Philtown-Branch Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 (edited) Hello, by the way after a couple of years working on club related continental modular layouts, I´m back in British outlined Railway Modelling and I´m looking forward to show you some pics of my very first British N-Gauge Layout which I`ve named "Philtown-Branch". It´s a simple station-to-fiddleyard Branchline, started life in 2007 (well, a bit old stuff indeed) and finished in 2011 with the extension of "Philtown-Lock", a small narrowboat-scene with harbour and railway bridge. I enjoy chatting with the English speaking MR community because I think that I´m the only one Railway Modeller in Austria who runs British outlined layouts in N and 00. Enjoy the walk along Philtown-Branch! With kind regards from Vienna, Phil Let`s start with a general overview of the layout which is exactly 4m long (including the FY), situated at my loft The first part of the scenic section approaching from the FY is the scenery around Philtown-Lock: a class 108 DMU is on its way to Philtown Some minutes later a class 08 passes the canal-bridge with daily goods A Pannier Tank loco with an autotrain in charge The BR Class 2MT with a special service, I´ve called it the "Dinner-Train" On the return leg we see a Pannier with a rake of B-Set coaches The daily milk-train from Philtown is in the hand of a Hymek today Let`s come to the middle part of the layout which is called the "Market-Street": the branchline runs along of retaining walls before crossing "Philtown-Bridge" A special guest on the branch was Cranmore Hall, running towards Philtown with a rake of Mk1`s The job of the day is already done, the Class 08 returns with the brake-van The inspection saloon is in charge on the branch - a bit overmotorised with the Class 37 Two pics from Philtown-Bridge & Market-Place And last but not least: impressions from the Terminus Station "Philtown" There is a signalbox and a goods yard as well, a Class 42 Warship awaits free road to run out from the bay-platform A pleasant afternoon in the garden behind the railway line: the barbecue is ready for the sausages A busy day at Philtown-Terminus: passenger-services are coming and going, shunting-duties especially with the daily goods are common The very last picture for today shows the "Philtown-Branch"-Layout on the annual Model Railway Exhibition at "Breadway"-Centre Vienna in December 2017, the layout is already booked for the next event at the same location in November 2018 Technical background information of Philtown-Branch: Scale: British - N, 1:148, Gauge 9mm Era: British Railways Era 5 (6), Steam Late Crest/Diesel BR Green Rolling Stock: BR Western Region, exceptions possible Dimensions: 400 x 40cm (inluding the 6-Road-FY) Points & Track: all PECO Code 55, Point-Motors mixed PECO & SEEP PM1 Controls: Analogue with GAUGEMASTER Handheld-Controller Buildings & Scenery: Bachmann Scenecraft, Langley, various kits Trees & Landscape: Faller Premium, Polak, et. al., mixture of grassmats & static grass Road Vehicles: Oxford Diecast Narrow-boats & Locks: Langley Models Legs: IVAR (110cm high) This Layout is available for Model Railway Exhibitions in Austria. Edited March 30, 2018 by Philtown-Branch 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
380John Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Beautiful modelling, can't believe its 'N' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyboy Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Nice Layout! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philtown-Branch Posted March 31, 2018 Author Share Posted March 31, 2018 (edited) Hello and thank you for the comments, in the meantime I`ve added some cameo-scenes at the Layout, which I`d like to show here: near Philtown Lock a ice-van is in position due in front of the pub the hotdog-van awaits hungry people. Near the road-over-bridge a scratch-built Abbey-Sprite caravan is on its way to the next camping- and caravan-park. In front of the family-home we can see some further details in the garden, for example scratchbuilt sunbeds and a sunshade. Enjoy the pics, will be continued... Cheers, Phil Two pics from the little canal-harbour near Philtown Lock including the Ice-Van A closer look at the pub-scene near Market Street: note the laser-cut seats & tables (microwelten) Camper on the road: the Abbey-Sprite-Caravan, a paper built model (designed & built by my wife in 1:148) Barbecue-time: scratchbuilt sunbeds and sunshade Edited March 31, 2018 by Philtown-Branch 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold McRuss Posted April 1, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2018 Hello Phil, thank you for the superb pictures. Markus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike J Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Lovely modelling in N gauge. The layout has a great atmosphere. Thanks for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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