Category: New Layout

Some Updates

I’ve added a few retrospective updates to the Baseboard Build page to show the little bits I’ve done since my last update.There will be a major change in my life soon that will hopefully mean that I will have more time to spend on building my model railway layout.

Not as big as I hoped

So just to get an idea of the length of trains I’m going to be able to run I tried laying some plywood boards on the cross-members I’ve put in already and got some carriages out of storage. Just from setting them out roughly, it looks as though the maximum train length I’m going to…

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Finally, Another Update!

Unfortunately, life/death/work/family/gardening, etc. hasn’t left me much time to spend on the model railway. I have, however, just about finished the loft preparation and have started work on building the actual railway. All the updates will be under New Layout.

One Year Later

So, it has been just over a year since my last update. The reason for this is that we have been preoccupied with our move into our new house which finally happened in March this year. Since then we have been busy sorting things out with the house and doing loads of gardening. As the…

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