Newcastle Emlyn in N scale

A pictorial introduction to my Newcastle Emlyn Layout.

The entrance to the layout room... this is the spelling used on the station sign in the 1930's. Timetables used the Newcastle Emlyn spelling.



Just making the allegiance clear. �



A view of the Pentrecourt Halt section near the layout room door.



The original layout plan...

Here are some early photos of baseboard construction. I use the open frame L-girder and riser style with track beds cut from ply or made up from strips of 3mm MDF on their side and laminated together with PVA. Stations and yards will be individual planks on risers. This arrangement allows for hilly country above and BELOW the track level, enhancing the feel of a railway in a landscape.

First the right hand section that will eventually have the Newcastle Emlyn Station on it...



Then the corner section...



Then the Henllan Station and Green Grove Milk Factory section...



... and finally the narrow section near the layout room door which supports Pentrecourt Halt, the Alltycefan Bridge and Woollen Mill...



The backboard is 3 or 4mm hardboard which has bent nicely though the corners at about a 400mm radius...

 

gormo wrote:

Gormo, that is the hope. To eventually have a small operating team. While designing it to be operated stand alone I've also set the control panels up for individual station operation. The Nephew and I have done a couple of test runs using sequential time tabling and basic train shunting lists. Seems to work.

Much smoother loco control and uncoupling will have to get sorted before then though.

Marty

 

The track plan has been modified slightly and provision for expansion around the other side of the room incorporated. I'm working on an updated plan but it's taking a while.

More photos in due course.

Cheers
Marty

 

gormo wrote:

Wot ee said.... But mainly because when I started modelling in N Gauge, 1989 ish, the most readily available and common rolling stock was GWR. Especially here in Perth and before I had worked out that it could be bought over the internet. (Actually the was NO internet!)

... And the Duck was a Great Western engine through and through, as was City of Truro... No choice really.

Although, I must admit, I found Duck a bit of a pompous twit at times. But he'd did do everything the right way which appeals to my OCDness.

Marty

 

Cheers for the PotW....

Here's a couple more of recently arrived shinies...

6280 Kingstone Grange, new on shed, is heading a Down Carmarthen to Newcastle Emlyn afternoon train past the mill with a rake of the recently released Hawkesworth coaches.



The train is tailed by a chocolate Collett BG from the N Gauge Society that was ordered several years ago and has just arrived this month. The BG is rumbling over the bridge over the Afon Teifi and will shortly pass Pentrecourt Halt as the train weaves its way down the valley towards the Alltycefan tunnel.



Cheers

Marty