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Chard St James OO-gauge 4mm/ft 1990’s British
Donyatt Model Railway Group
Website: http://donyattmodelrailwaygroup.fotopic.net
Chard St James a fictitious area in Central England, situated on a busy mainline featuring passenger and heavy freight traffic.
The layout itself is an oval, with the fiddle yard at the rear and sides. Now let’s take a journey around the layout, from the left, the mainline appears from underneath the rail bridge, alongside a single freight line.
The mainline split here from the platform lines, so the middle lines through the centre of the station are used as avoiding lines and pass under th footbridge linking the main platform to the island platform. The main station building has been rebuilt, with a new building a few years ago, but the island platform building has only just been knocked down and the clearing up process is nearly finished and rebuilding is about to start. The station has four bay platforms, of which only three are now used for branch lin passenger trains.
In front of the station is a small freight yard, where some trains are split for the local distridution company. The yard is connected to the mainline via a freight avoiding line, where alsorts of freight trains can be seen held awaiting crew changes, loco change or just waiting for the next available path. At the left hand end of the station you will see a bay platform used to store loco’s awaiting for there next turn of duty.
Finally we get to the other end, where the platform lines rejoin the through lines, before the mainline passes under a road bridge, also the branch line disappears under a separate road bridge. In between the branch line and mainline a small yard can be seen, now used to store engineering wagons etc. At the front of the layout a warehouse can be seen.
Donyatt Model Railway Group
Website: http://donyattmodelrailwaygroup.fotopic.net
Chard St James a fictitious area in Central England, situated on a busy mainline featuring passenger and heavy freight traffic.
The layout itself is an oval, with the fiddle yard at the rear and sides. Now let’s take a journey around the layout, from the left, the mainline appears from underneath the rail bridge, alongside a single freight line.
The mainline split here from the platform lines, so the middle lines through the centre of the station are used as avoiding lines and pass under th footbridge linking the main platform to the island platform. The main station building has been rebuilt, with a new building a few years ago, but the island platform building has only just been knocked down and the clearing up process is nearly finished and rebuilding is about to start. The station has four bay platforms, of which only three are now used for branch lin passenger trains.
In front of the station is a small freight yard, where some trains are split for the local distridution company. The yard is connected to the mainline via a freight avoiding line, where alsorts of freight trains can be seen held awaiting crew changes, loco change or just waiting for the next available path. At the left hand end of the station you will see a bay platform used to store loco’s awaiting for there next turn of duty.
Finally we get to the other end, where the platform lines rejoin the through lines, before the mainline passes under a road bridge, also the branch line disappears under a separate road bridge. In between the branch line and mainline a small yard can be seen, now used to store engineering wagons etc. At the front of the layout a warehouse can be seen.
Porth St John - 4mm finescale – 16.5mm gauge – GWR in the 1920’s
North Devon MRC
An imaginary location on the North Cornish Coast, a Seaside resort obviously, but long before crowds of holiday makers arrived in cars, they all came by train – sensible people. The period modelled is between 1922-36 – so other companies rolling stock can be used.
We have presumed that the water is clean, no pollution yet, and not a lot of mud in the river, somewhat like North Cornwall’s Padstow.
The bridge is based on the one at Bideford over the River Torridge, (built first in the 13th century of wood construction) as it was between 1864 – 1925, when it had cast iron parapets, compared to the stone of today. Although the real bridge has 24 arches (all of different size – as those on the model), ours has only 18 complete arches, due to construction limits.
North Devon MRC
An imaginary location on the North Cornish Coast, a Seaside resort obviously, but long before crowds of holiday makers arrived in cars, they all came by train – sensible people. The period modelled is between 1922-
We have presumed that the water is clean, no pollution yet, and not a lot of mud in the river, somewhat like North Cornwall’s Padstow.
The bridge is based on the one at Bideford over the River Torridge, (built first in the 13th century of wood construction) as it was between 1864 – 1925, when it had cast iron parapets, compared to the stone of today. Although the real bridge has 24 arches (all of different size – as those on the model), ours has only 18 complete arches, due to construction limits.