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Updates and thoughts on my 00 gauge model of Devizes Goods Yard, and the rolling stock used on it. The layout is to be set in the late 1930s and focuses on the Up goods yard.

 

Devizes was the major station on a single track line from Patney and Chirton (on the line from Reading to Westbury) and Holt Junction (on the line between Trowbridge and Chippenham). With three platforms, Devizes was served by a variety of trains including autotrains, semi-fasts from Paddington, and both local and through freight trains. The line was upgraded to take Red engines in 1938, apparently in preparation for war.

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Updates from Devizes

To make or not to make...

While much progress has been made on the layout, there is little to say about it. Baseboard construction, track laying, and wiring, are all using well-established techniques which have been executed and written up far better elsewhere. As a result, I have decided to write a little about rolling stock, and specifically the question of how to choose what to buy and what to build yourself. Everybody's views on this will of course be different, but I will try to set out my approach.   The
Updates from Devizes

Introduction to Devizes

Devizes is a town in central Wiltshire. Now most famous for Caen Hill locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, it was formerly served by a Great Western Railway line, which passed through a tunnel under the castle to the east of the station. Initially the terminus of a branch line which began at Holt Junction on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway, Devizes later became a stop on the through route from Paddington to Weymouth when the Berks and Hants Extension Railway was built to link the branch
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DK123GWR in Updates from Devizes

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The Drawing Office

GWR O11 5 plank Wagon

My first useable design, although there are many details that could be added (particularly to the underframe) and I realise I haven't got the proportions quite right. I wanted to make my own GWR open wagons as I felt I could do it more cheaply than buying RTR stock. Using Dapol wheels bought from Hattons at 85p/axle and 25g (roughly) of PLA at £21.99/kg gives a cost per wagon of under £2.50 - at that price you'll have a fairly limited choice of fairly low-quality models, so why not make you
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DK123GWR in The Drawing Office

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