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New Year progress on Ingatestone !
Although we have been quiet over Christmas, that doesn’t mean that we have not been active on Ingatestone, as the photos will attest ! Progress since the last update: Bob has been busy progressing the bridge nearer the country end of Ingatestone station and has started the drawing of Stock Lane bridge further …read more.
Jan 7, 2016
“Blacklade” – an OO gauge layout by Stephen Siddle
Welcome to BR’s “crumbling edge of quality”. “Blacklade” is the surviving station in a small Midlands county town, served by local trains to Nottingham, Birmingham (both ex Midland) and Sheffield via Chesterfield (ex GC). Trains are worked by elderly 1950s diesels reinforced by new Sprinters. The layout has been built by …read more.
Sep 19, 2015
Ingatestone Summer progress report.
The last few weekends have seeen further progress on both tracklaying and making handholds. All boards have now had the handholds routed out, which will be a major safety and comfort feature on the layout, enabling a firm grip to be kept when manoeuvering the boards around. The first track on boards 5 and 6 …read more.
Aug 24, 2015
A busy weekend for Ingatestone.
A gloriously sunny Saturday June 27th saw Mo, Bob, Tom, Kevan and Chris head for Ingatestone to take measurements for the next stage of the 4mm layout: The buildings. After checking in with the Station Manager, we measured the footbridge piers, the station buildings before turning to the level crossing. With the assistance of the …read more.
Jul 5, 2015
Ingatestone on track !
Progress has continued on tracklaying on Ingatestone, with most of the running lines now down and soldered securely to screws at the board ends. In the pictures you can see work in progress last Thursday night. Improvements made to the baseboards have seen additional bracing added to remove some of the twistability from them. …read more.
Jun 26, 2015