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Upton Dene - A Revision Revised

scanman

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Ive spent the last few days mulling over track plans for 'Upton Dene' station. Bearing in mind I want a range of facilities usually found at a secondary main line station (goods shed, cattle dock, coalyard etc) and transfer sidings/mileage yard to serve the branch, plus the branch bay itsel., I was a little worried by the available (12' x 6' 6") space. The maximum radii were never going to be greater than 3', and I felt that everything would look too cramped. I even considered modelling just the platform ends - butnothing seemed to work that wouldn't end up looking like a glorified trainset.

 

I almost resigned myself to just modelling the branch - then inspiration struck. Why not model the main line in 2mm? Loadsa space, sweeping curves and 'railway in the landscape'. Downside - having to start from scratch! However, I'm already a member of the 2mm Association and this months Newsletter carries the news that the Association has designed chassis for several GW prototypes to fit proprietary bodies.

 

Of course the other inspiration has come from people like BCNPete with his boxfile layouts & 'Smokey Bacon's 'Calne Branch' (any update Steve?). So all this is leading on to another story (blog!)

 

Regs

 

Ian

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Gingerbread

Welcome to the GWR corner of the 2mm fan club (or should that be to the 2mm corner of the GWR fan club) :)

 

There are a few potential problems with those new kits, but at least the GWR ones don't suffer from misaligned jigs that caused withdrawal of 3 of the non-GWR kits while replacement jigs are produced. There's a wheel shortage (temporary) which certainly affects the 14xx kit, and probably the 2251, and I've also seen reports of shortages of gear muffs - apart from that everything looks good...

 

There's also an underframe kit by David Eveleigh for the Dapol 45xx small prairie, though I don't know if he currently has any in stock. Also planned for the near future are milled brass replacement chassis for the Ixion/Dapol Hall and for the Farish Pannier. Plus a variety of others which are rather further away from production.

 

There should be plenty of rolling stock available, including drop-in wheel replacement for many N gauge models.

 

Good luck with the new project.

 

David

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scanman

Dave -

 

Many thanks for the 'heads up' - I must admit I was quite ecouraged by the newsletter this week. All I have to do is get my head round split axles etc. Who knows it might open new ideas (I knwo - theres nothing new under the sun!) in my 4mm modelling.

 

Regs

 

Ian

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