George Hudson

Gordon,

I have followed you for some time and really enjoyed the ride but as your moving summation says, in essence, it's all just for fun and if the fun stops so should you.  

It's admirable that you feel an obligation to all those who have taken an interest in ET but you should just have a break from social media, build what pleases you and send RM some holiday photos from time to time.

Best regards

Andrew

Couldn't resist buying this reproduction on eBay to sign to garden room.

tidied up the spaghetti too!

You don't have to be prettiest on the fleet to get first dabs at testing

.....all points working, I was worried that some were quite stiff but a little vaseline on the motors and a hearty thump from the CDU seems to have done the trick.  That's enough for today, next is getting all the electro frogs working.  I have never been able to work out the three way point from first principles so just use trial and error!

Getting down to the nitty gritty...

Really good work, Job

seems like sacrilege to do this to untouched 9mm marine ply but thos point motors have to go somewhere!

Someone posted (Chubber I think) a model of bourne mill.

Just by co incidence I took this on the same walk!

Sometimes feel like I am living in the Madder Valley.  Perhaps we should start a thread of prototype lookalikes?

Good luck with this, it's a charming prototype.  I love those prototype photos on the thread.

Andrew

G'Day Folks.

 

In the vernacular of the area............'Bleedin' posh innit.

 

manna

Hides a multitude of woodwork sins!  Honest Guv

Evening all,

Just thought I would post a couple of shots for those curious as to progress........

Regards

Andrew

Nicely done (of course!).  If I was in the market for one, I have often thought this would make a good overbridge station building with exit in rear to steps down to a, say, island platform.

Andrew

That's a kind comment.  It's the result of years of effort and much viewing of hugely better work by other on RMWeb!

Andrew

I thought I had a huge amount of space but moving around my stock of structures seems to have mopped up the area pretty quickly!

That trackwork looks impressive.

I wish I could build my own.  I envy the sweep of handmade pointwork but the peco large radius is a good second best.

Hello folks,

Transferred the station throat from the old boards.  I had just stuck everything down with tiny drops of wood glue on sleeper ends about 3-6inches apart so it was easy to get off (after removing the point motors!).

My new boards are nearly double the width but the extra space will be used for scenery/buildings.

This is one of the best parts of the hobby: mucking about with track layout in situ before the hard work starts.  It looks like I can fit in 6 coach trains and still get 36inch curves at the end.  The curves may be covered scenery or, more likely partially covered with glimpses of the track from roadway/bridges.  This can be seen today around Farringdon and Barbican stations in London.  It was also certainly the atmosphere around Liverpool Street until land became so valuable and building techniques so advanced that skyscrapers were built over the station throat.

If you have been, thanks for watching!

Andrew

Overall concept taking shape..

Working my way round to the other baseboards.

I have a cunning plan to have all the under board storage on trolleys so everything can be whipped out for maintenance/access.

Tested the set up yesterday.  

Phew!

Don't ask about the left hand tracks!

Continuing to plug away at the sector plate/traverser!

More work on the sector plate...quite a project!

Cracking on with exit roads!