Exeter St David's

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Dawlish and Exeter in the 1930s (and modern day)

Hi
Thought I'd introduce myself to this website by posting something about my model railway, the plan for which is shown below. This is taken from my plan of the month article published in Railway Modeller March 2012 which explains more about the rationale for the railway and its design.
In summary I spent 3 years at university at Exeter and always dreamed of building a model of Exeter St. David's station.




The link below is one of a few videos I've recorded of the Dawlish section which is reasonably well advanced.
- hopefully this works! There are a few others there as well.
I'm now working on the Exeter bit - all the track is laid apart from the Ilfracombe section which has not been started. I've ballasted about half the Exeter track and put up some photographic backscenes which makes a difference.
So far I've run 1/2 day of timetable which I've designed from a 1930s timetable I managed to get my hands on.

If anyone is interested I can do a separate post on that explaining my thinking there

Suppose I ought to get back to work

Peter


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:hi Peter, great looking layout.
 :Welcome



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Hello Peter,

Welcome to the club.

Nice layout, and a decent size too!

Jeff

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Hi Peter
 Welcome to the club
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Welcome to the club Peter.A nice plan and of interest to me as it is just down the road.

Regards

Alan


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:Welcome  Hello Peter.  Lovely layout. 
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Wow, what a lovely railway and with four turntables! Besides which, there's the grace, pace and mightiness of that western railway :)

Welcome Peter,

Bill

At 6'4'', Bill is a tall chap, then again, when horizontal he is rather long and people often used to trip over him! . . . and so a nickname was born :)
 
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Hello Peter from me on the edge of the Solent.
Nice layout, travelled that route often when going back to Cornwall.

Always try to look on the bright side of life!

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thanks for all your welcomes guys...
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5 if I get around to modelling Ilfracombe.As yet I still lift the locos off rather than turn them and run them round the trains in the fiddleyard so something of an expensive luxury. Exeter one gets used though. Maybe one day I'll get some friends around in which case the fiddleyard ones would get used…..
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