Postby NorthHighlander » Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:45 am
Hello Philip
Yes, you are right, it's a very intense service, but on the basis of exhibition layouts needing to have some movement within no more than a couple of minutes, it's a very contrived timetable. The layout started life as a trial of Hubert Carr's Geodeck baseboard system back in 1978 and to have something in P4 to 'play with'. Like everything else in my life, it grew like Topsy and never got anywhere. I really want to finish it off now as best as I can and as accurately as possible, and I have committed to attending with it at Scaleforum 2018!
I think you are right that it is more likely to be a Barry branch rather than TVR. I liked the idea of it being TVR because I like that railway's design of signal boxes with their ornate valences. But back in the '70s I built a GWR signalbox based on the Ericplans book, and this is still extant, so I might use that instead of a specially designed box. The big project at the moment, apart from the track and signals, is the station canopy based on the one at Henley on Thames. Then the landscape to be laid down... oh yes, I probably need some locos and stock, too....
(btw, the genesis of the layout was John Charman's 'Charford' layout in the Jan 1961 issue of Railway Modeller.... an icon which I was lucky to have seen at Central Hall in 1986 (7?) before it was broken up.)
I'll have a look at the Welsh circle, thanks for the info..
TH