Ok, maybe not so slight!
The Somerleyton project is still on the cards but more research is needed into the structure of the bridge and box, so a site visit is planed for later in the year.
In the meantime, some experimentation with the 2mm Scale Association Easitrac has led to another small project, this time a fictional stretch of Midland Mainline. With the forthcoming Meridian from Farish and new HST from Dapol, the Midland Mainline will be easy to model from a stock point of view!
A scale plan has now been produced to see what can be squeezed into the area available. As hoped the whole bridge will fit onto the 4'6" long board without any compression being needed:
I'm still undecided whether to have fiddle yards at each end or to make it a continuous run with loops. The latter would allow for some of the longer loco hauled services seen occasionally on this stretch to be modelled, however I was hoping to leave the main scenic section viewable from either side. Som
A few years ago I spent some time on the Norfolk Broads. Not somewhere you might immediately associate with any modeling potential but one particular stretch of the River Waveny offered up a surprise in the form of Somerleyton & Reedham Swing bridges on the Norwich - Lowestoft line. Somerleyton in particular always stuck with me as a project and I've now decided to do something about it. So, this blog will track my attempts to model this unusual feature of the network in N gauge.
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