Stubby47

I reserve judgement until I've seen the insides.

(But the outside looks very nice, if a little clean).

Interesting that you've weathered the sleepers on the buffer stops items - how easy was it to then blend them with the track sleepers?

If these are vehicle carrying wagons, would the wear & tear be more visible as longitudinal track/tyre marks?

I was going to say 'gravy granules and household dust'...

Thanks.

I'm also planning on MERG boards, but using a PMP servo control (set-up) module for each servo ( 3 uncouplers and 2 points, plus any automation).

2 ft seems plenty.

Very clever.

I've thought about moving permanent magnets for my next layout, but sliding them horizontally to be under the track.

For the control boards, how far from the servo can they be?

I'd like to fit all the boards in a protective plastic box, somewhere that's easily accessible to allow adjustment to the settings.

Just don't blame me if the traverser keeps sliding to the bottom

Ah, an excellent point.

Taking Mark's idea a little further, and also your larger water area and straight boards requirements, you could add a short harbour wall at the board join.

Will it be ready for Taunton next year ?

How about a traverser on a slope? The rail tracks are level, but the traverser rails are angled to match the height difference. 

An old angle-poise lamp might be cheaper than a new monitor stand. 

I have no doubt this is going to be another delightful layout.

You mentioned in your previous blog that you wanted to avoid a split in the water.

If you did bend the track layout so the ground met the front edge of the baseboard, you could then split the boards at the same point.

On ‎26‎/‎02‎/‎2019 at 10:33, Bishop of Welchester said:

 

Lucky dogs get to go to Cornwall by a superior service:

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Special pasty, anyone?

If you do need a water facility at that end of the layout, could the water tower be further back (in the road yard?), with just a crane next to the headshunt?

@gwrrob take some stepladders with you, it's quite a high baseboard

How do the locos run over the wagon turntables?  Is the wheelbase long enough to stretch over the distance to the live rail?

This has the feeling of Shell Island, which is only a good thing.

That's a terrific looking layout plan.

The use of the main, double track line means the stations at Soar & Ty Croes must have been reasonably complex junctions.

I'm assuming you're modelling pre-grouping, as the Aberffraw line 'closed' in 1933.

Shame, because the post-war development of the Anglesey Circuit could have generated more passenger traffic, as well as transport for the vintage racing cars. 

Of course, the extension north of the main line, to Llangefni & RAF Mona (via the over bridge just to the east of the Soar Station) would also have brought exchange traffic to Aberffraw (the installation of a double junction at Soar was deemed too complex and the local farmers objected to the loss of even more land).

Chubber, of this parish, made a little tin holder which fitted in to a power jigsaw chuck.

The ground around the mounds looks very clean, maybe there might have been some coal dust or rain water run off? Plus a few lumps between the rails?

Very impressive, using a technique very few would be willing to try!

Don't forget the Bring & Buy stall at this year's SWAG day

Hope you find your enthusiasm again soon.

Thanks for giving my idea a go anyway.

Would it be an option to place the cold plasticard sheet in a curve, so the outer edges are on the perforated base and the middle resting on the tops of the formers ? That way the sheet is being pulled 'flat' and around the formers, rather than down onto the formers.

Not that I have any experience whatsoever in what you're doing.

Stu