Hello Mikkel
I agree that the GWR may not have done things like that, not that I am any sort of expert, but from what I have read they tended to go their own way in most things. That does tend to make life 'interesting' for us GWR modellers, especialy if our interests are around the 1895-1912 era when much was changing.
I do keep an eye on several threads on RMWeb and your Farthings blogs are among those threads. My particular interest is the Bridport Railway and Toller Porcorum in particular. I am using the Timber Tracks P4 panels for the straight track, in fact there are no curves as such, the turnouts at each end of the siding will be built on Templot templates using timbers from Timber Tracks and plastic chairs from C&L.
I found the straight track easy enough to do, remembering to reverse the chair direction for the last chair, but maybe should have alternated all the chairs as the track is bi-directional. I am a bit scared tho' when it comes to turnouts and keep putting off making a start!!
I quite like the idea of having the siding as baulk road though, possibly using some of that nice rail from the BGS but finding photos of track from that in-between era is proving a bit difficult. It is bad enough finding photos of GWR turnouts witth round stretcher bars, but there are two photos of Bridport station circa 1910 one of which clearly shows balk road with early type rail still in use.
I am looking forward to getting my 850 back from the other side of the world, strictly speaking it isn't correct for the Bridport branch as it should really be a 2021 which although looking much like the 850 had the rear wheels spaced further apart so altering the appearance of the whole rear end a bit.
There is a new thread on ScaleForum entitled Dartmouth which is to be about a mixed broad/narrow gauge layout and a few days ago Paul Townsend posted a picture showing what he is doing regarding wiring the layout. He says
"The CBus electronics is derived from MERG kits and will simplify wiring, allow computer control etc."
Now if that is simple wiring I am glad I decided to go battery powered/RC controlled, but that is quite enough from me.
jayell