Scaleforum 2009 - Hepton Wharf - Pauline and Donald Leeper
Hepton Wharf belongs in the recent tradition of truly tiny layouts. It was built by a team of modellers, mostly over the weekend of Scaleforum 1993, in response to a challenge to not only build a working P4 layout in very short order (including the conversion of locomotives and stock), but to also demonstrate that the move to P4 need not be an unduly demanding one.
Yes, the challenge was successfully met; the first train ran after fourteen hours nine minutes and fifty-three seconds. As
someone remarked at the time: "Never in the history of model railways has so little been built so quickly by so many!"
As the "final" stage of its development, Hepton has gained a small halt, and a fiddle yard at it's other extremity - in acknowledgement that the line was extended a short distance up the valley to tap the mining minerals more easily. The occasional workers carriage or rail motor may appear, but Hepton continues largely as a goods yard on a mineral line.
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