Cranborne

The new baseboards for the extended version of Cranborne have just been installed, I now have a continuous to replace the test track.

It all looks very big and it was certainly a hefty lump to shift (eight 1200 x 1000 and two 1500 x 1000 boards) but as soon as the track goes down it will seem so small.



The trackplan will need tweaking and I have not decided whether to lay a double or single track, the loco shed is no longer required and the cottages have been binned. A less is more approach with hardly any buildings apart from those directly part of the railway infrastructure and the only other structures are a Dutch barn and Nissen hut as I am trying to replicate the 'feeling' of remoteness in West Dorset*. You get the idea by looking at Tapley, in a recent Model Rail, despite its GWR origins it is very much a railway set amongst landscape.

Another couple of years will see lots of sunken lanes and Ham stone structures being built, I want to see nothing but the gentle rolling downs with a train threading its way through.

Tim

* For those who familiar with the area, Cranborne is in East Dorset, on the eastern end of Cranborne Chase.