Chalked up to experience
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Photography: Chris Nevard
What makes this layout great?
“Ray and Anna churn out brilliant layout after brilliant layout and they’ve delivered once again. The unconventional shape of the board does a great job of making the scene feel part of a wider environment and, although it’s small, there’s so much to look at you could be entranced for hours.”
There is, of course, no good time for a year’s worth of model railway exhibitions to be cancelled, but when you’ve just finished a new layout and you’re ready to show it off to the world, only to then have to store it in your house for months on end, it’s even more frustrating.
This is exactly what happened to Ray Taylor and Anna Bass when their new ‘N’ gauge layout ‘White Meadow Quarry’ was completed. Regular readers of Model Rail will be familiar with the couple’s work as we have featured their coffee table layout
‘Feldspar’ and ‘Ambleton Vale’ in recent years. After a few outings with ‘Ambleton Vale’, they came up with the plan for a new layout that would fix some of the problems they’d encountered while exhibiting.