One of the mini projects I have underway is a 4mm scale tramway micro layout.
In some ways this is unfinished business. As well as his three rail O gauge garden railway my father, inspired by trips on the Vicinal built a crude tramway layout when I was still in nappies. He also did much to promote Hamo and Anbrico trams when he was running his model shop in the early 60's.
My grandfather, great grandfather and a great uncle all worked on tramways. Indeed my great uncle met his death when the Birmingham tram he was driving collided with a church. He was lucky compared to the great uncle who died in a foundry accident.
One of the first white metal kits I built was of a Birmingham tram, and I was rather proud of it , but I never found suitable seats for the open top deck and time and house moves took its eventual toll on the model.
And as a child growing up in Blackpool and going to school by tram I often dreamed of a model tramway empire.
Exactly what form this model will take I'm not yet sure. Despite my obvious links to Blackpool and Birmingham trams I suspect it will have more of a black country interurban flavour with the Kinver line being a major influence.
Moving from an OO gauge micro-layout to an EM gauge compromise, via a rather major diversion into both 7 1/4" gauge and minimal space OO9
Labels
Layout Design
Blodwell
Buildings
The Art of Compromise
Photography
Llanrhaiadr Mochnant
Scenery
Signal Box
Baseboards
Goods Yard
Track
45XX
Apa Box
EM
Lcut Creative
Travel
Backscene
Concepts
Railway Exhibitions
TVR
USA
Upwold
14XX
Anyrail
Bridge
Cuba
Cycling
Fencing
Lorry
Narrow Gauge
Point rodding
Points
Templot
Turnouts
West Maryland
Books
C+L
Fiddleyard
GWR
Hales
OO9
Phil Parker
Rolling Stock
Signals
State of the hobby
Tillig
Warley
Weighbridge
trams
2012
AC Railbus
Albion Yard
Allt-y-Graban Rd
Apa Valley
Balloch Pier
Bas
Bath Green Park
Brickwork
Bridgnorth
Bryn-y-Felin
CSX
Charmouth
Clarendon
Class 25
Cliff Railway
Coldrennick Road
Corris
Crich
DCC
Disused Railways
Dukedog
EMGS
Edwin Smith
Electrics
Emett
France
Gloucestershire & Warwickshire
HO
Hobbies
Hope under Dinmore
Hospital Gates
Iain Rice
Iliffe Stokes
Inspiration
Ireland
Kings Lynn
La Baraque
Lasercut
Leamington & Warwick
Locos
MSTS
Mainly Trains
Military Modeling
Mishaps
N guage
NEC
OOn3
Percy
Pier Railway
Porth y Waen
Preserved Railways
RTR
SMP
Seend
Sentinel
Sketchup
St Minions
Stockholm
TGV
TRAX
Tansey Bank
Techniques
Technology
Tim Horn
Trade
Trees
Ultrascale
Veldhoveh 1935
Watertank
Williamsport
diorama
manning wardle
painting
procrastination
pug
ships
simulators
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment