Cess obsessed

Posted byTrevorPosted inGreat Western Railway in 7mm scale, GWR Bydemill (Highworth), Layouts I have designed or built, Scenery, Track and Turnouts
The interface between right-of-way and scenery

This week I did more work on the liminal space between track and scenery for Bydemill – my 7mm, Edwardian era, Great Western Railway layout. I extended the ballast to bury the supports for the yet-to-be-installed point rodding hardware.

I also added the cess – a narrow strip adjacent to the ballast, engineered to help drain water from the track. In modelling terms, it’s the interface between the right-of-way and the scenery.

With this in place, I can now start creating scenery, which is something I really enjoy doing.

The cess along the main track out of Bydemill. The spur in the background is the goods yard track, which does not have a cess.

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