Show & Tell
‘Creating a diversion’
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The layout came about, like, I suspect, many others, during the first 2020 Covid lockdown. My main BR layout had stalled, so I started a new project – adiversion intended to restore my modelling mojo as it were. Previewed in Show & Tell earlier this year (MR297), the layout is now complete and it has made its exhibition debut.
My grandfather worked on The Slough Estates Railway (SER) and I took this, along with a nod to The Manchester Ship Canal Railway, as an inspiration. Mind you, the SER closed in April 1973 and never went over to diesel power. It did have exchange sidings with BR, and this is represented by a dedicated siding.
I had previously built a layout consisting of five interconnected box files. However, these were all individual units that could be arranged in different formations. This time I decided to use the box file principle differently, making them into one fixed unit.