Bye Bye Bideford

2 posts in a week, that must mean summer is over and the model railway season is back in full swing, or something. Anyway, suitably inspired by saturdays day out, and boosted by not drinking that night, lead me to feeling nice and bright sunday morning, which in turn meant that i had a good few hours working on Hartland Junction. Well, i had a good few hours sitting on a chair daydreaming about what i wanted to do, but i did finish what i'd started the previous week (or it may have been the week before, i lose track) and that was relay the top station, previously known as 'Bideford' and sometime in the future to be known as, well, i haven't decided yet.

It was actaully suprisingly easy to do what i wanted to do, well, getting the ballast up was a bit tough, but i cleared enough, luckily, having already laid the new station throat before it was more just a case of laying the actual loops. Surprsingly, they seemed to fit perfectly with the minimum amount of track cutting, i was well happy. So much so in fact that i decided to move onto the loco too. This was more of a challenge, there was a small turntable embedded and the ground raised up around it.. Well, a few good jabs with the scredriver soon loosened them and the whole thing came up in a few goes. So i now have a new area i need to clean this weekend, and hopefully the right hand point i picked up after on ebay will turn up in time for me to properly lay the loco this weekend. I also hope to rebuild the station using the offcuts of the old Bideford platform, not sure how that's going to go, especially after a night out on saturday, but if i fuck it up i'll just take the plunge and buy a new station.. I'm quielty confident though. Then i'll need to cover the majority of the gradient behind to move the terrace house onto, it's all about creating room out there and making the railway look part of an environment. Plus i've decided it's time to actually 'finish' the first window of the branch which could do with a new layer of grass on the hill and some general tidying up.. Busy busy, but thats what Sunday mornings seem to be for now..

It's good to have a hobby!