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5 hours ago, Furness Wagon said:

IMHO probably the best period to model a China clay works would be some where around 1919-23 as the amalgamation of all the smaller companies into ECC would allow you to have different PO wagons at the same Linhay at the same time. To keep people's interested having the same stock running in and out would be a bit boring for an operator let alone those watching.

Marc

I’d struggle to get any 37s involved with that 

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I’ve flirted with the idea of China clay planks a few time and still have 6 CDAs, but even using every bit of freight west of Exeter in my chosen time period ( late 90s or early 80s), it still didn’t make for a very exciting prospect 

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Some great photos in the thread.

I think the OP needs a serious chill pill though. People model railways for relaxation, and quite often an airbrushed version of reality is what they want , in their ideal world. If I was modelling London , I wouldn’t want someone getting stabbed on my platforms - but to indicate where it’s set, I may want to model the shard - compressed to 1/10 scale because it’s says “ London “.

 

Same with cornwall. I’ve never met anyone who has said “ I hate cornwall, it’s so ugly “ ( although the clay areas are quite ugly compared with the fudge tin inspiring fishing villages ). But if you want freight, to indicate cornwall, it’s China clay , not really any other show in town.

 

And yes, I doubt most people will want the reality of a 3m long shed or Linhay or whatever. Because if that is the reality, the other reality is that it probably got one or two trains a day. Boring. Too much reality is dull sometimes.

 

Just my take on it.

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Interesting post. I think most modellers start in reverse - I’ve got some clay hoods, I like 37s , I like Cornwall , what can I do with them ?

 

personally the reason these industries exist on small layouts is for operational interest - to do some shunting. I’m not too bothered ( and I suspect 80%) aren’t abut the whole process or maximum accuracy.

 

Now I could take over the whole loft and have a bash at Burngullow , but I’d have to build a load of structures and what could I run ? 2 trains a day maybe ?

 

If I were to use that space , I’d need way more operational interest, afterall im a railway modeller not a structures modeller 

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Hi mate, was it your good self doing the class 59 with 66 chassis -if so have you resurrected the thread anywhere ?