Hi everyone. Some of you may know Pen-Gos from BRM and Model Rail Scotland where it was 3rd best in show a couple of years back.
Pen-Gos, from old Cornish means "at the end of the woods" is a 00 gauge model based in Cornwall in 1970/71. The terminus station can hold 3 6 coach trains and the bay platform 2. Alongside the station is a small stabling point.
Leaving the station the double track goes down an incline and over a 3 arch viaduct which crosses the river Gos. Then past the Pen Gos spring fayre and down past Porth Gos signal box, through the tunnel and into the fiddle yard. The junction at Porth Gos sees the start of the single line that follows the high level line at ground level over the river and in to Pen Gos tunnel and fiddle yard.
The main station features the Station Hotel behind the buffer stops and a busy market at the bottom of the station approach road. This road has period cars and a bus heading for Plymouth. The station is in the process of a refurbishment with new canopies being installed on platforms 1 & 2 as those on 3 & 4 are in a very poor state with rust taking over, although the seagulls don't seem to mind. The platforms are individually numbered and feature working platform lighting in the open and under the canopy. Exiting the station Pen Gos church is hosting a wedding with every outside having their photographs taken. The bell tower has a speaker fitted that is ringing to announce the wedding. Beyond this there are various cottages each with a cameo from bee keeping to hanging out the washing. Just beyond these and the viaduct, the local scouts are camping out. Over the river the fayre has a vintage car show with some steam lorries and traction engines. There's a crowd gathered around the old fayre organ which is also fitted with a speaker. The heavily planted woodland also features bird song.
The fiddle yard features 5 roads and 6 dead ends. A large portion of it is contained underneath the station so it is lit with LEDS and watched over with 4 cctv cameras.
The overall shape is oval with the addition of the high level section ending with the station. Power is supplied by an NCE Powercab and a home made control panel operates all the signals, indicators and points. The locomotives are all DCC with the majority converted to sound. The decoders are all Zimo or ESU V4 with Coastal DCC, Youchoos and Legomanbiffo sound files. The fleet consists of Bachmann, Dapol and Heljan locomotives of classes 08 22 25 35 42 46 47 52 and 53. The rolling stock is all Bachmann mk1 and a rake of Bachmann Pullmans. Everything is fitted with passengers and interior lights. There are also a few freight trains consisting of a rake of parcel vans, bogie tankers, mixed vans, coal and no Cornish scene would be complete without the China clay wagons.
I have dispensed with the Web site for now but there are some videos on YouTube under Pen-Gos model railway. I'm a bit if a novice to YouTubeing so I apologise for some of the quality.
Please have a look and watch out for something more in BRM at a later stage.
Rob