I’ve taken the opportunity this year to visit the Railnuts WCML layout in Chester Cathedral. This 68 Feet long model is a great model and features a number of the elements that I wanted to include on Kilsby Drift. As well as seeing lots of different trains running up and down I wanted to getContinue reading “Railnuts and the WCML at Chester Cathedral”
Author Archives: Gavin Collins
Wealden Cement
Spent today checking over the layout, a few points being a bit difficult in the warm and lots of track cleaning required. Took the opportunity to test out a couple of the new N Gauge Society Hunslets as the layout was designed for these. All worked ok and I’m back to ensuring that the DapolContinue reading “Wealden Cement”
Poole Sidings – June Update
Progress has not been at the speed I would have liked and I’ve been struggling for what seems ages getting the double slips set up. More on that later. The main lines and carriage sidings are now all installed and working, the cement sidings/yard is also in place along with all the points, point motorsContinue reading “Poole Sidings – June Update”
Wealden Cement – Test Running
Wealden cement is a DCC layout which is controlled through a JMRI Mimic panel. I’ve had to update JMRI as I’ve not run it for the last year and the updates have required me to build a new turnout table and relink the points to the panels. Should be straightforward but I haven’t found theContinue reading “Wealden Cement – Test Running”
Visualising the track plan
The last board has been attached which will have the sea wall for Holes bay and the road leading to Sterte as well as the curves around the signal box. I’ve put the actual points in position to check the clearance for the point motors and deal with my nagging concern that there are tooContinue reading “Visualising the track plan”
House Move and News
Its been a long time since I last posted but with the house move completed I’ve been starting to get settled into the new train room and have some boards up and the Nelevation (https://www.nelevation.com/) tested. Despite thinking and testing that I had the track set in the correct position on the risers I stillContinue reading “House Move and News”
Test Track Update
It’s been a journey but at long last and after a number of challenges I have at last manged to get one train running around the upline stopping in the right blocks and switching the lights and sound off and on as required using iTrain. I found a number of challenges on the way andContinue reading “Test Track Update”
Poole – The Concept
We should be exchanging on our new house at the end of this week so my thinking has been dancing around both what I’m going to be able to do in the garden as O gauge and what will be in the railway room. More on the Garden options in due course. I will beContinue reading “Poole – The Concept”
Test Track Update
Work on the test track has been progressing with all the track now laid on 5mm foamboard to deaden some of the sound but more importantly to allow me to have all the wiring above boards and create some capacity to route the layout wiring and point motor linkages under the track. Nearly all theContinue reading “Test Track Update”
Test Track – Revised Plan
Have revised the plan as my first review identifed a challenge with the points on the outer line and the ability to run trains across the lines . Revision below
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