I dismantled my last layout before my last house move and decided that for my next layout I would have a go at building the track to 21mm fine scale standards. I joined the Scalefour Society and when funds permitted I acquired the relevant track and wheel back to back gauge's, ply sleepers, steel bullhead and flat bottom rail, all the switch and vee crossing filing jigs, and I also purchased a templot license. I spent a lot of time photographing the Station building and signal box at Clonmel so I could make scale drawings. The plan was to draw up the track plan on Templot and begin building the track.
I had to take a back seat from modelling when my mother became terminally ill and I only really eased myself back into the hobby this year. We will be building a permanent home for the as yet to be built layout this year and when it is built the wood working will begin, and then the trackwork. It will be a slow build as all the track will be completely hand built to the correct gauge for 5 foot 3 inches. I spent a bit of time dyeing the ply sleepers a few years ago and they have faded a bit and it looks even more prototypical. When I begin building, a step by step account will be posted here. Everything is at the planing stage at the moment but I want to get everything in place before I begin so that progress doesn't get delayed. I will put up some photos of my scale drawings of the main station building in a workbench thread and I suppose I could build a length of track to use for testing the converted rolling stock and also stick that up in the thread as well.
Rich,