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A Short Summary....

   After eighteen months work, the layout has most certainly hit the road with two shows in 2011 and six definately booked in 2012. It was judged to be of the same theme to my last layout "Brockley Green SE4" but most certainly different.
  That theme 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. Technical problems at the first outing caused the wireless system to be discarded in a panic in temporary favour of a Bachmann EZ  Command child's  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 The C class's ferry van train is then withdrawn altogether.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 a second MLV in that livery. Also running are a pair of 2-EPB's also carrying the blue livery. Finally, in phase five there are further additions, firstly with the ferry van train reappearing as a class 92 electric locomotive  powering an intermodal train.The second addition is a blue livied class 47 hauling blue/grey stock on a "Jolly Boy's" outing to Margate. All pale ale and whelks no doubt.
The third addition will see the passage through Meopham of a new "Desiro" set hauled by a class 66, enroute from the manufacturers in Germany. It should appear for the first time at the LYDCC show, Manchester on the weekend of May 19th & 20th next!
There are five flash units to  illuminate the passage of all electrically powered trains and viewers will be warned of these pyrotechnics by notices on the front of the layout!

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  If you came to this site looking for "Brockley Green SE4", I'm afraid you are several years too late as I have retired it. You can also find more at the Simply Trains website.
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Monday May 7th. 2012