Possible new source for turntables / turnout kits for UK based modellers?

[mdvle]

This thread(*) on a 7mm turnout kit led to a supplier called Greenwood Model Railway, whose website shows laser cut turntables.  In addition to showing a Swiss turntable they also indicate a willingness to do custom stuff, so perhaps anyone wanting a turntable or other track stuff may find them willing to do American prototype stuff.

 

https://greenwoodmodelrailwayproducts.co.uk/

 

* - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/152088-7mm-fs-turnout-kit/

[NickBrad]

I just looked on there and cried inside at the prices..... it may be custom stuff, but oh wow, it is a premium.

[mdvle]

3 hours ago, NickBrad said:

I just looked on there and cried inside at the prices..... it may be custom stuff, but oh wow, it is a premium.

 

Turntables are expensive.

 

A generic, assembled, working turntable is sold by Walthers and lists at $350 (£273 + vat or £328).

 

 

[NickBrad]

Oh wow, I didn't realise that either, I guess I haven't looked at a turntable since Hornby's one many years ago, what with my being a died in the wool diesel fan, I never had need of one when modelling UK railways, likewise my favoured era/location of US railroading, turntables don't exist, (except at Salisbury, NC at the railroad museum).

[Night Train]

Simon at Kitwood Hills does much more realistically priced turntables.

 

http://www.kitwoodhillmodels.com/on30-turntables/