SillyBilly
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Seibiant Hill Railway (Progress....)I've started this topic with the intent of infroming you of the latest developments on the SHR. Anyway today I started the ballasting process today, using some pemble like ballast, which I think looks quite good.
Here's a photo:
What do ya all think? Starting to look like a proper railway?
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Mamodman123
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Same sort of stuff I used. You can get a big bag of it down Do-it-all for 5 quid!
Looks good 
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Lewis
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| Mamodman123 wrote: | Same sort of stuff I used. You can get a big bag of it down Do-it-all for 5 quid!
Looks good |
do it all  are they still called that havent heard it since i was like 5
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Mamodman123
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| Lewis wrote: | | Mamodman123 wrote: | Same sort of stuff I used. You can get a big bag of it down Do-it-all for 5 quid!
Looks good |
do it all are they still called that havent heard it since i was like 5 |
They are focus now!
Payless before 
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Lewis
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| Mamodman123 wrote: | | Lewis wrote: | | Mamodman123 wrote: | Same sort of stuff I used. You can get a big bag of it down Do-it-all for 5 quid!
Looks good |
do it all are they still called that havent heard it since i was like 5 |
They are focus now!
Payless before |
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what about rainbow shop did you ever hear of that ?
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SillyBilly
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Payed £3 for a sack that weighs to mutch!
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Mamodman123
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| SillyBilly wrote: | | Payed £3 for a sack that weighs to mutch! |
Yeah, it's ideal for railways 
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SillyBilly
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Me and a couple of friends spent a day a couple of weeks ago making a new extension to my garden railway.
My friends Talyllyn Railway 'Tom Rolt' trying out the new extension. Sadly at this point I had no Peco track to lay so I used the remeinder of the mamod track, which is soon to be replaced by Peco. The two blue stock pieces are mine and the rest my friends.
As you know my current railway is layed in mamod track, and the extension is to be Peco, so as discussed in GJ's thread, I needed to make a peco-mamod track convertor piece. So out came a piece of snaped mamod track.
What I did was dremel (it killed my dremel  ) and hacksawed the railhead on the mamod track down to a suitable profile so the peco fishplates would fit on the mamod rail. It works ok, but the joint will need a little taken off the to rail tops when laid so that there isn't to mutch of a 'bump'.
The rail on the right hand side has just been cut to shape
There it is with both rails cut to shape, and Peco SM32 fishplates in place.
A shot of it complete from the top, note the slightly tapered ends to the rail, this is so that the fishplates slide on easier.
So, it can be done!
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SillyBilly
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Just to finsih it off here are a couple of shots of it joined up, the tops have not been ground down yet.
From the top
Look for the 'bump'
A general shot
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Graham-Jilly
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Looks great SB thanks for the tutorial as it now gives me the
idea to go ahead with the cheaper peco track
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