The model is to be based upon Bickershaw Colliery in the 1970s.

This appears to be an attempt by me, to recapture my youth, riding the austerity tanks between the colliery and the exchange sidings.

The layout is to contain: a canal, roads, screens, locomotive shed, conveyors.

This is to fit in a six foot by two foot area.

I want to gravity shunt wagons into, and out of the screens.

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I have a little helper.

The track laid.

Starting from the bottom, the first line will be hidden behind a scenic break.

The next line will be in front of the break.

They slope to allow gravity to do its stuff.

There is a cross over, so empty wagons can appear to go into the screens and full ones to come out.

Then there are connections to the main line to allow shunting of the wagons.

Then we have a run round loop.

Finally there is a link to the loco shed.