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Hi Guys. A quick thank you for all the positive comments. Much appreciated. Now. A plug. Anyone wishing to book us for their show please visit www.csmrc.co.uk. Cheers, again. Dave Smith

So. We come to the last of the current crop of photos of the layout. We have a full operating session on 16th November, when I will take some more along the whole length with all the latest updates.

Hi Colin Are you sure about this overhang? Have a look at picture one post #109. Dave

Though I would post a few shots of some of the detail we are now adding to the layout. The 'concrete' buffer stop is copied from carriage shed at Victoria. (London). The oil unloading pipework was built for us by no other than Dave Larkin. (of wagons fame). Cheers Dave

Tom. I've always used pink Thistle plaster. It goes off quite quick so only do a small area, say 6 x 6" at a time. Don't have it too wet or it will crack when drying. Best of luck. Dave

Following on from the plasterwork, these shots show the results for the warehouse area once it had received a coat of Precision 'weathered concrete'. Further down are the groundworks in place to receive a small road tanker oil distribution point and a pair of oil storage tanks. Cheers Dave

Will try to get an update posted soon. Dave

Hi Guys. Sorry about the delay since the last update. Moving on now the the last 'area' of the layout we come to the Oil Drum Lane freight yard. These first shots show the track layout first and some details of preparing and laying plaster for the 'ground' of a warehouse area and a lineside loading area on one track. The warehouse area has inset track formed with continuous check-rails. The total length of the yard is 8ft. This is the first track plan to be laid but the single kick back siding above on the near left was quickly removed and replaced by a warehouse yard with two tracks. These two will have the rails inset in the road surface. The above three shots show the 'roadway' being built up, first with two layers of hardboard and then the track being plastered over to form the embedded rails. Before becoming completely dry, the plaster is 'shaved' off with a sharp chisel. This gives a good finish to the surface and also allows your to take the surface just below rail level. This avoids contact problems later. Remember that the surface will also have a layer or two of paint on it. Track details on the yard fan. On the left is another 'roadway' area where a yard office will later stand. These last five shots show the plastering in of the office roadway. It is designed to also be an area where side loading/unloading of wagons/vans could take place. Cheers Dave

Greedy!!

Thanks for the comment, Barnaby. Cheers Dave

Next for the layout was to build the freight yard but I am going to leave this to last as we are working our way along the line, so to speak, from one end to the other. So, to accommodate more trains and allow run-rounds more easily in the aggregates shed, a new stub end shunting neck was needed. Referring to the last couple of shots from the last set above you will see that the single stub end was re-laid as a stub and a through line to the freight yard. Again, after taking measurements and angles, Templot was used to fit in the two new turnouts required but also leave enough length on the nearest road for the longest loco to fit in for when the freight yard was not in use. Maybe when an Exhibition Manager could not offer us enough length for the whole layout. The ballasting at the right hand end has been left until this board can be matched up to the next board (already build and track laid) and the track exactly lined and leveled up.

Nathan. Cheers again. BTW, the track is ply sleepers, plastic chairs and NS rail. A doddle. If you get a bit wrong just run a scalpel under the chair(s) and pop them off and re-set. Dave

Cheers Nathan. Bridging the BB joint means making the building removable, but it's worth it. Dave

Moving on to the next 'area' of the layout, this is the bagged aggregates shed or whatever you want it to be. As you look through the shots at will show the development of the building. You will notice that on the right hand end there is a single end stub road. This was the original confirguration of this section as it was built for our DC layout and hides a fiddleyard for that layout, behind the backscene. Cheers for now Dave Carshalton & Sutton mRC www.csmrc.co.uk This first shot shows a card mockup to test the water so to speak. The original stub end of this section when it was only part of the DC layout and prior to the building of the freight yard, 'Oil Drum Lane'. Latsly, this old Triang signal box has been on a club layout somewhere since before I was a member and I joined in 1969. Recent additions have been the greenery.

David. It looks like we are booked for Worthing September 2014 & Bexleyheath Jan 2015. We are now taking bookings so keep an eye on our website at. Www.csmrc.co.uk if you want to catch us somewhere. Cheers. Dave

Thanks Mr Tank. Here are a few shots of track building and ballasting. All to 16.2mm Cheers Dave

This is a Club layout, Nathan!! Dave

Thanks Nathan. The layout is 24' x 2' in total. Dave

Thanks for your comments M8. I tried a couple of methods to create this. Firstly with computer ribbon cable cut to the height I needed to fence to be and fixed to a framework. Not too good. Second, I used the Scalescenes downloadable print. This gives a good representation of a real article but is, of course, flat. Then I stumbled on the idea as in photo three below. I fixed a strip of ribbon cable to a plank of wood, then wrapped a piece of the same to a rubber art roller. I then glued two sheets of the Scalescenes print back-to-back with PVA. When dry, I cut this into strips the same length as the ribbon glued to the plank. The strips were then wetted with water/PVA and laid on the plank ribbon. I then used the roller to press the paper print into the matching grooves of the plank. This was left to dry then peeled off and cut into appropriate lengths to represent the height I needed the fence to be. (I think that's clear) Dave Computer robbon cable used first time round. Some still unpainted. The first try with the paper print but flat. The items used to 'emboss' the paper print into the grooves of the ribbon cable. I've just found a few more photos from the early days of building the fence. Hope this helps. Dave

When we started buildinhg the second version of the 'fiddleyard' boards, I was determined to have something different to try to hide the fact that one line goes off-scene. There are lots of buildings, bridges and plain holes in the scenery around but I felt something else was needed. I came up with the idea (rightly or wrongly) of a building over the track on girder work. Just before the structure is reached, a turnout takes trains - in the shadow of the building above - either behind a brickwall (supposedly part of the structure) or in front of it and into the depot yard. I constructed the girder work first and then adapted a Scalescenes Factory to fit on top. It can be seen in place in a few of my previously post shots. Below is a series of shots showing its construction.

Thanks for you comments Class"66" Dave

Do you mean like this? I posted this in #99 of Colin's 2 Bil repaint. Dave

I'll try to post some more tomorrow. Dave

Sam. The distance between the track centres for the shed is 67mm. Both shed roads have Peco Inspection Pits fitted with lights. Best of luck

On to part two showing the diesel shed and its associated area being further developed with details and a background. A new shed fitted together with a backscene, some Ratio security fencing and part of a small car park. The modern warehouses are developments of Scalescene kits. Older buildings have been found on various websites. Looking in the opposite direction to that above and towards the aggregates shed and freight yard. More backscene as above. Further along and nearing the exit from the depot yard onto the 'main line' feeding in from the fiddleyard behind the backscene. The exit is squeezed between the rear of the fuelling point and the warehouses. It passes under an old warehouse. (More of this later). Looking back at the depot, giving a slightly wider angle of view and showing locos awaiting their next turn. A closer view of the fuelling point with a Class 20 present. The fuel pipes are fed from an underground tank which in turn is kept topped up from the supply point at the end of the shunting neck. In the background can be seen the exit onto the 'main line' and the stub end of the depot shunting neck with its concrete block bufferstop. Lastly for this post is a closer view of the depot exit under the old warehouse. A Class 56 brings in some tanks destined for the freight yard. The warehouse over the junction (a Scalescenes product) was designed as a scenic break to hide the track passing to the rear of the backscene and into the fiddleyard.