, who built the boards in his superb woodworking shop - ably assisted by yours truly - would be happy to accept design and build commissions for anyone interested in good quality baseboards.

If anyone is interested please let me know and I can put you in contact with Chris.

 

Robin,

I totally agree that as well as supurb modelling on top of the boards the actual boards themselves look excellant. Could you tell me, is the layout designed to put up all the legs first and then place the boards on top? I noticed that each board appears to have a complete set of legs or shared legs - this must making working on just one or two boards much easier.

Could we possibly have some more photos of the leg construction and how the boards fix to them?

Pete.

Starting to look excellent.

Chris of York Models told me at Watford that you are hoping to show Barrow Road at Scaleforum, Leatherhead, later in the year, is that correct? If so that will be one show well worth visiting.

Keep up the enthusiasm.

Peter.