Hydraulic Heaven

Looks like a good day, Andy. Your backscene looks excellent.

'Water Lane' is all packed up in its two Really Useful Boxes and is ready to roll!

 

David

Great set of pics Andy - Thanks for sharing with us.

 

The back-scene looks good in place too

Yeovil Town! So that's what the M7  was for.

I take it from the name sign the location is ex Southern Region?

I take it from the name sign the location is ex Southern Region?

Looks like a good day, Andy. Your backscene looks excellent.

'Water Lane' is all packed up in its two Really Useful Boxes and is ready to roll!

 

David

 Cheers David. Hope you had a good day too.

 

 

Great set of pics Andy - Thanks for sharing with us.

 

The back-scene looks good in place too

Thanks Pete. I don't think I'll be putting any serious artists out of work but I'm quite pleased with it. I still want to improve on it but will probably practice on some smaller bits and then maybe have another go from scratch rather than risk mucking up the existing one.

 

 

Yeovil Town! So that's what the M7  was for.

I guess so. I think it's a great choice for a prototype.

 

 

I take it from the name sign the location is ex Southern Region?

Yes indeed. The premise is that the LSWR wanted their own access to Devonport Dockyard and so built a branch off the Stonehouse Pool line to punch a hold through the dockyard wall and into the southern portion of the yard (known rather unsurprisingly as South Yard) passing around the end of the rope walks to join up with the internal system.

 

I don't think it's any more far fetched than the real thing - a restricted clearance tunnel between North and South Yards, punching through buildings at strange angles. Still, it's a shame that I don't have an excuse to model the dockyard internal passenger train which if memory serves had about six different classes.

Sorry I didn't get the chance to see this in the flesh Andy, the backscene does the rest of the layout justice. 

Graham