Thaxham light railway.

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This my layout of a fictitious Great Eastern built branch terminus. I've named it by mashing up the ElsenHAM and THAXted railway. It is 11ft x 2ft 6inches so I hope it qualifies as a "micro layout", if not could an admin move it to a different forum. 

It is loosely based in the late 30's/very early 40's.

I began building in around 2018, and as I have only just today covered the platform with a sandy/soil dust to replicate (I hope) the ash ballast type covering the GER used for their platform surfaces.

Any way here are a few photos of my glacial progress, I will add to them as a I go, there are 107 up to now, I doubt anyone could sit through that many at a go. 

So the first few of many.

I built the base boards with the 4mm sides with soft wood blocks glued and nailed between.

 

Sorting the trackwork out.

 

Wiring for dcc, remarkably tidy for me!

 

Trackwork around station laid and pla.. testing.

 

I have used servos for point motors using the MegaPoint system and micro switches for polarity changing.

 

 All the main track work laid, tested.

 

The cattle/loading dock built, still to be finished, just checking it fits ok.

  

 

Thats all for this post, I will put more photos up later.

 

Thanks for looking, cheer's, Pete.

  

 

 

   

[noctilux2]

Generally four square feet is the max recognised as a “micro”;  methinks yours is a tad above that !

[Andrew Cockburn]

I like the look of this, even though it's still very much in it's "infancy", and it will be interesting to see how it develops ....

[sb67]

Being an Essex boy this is right up my street, I'll be following this with interest. I didn't know the GER covered the station platforms with an ash surface, learnt something already 

Have you got a track plan at all?

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18 hours ago, noctilux2 said:

Generally four square feet is the max recognised as a “micro”;  methinks yours is a tad above that !

I wasn't sure what the limits were, thats why I said if it was not applicable, for the admins to say and move it.

I do have a diorama/plank thats approx 4ftx1ft but in O gauge its not that interesting.

 

Pete. 

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A few more photos to be going on with.

The loading/cattle dock with its timber facing and top covered with textured brick paper.

 

 

 

I didn't think the brick surfacing on the loading dock section looked right so I covered it with an ash ballast.

 

 

Thats it for now, cheer's, Pete.

 

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16 hours ago, sb67 said:

Being an Essex boy this is right up my street, I'll be following this with interest. I didn't know the GER covered the station platforms with an ash surface, learnt something already 

Have you got a track plan at all?

Hi Steve, this the plan as drawn in Anyrail, I printed it off full size but had to tweak it to fit the space available, even then it didn't quite work for me as I wanted to have a sector plate rather than a fiddle yard but it wasn't to be.

 

 

Cheer's, Pete.

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Few more photos.

A start made on the station building using foam board for the core and cereal box for the cladding and framing.

 

The windows I made from plasticard on clear glazing, it took some doing as the clear didn't like welding to the strip!

 

This is the prototype building at Thaxted. It also shows the ballast platform covering.

 

Building all but finished, the LNER repainted all their buildings in 1937 so as mine is set in roughly that time period I won't be doing much weathering to it.

 

More soon, cheer's, Pete.