Copyright © 2002-2009, Crawley Model Railway Society [June 09]
‘Wellbridge’
4mm:1ft Scale
OO Gauge
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Wellbridge is the latest 4mm, OO gauge, finescale layout constructed by the
club. It is based on Southern Region practice under British Rail in the late
1950s/60s.
The layout design features a lot of land outside the railway boundary and
the buildings and their settings are to be prominent features. This has
provided plenty of training opportunities for some of newer members.
So far, most of the layout has been constructed by newer members who
have tackled various activities, such as scenery construction, making
buildings and baseboard wiring. This has given many of them a sense of
achievement, ownership and pride in the layout.
It has been estimated that the average viewer spends no longer than 5
minutes watching a layout. We therefore intend to depict a railway running
through countryside with many different trains and plenty of scenic items to
look at. The line emerges from the tunnel in a chalk escarpment, crosses
the curving viaduct, below which is a collection of farm buildings and a
stream, passes a small housing development and runs into the station. After
leaving the station and goods yard, the line passes Wellbridge village and its
high street before running into the cutting next to the village golf course
and finally under the high three-arch occupation bridge.
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