About the layout
Treneglos - The Withered Arm Project - 4mm Scale, '00' gauge.
Operators: Stafford Railway Circle - Withered Arm Group.
General description
Three members of the Stafford Railway Circle discovered a common interest in the network of railways constructed by the London & South Western Railway in the West Country. The group decided to build a model of a station on the route running through North Devon and Cornwall; a section of British railways cruelly nicknamed "the Withered Arm" of the Southern!
Inspired by part of one of Sir John Betjeman's poems, "the emptying train, wind in the ventilators, puffs out of Egloskerry to Tresmeer - Could it really be that this same carriage came from Waterloo?" the layout was located using maps, site visits and Peter Gray's atmospheric photographs. For the model, Tresmeer station was "transplanted" one mile west and Treneglos is operated as a North Cornwall station in summer seasons between 1961 and 1964.
Trackwork is from the C & L range and signals from MSE. All the buildings and bridges are scratch-built using Wills materials. The concrete block viaduct was typical of later L.S.W.R. civil engineering and would have been built at Treneglos had the ground been stable. Most of the locomotives and rolling stock are weathered, ready-to-run models, with extra details added.
On the display panels, a brief history of the Southern's West Country routes can be found and also information included about one of the most famous holiday trains on British Railways, the "Atlantic Coast Express".
The group hope that you enjoy their representation of a forgotten part of the British railway network. Look out for the Padstow-bound portion of the"Atlantic Coast Express", known simply as the "A.C.E.", by both trainspotters and the operating department alike, which made its final run from Waterloo forty years ago in September 1964.
Exhibition Managers' Planning Information
Overall (end to end) layout size including displays - 9600 x 700mm [32ft. x 28ins.]
Barriers are required - set a minimum of 400mm before viewing side.
Minimum operating area from barriers - 9900 x 1800mm [33' x 6'] - Note: width to allow fiddle yard train turntables to fully rotate.
Expenses: Hire of transit type van; fuel for car and van; accommodation for 4 operators.
Contacts:
John Wardle: 01785 822675
Chris Tooth: 01530 274849 |
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