18th February 2026

This week we tackled one of Geoff's 'annoyances', an unrealistic section of track.

The offending section is about 4-5 foot long and should have been avoided at the time of building the new siding along the front of the station. The left hand joint is also a track break which had to be taken into account.

We decided to leave the sleepers in place and unsolder the rails. The short rails were removed together with the rails, up to suitable positions at both points.

Very little work was required to touch-up the sleepers and the job was complete.

The only issue we had was finding suitable replacement rail. John had used some unusual rail so both the rail height and the rail head width had to be matched as best we could.

The stone in the foreground is a marker indicating the centre of the uncoupling magnet under the siding along the front.

We also tackled another of Geoff's bugbears - the foliage across the hill behind the workshop. It has become very tatty, but Stephen did a trial make-over with some yellow paint, touching-up the faded flowers which worked quite well. We'll look into it next week.