Timber Tracks - Turnout Construction

I'm busy building the various turnouts needed for the extension to Widnes Road; and I had a need for a curved left hand 1:6. Having read about the new Timber Tracks sleeper bases available from C&L, I thought I'd give them a try.

Now I have I'm never going back to plastic, the wooden bases are so much better to work with and don't melt if you're too liberal with the Butanone.

As well as being far more pleasing to work with they also enable more natural looking track formations to be made, as well as allowing standard turnouts to be gently curved to fit track plans.

The best description comes from their own website: "Timber Tracks mark a radical new departure in track construction. For years we have been saying that model railway trackwork should ‘flow’ and be designed as a whole, rather than as turnouts ‘stitched’ together by lengths of plain track. Instead of individual sleepers and turnout timbers, the system is based on laser cut turnout bases and track panels. Each panel is flexible, so you can create sweeping curved turnouts and track." And it does exactly what it says on the tin!