Reviving an antique - No space left !
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I'm running out of jobs to do on recent layouts, have virtually run out of space to anything new.
Even difficult to find storage for my last little demonstration and test piece.
Not quite desperation, but sitting in my garage after some 10 years is a small roundy-roundy that I call St Oval.
The name is simply what the original plan was a Set-track Oval. This has been in constant use since I first had
it fully live, simply because being a roundy-roundy I can run-in locomotives, for hours if necessary. It also is a
good testing ground for kit-built wagons and harmonizing wagon couplings to allow reversing trains of around
15 wagons length.
Well work begins again !!
Perhaps a very old picture first to show an essential for most of my layouts, the placing of the track-bed on risers.
This allows scenery to go both above and below. In the case of St Oval into a space of just 6' x 3'. With such a compact
foot-print it was essential to include some 1st radius set-track curves. My favourite locomotives tend to be small, but
you'd be surprised what will go around without de-railing !!
Holes in the chip board base are part of a weight reducing programme as once this was to be used at the occasional exhibition.
A half decent bridge - I wanted a viaduct, but there are limits with 6'x3'. A passing loop behind the back scene to allow short trains to pass.
A village to be behind the viewing line and falling from an over bridge at one side to a creek on the other.
The village started taking shape, with half & half scratch built buildings and kits
So as not to prolong your agony ...... Now a jump forward until being installed in the garage in Dorset after moving home in 2013
Progressed so now some views that are in my own opinion quite good.
A high level station
Look even a C*** 0-6-0 locomotive can't spoil the view !!
Well I MUST have something to work on, and my thinking is this offers me another few years !!! Started early 2010 to finish ........... ?????
Dad-1.
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