This last week, after months of pondering the problem, I plucked up the necessary amount of courage and took the first step to rid Morfa of the temporary lash up that allows me to run trains round and round in circles. It's taken this time to work out how I'll construct the Cambrian style trestle bridge on a curve that will be the stand in for the real Barmouth bridge. I've had the materials to hand for a while, the easy bit as drawings and articles specify the timber sections required; arranging them on a curve and to be sufficiently robust has been the challenge. To date I've printed out a template to construct the decking on followed by cutting the transverse timbers to size and staining them to a suitable shade of grey.
Photos of paper templates, chipboard and cut down coffee stirrers aren't that exciting, so by way of compensation here's a totally unrelated pic of the Pwllheli - York mail train heading into Morfa.
