If you read back into the thread you will have see that my experiments with SBR didn't go well and with my new cats disturbing the shingle ballast daily I got to the point of deciding to bin the line for these reasons and my general lack of interest.
However, the weather was lovely this weekend in Kent so I decided to try and reduce the damage the cats do by lowering the level of the ballast in the 'launchpad areas' the cats use for jumping up and off the railway:
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I appreciate it may not look like I have done much but I spent hours going along the entire railway removing ballast, siving it to separate the larger pea shingle from the fish gravel and then packing the remaining ballast into place. This has resulted in a reduced level of ballast so now the fence panel boxing in so far is preventing most of the ballast from being kicked off the railway. Yes, I do have to go and adjust the ballast once the cats have been on the railway but so far it's not too bad and I have never had issues with birds moving it about (and the cats go to the loo in the flower beds so no special presents in the ballast for me since they arrived).
I will see how it goes but I did enjoy tidying the railway up and thinking about things I could do although the run is short and does get boring these days for me...