This is turning out to be an interesting project. The working title is Caol which was thought of in a hurry just to tag it, though I have casually looked up the Gaelic for camel to replace it. To save you looking it is… camel. Natch. The brief is/was to incorporate three types of track – I have dodged around this a little, but it does fulfil in using Bullhead, steel sleeper and ordinaire yellow pack code 75. All that aside it is taking a ridiculous amount of time to get this all down possibly not helped by Mrs F being unwell and off work which slows things down somewhat. The Accurascale 66 above is an on-loan review item, and while stunning in every way is just huge. This is the test and clearance loco as it would be the biggest item to logically be used and in this instance almost fits the bang up to date period.
Above is Steve Croucher’s Mk1 plan from my 5 min sketch, though this has been stretched somewhat. As is always the case, things get slightly altered as the build progresses. The eagle eyed will have noted that once again this is a Ford Gammon End four point plan with the siding to the left simply a trap line ending only just out of shot. The operation is basic even for me and is routed in 2024 period DMUs and some engineering traffic. But the reality is that that is what is currently there.
I have 3.5 months.