While there I took the opportunity of slipping into Peters 'Man-cave' to see how he was getting on with his layout of the Lynton & Barnstaple narrow guage - being modelled in 009 gauge to protype scale.
The line, bordering Exmoor in North Devon ran for over 40 years, before closing in 1935. There were several stations on the line, and Pete has chosen to model a section from Lynton to Woody bay.
I put a couple of pictures up on the blog a couple of posts ago, but here are a few more.
This first one is a mock-up of Lynton Station:
The building just poking its gable up in the bottom L-H corner is the goods shed, pictured here:
Stepping back we get an overall view of Lynton station, with the line meandering away in the distance before curving into Caffyns Halt. (You have to imagine this bit, as it's still to be sorted!)
From Caffyns Halt the line continues around to Woody Bay station and environs. Although described as Woody Bay, the station is in fact just over a mile inland from the actual bay...
This is Woody Bay Station, which I featured in a post a while back.
From here the line carried on for 15 miles or so before reaching the terminus at Barnstaple, where it met up with the L &SWR main line from Waterloo.
Running out of space, Peter is making his line disappear under a bridge and finish in a fiddle yard, where other locomotives and trains can be exchanged.
The fiddle yard shown below (without track fitted yet) is on an ingenious sliding mechanism utilising drawer brackets - just visible in one of the pictures.
Thats it for this week folks - next week we visit Herrington Light Industries. Who knows what Colin has in store? (and what Marianne is cooking up for us?)
ATB
Shaun.
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