The layout was conceived after 'she that must be obeyed' decreed that the shed in which I do my modelling and is home to my layout had to be cleaned up and all the old junk go ride off! It was during tat operation that the content of the scrap box and a couple of drawers containing unmade and part built lkits were rediscovered along with a quantity of track and poionts from a previous layout. This got me thinking, as the kits were some old card kits and not quite so old kits of a brewey and industrial buildings, thus Brampton Brewery was conceived.
The layout depicts the station area of a small market town and the adjacent brewery. Its imaginary location is somewhere in LNER land and is set just before or shortly after WW2. The town is served by a well used single track branch line which runs between a major town on the main line and a coastal town which provides a reason for seasonal excursion and mainline traffic with a nearby Power Station providing an excuse for coal. A branch line from the nearby village of Church Fenton terminates at Brampton. This line is served by a Push-Pull Unit.
The whole layout came from the previously mentioned scrap box and forgotten bits and pieces. A few items were purchased new, notably the 3-way point at the entry to the station. I also decided that the layout would serve as a test bed for an experiment using KD couplings which I have been wanting to try out for some time. A set of wagons were modified with these couplings for use in the shunting operations around the brewery.
The layout scenic section is 10 feet by 2 feet and consists of 2 4 foot boards and a 2 foot with fiddle yards provided at either end