Bethesda Sidings - Western Region in rural Mid-Wales
‘Bethesda Sidings’ is to be an entry in the Wild Swan/MRJ cameo layout competition and represents the goods yard of Capel Bethesda, which was an intermediate station on the erstwhile line between Leominster, Kington and Rhayader.
The full history of the railways of the area is reproduced below, but for those for whom a load of pseudo-historical guff a carefully crafted and detailed historical account is just too much, I would summarise the theme of the layout as ‘The Presteign goods
Here are a some photos of the goods shed, weighbridge office and road overbridge, which were scratchbuilt in card by Paul Iliff some 10 years or so ago, and purchased by me when Paul decided not to proceed with that particular project. I consider myself very fortunate and privileged to have had the opportunity to acquire these lovely structures:
The road overbridge is at a bit of a skewed angle. It may be just a bit too much of a skew for the space I have available, so I
