18 Sep 2014
Cork Paint
I sprayed a mixture of grey, red oxide and black primer on the cork. It isn't great (as you can see it is very patchy) but it doesn't really need to be - it is there just to ensure that when it is ballasted there isn't new shiny cork underneath.
For these boards I painted them in situ as taking them out was going to be difficult.
17 Sep 2014
Corking
Back to laying down cork; this time I have the additional problem that I want the edge of the cork to be a 60 degree angle where there is no platform and a right angle cut where there is a platform. This is further complicated by the fact that the platforms at Banbury (like at many stations) have a considerable overhang - I have looked at these for sometime (hard to measure without getting yourself arrested) I believe the overhang is about 9 inches.
The road bed needs to be wider where there aren't platforms too. In order to make marking and cutting the cork as accurate as I could, I printed out two full scale plans from xtrckcad - one with a roadbed width of X.Y, which I used where there was a platform and one with a roadbed width of A.B which I used where there was no platform. I then combined the two and used an angled cutter where there was no platform and a knife held normally for platform edges.
