GET THE INDUSTRIAL LOOK WITH GEOSCENICS

Some people will visit an attraction and feel the urge to take a photograph, or even draw a sketch of it, but I’m inspired to build a model.

In July’s issue of BRM, you can read about the trip Andy York and I took to visit Rocks by Rail in Leicestershire. A cracking day out for the industrial railway enthusiast that left me wondering how I could turn it into a micro layout.

Part of the appeal would be to use both narrow gauge and standard gauge tracks with one feeding the other. As more OO9 models have appeared, I know there are many modellers thinking about something along these lines to add more interest to their model.

I won’t claim this is a new idea. In fact, I’m really only building a small-scale version of Giles Flavell’s crowd-pleasing micro layout ‘The End of the Line’. Despite its tiny size, the layout was popular with exhibition visitors largely because of the operating skip wagons which tipped, and the radiocontrolled lorries.

Challenging enough in 7mm:1ft scale,