Baie de LA Maye - the future


Any action will depend on the layout meeting the Circle's current mantra    'No action till funding is available, there's identified operators, and an identified need'.
Currently the Baie de la Maye has no role. It is not needed at Tadworth were there is neither an operator nor space or other exhibitions were standard gauge layouts are preferred.
There are on/off plans for a third annual exhibition 'large layout', continental, American, and/or narrow gauge. These plans do no include a Se layout.

  

OPTIONS

A.   Refurbish adding details such as buffers & point leavers and upgrade the scenery such as adding flowers.

B.   Split into Marquenterre (boards 3 & 4) and St. Quentin en Tourmont (boards 1 & 2)

C.   St. Quentin en Tourmont - Build a shelf on the back of the layout, relay the u-turns, and add a new fiddle yard on the shelf.
New sand siding with new point and melt the sandpit 'water' & reposition the hose or take the sandpit out of use.

D.   Marquenterre - back scene at each end and build a shelf on the back of the layout, use the curved track on board 4, curve the track on board 3, and add a fiddle yard on the shelf or rebuild boards with 4 becoming a passing station and 3 becoming an active sandpit with the existing sandpit re-sceniced as out of use.

E.   Possibly extend by adding more scenic board or having the fiddle yards at the ends rather than behind the layout

F.   Form a group with Dune Les Blancs, Marquenterre, St. Quentin en Tourmont, and a new fourth layout.

G.  Stock - rebuild or re-load 5 sand fulls and 5 sand empties.

H.   Scrap - baseboards to mini layouts and trees, buildings, people, animals, points etc recycled.

COST  Hopefully recycled or n gauge points can be used in the fiddle yard(s) so the cost will be 1 @ point (SL-E492 £9) and  00n9 track (SL-400 £3.50/yard).
           Possible use of 00n9 set track. Prices are as of 18/9/17
 

Stock
requirements

Locos

Forgons

Coaches

Goods

Sand F

Sand E.

3

3

2

4

5

5

Dune Les
Blancs

Mixed

1

2

4

-

-

Sand

2

-

-

5

5

Spare

-

-

-

-

-

Marquenterre

Mixed

1

2

4

-

-

Empty

2

-

-

5

-

Full

3

-

-

-

5

St. Quentin 
en Tourmont

Mixed

1

2

4

-

-

Sand

2

-

-

5

5

Spare

-

-

-

-

-