Jim Read
Active Member
Hello all,
A back story to suit the track plan and will continue when I need to make an excuse for something.
1916 .. The War Office was looking for Agency factory sites to be managed by the Government Agency Dept. The estate agreed to have some small factories. A line was hurriedly laid, an Army loco was found and some very short wagons bought from a defunct colliery in Moxley.
1931 .. We had a government of appeasers and a rise in dictatorships abroad. This time though there was some preparation, just in case, they would be called Shadow factories and managed by the owners. The estate of course agreed to restart theirs. The loco had been scrapped, the estate owners found a badly damaged petrol loco in a quarry. One of the estate workers was adept at repairing machinery. The wagons had been tarpaulin’d and were still in fair condition.
And the track plans.
I started with this I wanted to have the fiddle bit at the back and not at the side.
I thought surely I could make it smaller
And this is what I began to make but a bit longer and with a 28” radius Barry slip
Made it for 0 Gauge, the siding on the right was a bit too close to the traverser hole.
Stripped it all off remade the slip to 20” radius and rebuilt to NG.
Lost interest in the NG, now converting it back to 0 Gauge.
This is what you find
A back story to suit the track plan and will continue when I need to make an excuse for something.
1916 .. The War Office was looking for Agency factory sites to be managed by the Government Agency Dept. The estate agreed to have some small factories. A line was hurriedly laid, an Army loco was found and some very short wagons bought from a defunct colliery in Moxley.
1931 .. We had a government of appeasers and a rise in dictatorships abroad. This time though there was some preparation, just in case, they would be called Shadow factories and managed by the owners. The estate of course agreed to restart theirs. The loco had been scrapped, the estate owners found a badly damaged petrol loco in a quarry. One of the estate workers was adept at repairing machinery. The wagons had been tarpaulin’d and were still in fair condition.
And the track plans.
I started with this I wanted to have the fiddle bit at the back and not at the side.
I thought surely I could make it smaller
And this is what I began to make but a bit longer and with a 28” radius Barry slip
Made it for 0 Gauge, the siding on the right was a bit too close to the traverser hole.
Stripped it all off remade the slip to 20” radius and rebuilt to NG.
Lost interest in the NG, now converting it back to 0 Gauge.
This is what you find
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