At long last a Update

So where did the last five months go?

Domestic repairs, a trip to Magny Cours for the F1, summer (must have blinked and missed it this year) and an on set of apathy left months going no where.


I had reached a stage of laying 80% of the track and stalled (a familiar tale). Much like writing this account is proving too be.

Some extra information had come to light since beginning, such as read reading the books on the EKR which revealed the fact ( a photo) that the points were built using standard sleepers ( a topic which generated some discussion on the 2mm yahoo group with regard to other railways, which in all likely hood caused me to recognize that it was used on the EKR ).

Gradually I bite the bullet and began to wire the track and install basic point operating gubbins which revealed a sorry tale. The passage of a loco (a Farish Austerity with turned down wheels) was quiet honestly crap... It lifted and lurched through the points in a totally unsatisfactory way. A plea to the Group yielded valuable information and served to re-invigorate me.

About this time a new source of information was published to the Web which revealed much missing information and solved one problem although created several more

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/



It was obvious that a rethink was required, in my own typical perverse way I started by building a replacement point, and considering my options.


And bugger me I've just had a email from the 2mm boys asking for pictures for a progress report, oh dear