Our next event is Kirkby Stephen East Station Model Railway Exhibition with
Glen Bogle O on
Sat 16 Jun 2012 (Sat only)
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A DVD
from Vidpics
Featuring both real and model film clips of Oxenhope, Grassington
and Victoria Rd (Saltaire) (55min).
Available now from the KWVR Railway
www.kwvr.co.uk for £11.95.
or
Post free from Vidpics at
ianimage@blueyonder.co.uk.
Hits since 1st Oct 2009
Dalry Road (O gauge 7mm fine scale)
Featured in the April 2010 issue of Hornby magazine
Welcome to Dalry Rd. A Scottish layout based in the green diesel
era, the chosen period of 1965 to 1970 is a rarely modelled era,
which is a great pity as it was one of the most colourful. If you
were that way inclined, you could run steam locos alongside diesels
in green with either small or large warning panels (or none at all)
and rail blue.
Coaches could be a mixture of maroon or regional
liveried mk1s and even blue and grey.
Wagons were a real mismatch of
grey, bauxite and private owner liveries together with the white or
blue of insulated stock.
It is hoped that Dalry Rd. captures some of
the essence of this although only open to freight and parcel traffic
only.
Steve Thompson built the layout, and it is now owned and operated by
Ian Atkinson With the help of some friends
Left:
A busy moment
From the track plan you can see the simplicity of operation. There are
two roads in the fiddle yard and two in the arrival/departure
sidings. When the train has entered the fiddle yard the loco is
isolated and uncoupled, the brake van moved by hand to the other end
of the train, alight engine is sent from the loco depot to the
fiddle yard and coupled up, at an appropriate time in the sequence
this is then taken to the arrive sidings. A trusty “08” then
crosses-over and pulls the train into the yard for shunting and also
releases the loco, which then moves to the stabling point. The
released loco in the fiddle yard is then moved to the loco depot, as
a result there are a lot of light engine movements but when these
are incorporated between other train movements, its not so obvious.
Operation can become very intensive at
times. Whilst all this is going on the depot has to be shunted, as
does the yard. No firm sequence of moves has yet been devised, so
it’s all made up as we go along, and its great fun trying to get out
of a pickle when we get it wrong, ”and we do
Contact and layout details
IAN ATKINSON…. 07768833473….
012538825455
THE CROFT,
POULTON-LE-FYLDE.
BLACKPOOL
FY6 8EE
Size 24ft long by 4ft wide. Please allow an extra 4feet behind for operators and a table
Hire this layout for your show.
Needs provision of a jumbo transit van + fuel for van and 1 car
as well as lunch and vast quantities of tea for 4 operators.
Accommodation with breakfast required if over approx 1 hours
travelling. Requires
a table, 2 sockets, consumption 400W (mainly lighting). Insurance value
£5000 excluding stock
