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KENDLEBURY

Under Construction

Kendlebury, is an O-gauge model of an early 1950s, British-Rail, ex Great-Western, branch-line, terminus in a fictitious Cotswold market town. It is based on the Ian Rice, concept-design of Elan, but is upscaled and modified. It is an attempt to fit a fully functioning, O-gauge layout and fiddle yard into a compact, 13ft 6ins by 4ft 1ins, space. Passenger trains of up to two carriages length and goods trains of up to seven wagons length can be accommodated.

There are three goods sidings, an engine shed and a bay platform. One of the goods sidings continues through to a private dock belonging to the local brewery. The station, run-around, loop is completed on one of two concentric sector plates and there are four, fold-back, fiddle-track roads completed with a small traverser at the opposite end of the fiddle yard to the sector plates. The first sector plate allows the transfer of trains between the fiddle yard and the scenic, station section. The second sector plate and traverser provide a run around loop in the fiddle yard to facilitate preparation of trains ready to be transferred to the scenic section. It is hoped that by using this configuration there will be the minimum time delay between trains leaving and new trains arriving at Kendlebury station, thus keeping interest for viewers when the model is exhibited at exhibitions.

A feature of the scenic modelling is to be a road which runs the full length of the layout along the back scene starting at one end behind the station and brewery and then rising up and crossing the railway lines just before the sector plates. This will obscure the sector plates from the viewers out front. The road then continues behind the goods shed but in front of the sector plates and runs past the goods-yard, road entrance. The major buildings; station, engine shed and goods shed, have been assembled to aid track laying but are yet to be fully detailed and completed. These are laser cut kits based on GWR prototypes. Additional buildings will include scratch built items as well as smaller laser cut kits.

The layout is in its initial stages of construction. Presently, the baseboards have been constructed and the track laid but not ballasted. Electrical wiring has just begun and scenic modelling is in the design stage.

The O gauge group is John Cotton, Steve Hartley, Iain Dickason, Jim Duckworth, Doug Pulford, and Keith Bradley but most club members have provided advice and assistance.