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Scotrail Push-Pull Track laying Back to the drawing board Yet another tidy up. More bench work!
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Scotrail Push-Pull

May 29, 2025 George
Test Track

Track laying

October 18, 2021 George
Baseboards Planning Track

Back to the drawing board

October 11, 2021 George
Baseboards

Yet another tidy up.

October 3, 2021 George
Baseboards

More bench work!

October 2, 2021 George
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Track laying
Test Track
Track laying
Back to the drawing board
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Back to the drawing board
Yet another tidy up.
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Yet another tidy up.
Scotrail Push-Pull
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Scotrail Push-Pull
Power District 2
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Power District 2
More bench work!
Baseboards
More bench work!
Yet another tidy up.
Baseboards
Yet another tidy up.
Scotrail Push-Pull
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Scotrail Push-Pull
Track laying
Test Track
Track laying
Back to the drawing board
Baseboards Planning Track
Back to the drawing board
Yet another tidy up.
Baseboards
Yet another tidy up.
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Introduction to Somerton Model Railway

August 8, 2021 George

The base concept of Somerton Model Railway is to create a large layout which can run a number of trains simultaneously under automatic control. The layout is housed in a…

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Scotrail Push-Pull

May 29, 2025 George

Background Like many other items that I own, the base vehicles for this particular project came from my Dad’s collection, namely three Lima Mk3 coaches and a Lima class 47…

Test Track

Track laying

October 18, 2021 George

So what’s happened in the last week? Well, I’ve been laying the track that makes up the second set of storage sidings on the Southern and Eastern sides of the…

Baseboards Planning Track

Back to the drawing board

October 11, 2021 George

I’ve been using Anyrail software to plan the track layout so after finalising the pointwork design for the second storage yard, I printed the plan off at full scale. he…

Baseboards

Yet another tidy up.

October 3, 2021 George

I’ve lost count of the number of times that I have had to stop and tidy up before carrying on with the next phase of construction. In an ideal world,…

Baseboards

More bench work!

October 2, 2021 George

In my previous post, I described how I had started on the second storage yard which is part of power district 2. Today I put together the benchwork which will…

Track

Power District 2

September 30, 2021 George

After completing the testing on Power District 3, it was time to make a start on its mirror image, Power District 2. I had previously prepared all seven sets of…

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Back to the drawing board

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