Scenery

The layout is fully detailed with scenery. The two stations take up a large amount of the space but there are lots of other details – shops behind Bearham, a small village with a church in an otherwise useless corner, a mill and canal and a scrap yard.

The layout is mainly flat but with scenery on two levels, with the transition between the two levels rising up behind Tedford station on arches. Where there are hills these are made in the traditional way with modroc over formers. Scatter material is mainly Woodland Scenics, as is the ballast, but this has been weathered with track dirt spray paint. Buildings are a real mixture – Metcalfe, Hornby Scaledale, Superquick, Airfix etc. Tedford station is a Faller kit that I purchased built and have tried to make look a little more ‘English’.

Bearham station is a Metcalfe kit which has had a ‘cut and shut’ done to make it a little bit narrower. I have tried to put in a number of cameo scenes around the layout. The following photos given an idea…