The weather and late shifts has meant that progress has been very slow.
The planter has been cut down and had preservative added plus a bit of tidying up but no more.
I hope to get a bit more done next week before my holiday but then nothing will happen till early in July.
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| The planter was a bit tall so I cut it down |
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| Ready for treating |
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| Will get a liner, shelf tops and the railway added after my holiday. |
I am finally getting stuff into the garden instead of pulling it out as the first of the planters, and the base (not the support though) of the shed end return loop, being constructed.
I am using pallets as they are free, After looking at this a bit I have decided to cut them down to just over half height, above the middle cross member.
Hopefully I will get some more done over the Bank Holiday.
The base of the original station is now just a hole in the ground.
There is a large pile of rubble to get rid of.
Not everything is out but enough to let me get on with the first stage of the garden and railway rebuild.
The original station base has now been removed after much smashing of concrete and swearing by me.
A nice big pile of rubble to be disposed of,
The area behind the rubble will be paved and the new railway on the shed wall at a nice operating height with a return loop on the right above a planter and it will continue along the bottom of the garden on the right,
I am slowly removing the old line and hope to get the new line started this month. Pictures will follow once the process begins.
There hasnt been much progress to the railway mainly due to problems with the house that saw us in a hotel for over a month missing the nice weather when I could have worked on the garden and the new line.
I have started work on some small railways using the boards from the large portable I was going to build. I have decided to use each baseboard to make a smaller line but make them linkable so I can have as small or as large a line as I want.
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| Module no 1, a garden line. |
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| The track has had a coat of red oxide and will get rust and dirt added and cat litter ballast before the scenery in added. |
If you look at the layout you will see the short sidings at either end. The buffer stops are not fixed down so these can be used to link the modules and will, eventually, create a complete oval. I will also make a couple of modules with return loops so I can be flexible with the layout.
As part of the railways rebuild and me getting back into my train building again I have recently built a new workstation which I plan on putting to good use to build the large cache of kits that I have.
I have lots to do both on the railway and on my cosplay projects but now I do have the room, at least once the last few bits have been tidied away.
So my plans to do more on the railway have been scuppered by, of all things, a new grandson.
I am now well and truly recovered from my operation but spending time with my Grandson Oakley as well as my Daughters wedding in Italy preceded by my new Son-in-Laws stag do in Prague has restricted my time for railway modelling.
One decision I have made is to remove the current railway and replace it with an elevated one. There are 2 reasons for this, 1 is that the garden had got out of hand and was looking scruffy and 2 is that my health problems showed that a ground level line needs a level of fitness that, whilst I currently have it, might limit me in the future.
I will update the site in the next few days to reflect projects and progress.
