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Short Summary....
After eighteen months work, the layout has most certainly hit
the road with two shows in 2011 and
four definately booked in 2012. It was judged to be of the same theme to my last layout
"Brockley Green SE4" but
most certainly different.
The theme still being Southern Electrics but this time in a
circular
format and
in 00 scale. DCC power is now supplied by the Roco Multimaus system
with Master and Slave handsets after technical problems at the
first outing caused the wireless system to be discarded in
a temporary/panic in favour of a Bachmann EZ Command child's DCC
controller, with all the problems that only nine addresses brought with it.
To
allow more than a little diversity and to stop the stock accumulating
excessive mileages, the layout is run on a sliding
timescale. Starting with steam powered trains in the shape of a class C
0-6-0 on a ferry van train, a class Q1 0-6-0 on a coal train and an N
class on a passenger working. They are aguemented by a Jubilee 4-6-0 on
an inter regional
parcels train, a 4-EPB and a
2-EPB/2-HAP/2-EPB EMU trio. Phase two is the replacement of
the coal train by an
electro-diesel
class 73 on an oil tank train and the Jubilee by a Kent Coast electric
locomotive, a class 71 but now without the overhead knitting. The C
class's ferry van train is then withdrawn altogether.
Phase three sees the EMU's being upgraded into one
train of a pair of green 4-CEPs with a blue MLV on the rear. The fourth
phase sees the 4-CEP's repainted into the blue/grey livery and
another MLV in the same livery. Also running is a pair of 2-EPB's
carrying the new corporate livery. Finally, in phase five there is a
further addition, with the ferry van train reappearing as
a
class 92 electric locomotive powering an
intermodal train.The flash units will
illuminate
the passage
of all electrically powered trains
Viewers will be warned of these pyrotechnics by notices on the front of the layout!
Site
last updated
Tuesday Jan 17th. 2012