Pwllheli 4mm/P4
Situated in north-west corner of Wales, on the Llyn Peninsula, Pwllheli is the northern terminus of the Cambrian Coast Railway. 8 return workings a day traverse the coastal route to Machynlleth with services continuing onward to Shrewsbury.
The layout attempts to convey an impression of the station and its surrounding area as it appeared between 2000 – 2012 prior to ERTMS coming into operation, with a regular DMU passenger service, interspersed with an occasional heritage rail tour or engineers train. Buildings and associated details have been laser cut from MDF, Rowmark, etc using drawings created in AutoCAD. Where possible these drawings are based on actual plans obtained through Gwynedd Council or where these are unavailable from photographs or a Google street view survey.
Locos and rolling stock are based on prototypes recorded as running on the Cambrian line during the period modelled. These are predominantly RTR models from Bachmann, Dapol, Heljan or Hornby, converted to P4 by replacing the wheels with either Black Beetles or the appropriate Alan Gibson conversion set.
The layout is operated by DCC using NCE equipment Points are driven by ‘standard’ servos, controlled through an ESU switch pilot servo configured for analogue input.
Photo courtesy of British Railway Modelling magazine.
