tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61223235704986653542024-03-13T09:16:45.844-07:00Poole & District Model Railway Club - new OO Layout BuildCopleyMobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603808558141032538noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122323570498665354.post-48569211381678905222019-05-17T04:06:00.000-07:002019-05-17T04:06:11.880-07:00May June 2019 UpdateWe have had some super work done by Richard to build and detail the platform canopies, one is complete and can be seen on the following photos. Richard is working on the second and will add more detail like spouting and downpipes etc.<br />
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Here another view of the station with platform 2 and 3 central canopy in place..<br />
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A May Running Night took place to allow club members to run their own stock on the layout, here a few photo's of the busy but successful night...<br />
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Graham contemplates the rolling stock and wishes he had brought more down!<br />
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Graham and Gary move stock whilst Jacob acts as their signal man..<br />
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Gary and Jacob at the other end of the layout using our rotating sector plate..<br />
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Moving the sector plate into position to allow the approaching train in...<br />
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Some happy boys playing trains! that's what it is all about!CopleyMobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603808558141032538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122323570498665354.post-82538502782641617162019-04-11T05:59:00.000-07:002019-04-11T05:59:15.192-07:00March/April Update 2019<u><b>Adding more detail as we go along....</b></u><br />
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The first couple of months meetings have been about making decisions on the backscene all the way along. We have cut down the standard backscene to spread the full length of the layout, we have joints yet to disguise with trees and foilage and or buildings.<br />
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Board 1 - At the station end, Richard has been busy building more prototypical buffers for the goods yard, he is also still working on the two platform canopies and a small weigh bridge for the goods yard. Kevin L. has completed the weathering of the platform edges and also painted the additional walled arches for behind the station as well as the initial work on the road surface and paving to the main town bridge. (thanks to Richard for the loan of the buses to make the bridge come alive!)<br />
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Steve 2 (Copley) has been looking at how we can perhaps use photographs behind the walling and arches in the town section - showing rooftops etc. Also built a long warehouse to bridge the rear scene from the housing into the station walling, and also a kit built Goods shed.<br />
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Board 2 - Kerry, completed the ballasting of points, is experimenting! with trees right now and then moving on to completing the backscene of his board. After all the reaching over! he can then look back at the front of his scene where he has been building railings along the mound.<br />
Board 3 - Steve 3 (Cope) - roumer has it that a ghost of a signal box appeared some weeks ago out of the mist! it evaporated and has not been seen since!<br />
Board 4 - Kevin M. working on completing the backscene, it will probably have a Asian appearance as he has been out in India doing some research!<br />
Board 5 - Ted also working on backscene, he is also trying to disguise some Solar Panels on one roof of the line of houses on our background photographs - seen as we are supposed to be in the 50/60's this house is well ahead of its times unless we do some clever cover up!<br />
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Summer round the corner - watch out for further updates...CopleyMobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603808558141032538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122323570498665354.post-21501691607574057932018-12-19T13:32:00.001-08:002018-12-19T13:38:27.975-08:00Sterte Bay December 2018 UpdateHere are a few shots to show progress on our layout...<br />
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We have had two running nights on the layout where club members have been able to run their own DCC loco's.<br />
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Lots of interest in our rotating 10 track tables where we load stock ready to run...<br />
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Debating why we have just two tracks not showing full power! - by having lots of stock running it helps us find any weaknesses in our trackwork or wiring.<br />
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At the other end of the layout is our second 10 track rotating table so we can easily turn stock throughout the operating session. Two younger operators in charge tonight!<br />
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Three of our members are working with stock near the main station board. Our Club Running/Test Track is in the foreground. We are also looking at backscenes and one of the chosen scenes is propped up to see how it looks.<br />
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We will continue to have regular operating/running nights when work is not required or planned on the layout.<br />
Watch out for more updates in the New Year - Happy Christmas to all our viewers.<br />
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<br />CopleyMobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603808558141032538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122323570498665354.post-84848248342089674092018-07-25T05:36:00.001-07:002018-07-25T05:36:45.875-07:00July 2018 UpdateHere are a few shots to show progress as we get to grips with the finer detail of the layout...<br />
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The station area has had several items started and completed.. the bridge is currently getting treatment on the under arch brickwork by Kevin L. Some initial painting by Steve. Some walling at the rear of the Quay line and Richard is working on the final detail of the platform canopies. Kevin L. has also completed the surfacing of the platforms. The buildings at thr rear are just test pieces to see how the background can be created. Plenty more to do on this board!!<br />
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General view of board 1 showing the station with one of the canopies built by Richard - another is in progress for the main station platform.<br />
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Here closer detail of the archway brickwork and platform surface completed by Kevin L. </div>
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Here detail of the archway brickwork in progress to meet up with the lineside walling. </div>
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Here detail of the planned concrete panels for the rear of the station platform - they will be painted and weathered and sited along the rear platform edge. These are typical Southern design.<br />
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Here one of "The Workers!" - Kerry patiently ballasting pointwork on his number 2 board. </div>
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As he has found out, the key is to secure the ballast carefully so as not to jam up the points!</div>
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Kevin M. has done some excellent ground coverage to enhance the appearance of board 5 - the Factory Area, this board is nearing completion other than weathering and some figures and action to bring it alive! </div>
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Having now agreed on the final name for our layout - Sterte Bay, we are preparing the final bit of electronics to ensure we can operate it. The schematic diagram was designed on MS Powerpoint and then sized onto 2 x A4 sheets. The 'box' is made from 3mm ply and as can be seen above, will be finished off with wooden edging. Before fitting the actual toggle switches and individual LED's, the whole printout was sprayed with matt sealant to help promote a longer life.<br />
Besides the point control, there are switches for Initailising the whole board and also any scenery lighting we place. There are also LED's to show Board power and Track power. <br />
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Now the time consuming wiring and soldering of all the switches and a lot of LED's!!<br />
The computer looking board above left is a CML Towermaster (DTM 30) which allows the whole control board to be hooked up to the layout with just two wires; 12v power and our Loconet bus.<br />
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Above, the ribbon cables have now been soldered to each of the point switches, next are the LED's.<br />
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Preparing the Led's - Each Led has a positive and negative stem, (anode and cathode) when fitted on the control board it is difficult to identify especially if you want to cut down the length of the stems. The solution is to use some small wire sheath sections and slide these on the appropriate stems. The Led' can then be cut down and the tops bent over for easy soldering later.<br />
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Here are the stages for preparing the Led's... top right - sheath applied to stems, top left stems now bent over, centre bottom - the stems are cut down.<br />
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Original Led and finished cut down Led ready for mounting into board with bevels before soldering to ribbon cables. More to follow.....<br />
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Look out for the Sterte Bay layout at the forthcoming Poole Club exhibition on Nov 5th where we will show progress to date.CopleyMobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603808558141032538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122323570498665354.post-50191594625432873882017-09-19T08:28:00.001-07:002017-09-19T08:28:26.769-07:00September UpdateThe layout is beginning to have that 'finished' look, even at this early stage - we have now fitted both the front valance and the backboards!<br />
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First the front facia...<br />
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Now with the backboards added, what a difference!<br />
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Work on board 1 - the Poole road bridge is secured in place with the viewing side Skytrex arches, thanks to Geoff for help on this. The station building is approx 75% complete. Richard is working on the platform passenger bridge which needs adapting as it is too high as it stands. Kevin L has done great work on the platforms, the main areas are almost complete now we need to work on the surface around the main station buldings and under the bridge area.<br />
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Kerry's board 2 has now had the base layer of embankment grasses added and Kerry is near completing the mock Holes Bay shoreline. More detail is to be added like fencing and work on the footpath as well as considering the scenery in the middle trackwork area.<br />
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Steve Cope is developing board 3 with an area of railway ditritous, pools and piles of waste materials that was ofeten seen railside. He is also building the main signal box which will appear near the toilet roll soon! Contributions of old wheel sets, bits of rail and cable drums very welcome!<br />
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Kevin M is working on board 4 and experimenting with different ground cover to establish a common scatter materails as well as bushes, trees etc. The front edge of this board as with board 3 will have a small embankment with groundcover.<br />
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Ted on baord 5 has moved on from the main factory buildings to start ground cover and walling near trackside. <br />
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Kevin with help has almost completed the "joining board" with two levels. Top level links the double mainline from board 5 to the sector plate and the lower level seen here is the branchline which will host DMU/EMU's etc this terminates at the lower right of the picture.<br />
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<b> </b>The "rotating sector plate" which contains 10 storage tracks, is nearing completion with Kevin M, Ian, Ted and others all adding their help. Electrics are now been added and tested. Once comlpete we just have to build yet another! at the other end of the layout!!<br />
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<br />CopleyMobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603808558141032538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122323570498665354.post-65971530693561653362017-07-21T01:11:00.001-07:002017-07-21T01:11:28.210-07:00July 2017 UpdateMaking good and steady progress on some of the boards..<br />
Ted on board 5 has now really got the impression we wanted of an industrial area before the mainline railway goes off scene, also the high embankment walling and tunnel to the branch line exit track. There are sidings at both sides of the mainline to service the industries. <br />
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Here is a closeup of the work Ted has done on the buildings. <br />
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The work on the station area continues, Kevin 3, Richard and Steve C have concentrated on the platforms and provisional area for the actual station building. Passenger bridges will be added and also later a goods yard with associated buildings. The town bridge parapet can be seen in the foreground.<br />
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This shot shows the view as we consider the placement of the detailed front of the bridge section. There are two mainline tracks between the platforms, a single DMU/EMU track this side of the platform and the line nearest is the goods track leading off scene to the quayside.<br />
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Watch out for further postings...CopleyMobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603808558141032538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122323570498665354.post-74301399696545110252017-06-14T13:53:00.000-07:002017-06-14T13:53:42.178-07:00Early Summer Update June 2017<u><b>June proving a busy month on the Layout</b></u><br />
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We continue to own and work on our 5 main scenic boards as well as the two end boards that will contain the turnaround sections at each end of the main line.</div>
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We have started this month to concentrate on some of the scenic aspects on each board.</div>
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Ted, Kevin M, Geoff and Kerry all hard at work on the individual boards.</div>
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Ted is working on the tunnel entrance and the supporting embankment walls for the branch line as it enters the underground section and then eventually emerges on our turnaround board. Kevin meantime is taking a rest from mowing the embankment!</div>
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Here Steve Copley is well busy on his workbench at home (for that read dining room table as his wife is out!). The main station building is a laser cut design and we intend to use some footbridges that need weathering down from the bright coloured originals.</div>
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Board 5 owner Ted has chosen to model our industrial scene at one end of the layout with some good quality detailed resin structures from Skytrex. </div>
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On the front there will be a half relief building and as can be seen on the end board, we intend to build a structure over the twin tracks to join the two buildings, these typically carried pipes and electrical cables.</div>
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At the other end on board 1, Richard is busy doing a fist fit on the platform edging for our main station. The base building can be seen in the foreground - this is a laser cut model and will form, together with 3 platforms our through station. </div>
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Here, the sweep of the mainlines in and out of the station can be seen clearly heading up through the other boards. Our test track in the background has its usual busy operators.</div>
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Kevin 3 is also helping on board 1 with our work to complete the platforms. Now the edging walls have been test fitted, Kevin is starting the work on the cross supports.</div>
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CopleyMobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603808558141032538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122323570498665354.post-4247000083072988292017-05-03T07:26:00.000-07:002017-05-03T07:26:50.357-07:00New Year Update 2017<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Into a New Year and forging ahead..</b></u></span><br />
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We continue to make progress since the exhibition...<br />
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The usual busy Tuesday night at the club and we are working on the main boards and also the link half circle to the selector board. The green surface in the foreground is the 3mm foam underlay for track on the link board.<br />
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Ted and Kevin M are both working on completion of the first of two rotating selector plate boards, these will be placed one at each end of the main layout. The rest of the club members are stood around chatting - as usual!<br />
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This view shows the selector board trackwork almost complete, again Ted and Kevin M are hard at it!<br />
We have had great "technical" support on this part of the project from Ian, who given any challenge seems to come up trumps!- thanks from all of us Ian.<br />
We are arranging a team meeting soon to agree the remaining priorites on the layout contruction - more on that in our next update.<br />
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We have attended our first exhibition with our "in progress" OO layout, here are some shots from the set up for the Poole & District Model Railway show this November...</div>
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Kerry Pope put together a super story board to show in pictures and words our journey in choosing, designing and starting the building of the layout</div>
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We were positioned on the stage at a height where visitors could see the actual construction and we had several loco and train formations running on the day. Both Kevin and Ted gave up their time to run stock and answer any questions.</div>
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We are approaching completing what can only be termed as 'a rotating sector plate' which will allow full turning of trains - we intend to build a second so we have this facility at both end s of the layout.<br />
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The start of forming the landscape - using blue insulation boards for the main shaping then plaster bandages followed by a thin coat of plaster filler to form the final surface level.<br />
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The new OO layout for youngsters to play on at exhibitions is nearing completeion.CopleyMobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603808558141032538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122323570498665354.post-23297796781547803832016-08-03T04:25:00.000-07:002016-08-03T04:25:27.215-07:00July 2016 Update<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Keeping up progress as you will see from the pics below...</span><br />
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We have now reached the stage where we can choose the makeup of our ballast and here are the first two test sections.</div>
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Now we can start to move on, look at the overall scenery form and begin to fill in where we need to.<br />
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Kevin 3, James and other colleagues have made excellent progress on a new "Kids" layout for use at our next and future Annual Exhibitions. </div>
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Ex N.A.S.A. Senior Electronics Engineer (Kevin) is seen here starting to fit the CML Dac 20's that we are using to fire all the Cobalt slow motion point motors (he looks so happy in his work!)</div>
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You will see on the extreme right what appears to be more Dac 20's actaully one of the two boards is another Digitrax board called a PM 42 - this splits the power bus into 4 distinct districts.</div>
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The board on the left is the Dac 20 (these are from CML Electronics who produce several similar products for assisting with DCC control) The right hand board is the PM42. We programme the Dac 20's using CML's own software called Locoanalyse which is a free download.</div>
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Despite the last post showing how we work in the cold, watch out for clues that these next photo's were taken on a hot day!</div>
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Above is the main Station area and goods yard</div>
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Most complex area, the station approach and link to goods yard and lower yard and sidings as well as small track down to quay area.</div>
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Here trackwork splits in heights, upper area to main line and yards, </div>
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Swivel your head! to see central area of layout.</div>
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Here is the last main board, (left hand side as you look at it) where there are 4 levels; lower tracks are siding on level, next is branch line coming in from right and going down, above that are the two main lines and at top, on level are three industry sidings.</div>
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So, did you spot the clue? - yes my feet! in open sandals! Anyway we took these as a record of the track plan for future reference.</div>
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The most complex board of the five is this one with 14 points, Bernie is smiling because he set us off on all the wiring!</div>
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Now we are in a position where most of the wiring is complete, next step is to link point control to two CML Dac 20's and programme the points on CML LocoAnalyse software.</div>
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The layout in typical "tidy" state! somewhere under this lot is some trackwork! </div>
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We have now fitted the last Cobalt point motor on the main boards, here you see another mark out for a under track magnet.</div>
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Making progress, Brian came prepared - wrapped up for the North Pole </div>
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Well its that tme again ! yes we have to do some srious wiring - not that we take it too seriously!</div>
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First we built a new test track for members to use, this includes</div>
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Once this was wired and in use we could press on and start the work on our baseboards for the new 00 layout...here Kevin views progress...</div>
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Here Steve Cope double checks Kevin in doing the right things!!!</div>
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Will all these parts ever come together? !</div>
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Now we have moved on to get some trackwork on the layout - not fixed but in place to see how it all works... Kerry spent Mondays getting some of the track laid with screws to temp hold it in place - thanks Kerry.</div>
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Birds eye view (or should I say front buffer view) but the track looks good eh?</div>
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Passing over that pointwork quite smoothly...</div>
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Sweeping curves! - just what every man wants!</div>
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They have been waiting at this bar for a drink for ages! - very poor service!</div>
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We just have to lift it all again! and start cutting holes for point motors and then re-lay with underlay....</div>
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