Vaughan45
Active Member
LNER Swanbroke (Goods)
After a small delay I have started a new small 4mm scale layout based on an LNER (Ex GER) line near the Norfolk / Suffolk border.
As this is designed to be a semi-permanent layout along the office wall, I have used a fairly heavy duty stripwood frame with plywood baseboard surface. The track & turnouts are Peco code 75 Bullhead, with most of the webbing between sleepers removed after laying to give the track a more open feel with daylight between the rail & ballast. A drainage dyke runs across the board. The baseboard edge frame visible in the photograph will be covered by the goods yard entrance bridge at the front of the board, with a weir / sluice gates to the rear.
![Swanbroke1.JPG Swanbroke1.JPG](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/200/200455-01f098b640aa9c7347b8aa61a8309815.jpg)
![Swanbroke1a.JPG Swanbroke1a.JPG](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/200/200456-733a3625729bf66a1b2beac9339d291c.jpg)
So far the track has been laid and wired up for DCC operation with a ring main style Bus around the baseboard frame, with individual power feeds to each section of track and to the turnout polarity change-over switches. Turnout control is manual using rods that also operate the polarity switches under each turnout.
The era will be LNER circa 1936/38. With a bit of licence that should J15s with original and raised cab roof lines to be used in addition to rolling stock with both per & post 1936 lettering styles.
![Swanbroke2.JPG Swanbroke2.JPG](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/200/200457-c8cf98ed54da25e20bfcb15765d2d27c.jpg)
![Swanbroke3.JPG Swanbroke3.JPG](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/200/200458-fc17342df6a55cc1b0a4ccac2f213732.jpg)
After a small delay I have started a new small 4mm scale layout based on an LNER (Ex GER) line near the Norfolk / Suffolk border.
As this is designed to be a semi-permanent layout along the office wall, I have used a fairly heavy duty stripwood frame with plywood baseboard surface. The track & turnouts are Peco code 75 Bullhead, with most of the webbing between sleepers removed after laying to give the track a more open feel with daylight between the rail & ballast. A drainage dyke runs across the board. The baseboard edge frame visible in the photograph will be covered by the goods yard entrance bridge at the front of the board, with a weir / sluice gates to the rear.
![Swanbroke1.JPG Swanbroke1.JPG](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/200/200455-01f098b640aa9c7347b8aa61a8309815.jpg)
![Swanbroke1a.JPG Swanbroke1a.JPG](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/200/200456-733a3625729bf66a1b2beac9339d291c.jpg)
So far the track has been laid and wired up for DCC operation with a ring main style Bus around the baseboard frame, with individual power feeds to each section of track and to the turnout polarity change-over switches. Turnout control is manual using rods that also operate the polarity switches under each turnout.
The era will be LNER circa 1936/38. With a bit of licence that should J15s with original and raised cab roof lines to be used in addition to rolling stock with both per & post 1936 lettering styles.
![Swanbroke2.JPG Swanbroke2.JPG](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/200/200457-c8cf98ed54da25e20bfcb15765d2d27c.jpg)
![Swanbroke3.JPG Swanbroke3.JPG](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/200/200458-fc17342df6a55cc1b0a4ccac2f213732.jpg)