Update

Today was a very productive day, on many fronts (after trying to figure out what time it was). I first spent two hours doing a ‘foreigner’ for another layout. There is a Model Railway group (not formally a club) in Blaenau Ffestiniog. They have a 00 gauge layout which is about 15ft x 10ft and it includes two mainlines, a branch line, two testing loops, a village, industrial ar
ea, main station and a yard. The layout has many functioning lights on it (which looks great in the dark) but the loco sheds needed some floodlights.
Another member had found some Eckon floodlights and colour light signals in a bag at the Chester swap meet, which he bought for the layout. They needed to be re-wired and touched up, so I said I’d have a go. Some of the maintenance ladders had fallen off and one platform was missing. These where re-attached and a platform made.
Then I turned my attention to Traeth Mawr.
I had been looking at the track plan for the Boston lodge board, and wasn’t happy with how close the carriage shed needed to be to the mainline, so I started by pulling up the track pins to move the shed away slightly. After temporary holding the track down and looking at it, it didn’t look rite, so I went back to the original plan for that area, a locomotive shed and ashing out pit. The idea then developed into having two pits, one similar to Boston Lodge’s ‘long shed’ pit and the ashing out pit.
The area of the pit was marked out, and holed drilled in each corner, the holes was then cut out using a jigsaw. A piece of 5mm plywood was then screwed underneath the holes
Track was then laid over, sleepers removed, copper clad sleepers added to prevent the track from bowing when a locomotive was overhead.
All in all a very productive day over the next week the wiring can be finished.