Monday, April 11, 2011

errrr…what?!

On my recent visit to site (aka Rhyd Ddu station), I inspected the changes that had been written but not really shown in pictures on the various WHR websites.

There has been a major change to the ‘bus turning area’ as shown below:

Firstly though the tamper shed is gone (!) and a new tarmac path has been created out of the NP car park…

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This leads to a newly tarmaced bus lay-by…

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and a newly erected shelter is prominent…

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the path continues up towards the water tower and through a small gate…

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and then across a new foot crossing and onto the platform.

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This is a MAJOR change. 

Here a shot of Rhyd Ddu for comparison – you can see the white van parked on what was rough ground… This would need a new tarmac surafce, kerbs, the extra foot crossing, more gates, the shelter etc. adding and of course I’d have to leave the tamper shed out too.

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Thus it has been decided to freeze the layout at 2010.  Now I might bend this somewhat to allow for other locos and stock to appear (e.g. the other NGG16 kit I have in stock) but this is generally the rule – 2010 it is. 

1 comment:

Steve said...

Definitely a good idea to freeze it! The tamper shed adds a lot of interest.