If anyone has been wondering "why haven't there been any Middlehampton posts lately?" it's because the holiday season has given me almost no loft time in the past month. Plenty of thinking time, but no actual doing time. And that's been very frustrating (although the holidays have been very nice).
I am hoping that this will all change shortly. I have a new loop to build, after all, and the time it takes to build it is time I didn't expect to be spending on construction at this stage. I thought I'd be well into the track-laying, and able to work in the evenings without needing to bang, drill or saw something every five minutes. So much for the optimism of July.
I have actually done a little bit of real work; specifically, I've put in the new lower-level trackbed on F1 to provide a feed from the storage sidings out to the new loop. The layout is a building site once again. Now that the holidays are over and the weekly routines are restarting, I expect to be able to do more work, and will post photos when I have something to show for all my thinking time.
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I guess with a layout as extensive as yours there will always be downtimes anyway, where you stand back and take a longer view. It will be all the better for it. I admire your courage in tackling such a complex project. The biggest railway I have ever built for myself (as opposed to commissions for others), is about six feet by two!!
Thanks Iain. I appreciate your words of encouragement! The good thing is, I'm in no rush to finish...
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