A slow summer...

It seems to have been a slow summer with few running sessions. Urgent repairs haven't helped, and indeed the repairs described in the previous post were only fully completed a week ago. Some little wedges intended, I think, for use laying tiles have been repurposed to level the track along the outer loop at Birkenhof.

At the same time, the wiring to a key platform lamp was also repaired. The lamp in question illuminates the "Kurzzug" or "short train" stopping point and is vital for evening operations when the operator cannot see how far the train has got at the station!

It's likely that I'll need to lift the points at one end of the station as the blades on one set (at least) don't seem to be conducting much electricity. I'd quite like to replace a very old LGB set with some TrainLine 45 ones, but they're not available in the UK and, post Brexit, what were my usual suppliers won't ship to the UK.