Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

[philipy]

Depends. Was there a crock of gold at the end or a crock of something else?

Rik

Dunno,. The water was too cold to go diving down to find the end of the rainbow!

[BertieB]

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Southern Region extension to Scotland underway

I’ve cleared a load of decking and anything that might get in the way and started on the trackbed, reusing some of the redundant decking, despite my previously stated commitment to avoid wood. It’s being supported on recycled plastic posts and not actually in contact with the ground. I think that’ll be OK for a few years. Height above ground will vary with the terrain.

I’ll cover it with cheapo, thin, roofing felt and screw painted UPVC window trim (it’s way cheaper than wood and doesn’t rot) along the edges to secure the felt and contain the 6mm chippings to be used as ballast, as before. It hardly represents realism, I just think it looks better than ‘bare track’. For curves I’ll use R5 and R3 recycled plastic boards, mainly from the previous garden (and no felt).

This will be stage 1. Future stages will be:
• a long, not at all photogenic incline to the other part of the garden
• figuring out what to do once we’ve got there
• planting loads of stuff to make it appear that the railway was a deliberate, integrated part of the garden plan — and not just arbitrarily plonked across it.

Cheers!

[LNR]

Good to hear you are off and building again Bertie

figuring out what to do once we’ve got there

I like that!
Grant.