HolyPort
00, 1980's Network South East, 12 @ .5 foot
Port Isaac | Holyport | Drummore | Tal-y-Bont |
Great Western Railway - Light Railways |
The first task was to strip Holyport Mark One's factory/
fiddle yard board of track. I did this by using copious
quantities of boiling water to loosen the glue holding the ballast in
place, pliers to pull out the track pins, and a
pointed putty knife to lift the track. I left the layout overnight to dry then
sanded off any unwanted ballast etc and
patched the cork.
I tried to do minimum damage to the scenery.
Plasticard. I tried
to make the platform more visually
interesting by widening it as approached the factory. I don't think that worked
and had made it extra work.
Its relatively easy to
make any colour of brick you just add
dye when manufacturing sand-lime bricks. So the bricks must have come from
the brickworks at
Tallarn Green.
The next move was to add fencing. I then added the seat,
lights, ticket machine and snack dispenser hat make the
platform more visually interesting and help to hold the
fence in place. The
people followed I've tried to place them
in realistic poises. I haven't weathered as the platform etc as they are
recently built.
round the gate and the coloured lights saying when it is safe
to cross.
The pathway is to/from a car park behind the hedge.
OPERATION
so I added heritage trains. My
stock gives me the options of trains
from either the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway hauled by a Class 09 'Gronk'/industrial
loco or
a B-set from the Didcot Railway Centre hauled by a Great Western Railway loco.
Freight operation is more interesting. A 'Gronk' hauls
trains to/from from Slough. The options are an oil train, a van train, or a metal train to the factory - notice the recently
acquired bird.
The siding at the right back serves an industrial estate
with the oil depot and a factory.
The oil trains comprise a barrier wagon 1-3 tank wagons and another barrier
wagon.
The van train.
empty coil wagon from the siding inside the factory. It then shunts a full coil
wagon to siding inside the factory.
inbound van is then shunted into the factory.
The outbound wagons are then marshalled up and the 'Gronk' and wagons run to
Slough.
There are two coil wagons an empty and full. The full is always in bound and the
empty always out bound.