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Moving around again, there is a blank section which still has to be filled, will be starting that in the New Year, haven't decided on what buildings yet. Then we come to the church I know the church is a bit of cliche, as is the wedding group The wedding group was added for my grandaughter. The church is based on the scalescenes card one, which provided the plans and has already been described in the scalescenes thread. We next move to bridge over the door The plug provides power for the tortoise point motors in the fiddle yard from the DCC accessory switch and also provides power to the line by the cutting, If this is not plugged in, power is cut to the track on the right of the bridge. So that is the bridge is up, trains can't fall over the cliff

Thanks for update, yes I used to live in Barkham in Wokingham, my daughter gave the station it's name, now making changes to layout, so it will appeal to her daughter!! Eg adding lighting, I've also have a Christmas present of some Illuminated pullman coaches, not strictly GWR, but I shall run them behind a visiting loco, probably Southern once I decide on a loco. I'm sure she will be delighted to see them go round the layou.

In the last pic, you can see I was thinking if making the scenic break after the viaduct, by having the train enter a tunnel, when I eventually built the diorama to go with it, it didn't look right. The scenery didn't seem to flow together, so time for a new idea. I realised I could add scenery in front of the fiddle yard, Also this meant I could extend the length of the fiddle yard, since originally it had to start after the tunnel.

I'll post a sort of track plan later, this will a pic of the computer display I use to control the layout Continuing around the layout in circular sweep, we come to the wood, I wanted this as a scenic break between the Gas Works and Viaduct I started off with Polyfibre balls soaked in Diluted PVA and immersed in flock and stuck on the end of cocktail sticks Then I made some wire trunks covered in Polyfibre to go at the front. It now looks like this close up The next section is the viaduct, this was built as a seperate module in the garage before being bolted on to the layout, and took several months to get right The Water Mill is a Craftsmaster kit This is how it fits into the layout

I tried posting about this layout as a blog, but I now feel it will work better as a thread The layout is a work in progress and has been for in existance for nearly five years now. It is in a bedroom which used to be part of the attic, which the previous owner had installed. When we first moved into the house, my wife also had her piano in the room. This restricted the space available and I to build the storage loops under what used to be the eaves. Which mean the layout was about 2ft off the floor and I could only have 3 storage loops. I have since negotiated to have the piano moved out on to landing and now have the room to myself other that for an old settee, as part of the agreement the room still has to usable as a bedroom The room is 12ft x 9ft When I revised the size of the layout I realised that the area behind the station No longer looked right and I wanted the corner to be a curve All of this is built as a module so it was relatively easy to change to The station building which is based on the GWR one at Langley, where I used to live many years ago, is built around a perspex shell which gives it strength and provides the windows A view of the building which is dropped into a cutout in the station platform I've still got to fit a station canopy . With the changes to the layout I had a space to fill at the far end under the window. Then I read "Gas Lane" article in the Hornby Magazine Nov 2009. So this is my take on it The shed holding the purifier and washer is scratch built Alot of scenery has been added since I took this photo

I use Wills Coarse stone sheets for most of my modelling, it's a very versatile product

I have now finished the diorama for the Hotel/Large manor house (haven't decided which yet) and it is now in it's place next to the fiddle yard, which has now been extended to six tracks , plus a short one for a Railcar AS mentioned in another entry the church diorama has now been added Work has also been done on the Gasworks and the wood I 'm in the process of planning my winter job which will be the diorama linking the Manor House to the Church, which will fully conceal the fiddel yard

A great layout which I have been following closely. What are you using for the backscene it looks very realistic?

I'm in the process modifying a rake of four of these which I picked up off ebay. To get the gas cylinder out you need to push hard on the tabs, and they will come out. The plastic is very brittle however, so they may break and you will have to glue them back So far I have managed to remove the bodies from 2 coaches and fitted bogies from a couple of old Hornby Doublo GWR coaches, which amazingly enough are an exact fit and just snap lock into the existing holes. I've also painted the top halves in the correct GWR cream, and brown which is a great improvement on the Triang colours I could do with some help myself 1. Where can I purchase another 4 bogies? 2. Do the flush glaze windows from SE Finecast SE74 Tri-ang/ Hornby Short Clerestory Brake or Comp R384 R385. fit these coaches? 3. I want to get rid of the large triang couplings, what would be best to replace these with?

Langley models do the parts for a village forge, it would be nice to have a building to go with these

I've started work on the layout after the hot summer. with work continuing on the gasworks and automation with Rocrail I've now managed to automate things, so that a loco with 2 coal trucks leaves the storage siding and proceeds to the gasworks, where it stops. I have prorammed into rocrail a simulated switch, which stops the loco until it has been uncoupled and the gasworks points set manually, when the switch is set to go (green). The computer runs the next schedule which is to return the loco to the storage yards, where it picks up a goods train and runs the next schedule. See the you tube link

With the changes to the layout I had a space to fill at the far end under the window. Then I read "Gas Lane" article in the Hornby Magazine Nov 2009. So this is my take on it The shed holding the purifier and washer is scratch built and I'm awaiting bits to finish the roof View of the retort house with it's coal pile, which took ages to get right, I'm still in the process of the building the coke stage Very much work in progress as you can see Will write up more on this later

Thanks for the comment They are several years old and made from Plaster They are from Townstreet Very high quality models which allow for customisation. Also panels available for scratch building. Sadly no website but really worth sending off for the catalogue. 015394 35465 Pat Lockley Greenhead Tower Greenhead Gill Grasmere Cumbria LA22 9RW

I had a corner of the layout to fill, so i decided to build a viaduct on a curve. Again as before it was built as a module in my garage and then moved into the house The viaduct is built with a plywood shell and then covered in wills coarse stone sheets, with slater's plasticard for the arches I've found that you can use a warm soldering iron to melt the coarse sheets on the joins to hid them The watermill is from the wills craftsmaster kits

When I revised the size of the layout I realised that the area behind the station No longer looked right and I wanted the corner to be a curve All of this is built as a module so it was relatively easy to change to The station building is built around a perspex shell which gives it strength and provides the windows A view of the building which is dropped into a cutout in the station platform I've still got to fit a station canopy

Well after a great deal of thought, I have decided that I will use tortoise point motors for the remaining 8 points. So I ordered one to try out, and have now fitted it. Can't believe I didn't do this before, So much easier to fit than a seep and no more erratic switching of the point frogs with the seep switch. Now just need to finance the rest of the tortoise motors and the NCE switch 8 decoder

A lot of the scenery work is done by building modules in the garage and then adding them to the layout, it reduces the amount of mess and keeps my wife happy This is the tunnel module, which sits in the corner of the layout, it hides the exit for the shuttle train which runs back and forth to the station, on the branch line The pub on top of the hill is a wills craftmaster kit The next two pictures are how it sits on the layout, the walls are made using wills coarse stone sheets

The layout is in a bedroom which used to be part of the attic, which the previous owner had installed. When we first moved into the house, my wife also had her piano in the room. This restricted the space available and I to build the storage loops under what used to be the eaves. Which mean the layout was about 2ft off the floor and I could only have 3 storage loops. I have since negoiated to have the piano moved out on to landing and now have the room to myself other that for an old settee, as part of the agreement the romm stil has to usuable as a bedroom The room is 12ft x 9ft and I am still in the process of modifying the layout to fit the room. The first thing I did was to raise the layout height to 3ft 6in since it no loonger has to run under eaves. I now have a single track with 2 storage loop running around the room and am in the process of adding the 2nd loop.