Welcome to Oby
<p>Oby was mentioned in the Doomsday Book but is now classed as lost village. Look on a map of Norfolk and you’ll find the parish of Ashby and Oby lying east of the River Thurne and south of Potter Heigham.</p>
<p>Of course the railway never served Oby. Why would it? Apart from Oby Dyke – Norfolk Broad speak for a short waterway usually serving a village ‘staithe’- and Oby Mill there wasn’t much there.</p>
<p>Ideal then for a ficticious little railway. The M&GN of course served Potter Heigham on the line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach. So a branch line passing through Oby to the other broadland villages is not too unreasonable is it?</p>
<p><strong>The Standard Gauge Workbench</strong></p>
<p>The latest initiative for small scale layouts from the Scalefour Society is the Standard Gauge Workbench. Designed to get modellers making something, the visible layout must not exceed 4ft 8.5ins and contain a minimum of two points.</p>
<p>I have 3 baseboards measuring 1220 x 660 mm ideal for 2 fiddle yards and the ‘stage.’ One yard be a simple headshunt and a return line will pass behind the stage to the other yard. (I believe this idea originated from Ian Rice). The ‘other’ yard will be either: sector plate, traverser or cassettes.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-926" src="https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161020_09_24_20_pro.jpg?w=700"alt="wp_20161020_09_24_20_pro" srcset="https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161020_09_24_20_pro.jpg?w=700 700w, https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161020_09_24_20_pro.jpg?w=1400 1400w, https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161020_09_24_20_pro.jpg?w=84 84w, https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161020_09_24_20_pro.jpg?w=169 169w, https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161020_09_24_20_pro.jpg?w=768 768w, https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161020_09_24_20_pro.jpg?w=576 576w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>At Ally Pally in 2014 I was impressed with the layout Sandford and Banwell the builders of which had used white drain pipes and fittings to make the legs. So I experimented and will be adopting the same principles. This picture shows the idea.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-929" src="https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161022_17_15_45_pro.jpg?w=700"alt="wp_20161022_17_15_45_pro" srcset="https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161022_17_15_45_pro.jpg?w=700 700w, https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161022_17_15_45_pro.jpg?w=1400 1400w, https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161022_17_15_45_pro.jpg?w=84 84w, https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161022_17_15_45_pro.jpg?w=169 169w, https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161022_17_15_45_pro.jpg?w=768 768w, https://thersr.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/wp_20161022_17_15_45_pro.jpg?w=576 576w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>I’ve set the height at about 4 feet which is comfortable for me to both work and view the model. There’s a bit more to do to make the legs stable. The centre board will have two legs and the yards one each, piggy-baking on the centre.</p>
<p>That’s it for now. Next time I will share the track plan and track ideas.</p>
<p>Thanks for looking.</p>
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