The Warren, Bredgar, Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 8AT. Tel:01622 884254. Fax:01622 884668.
The Warren, Bredgar, Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 8AT. Tel:01622 884254. Fax:01622 884668.
ENNSTALBAHN
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Published:- October 2001
Once the boards were fixed in place it was possible to loose lay the track. Amazingly all went according to the plan, even the girder bridge was dropped into place.
It was too much to resist, a controller was connected up and the first loco ran on 25th October 2001. Now all the track has to be lifted and laid properly in its permanent position.
It is now nearing the end of November and the water feature has been added in the corner. It has always been the plan to use real water, and it turned out to be not as easy as first thought. A pond liner was laid across the wooden framework and into a wooden channel and from this channel into the water resevoir. A preformed plastic watercourse as used in garden ponds was fixed on top of the pond liner. The water is fed to the top of the watercourse by a conventional pond pump located in the water resevoir and it then trickles down the watercourse back to the resevoir.
Once the water system worked correctly construction started on one of the two bridges required for the upper level. This is going to be a trestle bridge, the A frames can be seen in the photograph. A start has been made also on the stone bridge piers for the large girder bridge pictured above.
On the wiring front,the upper track has been wired up but some work is still required on the automatic passing loop. This track is controlled by an LGB Jumbo controller which has acceleration and deceleration facilities and siting the trigger switches has proved quite fiddly.
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