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Oxendale is a OO gauge end to end layout in the Midland region during British Railways in the late 50s/early 60s.

 

The layout consists of two levels of track: the running line and the freight only line. The first level has a station with a passing loop with a headshunt, 2 sidings and a 3 track fiddle yard. The higher level is a single line for freight traffic only that stretches from one end of the layout to the other. It also has a section of track that spurs off into the fiddle yard. It crosses over the main running line via a bridge.

 

Rolling stock is mainly Bachmann but there are also items of rolling stock from Hornby, Dapol and Oxford Rail. 

 

The layout is still under construction but it is fully operational.

 

 

History

 

Oxendale itself is located on a single track 5 mile branch line which spurs off from the Settle-Carlisle line in-between Dent and Garsdale. Oxendale is located at the end of the branch line. 

Entries in this blog

Making the layout

Making the freight only line (2)

The brick wall I made, which I mentioned about in the previous blog, was glued in-between the first bridge and the largest hill hill last Saturday. The footbridge was temporarily there to keep it in position as it kept dropping down.     Also the wall stretches from underneath the buffer stop to just before the first bridge has been partially completed. It'll need the brick paper sticking on in due course.               Went round
Making the layout

Making the freight only line

I recently discovered some bridges from the club's old layout when they were located in the old parcels office in the railway station. The bridges were made entirely from wood and had been made by Grandad for that layout. The club moved from the parcels office to the Men in Sheds building near Tesco's (can't remember the year) and the old layout was dismantled and a new one was built.   One of the bridge girders:     Grandad then suggested having a higher running li
Making the layout

Making the baseboard and trackplan

For the lengths of wood under the surface of the baseboard, we had salvaged some of the wood that was on the previous baseboard but the majority of it had to be thrown away. We still had a few lengths of wood though so we cut some more to size. Some of the holes in the previous wood lengths we used were countersunk and others weren't so I decided to countersink them. After this was done, we screwed them all into place under the board and carefully lowered it onto the floor. We then set up the tr
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