Here is a selection of shots taken before the move.
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| Ex L&B Manning Wardle hauls clay up to the exchange sidings |
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| This originally had model track but it got removed about 20years ago after a change of plan. |
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| A down train passing the quarry. |
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| And further down the line crossing the quarry road. |
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| A up works train hauled by K1 (This was sold to the PLR by Beyer Peacock after repatriation and when the PLR finally closed in the 1960s it went to the NRM). |
When the loft was completed last year it was far too hot to do anything apart from get the boards up there. I spent a long time trying to work out the optimum config. It was clear the two main sections would need to be separated and came up with a design that I thought would work but would have involved a lot of extra hidden track. I built the staging for the spiral/quarry and then realised it wouldn't work so decided to rotate it 90degrees. With temporary extra bracing added I slowly shoved it round from underneath. I got it about half way round and realised that was a far better position.
With a little bit of shifting to-and-fro I've now completed the staging for the exchange sidings and positioned all the current boards. There will be one new board required of about 5ft long which needs to accommodate a 6 inch change of datum level (I'm used to doing that). Track will be laid on raised trackbeds built the J H Ahern way (still be best book I've got).
The fiddle yard will be beyond the lower tunnel in a similar config as in the last house. The traverser built for ExPong is going to come to Devon too now David J no longer needs it. There is even the potential to join it up to get a continuous run of close on 90ft and then simply watch the trains go round. The grandchildren may get to race their engines (which I've promised to build).
Some photos from today:
