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Brew
Street, built during the
Autumn of 2016 in just 2 weeks, Brew
Street was spontaneous project using up
spare bits and bobs gathering dust on
the shelves. In the past I've built
quite a few serious projects (handmade
everything including track), but more
recently I've enjoyed building quickies
like this.
THis layout has just been extended -
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Fountain
Colliery - deep down in the
Forest of Dean, there were many railways
serving collieries, ironstone mines,
limestone quarries and other minerals.
This is one of the lesser known
collieries, and one that is very tricky
to find anything about at all....
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Polbrook Gurney
Colliery, is a colliery
in a little known part of the Mendip
Hills. It runs east from the former
S&DJR via various collieries and
quarries, eventually connecting to the
Vobster Railway and the Great Western
Railway Frome to Radstock line.
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Quad Track!
A 4 track diorama which is around 3ft by
1ft depicting a small section of
mainline. It has been built primarily
for photographing trains in a generic
mainline type of surrounding. Other
props are frequently added around it to
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Brewhouse
Quay, this
railway served brewer of Foster,
Marriott and Dent Ales portrays a
traditional brewery somewhere on the
upper reaches of the river Avon in the
suburbs of Georgian Bath. It is presumed
that the railway serving the brewery is
a spur off the former Midland Railway
Bath to Mangotsfield line. Western
Region control and the nearby proximity
of the Somerset & Dorset Line
ensures regular visits of small engines
from the former Midland and GWR along
side the brewery’s own engines.
This layout has since been sold to a
fine chappie in Scotland
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Catcott Burtle, a could have been
scenario which is heavily influenced
by the BBC TV film Branchline Railway,
and having been taken in by the wild
open feel of the area much dominated
by willow, water and big skies. Many
roads in the area crossed the
railway via manned level crossings
rather than bridges, with each
crossing having its own crossing
keeper and railway cottage. Several
of the cottages had no running water
or electricity right up to closure
in 1966, the water being delivered
by rail in milk churns! Catcott, one
of the many crossings on the line
never was a halt or had sidings.
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Cement
Quay is part of a cement
terminal on the river Severn
somewhere in Gloucestershire,
operations including arrivals and
departures of bulk cement operated
by Freightliner. Also featured is a
stone terminal to add interest,
services to and from this being
operated by DB Shenker (formerly
EWS).
This layout has since
been sold to The
Scottish Diesel & Electric Group,
and is regularly touring the
exhibition circuit - do check
them out!
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Combwich is my oldest layout, its
origins go back to around 1980 when
as a spotty teenager I learnt how to
hand build track and how to push
scenics beyond just throwing a bag
of brightly coloured foam and lichen
at some glue. Combwich depicts an
extension of the Somerset &
Dorset Joint Railway from Highbridge
to the small village of Combwich on
the upper reaches of the River
Parrett. I also envisaged a line
from Combwich down to Bridgwater
too. Of course, in real life,
Combwich never took off as a port
and certainly never had a railway,
even though some people from that
village have written to me in recent
years telling me where the station
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Arne
Wharf is modelled in 009
(representing 2'3" gauge) and
totally contained within 3' x 2'.
Building layout to such a
conservative size allows it to be
worked on almost anywhere in the
house. My interpretation is based on
a fictitious line running from Arne
to Wareham via Ridge &
Stoborough on the Purbeck
Peninsular. The line was built to
transport ball clay, lime stone,
salt and oysters in addition to
general merchandise. One of the
delights of this scale/gauge
combination is that almost anything
goes - making for enjoyable escapism
free from those dull adenoidal rivet
counters!
This layout has since been
sold
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