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Bassetlaw (North Notts) Railway Society
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| Many years ago it was decided that the society should build an 'O' gauge model railway as soon as space allowed. With the sale of our former club layout 'Idleforde Junction' and the smaller size of the new 'OO' gauge layout, it was realised that we finally had the space to start work on the new 'O' gauge layout. The society had, during the preceding years, purchased a couple of locomotives and a quantity of PECO track so work started during the early months of 2007. | |
| The scenic section of the layout is 6 metres long,
comprising four, 1500mm long x 800mm wide baseboards, mounted on 1200mm
high trestles fitted with castors for easy movement around the
clubrooms. The heavy duty baseboards and trestles have
been constructed by our good friends at The
Goods Yard. Additional baseboards, containing a flipper unit
will be added at each end.
The track plan is to be based loosely on Great Central mainline practice with a single island platform station at one end. A goods facility and loco servicing point will also be included in the design.
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Recent Progress ...... January 2009 Gary has now completed the main platform level station building. Following the Christmas holidays, work is progressing on the scenery and electrics. Steve Searson has now completed the refurbishment of the rake of wagons previously donated by The Goods Yard. May 2010 The track has now been ballasted and painted. Gary's latest building masterpiece, the sectioned goods shed is in place and the grass texture has been applied to the hillside. The layout has now been moved into our new clubrooms and it made its public debut at our May Day Open Day. Work has processed well on the scenery and although not complete, the layout now has the feel of a quality model railway. Next jobs are the construction of a control panel and its associated wiring and the building of the end 'flipper' boards. It is planned for the layout to make its exhibition debut at our show in November so there is much yet to be done. October 2010 The layout is booked to make its first public appearance at this year's Retford Model Railway Exhibition in November. Richard D has now completed the two new 'Flipper' end baseboards and the layout has now reached its full length of just over 10 metres. Richard D had also completed the electrics and for the first time since the project started, trains have now completed a full circuit of the layout including the over the reversing fiddle yard section at the rear. Gary and Richard B have been involved in scenic work and the cosmetic boards on the front of the layout, the two semaphore signals are now installed thanks to Steve Searson. Although the layout will not be fully complete in time for the show, it will displayed as a 'work in progress'. We will add more pictures in due course, but why not come along to the show and view the project for yourself? November 2010 Well we finally made it!!!! After many hours of hard work over the preceding few months, Idleford Town appeared at its first model railway exhibition. Despite very little test running (less than 2 hours), the layout performed almost faultlessly over the two day event and was a credit to all who had participated in its construction to date. At around 33ft 3ins (10.13m) in length, the layout makes an impressive site, especially as this was only the second time the railway had been fully assembled. In fact, none of the team building had it ever seen the model fully erected without part of it extending through a door in our clubroom. |
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 Station buildings by Gary Atkinson. (Aug 08) |
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 The newly constructed embankment (Sep 08) (mover cursor over image for another view) |
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 Station Buildings (Sep 08) (mover cursor over image for another view) |
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  The completed main station building from track level (Jan 09) |
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 Overall view of the station area from the road over bridge (Jan 09) |
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 The Sectioned Goods Shed (June 2010) (mover cursor over image for another view) |
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 General View of Station Approach (June 2010) (mover cursor over image for another view) |
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 General View of Station Approach (June 2010) (mover cursor over image for another view) |
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 Idleford Town at Retford MRE, November 2011 |
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 Idleford Town at Retford MRE, November 2011 |
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 Idleford Town at Retford MRE, November 2011 |
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 The new goods depot area, January 2012 |
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 The local vet is checking out one of the cows in the cattle pens, January 2012 |
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