An Instant Railway

Well, sort of. I think I've mentioned that Issy had half a plastic pallet and some artificial grass left over from building a poodle washing station. These were sequestered away with the intention to build a quick layout for the grandchilren

There were two problems, though. The resulting baseboard was too narrow to fit in a circuit of Faller track, and there was nowhere in the garden where it could be safely set up away from those poodles.

Then, over eighteen months after we moved here, and as we began to tackle the seriously overgrown borders, I realised there was a ready-built raised bed running alongside one of the garden walls.. In the long term, this will become a proper 16mm line of some sort. It just happens to be the same width as the half-pallet, and there is a suitable access point that is wide enough to get it in and out of place.

That left the issue of track, solved by using Loco Remote's printed Jubilee track.

As always, the service from Chris was excellent, and I even had an old station building to hand that was already ageing in the garden (In other words, I'd forgotten it was there)

It is there if you look very closely!

So, an instant railway!


Well, not quite. The track isn't intended as a play item, so I need some form of trackbed it can be attached to. I thought I had something stashed in the garage, but I think that made a trip to the recycling depot. And I need to build the PS Models stock that I bought two years ago....