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Tweedale Lite III


awoodford

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Tweedale Lite's exhibition outing has now been and gone. There was a pleasant friendly atmosphere at the show and a good selection of layouts. Tweedale seemed to go down well and received some nice comments. The layout ran all day without any major problems, so I was very pleased with it. Exhibiting is not really my thing, but just as a one-off, I have to admit it did make for a novel and enjoyable day out.

 

Here is a photo showing the layout set up at the show. The church venue was rather dark for my poor old camera, so it's not a very good picture, but I'm including it anyway just for the record.
 

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A grubby 03 shunter was hired in from BR to provide motive power, and ran reliably throughout the day. It's seen here at Frog Fen Lane. Mr Blunt is protecting the crossing, but also keeping a wary eye on the chickens (He gets hen-pecked enough at home without having to put up with it at work). Luckily for him they are too busy stuffing their gizzards with clinker and carborundum grit to be bothered by his presence.
 

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Down at the docks an infestation of giant plague rats proved popular with the kiddies. The rodents were made from carrot shaped pieces of DAS, with a cactus spine inserted for a tail. They were as small as I could make them but their body lengths still worked out at a scale 18 inches.
 

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Meanwhile over at Tweemoor, Mr Yardley the ancient yardmaster bagged a prime position on the longest seat, where he could 'stoppeth one of three' visitors and bore them rigid on the subtleties of the 5-3-3 Inglenook. His nephew, young Angus the boy scout, was on hand to help old ladies up the steep and rickety steps, for which the cafe at the top had promised him a shilling at the end of the day towards his bob-a-job funds.
 

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The show marked a good end point to what I think of as Tweedale's  'extension years'. It seems like a good time now to take a break from Tweedale and move on to something different for a change. It's not going to be abandoned completely though. I have ambitious plans for Tweedale's next building phase, but they still need to mature before being put into practice. I'll probably get back to it in the new year, by which time I should be refreshed and raring to go again.

 

All the best, Alan.
 

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Lovely stuff Alan.

Less definitely is more. The windows allow the scenes to move from one scene to another without the "waste" of transitional lengths. I like the stories for each view as well

Ed

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Thanks for sharing Tweedale with us, I look forward to reading more at some point in the future.

 

John Bruce.

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Thanks Ed. For a layout with number of different locations where the shunting is more important than watching the trains moving from place to place, I think it works very well. I was surprised at how well the rabbit warren aspect of the layout went down with the public too, not only the children, trying to guess where the train was going to appear next.

 

Thank you John. The next phase will involve a major upheaval of the system, which is why I want to wait awhile before making a start. At least that way I might catch some of the problems beforehand.

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