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City scene takes shape

It's official: the long-rumoured, oft-hinted, city scene has finally started to take shape.

Trackwork

The Utrainian Workshops have been busy churning out points for the complicated yard ladder trackwork; that is, the tracks that will route trains from two main lines onto one of eight platform lines. To further complicate matters, the station trackwork is all located on a curve to maximise the available space for the station platforms.

For the first set of points, I drew out the plan full size and used pieces of flexi-track and a length of metal to trace out the curves and track centrelines. I then traced these onto other bits of paper and painstakingly built up the points over these rough outlines.