The Logging, Gravel & Brickworks Railway
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Those junctions look really nice mate. There are so many possibilties for playing on your layout!
Gizzy
A gentleman, a scholar, and a railway modeller....
The LG&B has its first working Colour Light Signal, located at Quarry Junction!
It is interlocked using a EPL Type 2 Switch on the point motor.
The signal is an adapted Playmobil from an idea by Walt, but using the MTS voltage rather than 12 V dc.
More are planned for this coming year....
It is interlocked using a EPL Type 2 Switch on the point motor.
The signal is an adapted Playmobil from an idea by Walt, but using the MTS voltage rather than 12 V dc.
More are planned for this coming year....
Gizzy
A gentleman, a scholar, and a railway modeller....
Some of the new rail plant was stabled overnight on the soon to be reinstated Quarry East Chord, having laid a point and some track.
Another (R2) point is required so that a connection to the Up Main Line can be made just by the signal.....
Another (R2) point is required so that a connection to the Up Main Line can be made just by the signal.....
Gizzy
A gentleman, a scholar, and a railway modeller....
Work on doubling the Quarry line has now commenced.
The old dead branches behind the 'forest' were dug up and removed.
I recycled a concrete slab that was being chucked out at work; I cut it into two pieces and laid these behind the 'forest' to give a firm foundation for the track. Once covered in ballast, you will not know it is there. I found an old length of angle iron buried in the soil when I was doing the ground work, and this will no doubt be recycled for use elsewhere....
The old dead branches behind the 'forest' were dug up and removed.
I recycled a concrete slab that was being chucked out at work; I cut it into two pieces and laid these behind the 'forest' to give a firm foundation for the track. Once covered in ballast, you will not know it is there. I found an old length of angle iron buried in the soil when I was doing the ground work, and this will no doubt be recycled for use elsewhere....
Gizzy
A gentleman, a scholar, and a railway modeller....
The next tricky part is to sort out the new trackbed around the back of the pond, or 'Quarry Lake'. The slabs I'd laid are starting to tip in towards the pond, so this needs addressing. I've lifted the 'railway sleeper' slabs for cutting, and the slabs below these will be levelled.
I'd lifted the track previously, but here I temporarily laid the outer R2 curve and some straights to double check the geometry....
I'd lifted the track previously, but here I temporarily laid the outer R2 curve and some straights to double check the geometry....
Gizzy
A gentleman, a scholar, and a railway modeller....
The 'back straight' leading up towards Weybourne South.
Once I've stabilised the slabs along the edge of the pond, part of these will be the track bed for the inner loop. The railway sleeper slabs will be cut in half lengthways and become the edging for the ballast as before.
Thus, you will not see the lower slabs once the track is ballasted....
Once I've stabilised the slabs along the edge of the pond, part of these will be the track bed for the inner loop. The railway sleeper slabs will be cut in half lengthways and become the edging for the ballast as before.
Thus, you will not see the lower slabs once the track is ballasted....
CoggesRailway
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Looking good will bw tracking developments!
