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
I've been doing a bit of landscaping, building up the bank in front of the overbridge.
Utterly traditional methods have been used, card formers, covered with a combination of PVA and plaster-soaked cotton and also old newspaper.
A final PVA and Polyfilla mix was coloured with some burnt umber water colour and applied to the shell.
