Trains on this line are subject to delays.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:47 am
Well At least I have got to starting my thread.
When I knew the Standard Gauge Workbench was in the offing I could not wait to get started, but things have not turned out as expected. First it was house renovating that took more time and money) than expected. Then an extended spell of hospital visiting to Aberdeen Royal infirmary, a daily round trip of 70 miles, and then home care for my elderly mother. Then she had another spell of ill health and I thought I was going to lose her. She is much recovered now though and had a good Christmas but for a while modelling wasn't really in my thoughts. Then the storms on Christmas Eve wrecked a large part of the roof on my workshop. We had the strongest recorded gusts in the county up here (82mph in Peterhead) and it was quite frightening watching the whole of a roof being lifted several feet into the air and crashing down onto the walls again. At one point it was coming down so violently that it was knocking stones out of the walls. Those walls are two feet thick granite and have been there since at least 1850. Most of the roof collapsed inwards so thankfully it didn't cause damage elsewhere. A section of roof about 4 metres square was actually flipped upside down landing inside the walls underneath the rest of it. The few fine days since have been spent with a ladder and a large angle grinder clearing the wreckage onto a large pile of corrugated iron and a large pile of broken timbers. Another fine day should see it cleared and I can build a new wall at the point where the roof still remains and then rebuild the rest in the summer. Apart from being time consuming this part of the building was where my baseboard materials for my SGW entry were stored so they are underneath the remains of the roof.
I do intend to build a SGW entry, really I do, but so far events seem to have conspired against it. Eventually updates on an actual layout should appear here but I thought I would post to show I hadn't forgotten about it.
When I knew the Standard Gauge Workbench was in the offing I could not wait to get started, but things have not turned out as expected. First it was house renovating that took more time and money) than expected. Then an extended spell of hospital visiting to Aberdeen Royal infirmary, a daily round trip of 70 miles, and then home care for my elderly mother. Then she had another spell of ill health and I thought I was going to lose her. She is much recovered now though and had a good Christmas but for a while modelling wasn't really in my thoughts. Then the storms on Christmas Eve wrecked a large part of the roof on my workshop. We had the strongest recorded gusts in the county up here (82mph in Peterhead) and it was quite frightening watching the whole of a roof being lifted several feet into the air and crashing down onto the walls again. At one point it was coming down so violently that it was knocking stones out of the walls. Those walls are two feet thick granite and have been there since at least 1850. Most of the roof collapsed inwards so thankfully it didn't cause damage elsewhere. A section of roof about 4 metres square was actually flipped upside down landing inside the walls underneath the rest of it. The few fine days since have been spent with a ladder and a large angle grinder clearing the wreckage onto a large pile of corrugated iron and a large pile of broken timbers. Another fine day should see it cleared and I can build a new wall at the point where the roof still remains and then rebuild the rest in the summer. Apart from being time consuming this part of the building was where my baseboard materials for my SGW entry were stored so they are underneath the remains of the roof.
I do intend to build a SGW entry, really I do, but so far events seem to have conspired against it. Eventually updates on an actual layout should appear here but I thought I would post to show I hadn't forgotten about it.