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The First Blog Post.


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Good evening,
Hello, My Name is Brad, I'm 14 and my first ever layout Is Called RAF Warmwell. The layout is set In 1941 in the heart of WW2 In Devon.(By the way, google RAF Warmwell, its a real place, but I'm not basing it off it, I just like the name :D) I was originally going to model a heritage railway yet I didn't want to fall into the stereotype of "Your a young modeller, so you are doing a heritage railway" so I combined my love of trains, and WW2 planes and somehow managed t fit it all on a 7ft x 2ft OO Gauge layout. I will provide some photos, but I need to tidy it up first, so for now I will describe it. from east to west you have my bedroom wall, from which I have a bridge and a ramp providing a scenic break to a non existent fiddle yard. the bridge has a road going over a single railway, yet the bridge is double track. I did this on purpose so I could fit some 009 Track adjacent to the OO line. heading over, we have the main RAF Base, which takes up a majority of my layout. there is no runway, that would be off to the south, yet this is jut the plane stabling point, big enough for 4 spitfires and a bleinhim (Which im now building) and a small concrete strip playing host to the control tower, and the supplies & vehicles. just north of this strip, is a 2 track sidings and goods yard, which plays host to both OO and 009 track. north of that is the single platform station, only big enough to accommodate an auto coach + 48x. heading west, we have the only Road n the layout, with two level crossings, one 009 to the south and one OO to the north. at the far end of the layout, we have a church, yard and station halt in the foreground, and behind the line we have a small hill with house on top. the track is Hornby+ Peco, with insulfrog points, DC control. if you have an questions, please comment and ill be happy to answer. Happy new year!

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At RAF Rackheath in Norfolk a WW2 American airbase the railway line did (and is still there as its the present day Norwich to Cromer line though the airbase is now gone) run by the perimeter of the base and with the dispersal of parked aircraft there must have been plenty of views of the trains passing by only meters from parked aircraft.

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that sounds brill, I don't actually live too far from there! on my model the single track branch runs along the perimeter

thanks for commenting,

Brad

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RAF Ballykelly in Northern Ireland needed to extend the runway to operate anti submarine Liberators in WW2. The runway was built across the main LMS (NCC) Belfast Londonderry line, and all working needed to be coordinated with the signal boxes and the control tower. So you can have the runway planes going over the railway if you wish.

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wow Northroader, that sounds so cool! ill have to take that into account when I decide on my Running timetable.

thanks for commenting,

Brad

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Yes, RAF Warmwell was a real place - almost 30 year ago we lived in Crossways, nr Dorchester Dorset, and Crossways was developed on the site of RAF Warmwell.

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I know RAF Warmwell was a real place, as I spent a few days researching the site. I finely decided I don't want to limit myself to modelling a real site, so I haven't, I've just used the name. I have been thinking though, I might use the spitfire registrations that were assigned to RAF Warmwell... PR __ (Eg. PR O,PR E,PR D) 

Thanks for commenting,

Brad.

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Hi Brad,  50 odd years ago I was a kid living in a married quarter at St. Athan in South Wales.  My dad was in the RAF stationed there.  There was a railway that ran near the bottom of our garden, around the quarters, then across the bottom of the airfield.  There used to be a small private branch line onto the camp, but that was before the Beeching cuts.  I have just looked on Google Earth and the mail line is still there running across the old airfield.  Regards,  Chris

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