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Looking good! I may have missed your previous update, but what are you planning to do in terms rolling stock/locomotives for the line? 

I must say this reminds me very much of Pounds Shipbreakers of Portsmouth, I remember looking out to see what was in the yard on trips to Portsmouth when I was growing up. They have a Facebook with photos here: https://www.facebook.com/Poundsscrapyard/

 

If you were to go more in the direction of a repair yard, you might want to take inspiration from Ridge Wharf on the Furzebrook railway. As well as being a transhipment point for Ball clay, this was also used as an area for maintaining the companies tugs and barges which took ball clay alone the River Frome to Poole Harbour.  There are some good shots in the book 'The Furzebrook Railway' of boats being hauled out of the water by some of the narrow gauge locomotives. It shouldn't take too much modellers license to find a similar excuse for your layout. 

 

Hope that is of some use!

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This all sounds very interesting and not fundamentally different from my reasoning to focus on the goods side of things given the small space I'm dealing with for Shalfleet Quay, which is 4ft 9inches x 18inches. Although I have got a few of the Hatton's Genesis coaches on pre order and am looking to kit bash a Ratio Midland bogie into a push pull coach...! 

Lepe sounds perfectly plausible to me. In fact, my understanding was that line was built there to provide closer shipping routes to the Freshwater Yarmouth and Newport Railway docks at Shalfleet. 

I'll look forward to further developments, I'd suggest that trying to fit a rail ferry in may not be possible. I gave it similar consideration at Shalfleet but couldn't do it without dominating the scene, but a road connected ferry would provide a nice bit of variety. Of course you'd want to ensure that in modelling that you didn't use space that would otherwise be useful to provide more operating interest. You could consider the slipway without the ferry, assuming it's somewhere in transit? 

It all sounds very interesting, I look forward to seeing further progress. 

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On 21/07/2020 at 04:59, NHY 581 said:

Just saying............

 

 

(Photos by Hattons and Smallbrook studios) 

The Isle of Wight sounds good, although I may be biased 

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Really nice work there gravy train.

 

I take it you build models to order?

otherwise you must have one massive layout!

 

Will