Felton Lane (Goods)

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Felton Lane (Goods) is set in a west Durham town. The town had two stations, one Stockton & Darlington and one North Eastern. When the two companies merged in 1863 the S&D part of the company carried on semi independently for a number of years until the death of S&D engineer William Bouch in 1876 when the two parts were finally run as one. After this the S&D station at Felton Lane lost its passenger service but was retained for goods and parcels traffic, in the later years of the nineteenth century the coal yard was enlarged and became the main depot for household coal in the town. General goods traffic ended in September 1971, the yard finally closed in March 1974 when the last two empty coal wagons were removed by the last goods train hauled by a class 37. The coal yard is still occupied by a local coal merchant.

 

Well some of the above is fact and some fiction, the layout started after the Bishop Auckland show in May 2009. Mike Fishwick asked ???What are you bringing next year? A new layout???? and I replied, without thinking ???Yes.??? Work has now started in earnest with two 4??™ x 18??? baseboards built, track plan decided and track laying started. The track plan changed as soon as I started laying lengths of flexitrack and point templates on the boards so undoing a months planning.

 

Progress so far??¦

 

4 points on board 1 started, templates glued down with PVA, when this was dry, EMGS ply point timbers were stuck down with PVA and ballasted with Woodland scenics fine black ballast. Some plain flexitrack, laid on PVA and ballasted the same way. Some stock rails and V??™s have also been fitted. Holes have also been cut out for the stream (between the bridges) and the lower area for the coal yard.

 

 

 

 

Track and templates laid out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Track laying, the front siding has been laid on PVA and ballasted.

This has been weighed down with two pieces of chipboard and anything heavy that I could find.

 

 

Point construction - 1

PVA spread over the template and plywood sleepers pressed into this (bottom of photo) and ballast spread over the remaining PVA. Note that the position of the crossing nose has been marked by a black dot and the glue has been removed where tie bar will be (lines on baseboard).