Storage Wars

In a previous blog posting I demonstrated how we solved the problem of storing our many items of coaches and wagons, using sets of Stationery Drawers that we obtained from Lidl for the princely sum of £11.00 each, see below:

Each of the drawers holds four coaches, length-ways and lying on their sides, and so we divided each drawer into four compartments using 5 mm thick foam board and, then, lined the bottom of each compartment with thick kitchen paper.

This has worked well but the kitchen paper is prone to sliding to the back each time the drawer is taken out and a coach removed or replaced.

So, this year, we have embarked on a programme of improvement using strips of self-adhesive rubber cut from a roll I purchased on Amazon, which is 50 mm wide by 2 mm thick.

Being self-adhesive the rubber obviously does not slide about and, being rubber, it stops the coaches from sliding about too.

We also added pieces of thicker foam at the end of each compartment, using double-sided adhesive tape to hold it in place.

This protects the couplings from being damaged in the unlikely event that the coaches do slide around and they also help to hold the foam board dividers in place.

We managed to complete the first set of drawers on Saturday but have seven more similar sets of drawers to do for our coaches and, then, we have to do the same again, or similar, for the eight boxes of goods wagons!

Our first finished set of drawers, complete with updated labelling.

And with the coaches all safely tucked-up inside!