KINGSBURY - 0
By Barnhill MRC
Welcome to Kingsbury, a fictitious location based in the West Country on the Southern edge of Bristol. A place where we can let our imagination do the work?
The line is singe primarily coming away from Bristol with a small branch platform for trains to Rogerfield, another fictitious layout constructed on the Bristol Channel. The period we our modelling is 1947/48 in the changeover period when most stock was still running around with pre nationalisation company logo, s. Obviously being in the Western region most of the loco’s and stock are Great Western, however with the Midland & Somerset & Dorset, having a big influence on the area, Midland loco, s and stock will also be seen.
As before it is fictitious so there is a lot of modellers licence, but we hope we have captured the period.
The layout is constructed on eight 1.5 x 1 meter boards & two 0.3 x 0.5 meter boards giving a total length of 13.1 meters (43ft). The track is all Peco with Tortoise point motors fitted and the power to the track is supplied from a double Morley controller that also has the benefit of hand held operation. There are two fiddle yards one at each end out of view of the public which are pivoting traversers. The buildings on the layout are a mixture of scratch built, proprietary and kit bashed, with parts coming from many different suppliers. Scenery on the layout is a mix of flocks and static grass, there are some tree’s still to be built & there are odd bits and pieces that can still be added for extra detail but these will be produced as time goes by and as in real life things change. The landscape is constructed of polystyrene blocks cut to shape with cloth and coloured plaster added on top for the flock base.
Signalling is hand built from MSE parts and brass, it is operated by a lever frame.
The signalling was designed specifically for this layout.
We do not operate to a timetable but instead try to ensure that there is something moving on the railway at all times, whether it is a train stopping at the station, an engine move or shunting in the yard.
The stock on the layout is mostly hand built by members but there are a few proprietary items, and some hand built items bought from other sources. Much more stock is in the pipe line so we hope to have quite a variance as time goes by.
This was our first attempt at ‘0’ gauge, having spent many years building ‘00’ layouts & ‘N’ gauge layouts for exhibitions. We are only a small group of modellers but since we started building some stock about 18 years ago the bug has bitten us all and we are enjoying this move up in the scales.
We do hope that you enjoy your day, and hope that you enjoy our layout.
Below pictures are courtesy of Hornby Magazine
