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It's nice to see the old Triang buildings and structures on your layout. I'm intrigued by your bridge. Could you show some more photos of it as it develops? You mentioned using cork in Post 6. I put 3mm cork on the entire surface of my baseboard. It's a good material to paint on and it can be easily cut away if you want to create a slightly lower level in places. With the cork underneath, the trains still seem to make plenty of noise. It's definitely not silent running.

IanAlan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:50 pm It's nice to see the old Triang buildings and structures on your layout. I'm intrigued by your bridge. Could you show some more photos of it as it develops? You mentioned using cork in Post 6. I put 3mm cork on the entire surface of my baseboard. It's a good material to paint on and it can be easily cut away if you want to create a slightly lower level in places. With the cork underneath, the trains still seem to make plenty of noise. It's definitely not silent running.

Cork is still in the mental plans, if not on the baseboard! There are three bridges created from spare square section downpipe. Unfortunately I'm not practiced with a saw, but never-the-less with a bit of thought I may be able to hide the worst vagaries of my cutting.

Photos will follow as the bridges develop. The white one isn't likely to change much, neither is the one at the bottom of the slope. The long one on the incline has a few possibilities. One is a set of arches with workshops as seen in the NE (and probably all over the country). They don't normally face onto the railway tracks, but may be able to arrange an industry of some kind there.

Here is a picture of the long bridge. Wavy cutting very visible! There maybe enough room to create something accessed from the right by "road".

The slope with the bridges at the top and bottom is to get a side-wall. I don't fancy an expensive derailment onto the lower tracks!

Thanks for the info about Homebase. How thick is their grass? One of the product lines on the website says 9mm. I'm really looking for large size (1.5x.0.9 m) grass matting from a modelling source if possible as this is likely to be thinner than the Homebase product - if such exists.

Things are coming along nicely.

Very interesting!