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Although we’re nearly there with the main scenery we’ve lots of little detail scenes to put in, these pictures were done with the people just placed on to see how they’d look

The layout is 8’ x 2’ 6” scenic with a 3’ casette F/Y on the one end, it’s only really a glorified shunting puzzle but we’ve tried to scenic it as best as we can. Please excuse a pair of provendor stores missing in the last shot from the yard area

Thanks Ian, it’s been a bit of a challange to depict a really run down section of line. It’s not something you see regularly so we wanted to do. I’m glad you like how it’s turned outsomething different

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Some nice shots I’ve taken of Shwt over the last year as we’ve been progressing with the scenery

Situated around the sand and gravel pits of tewksbury, Shwt was a small station stop and goods yard on a previously busy double track LNWR line. Modelled around the mid 1960s, the line in recent years has fallen upon hard times, converted to single track some time ago, the line beyond Shwt crossing has now succumb to the Beeching axe. With the closing of this line, Shwt lost it's passenger traffic and owes survival to the sand loading platform constructed next the old engine shed. The only trains to reach Shwt now are mixed goods trains which supply the small coal merchant, the goods stores and the sand loading. As typical for the 1960's Shwt is occassionally the destination for railtours exploring old lines

Well there’s a nice addition to my christmas list, Being an EM modeller I occasionally build the odd chassis so the hobby holidays and avonside is more money than I’d want to invest, this looks just the job!