Gracetown Bank, 4mm/OO
Gracetown Bank Goods Depot, is situated in a fictional north west town.
The yard is a British Railway facility to serve local cotton and woollen mills and light industry. It also serves as a transhipment point for deliveries via rail to the town.
It is connected to the national rail system by a branch between the mills. There is an extension to this branch through the yard to a steel fabrication works where a variety of steel structures are made and sent via rail nationwide. Steel is brought into the works and the finished products sent out by rail.
A mix of goods and raw materials are received and dispatched for local industry.
A variety of locomotives are used, including British Railways steam and diesel.
The steel fabrication works have there own diesel locomotives.
A rope hauled incline takes wagons from the yard to an upper upper level where there are more industries.
The layout is ‘OO’ scale made using Peco code 100 track and is DCC control.
