Today I got back into the garden for a bit, and carried on with some planning. It's still fairly wet - and indeed rained a little today but I was able to get some measurements.
In a nutshell the problems I have are:
a) I need to curve round the obstacle of the mock orange and hawthorn, and cope with the slight angle on the garden and use the best radius of curves I can.
b) Walk across the middle bit - portrayed by the red boards in the diagram below -so down to the width of only one decking board.
c) Try and get a double track circuit... It's stll going to look a bit like a train set but in the absence of a major land grab and something really radical that probably takes up most of the lawn, then this what I have to work with.
d) To judge from the roots that I have already encountered - lifting the mock orange is not a solution.
The schematic uses a piece of track - the 60 degree crossing from a man called Bertram Heym which I haven't got yet. It may just be a case of getting one and playing around with it.
Still, it was good to be back out feeling that was moving forward, so that come the sunshine I can run trains...
This needs to be only one board wide, so you step from the patio onto the other board alongside the lawn.
What I had towards the middle of last year. It ran for a bit before (surprise, surprise) rain stopped play.
View of the boards again.
The schematic of waht may work. Digital is the way to go but points likely to be manually operated for starters. This uses more R1 curves than I would like but I think I'm going to have to live with it. At the bottom I've got the double slip installed with the simple crossover for comparison. I think the double slip probably adds hugely to the versatility of the track.
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