New / Old - Little Weldon

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Dublo
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Re: New / Old - Little Weldon

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Hello all
At yesterdays Car Boot sale I managed to find these for the princely sum of £3.00. Within the packet are 10 sections of 18" long flexible track each section comes with its own piece of cork underlay attached. I am pleased with this find as these are the only examples of this range of trackwork that I have ever seen.
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Mountain
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Re: New / Old - Little Weldon

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Interesting! I would be tempted to modify the central rail in the diamond crossing, but quite an interesting find.

I once found old track which was both two and three rail that had unusual points. The sleepers were old material before they used plastic. I can think of how the word sounds but can't think how to pronounce or spell this material, but it was common years ago. Began with a P and had an x in it somewhere. :D
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Wolseley
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Re: New / Old - Little Weldon

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I'm no expert on it but, looking at the details, in particular the frogs, that diamond crossing looks like it might have been made by (or maybe for) Wrenn.

http://www.wrennrailways.org.uk/WRENN%20Track.htm
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Re: New / Old - Little Weldon

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Wolseley wrote: Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:50 am I'm no expert on it but, looking at the details, in particular the frogs, that diamond crossing looks like it might have been made by (or maybe for) Wrenn.

http://www.wrennrailways.org.uk/WRENN%20Track.htm
Ah! I have two points which I disected one of them. The frog closure interested me. I was going to use them on my layout by reducing the height so they would couple to code 100 track. It was before I decided to have a go at making my own track instead. It is interesting track as one point I had was 2-rail but built to the same general design. The other was 3-rail.
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