Just to bring you up to date on how a group of four of us built this layout,
The Yard, to an initial deadline, which was last weekend, of 13-14 January 2018.
It all started on 2 September 2017, when Ken had an idea!
Our club, the Orpington Model Railway Society, needed a small layout to fill a space in the January 2018 exhibition.
So what could we do?
Well, Ken had an idea, we already had in stock for a few years now a manually operated gantry crane rescued from a layout that was being scrapped, we also had a radio controlled lorry, which was one of the first built by Giles of
End of the line and
Denton Brook fame, both these layouts of which Ken and myself are guest operators. We also had narrow gauge and standard gauge stock from our layouts
Half Way,
Theobald's Yard and
Whiteoak Light Railway, so all it needed was a small setting to stage this equipment.
The scene was set, three straight tracks, no points and a roadway to keep it simple along with some small factory buildings to give it a purpose.
Here is the initial mockup from 2 September 2017, consisting of one 2 foot x 3 foot board and a 2 foot x 2 foot board, what could be simpler? That's all sorted then, or so we thought!
Simon