Board Construction

We started construction of the layout boards in early November 2011. The boards were constructed of rigid MDF with a softwood frame.

Myself, Jem and Ian working on the baseboards (Photo by Peter Chatt)

Several new club members joined us, which speeded up construction. The layout is made up of twelve individual boards. Ten for the lower level and two for an upper level at one end of the layout.  below you can see the lower level boards layed out on the floor showing the full 22' x 8' size of the layout. For use at the railway club the two middle 6' boards are removed making the layout 16' x 8'. The layout will only be assembled in its full size for exhibitions.

Here the boards layed out on the floor show the size of the layout

By early December all the boards were constructed and we had started to fit legs to them. The surface of the boards were then painted with black emulsion paint.

Here you can see the front and side boards bolted together with legs attached.

It was then a mad dash to get all the legs attached and the board bolted to together in time for the club open weekend on the 10th - 11th December 2011 when we would be hoping to get started laying track.