Work commenced over this weekend to change how the rack line links into the main line - we want to be able to operate the main line without the rack line crossing it in any way, so we've relaid the pointwork. All a bit of a fiddle, and involved extending the decking area further into the garden, which I hadn't originally wanted to do. As ever, it wasn't straightforward, but I've finally got the track more or less as I wanted it. I then decided to tidy the garden up a bit and clear the dead leaves off the plants. There did seem to be rather a lot of leaves and loose earth around the timber of the railway trackbed, and I rather feared that I'd have yet more cat mess to remove. But a little clearance revealed... a sleepy hedgehog. I have of course restored his hibernation nest as best I can, and will leave him to his (or her) slumbers till the Spring. Work is suspended until March, therefore...
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Hibernation halts work!
Work commenced over this weekend to change how the rack line links into the main line - we want to be able to operate the main line without the rack line crossing it in any way, so we've relaid the pointwork. All a bit of a fiddle, and involved extending the decking area further into the garden, which I hadn't originally wanted to do. As ever, it wasn't straightforward, but I've finally got the track more or less as I wanted it. I then decided to tidy the garden up a bit and clear the dead leaves off the plants. There did seem to be rather a lot of leaves and loose earth around the timber of the railway trackbed, and I rather feared that I'd have yet more cat mess to remove. But a little clearance revealed... a sleepy hedgehog. I have of course restored his hibernation nest as best I can, and will leave him to his (or her) slumbers till the Spring. Work is suspended until March, therefore...
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