Bredon
Hello All,
Thank you for your recent kind remarks about Bredon.
I thought I would take this opportunity to give you some further details regarding its history since withdrawing from the exhibition circuit.
On retirement Peco offered to house it temporarily at Pecorama where it remained on exhibition way beyond the initial agreement of eighteen months. They retained it for a period of around ten years though not always on display. As I was living in a small flat at the time and working away the arrangement with Peco suited my purposes.
In 1996 I bought myself a small cottage in Herefordshire and acquired a 10x8 ‘shed’(more a summer house really) and Peco returned the layout to me and its new home.
As a consequence of discussions with Kevan Bettison and Tim Ingman, former members of the Bredon team, it was decided to give the layout a new lease of life by adding a 16ft extension (using Scaleway track and not Setrack) and full scale computer drawn plans were produced. It soon became clear however that we were going to have problems finding somewhere to build and store the layout which would have a minimum length of 20 feet.
As time went on Tim and I developed a liking for ‘O’ gauge and we decided to move in that direction instead which left Bredon with no future.
Last November I sold the layout to Keith Pearson who is very much into digital loco sounds and was responsible for recording and installing the sound chip for the Lionheart Trains pannier. He is going to exhibit Bredon once again using it to demonstrate his approach to digital sound and control. He lives on the Isle of Wight and I am making occasional visits to restore the layout for him while he deals with the electrics and digital control.
Woody
Hello All,
Thank you for your recent kind remarks about Bredon.
I thought I would take this opportunity to give you some further details regarding its history since withdrawing from the exhibition circuit.
On retirement Peco offered to house it temporarily at Pecorama where it remained on exhibition way beyond the initial agreement of eighteen months. They retained it for a period of around ten years though not always on display. As I was living in a small flat at the time and working away the arrangement with Peco suited my purposes.
In 1996 I bought myself a small cottage in Herefordshire and acquired a 10x8 ‘shed’(more a summer house really) and Peco returned the layout to me and its new home.
As a consequence of discussions with Kevan Bettison and Tim Ingman, former members of the Bredon team, it was decided to give the layout a new lease of life by adding a 16ft extension (using Scaleway track and not Setrack) and full scale computer drawn plans were produced. It soon became clear however that we were going to have problems finding somewhere to build and store the layout which would have a minimum length of 20 feet.
As time went on Tim and I developed a liking for ‘O’ gauge and we decided to move in that direction instead which left Bredon with no future.
Last November I sold the layout to Keith Pearson who is very much into digital loco sounds and was responsible for recording and installing the sound chip for the Lionheart Trains pannier. He is going to exhibit Bredon once again using it to demonstrate his approach to digital sound and control. He lives on the Isle of Wight and I am making occasional visits to restore the layout for him while he deals with the electrics and digital control.
Woody