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The branch had seen a huge reduction in trafffic to the oil terminal, MoD base and the occassional passenger diversion and as such was closed and lifted with the Broadbean Junction signalbox falling into disrepair and vanadals taking their toll. :shock: The branch is very overgrown now but is still passable with a little determination.

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We had a fence panel blow over and break my signalbox and it knocked off my loosely laid track (i normally take the 2m lengths in and store them through the coldest part of the year). The pesky raspberry runners strike again on the branchline, i think an engineers train and weedkilling set is required. Repairs to the box have been carried out and i am fitting connectors to the ends of my jumper leads between the 2m lengths. I still would like to add a set of points and a siding at Broadbean Jnc and maybe a runround loop. But this will need to be removable to preserve good operation i think.

Will post some more when we are running again. The Baby Deltic is due to run up the branch with an RTC special....

John

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In fact I have lost a few windows from Broadbean Jnc box, does anyone have any tips for making some reasonable replacements? Ihave one blanked and one poorly drawn on white polythene currently. Is there a good window sheet i could cut some from?

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In fact I have lost a few windows from Broadbean Jnc box, does anyone have any tips for making some reasonable replacements? Ihave one blanked and one poorly drawn on white polythene currently. Is there a good window sheet i could cut some from?

Ratio make window mouldings for Midland signalboxes, I don't know if they'll fit the Hornby one though.

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Excellent link there, thanks Ian, i'll get a set and give them a go! As the oil terminal is eager to re-establish their rail link, we need to get the infrastructure sorted ASAP! ;)

I'll see if i can get it with my spare batterybox/fuel tank for the Heljan baby deltic which i removed forcibly when installing sound but then left them out. They then got "tidied away" so now i have no idea what happened to them! :roll:

Will post up my results, been a hectic few days redecorating so not had chance to mess with it this week.

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I have recently added a few breeze blocks into my border as the basis for my run round loop and siding. No points out there yet as i want to make a cover. I had noticed that if i left a rake of oil tanks out, they kept getting knocked over. So i decided to set my camera trap (Swann Outback Cam). And within an hour i have this! The cause of my demolition! Now how do i protect my sidings from giant cats??! :)

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