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    A layout begins

    By RectoryLane,

    Hi folks.
     
    The start of a blog on my first layout for very many years encouraged and helped by my son who has inherited my passion for railways. I live in Bentley in Hampshire and have commuted from Bentley to Waterloo for many years. I have always been interested in the branch line that ran from Bentley to Bordon. Whilst a layout of Bentley would be fun to operate space precludes this so after much deliberation we have landed on a plan based on Bordon designed to fit on three 4' x 3' boards. The boards have been purchased from Model Railway Solutions, assembled and erected in my garage. A fourth board has been assembled for the storage sidings should we ever exhibit the layout but as this doesn't fit in the space in the garage a 3' x1' board is on order to allow us to play trains.
     
    Track work will be Peco code 75 albeit with sleepers respaced to look more prototypical. The track was in stock before any expectation that Peco would do bullhead rail track but is looking ok.
     
    Control will be conventional DC - far too much stock to contemplate DCC and the track plan is quite straightforward although we are planning can control with two controllers. One ostensibly for the Southern and the other for the LMR but both able to control the whole layout.
     
    Buildings are all being scratch built and are in various stages of production. Some drawings have been used from the OPC Southern Branch Lines volume one others have been prepared by me from photographs etc.
     
    I will post some photographs shortly. O
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    In planning this layout I have been lucky in that photographs, plans and drawings have been published although as noted earlier I have had to prepare my own drawings for many of the buildings. References used include:
     
    Branch lines of the Southern Railway Volume One by Reeve & Hawkins (Wild Swan 1980)
    The Longmoor Military Railway A new history Volume one by Ronald & Christensen (Lightmoor 2012)
    Country Railway Routes Woking to Alton by Mitchell & Smith (Middleton 1988)
    Branch line to Longmoor by Mitchell & Smith (Middleton 1987)
    The Bordon Light Railway by Harding (Harding 1987)
    An historical survey of Southern sheds by Hawkins & Reeve (OPC 1979)
    British Railway Pictorial Railways of Hampshire by Burges (Ian Allan 2006)
    Modelling the Southern Volume 1 Ideas and Inspiration by English (Noodle 2012)
    30 years ago Bentley-Bordon by Raynsford (Railway World April 1987)
    Bentley to Bordon by Swain (British Railways Illustrated April 1995)
     
    Plus photographs from eBay vendors notably Redgate8 and property searches
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