
Just thought I'd keep you updated on the progress I've made on "Wadebridge", now that I've solved an earlier problem that I had.







You'll have to excuse the state of the track - Alot of it is over 20 years old.
sishades wrote:The gap between the rails in the above picture does look a bit on the longish side.
sishades wrote:The gap between the rails in the above picture does look a bit on the longish side.
Zunnan wrote:A short piece of flex in there cut to length will fix that. Cut away two sleepers worth of chairs so you can slide the rail joiners right back on one end to be able to squeeze it into place then slide the joiners home. Bobs your mothers brother
Splop. wrote:More work done today, thanks to a belated birthday present from dad (first one he bought never turned up - seller was reported to paypal)
Which also included some rather fetching trees (Ladder came from a broken signal box - it now belongs to the owner of the hut, who is just about to start re-tiling his roof).
I've also made a start on re-painting the water columns (That Hornby red was just garish).
One minor question - I know that from the mid 60's onwards, DMU's replaced the steam passenger services from Bodmin to Wadebridge, but can anybody tell me when they took over the freight services, and what types were used?
50035 Ark Royal wrote:The diesels on freight turns would have been the class 22 North British diesel hydraulics which i think Dapol are doing as a LE but they are £££££££££
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