Introduction to Somerton Model Railway
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…
Track laying
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…
Back to the drawing board
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…
Yet another tidy up.
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,…
More bench work!
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…
Power District 2
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…