Bickleigh

[Ditape]

I am considering building a new layout loosely based om Cadeleigh and Bickleigh on the exe  valley line north of Exeter,
It is to be a light weight portable layout Made up of 4 sections giving a total size  6ft6 X 3ft3

[geofff]

What era?

[Ditape]

Basically transition/early diesel sort of pre 70's/80's but rule one applies  so Basically if I like it I will run it.

[Ditape]

Just a quick update, I have ordered the materials for the Baseboards from my local B&Q everything will be ready for collection tomorrow afternoon.

[F2Andy]

If it was me, I would slight reduce the sidings (as opposed to loops) in the fiddle yard, and angle them down, allowing you to move the backscene and increase the scenic areas. Moving the tunnels mouths away from the station, and the backscene further still, even having it just across the back, will further enlarge the scenic area, and making it feel much less cramped.

[Bob G]

It just looks a bit too symmetrical about the centre line. The prototype Bickleigh station is presumably in a river valley, close to the river itself, and didn't have tunnels at each end, so replacing one or more with  road bridges, and modelling the inter-relationship twixt road, rail and river would look better IMHO.

[Ditape]

There is not much room available for it to be anything  than a little symmetrical the scenic breaks are yet to be confirmed but a road bridge is already under concideration for one end and disappearing into wooded area for the other

[Ditape]

Today I got to go to the club and build the baseboards for Bickleigh.

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A little more progress on  Bickleigh.

[cornish yorkie]

 
    Excellent progress Di,   
     stay safe regards Derek

[Ditape]

A little more progress today, all the track for the fiddle yard has been fixed in place and all power and point feeds fitted.

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Another day spent at the club working on Bickleigh.

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Bickleigh is progressing nicely

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Bickleigh is progressing nicely, the scenic boards are nearing completion,