Resting

At Cardiff Central, resting and rusting the old signal cabin.  Behind it the tall new builds of flats on the old brewery site..

Tippin Bach complete

 Tippin Bach - uses that simple yet effective and above all fun track plan, devised by the late and much missed Carl Arent.  A space less than A4 in size and yet here in 1:43.5 (O scale) I literally did spend a day at a recent model railway show (the superb Larkrail)  happily shunting  a single skip tipping wagon from the loader facility to the tippin point at the front and tipping a small stone load into a waiting standard gauge wagon.  

Along with Paradise Bottom which follows the exact same idea but in G scale on O16.5 track, Tippin Bach is a joy to have fun with and lose myself in the shunting process! 

Tippin Bach Tramway

Tippin Bach Tramway.

An off cut of foam board.

A thick piece of card.  OO9 track with O9 intentions. 

Some ten years ago I built my own version of Carl Arent's Square Foot Estate Railway. An icon in the world of micro layouts.  That was Gn15. This is O9.  Excited at the idea of a smaller footprint with a tippin waggon I pressed on.