Number nine is difficult to illustrate unless you have copies of the Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review (by Roy C Link). In this excellent, although often esoteric journal, a layout was featured over 5 issues a few years ago. The layout was a lifetime's work and is called simply 'Festiniog Railway 1926' by Nick Welch.Issues 50-54 if you want to try and get a copy - but they're rare and these are out of print! The above image is a sample page, freely available at http://www.narrowgaugeandindustrial.com/samps.htm of the layout and gives some idea of the quality, but not the sheer scale.
This layout is a monster - it takes in Porthmadog, Boston Lodge, Tan-y-Bwlch, Blaenau and more along the way. It is truly a fabulous layout! But it's not an exhibition layout, so it doesn't score as highly here as I have never seen it in the flesh.
Colin
4 comments:
Wot no more news on on your own layout? The water tower has green paint on it!
L
much planning is going on in the background with significant progress likely soon as the weather improves and I can get out into the garage again. btw it's red paint!
Colin
Ah, fair point. I hope to go and look at the real thing in the spring, so I'll be taking notes - red paint and all.
How about Beddgelert, the tunnel and the lowers S-curves as your next project, or is that getting toooo far ahead? Or a bigger garage needed.
L
I think I'll leave that to Bron Hebog - see the post on Dduallt...
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