Greengiant
Western Thunderer
This thread will be quick, to bring it up to date on how a group of four of us built this layout, The Yard, to an initial deadline of 13-14 January 2018.
Some may have already seen it on other Forums or on Facebook, so I will try and get this thread up to date ASAP.
It all started on 2 September 2017, four months before an exhibition, when Ken had an idea!
Our then club, the Orpington Model Railway Society, needed a small layout to fill a space in the January 2018 exhibition.
So what could we do?
Well, Ken had an idea, we already had in stock for a few years now a manually operated gantry crane rescued from a layout that was being scrapped, we also had a radio controlled lorry, which was one of the first built by Giles of End of the line and Denton Brook fame, both these layouts of which Ken and myself are guest operators. We also had narrow gauge and standard gauge stock from our layouts Half Way, Theobald's Yard (Now scrapped) and Whiteoak Light Railway (now sold), so all it needed was a small setting to stage this equipment.
The scene was set, three straight tracks, no points and a roadway to keep it simple along with some small factory buildings to give it a purpose.
Here is the initial mockup from 2 September 2017, consisting of one 2 foot x 3 foot board and a 2 foot x 2 foot board, what could be simpler? That's all sorted then, or so we thought!
Martin
Some may have already seen it on other Forums or on Facebook, so I will try and get this thread up to date ASAP.
It all started on 2 September 2017, four months before an exhibition, when Ken had an idea!
Our then club, the Orpington Model Railway Society, needed a small layout to fill a space in the January 2018 exhibition.
So what could we do?
Well, Ken had an idea, we already had in stock for a few years now a manually operated gantry crane rescued from a layout that was being scrapped, we also had a radio controlled lorry, which was one of the first built by Giles of End of the line and Denton Brook fame, both these layouts of which Ken and myself are guest operators. We also had narrow gauge and standard gauge stock from our layouts Half Way, Theobald's Yard (Now scrapped) and Whiteoak Light Railway (now sold), so all it needed was a small setting to stage this equipment.
The scene was set, three straight tracks, no points and a roadway to keep it simple along with some small factory buildings to give it a purpose.
Here is the initial mockup from 2 September 2017, consisting of one 2 foot x 3 foot board and a 2 foot x 2 foot board, what could be simpler? That's all sorted then, or so we thought!
Martin