Reddibus

Needs more litter   

 

Cracking stuff

I think left to some of our members we would add the litter !

An addition to the town area with a back scene added

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Work this week has centred on the replacing one of the points in the station. For some reason the  blades on the original point got damaged. Being the position it is it was easier to cut the old point out and replace it with a new one. 

It would have been difficult to see when the layout was on show at the Redditch exhibition because the station canopy covers the area but we had glued the old point up so we could run trains over it. It did mean we could not run trains around in the station.

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A picture showing the back scene pictures

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Thanks for all the comments on the layout

The reality with the location we have been careful to say it is somewhere in England. However there are pictures that make up the backscene thus far (still work to do) are made up of pictures that we have taken

Behind the station the tops of the buildings are made up of pictures taken of Worcester from the end of the platforms at Foregate Station, the Church is Hanbury Church and there are pictures of buildings from both Redditch and Hereford that make up the rest of the town.

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The latest addition to Smallwood are the fuelling points on the DMU siding and a tank wagon to feed them with fuel. The tanker is an adapted one from a Dapol kit which has been permanently fixed down to the layout complete with the feed pipe into the small brick building alongside the wagon  

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Nice layout. Is it possible to see the trackplan?

Hi

Here is the track plan for the layout

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Smallwood layout.pdf

A touch of steam for Smallwood an industrial shunter

Enjoyed visiting your show on the Sunday.

Smallwood was my favourite layout. I like the run down look of the layout.

 

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Shaun.

Hi Shaun,

Thanks for posting the pictures of Smallwood

You were not the only visitor to think that Smallwood was best in show. However we make a point of not giving the best in show award voted by the visitors to one of our club layouts. Unlike some model railway exhibitions we like to celebrate the quality of our visiting layouts  

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We have a tradition of using local names for our layouts started over 50 years ago with the first layout the club constructed and so Smallwood comes from a district name in Redditch where the club was based for many years and as you have spotted our shopping centre has the same name as the one in Redditch town centre

 

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By the way sorry there were no trains in the pictures as I took the pictures after the show in the club room

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Hi SVRlad

 

Thanks for your continued interest in our layout project

 

Unfortunately we did not take any moving pictures at the show but we will in due course be taking some film of the layout as we continue to refine the operation

 

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We have a tradition of using local names for our layouts started over 50 years ago with the first layout the club constructed and so Smallwood comes from a district name in Redditch where the club was based for many years and as you have spotted our shopping centre has the same name as the one in Redditch town centre

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Ah, the Kingfisher Shopping Centre, see what you did there.

 

Is there a video of the layout at the exhibition at all?

Hi SVRlad

Thanks for your continued interest in our layout project

Unfortunately we did not take any moving pictures at the show but we will in due course be taking some film of the layout as we continue to refine the operation

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For those that missed the layout at our 2017 Redditch Model Railway show hear are a few pictures of the layout as it is currently before we add even more detail

Smallwood is all set up and ready for its exhibition debut today at the 2017 Redditch Model Railway Exhibition - doors open at 10 at the Trinity High School - see your there

Smallwood is stand 1 at the show - details www.redditch-mrc.com

Don't forget you can see the layout for real this weekend at the 50th Anniversary Redditch Model Railway Club Exhibition  

details at www.redditch-mrc.com

see you there - doors open at 10 on Saturday

Love it! 5 star!

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A few more pictures of the layout taken at club tonight

A few brutes for Smallwood

A DMU between duties at Smallwood

A view across the Smallwood layout

A Class 25 hauled Oil train arrives at the exchange sidings in the Smallwood lower yard

Class 25 25231 sits on the locomotive stabling siding  at Smallwood between duties

Shunting at Smallwood

It all looks very good

Thanks we aim to produce exhibition layouts that entertain visitors to the  exhibitions we take our layouts to

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This looks amazing looks like there has been many many weeks of work.

Hi the vast majority of the work has been done by a group of around 6 of our club members two nights a week for the last 3 years

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