Builder: Polly Wilton

Two Railway items: 009 mainline track; Disc Signal.
Two items of Waste: Insulation foam; card from cereal boxes.

INSPIRATION

In 2019, I received an invitation to ride the Ffestiniog Railway’s re-created Gravity Slate Train. The thrill of clanking down the track at speed without locomotive, from high up in the mountains, inspired this Cakebox Challenge.

DESTINATION

The Cob, where the Gravity Slate Train comes to a halt, is the first of three cakebox modules which will represent different sections of the Ffestiniog line.

RECYCLE

How appropriate! Recycled plastic sleepers have replaced the Cob’s old wooden ones.  So, file down the grain on those Peco wooden sleepers!

CHALLENGES

• Turn insulation foam into footpath, road, and railway.
• Force perspective over the Cob landscape; sculpt and scenic an estuary backdrop.
• Include the River Glaslyn. No room? Use the cakebox!
• Build the signal from ‘waste’: foam track underlay; pot plant stick; lace pin, staples, wire, plastic and card; and snip and tuck a spare Modelu BR(W) headlamp.

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