Gauge: N Gauge

Size: 8ft x 6ft

Power: One 13 amp standard wall socket.

Staffing: 1 operator (minimum), who will transport the layout in a car.

Description

BR Inter-Regional Depot - 1950s-1960s. Club Members Layout.

Notes

BR Inter-Regional Depot - 1950s-1960s.

This layout depicts a yard including a goods depot with the remnants of such a railway works reduced over the years to providing light repair facilities for locomotives, rolling stock or any other day to day necessities of the local railway infrastructure. From the earliest days of the railways, many railway works were built that soon became redundant because of take-overs and amalgamations. Often these buildings were retained but assigned a new use.

An attempt has been made to update the facilities by providing a diesel depot for the new generation of engines but much of the original works remains with little purpose other than the refuelling of the remaining steam engines and their daily maintenance.

The layout is unusual in that it comprises both analogue and digital lines. The diesel depot on the digital side and the analogue side hosting the goods shed but both sides providing coaling facilities for steam engines. Although it may appear Great Western influenced, this is unintentional and it is not really location specific enabling locos from all areas of England to use the yard as was becoming the norm in the period involved.

Including operators’ space (operated from the side).