7mm Corwen Road

LarryG

LarryG

Western Thunderer
Corwen Road is a 7mm layout. On reflection, I should have started a new thread but I was being pretty casual about this new 4mm layout which is why it was tagged onto an existing thread for the time-being. I don't know how far this preliminary messing about will go, in fact not much can be done without PVA and I don't even know which shops are open hereabouts. We're locked down on the protected list like many other people.
 
adrian

adrian

Flying Squad
LarryG said:
Corwen Road is was a 7mm layout. On reflection, I should have started a new thread but I was being pretty casual about this new 4mm layout which is why it was tagged onto an existing thread for the time-being. I don't know how far this preliminary messing about will go, in fact not much can be done without PVA and I don't even know which shops are open hereabouts. We're locked down on the protected list like many other people.
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I've corrected your post for you. :D don't worry it's nothing personal and perfectly at ease at continuing an existing thread. By their very nature forums tend to be a very ethereal here and now experience (archiving is a thorny issue I'd still like to resolve at some point!) so perhaps a thread title change would help viewers of the forum? Maybe something like "Ruabon inspired nee Corwen Road(7mm)" ?
 
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

Western Thunderer
Looking quite impressive, Larry. Placing the station building and canopy gives some perspective. You certainly can get a lot more in, in 4 mm.
Best wishes and keep safe,
Dave.
 
Phil O

Phil O

Western Thunderer
Larry,

A silver lining to the cloud, metinks, otherwise you would have stuck it all down and had to rip it up again, to end up with what you wanted now you have some ot the buildings to work with.
 
Phil O

Phil O

Western Thunderer
Larry,

If there are more buildings that are needed, I would suggest that you get them all built and position them more or less and then try to get the track plan to suit.
 
Phil O

Phil O

Western Thunderer
Looking good Larry, it just needs a train or two and a few wagons to give a bit of atmosphere.
 
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

Western Thunderer
Larry, that looks better to me than your previous arrangement. That said, there doesn't appear to be any access to the bay from the LH running line. Or is there a connection into the adjacent loop/siding behind the camera?
Dave.
 
LarryG

LarryG

Western Thunderer
O Gauge ...

It is approaching the end of August 2020 and followers of my 4mm scale/OO gauge layout on another thread will know it ended up going nowhere.

Seeing as this thread is mostly about my O gauge Corwen layout, I have decided to put the first few O gauge posts here for the time-being until I have a working title.

Favorite so far is the Pontcysyllte Branch which ran from Wrexham and ended up at the Shropshire Union Canal. The attraction for me, apart from a liking for the Wales & Borders countryside, is the brick traffic. Plus I figured there could be a reasonable passenger terminus there using late 1990's GWR architecture.

I have nothing against fiction, but I do have to know where the fiction is. I would simply be upgrading an existing branch line. Below is the outline plan in a tapered baseboard just under 14' long. Shunting can mostly take place without leaving the shed so that rain doesn't stop play....

WEB Fresh start 4.jpg Been messing around with a jigsaw of track and turnouts for several days. Further points needed for a crossover...
WEB Fresh start 3.jpg

Except for the missing station, the picture below of
my previous Corwen could almost be of the current layout...
WEB Corwen Road 4.jpg
 
LarryG

LarryG

Western Thunderer
The goods yard 'V' will hold 26 wagons, but it will never see that many. Previous layouts lost their air of spaciousness when siding were filled with wagons, so I'll have long sidings and few wagons.

I expect all layouts look naked in the beginning. Once the greenery is in place I hope the wide expanses of bare baseboard will take on another dimension.
 
G

Gismorail

Western Thunderer
What are you like Larry :eek:.......this is surely head line news .....is your railway shed besieged by tabloid paparazzi ;) shock waves are still rippling through the model railway world :) ..Ruabon was looking superb in my humble opinion but you are right if your heart was not 100% in the build then you are making the right move. The lure of 7mm is too much especially to a man with your knowledge and eye for detail. Now I have to agree that something based on the Pontcysyllte Branch is an inspired prototype which will be very believable in 7mm ......
I will follow with interest.
Regards
Martin
 
LarryG

LarryG

Western Thunderer
I visited a friend today to look at two Dapol locomotives running on his short diorama, and was reminded that smooth running ultra-slow locos suit short dioramas.

I promptly compacted my station complex to diorama 'dimensions'! It only uses up 9' of the 14' baseboard and the resulting approach track is now long enough for Down signalling....

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Riveted Pannier shortly before transfer :p (Photo by Adrian Rowland).
 
Andy P

Andy P

Western Thunderer
Morning Larry, I'm afraid I have to agree with Rob / NHY 581 and others that a Shed might dominate. My choice would be a small wooden provender Store. I had the Bachmann one on Bala Town, and even that seemed huge. BTW, My excuse for the totally wrong Concrete carbuncle was that the old wooden one got burned down.
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Andy P

Andy P

Western Thunderer
Another thought Larry, can you angle the platform by an inch or two, narrowing at the Buffer end to take away the parallel look, this would also open up the goods yard, and give more space for Vehicles etc.
 
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