Trains trains trains!

Over the last few weeks while I've been doing the downstairs bathroom, I've taken over one of the other rooms as my work room to store all my tools and stuff, this has forced the kids In to the front room. This has some advantages, as it give plenty of room for building train tracks. Most of these were built by the little man, with only a few modifications to get all the tracks to fit by myself.

The wooden railway

We started with the wooden railway, and it went through several expansions from its original, simple loop. As I said, most of it was done by the little man, but it occasionally needed some readjustment when two 'male' or 'female' ends came together, or when curves didn't quite meet up. 

The final layout

Track master

Once we got bored to the wooden railway, we advanced on to track master. Again most of this was done by the little man, with only a few modifications from myself to get the tracks to fit. My one main contribution to the railway was the bridge across the middle.

The bridge

This was fun to build, and a bit of a challenge, but it worked really well and the little man really loved it. It is something that we've not done before and was only possible thanks to the Thomas's daring drop track that the little man got for Christmas. Although, I think Grandad has got us all beaten.

Grandads railway

The train bug seems to run in the family, although grandads railway is a lot more expensive and complex, but the little man loves playing with it and now Grandad has bought the little man his own (second hand) train and carriages, Grandad also isn't worried about any of his special GWR trains getting damaged!