4mm Llanfair ....

[Yorkshire Dave]

That's really captured the atmosphere of that part of North Wales, Larry.

Especially with no track.... .

Hat, coat, gone................. and chair left spinning

 

[LarryG]

I think this completes all the buildings needed for the layout. This weighbridge is by Rail Model. The story goes that it was a GWR replacement for a building that got clobbered by a lorry driver. BR painters gave it a repaint....

 

[LarryG]

Some people would shout 'Sacrilege', but I thought long and hard before putting the recently built station building through the chopper.....




The bleached out cream was given a new coat of Howes BR coach cream...

 

[LarryG]

The track needs to be sprayed with Howes Sleeper Grime to make an impression on the baseboard, then glued & ballasted down in convenient sections. I didn't have a catchpoint for the coal siding, so a point was used. Empty coal wagons could be pushed by hand into that short stub.....


Update : Bullhead track with flat bottom points below. All flat-bottom in picture above. Sprayed Howes Sleeper Grime....

 

[LarryG]

The two sunny days we had at the beginning of the week were too hot for gluing down track using the glue & ballast in one go method. Since then, we've had more than a months rainfall in two days in North Wales. I've noticed water on the railway baseboard via a split roofing board, but there is no chance of investigation yet.

 

[Richard Gawler]

I've just done a test area using Ballast Magic. This is a powdered glue you mix with the ballast and set off with a mist of water. My result wasn't strong enough for a permanent installation, but it was strong enough to stay put while I added a dribble of diluted pva. The result has set rock hard so good for a siding, less so for a main line.