Photo gallery

On completion of the main track ballasting and paving (using modelling clay), the Peckett was chosen to test the track condition. Success!

Once the glue was set and track power soldered in, it was time to test how well a short train ran. Given the track radius is a tiny 13.2 cm, this is phenomenal performance.

Day 1. Plywood and guidelines for track laying. I would later need to re-draw these after painting the board.

Painted board with the first track glued in position (that was a bit of a challenge). The paint colour was "stone" from a spare tester pot, and is less pink in person!

Ready to lay the second length of track. Keeping both bends as single pieces was critical to avoid kinks in the curves.

Overhead view of the first train (posed, no electrics in yet).
LSWR dock tank Guernsey with a pair of oil tank wagons.

A Ruston shunter testing the curves with a brake van in tow.

All the track laid! A bit of a shame that the siding roads are only decorative, but making some sort of turntable would be a huge job.

Starting to weather the track and with a Southern white metal buffer kit from Lanarkshire Models.

Modelling clay in place to model track laid into the road surface. Still need to add a little more in the 4-foot.

Scenics coming along nicely, just before ballasting the main line. The 4-foot at the bottom left will be packed out with timbers rather than road surface.

The Peckett and Ruston posing to show off the trackwork. Doesn't Code 75 Bullhead look much more to scale than Code 100 flat bottom?

Who needs Anyrail?
Scenery mock up.