Barry and Penarth Model Railway Club

Members layouts - M: Abbeywood

O-gauge 1:43

by Mike Curtis

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Abbeywood is a GWR style rural backwater branch line, its main boast being a creamery. The station buildings are similar to the ones at Much Wenlock.
It also has a cattle dock and a signal box based on the Lambourne branch. Click for a larger picture
Click for a larger picture The goods shed is based on one at St Mary's, which was on the Cowbridge branch in the Vale of Glamorgan.

The buildings and bridges are card embossed with scribbed DAS modelling clay.

The farmer is driving his cattle to the cattle dock, Click for a larger picture
Click for a larger picture ... while his daughter is driving the tractor and plough (a Langley whitemetal kit).
If you look closely you will see some rabbits, foxes, squirrels, badger and a stoat. For the eagle-eyed there is also a hedgehog, plus a few sheep in the shade of the trees. Click for a larger picture

All track and pointwork is Peco Streamline. The electrics are very simple: it has to be since electrics and I are complete strangers.

The loco fleet are a mixture of brass kit and scratch built, while the rolling stock is mainly Slater and Parkside Dundas.

Many thanks to Dave Woolnough, the club artist, for his magnificent back scenes. The fiddle yard is a complete turntable, so doing away with the need to handle any of the rolling stock.

The layout is 25ft long by 20in wide and is fully transportable in two cars.
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My thanks to Brian Bunce for his advice and encouragement, as well as other members of the club for their patient and help, and to Dave Temple for the photographs.