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| Image: Steve Croucher/Peco studio |
A task is to hand.
This month's Railway Modeller contains a fairly standard BLT plan of the month. You will all have obviously bought this so no need for me to expand on the reasoning behind said plan, and again obviously I'm not going to reproduce that here. However, there have been a couple of messages appearing on my phone vis-à-vis the hints here, and drawing conclusions. The task for me is to build it, but not in a familiar scale/gauge, but the relatively new TT:120. This was a surprise on lots of levels and I have questions, but there is wood to cut and a deadline; at the outside of the magazine print-run up to the Glasgow show.
The eagle-eyed will notice that in practical terms it's a funny shape and moreover the boards are split unevenly. So the already compressed plan/idea needs tweaking further to allow practical transportation.
Removing the Southern IOW angle throws up further possibilities: The first is to forgo the Terrier and head for the new J50 or the 08. and go GNR area. I'm thinking something like Horncastle and that photo in the Bradford Barton Brach line diesels book. The IOW buildings could be adapted and you are good to go. The other is to use all the Pacifics that are available and go Pickering NYMR during preservation. It would need stretching a little and to move the goods yard sidings to top right as an MPD. 5-coach trains would be possible in the same sort of space, though the fiddle yard is naturally longer than the planned 30" length needed here.
The Terrier gives you the advantage of being able to use the 4whl coaches and perhapsmake it look less compact. You could even model the turntable/sector plate to save even more space. All three suggestions have quite large station buildings which would need thinking about to get a good composition. Go for the GNR Linincolnshire option and you could include a potato railway....
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