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Branching Out

Posted by Rupert Connor on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, In : Construction

You may have noticed we updated our Trackplan page a while ago. It now shows our latest ideas for the eventual KLR track plan. We've made a start on the station area by adding a new pair of points to the main circuit and (for now) a short siding. This siding will eventually become part of the new station run round loop.

A Golden Spike

Posted by Rupert Connor on Sunday, October 11, 2015, In : Construction

We have at last completed the basic oval of track and marked the point where 'East meets West' with golden track spikes in the final sleeper laid. Now we can have journeys of up to infinite length!

Oh Snow

Posted by Rupert Connor on Sunday, April 26, 2015, In : Construction

Having had a couple of weeks of Spring/Summer like weather our thoughts had been turning towards bridge building. It was quite a surprise to look up from typing the previous post and see that it was snowing. It's still piling up now, so no chance of concreting in our newly acquired holding down bolts for a while.

Embankment Building

Posted by Rupert Connor on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, In : Construction

We've been dodging the rain and hail showers to build the embankment along towards the bridge site. This has involved moving a fair amount of hardcore and using some of the rock collection we have amassed to build a scenic retaining wall. Much easier said than done! Thoughts are now turning towards how to build the bridge............

A bit of progress and a day out

Posted by Rupert Connor on Sunday, April 28, 2013, In : Construction

We managed to lay another length of track during the last week. Originally we were going to build in the pair of points leading to the proposed station branch somewhere along this section. Instead we decided to lay plain track for now, in order to get the basic oval of track laid and give us a long (up to infinite!) length of run as soon as possible. We will be working out exactly where the points are going to be so that we can incorperate rail joins at the right places to allow us to simply ...
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Two Road Engine Shed

Posted by Rupert Connor on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, In : Construction

After the snow came the wind. Dust storms formed where there are newly ploughed fields, creating what seemed like a thick brown fog. At last there were a few nice days at the end of last week.

Karen had got fed up with tripping over a pair of points that had been lying around in the workshop pending a little tweaking to make them more reliable, and lifting some of our rolling stock on and off the track each time we used it was less than ideal. We therefore decided to get the points out of the ...
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