Still Doing Fencing Around the Station

On Friday afternoon, I went to the local hobby shop and ended up buying some nice wooden fences from Chilli Engraving.  That is Tristan in our Club.  These were removed from their packaging when I got home and I could see where I would use them on the layout.  That night I started studying some photos I took when I was last in Casino of the houses backing onto the railway line.  I then realised that I needed to make some 6’ chain wire fencing to the list of requirements. This is mostly at the railway property border where roads or laneways met and backed onto the railway land.   It shoul dbe understood that I do not have photos of these areas back 30 years ago when my layout is set.  So I can only hope that the fencing did not change much in these houses, and road/laneways over that time period.

So I started cutting up some styrene to make some 6’ chain wire fencing for the end of Wiangarie Street on Cassino.  I cut the posts and glued the top rail on.  This was constructed in three sections. 

Saturday was soccer day, with two matches to ferry my son to.  When I eventually got home late in the arvo, I painted the fence segments I made the day before.  I installed the two short segments either side of Wiangarie Street, and drilled the holes for the third.

It wasn’t until this afternoon that I installed the third section of fencing around Wiangarie Street.  Today I also installed a few more sections of fencing on the houses backing on to Cassino Station.  I also made up another small section of fencing for Convent Parade.  I also added a gate for access for authorised persons.

I was also able to find some more detail items and give them a paint last weekend.  So I now have a couple of wheel barrows to help get the concrete from the mixer (still to get one of those) to the boxing for the car port slab.  I also added a letter box to the house on Canterbury Street.

The various gates for a number of houses will be made tonight from styrene.

A few photos show progress.

The house in Canterbury Street.  The detail out the front is coming along.  Just need a cement mixer.  Last week I added some trees, fencing at the end of the street, paved walkways in the front and backyard.

This laneway is Convent Parade.  Fencing is in, gate is in.  I need a gate on the driveway on the house on the left.  I still need to build this house and add detail.

This house is the other one on Convent Parade.  It has no front fence.  Well no house here either, yet and no detail.

This is North Street.  No house, and an incomplete side fence yet.

The other house in North Street.  Wooden fences all around.  

The next house backs onto a grassed unnamed laneway (in Google maps) .  This is the start of the chain wire fencing that I made on Friday night.

The full view of the fencing at the end of Wiangaree Street.