Started my new layout

Hi all,

Been getting a bit of a dose of the old cabin fever as I’m off sick from work and to prevent myself from doing a “Here’s Johnny!” routine on the family and neighbours I decided to start building a new layout.

I ordered some timber and plywood which has now been delivered. Today I did most of the construction of the new baseboard and have put details of it on my website:-

http://www.shaunsmodelrailway.net/Baseboard.htm

I’m going to start working on a track plan over the next few days and look to start some of the track laying at some stage next week.

Sounds like you are on a mission! It’s great to have motivation, suddenly. Keep us apprised of your progress.

Good website!

-Crandell

Looks like a good start.

nice looks like you have it all planned out good luck

I’m on a mission alright. [;)]

Just got back from a model railway exhibition. Bought myself some ballast, some cork tiles, adhesive for the tiles and some PVA glue. I’ve already got a good few metres of track and a load of points. I’ll be looking to have a fair bit of track laid this week.

Just to let you all know that I’ve put a new track plan online for Westminster-on-Sea. I was told that my old track plan was “boring” by members of my site’s forum by having an MPD rather than some goods facility so I made some changes. I’ve also done a “proof of concept” for the baseboard by laying some Settrack on the board roughly where I’ll want the loops to go to see whether it’ll fit and there’s a photo of that online too.

All this can be found at:-

http://www.shaunsmodelrailway.net/Westminster.htm

I’ve also corked the baseboard and photos of that cen be found at:-

http://www.shaunsmodelrailway.net/Tiles.htm

I’ve now updated the page about fitting cork tiles with a description on how I did this part of the baseboard construction to complement the photos that are already on the site.

The page is at:-

http://www.shaunsmodelrailway.net/Tiles.htm

Congratulations, Shaun! I will keep watching your updates with interest.