The Railway in the Valley of the Mill

[StuartJ]

Very impressive!

[ge_rik]

Very impressive!

Absolutely!! You certainly don't do things by halves, Trevor.

Rik

[Red Star]

Just catching up with the progress here - it's going to be quite a run for trains once the terminus is complete.

[Trevor Thompson]

Very impressive!

Absolutely!! You certainly don't do things by halves, Trevor.

Rik

I suppose you are correct. In my own defence I would say that much of it is driven by the railway I am trying to model. The Festiniog seems to have had quite a complex signalling setup for a single line narrow gauge railway. In the same way the station buildings are large, and the passing places huge. so even trying to gain the feel of the railway leads me on!

Trevor

[Trevor Thompson]

Progress on the railway itself is a bit slow - the weather is either wet or cold (or both) at the moment. So the track in the bottom terminus is relaid - but needs ballasting, and the spacer for the top terminus is still being dig out. The digging is progressing - just slowly!

However the station building for the top terminus (Dinas) is progressing. The roof trusses and the front half of the roof are printed and fitted:

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So far it has all of the sections have fitted together well, the only issue being that the overall length of the roof is less than the overall length of the building itself by about 6mm. So a bit of a fiddle section will have to be created to fill the gap.

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The 4 of the 5 sections of the rear half of the roof are printed.

The drawings are developing as well, as I am getting ready to print the station building next:

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I will post an update when the roof is finished with all of its vents and ridge tiles fitted.

Trevor

[philipy]

Impressive as always Trevor. Looking forward to the next update.

[Trevor Thompson]

Progress is being made on a number of fronts including digging out the bank behind the greenhouse:

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So that is the track bed for the whole of the terminal station in place, and the retaining wall well under way. That is a total length of 19 feet from the tunnel mouth, which I think is enough for the track plan I showed earlier. Now the view around the back of the greenhouse:

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The pile of soil is what I have removed to create the second half of the track bed. To the right of the soil shows the path behind the greenhouse and the area (between the soil and the path) where a pair of slate sidings are to go. When the concrete has cured I will remove the shuttering and reassemble it for the siding trackbed, and dig out the area where it is to fit. At least there is a lot less soil so remove here to take a narrow strip of concrete and a retaining wall. The pile of soil will then be flattened and used to fill in behind the retaining wall behind the greenhouse. That will leave a raised level platform for Dinah to have compost bins.

And of course the buildings for the terminus progress"

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That is the walls of the station building printed and assembled, and the roof finished over the engine shed with its rather imposing chimneys.

Signals have taken a bit of a back seat at the moment as the weather has been suitable for working outside.

Trevor

[Old Man Aaron]

Forging ahead, fantastic.