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Having described scenic developments to his iconic layout, Gilbert Barnatt updates us on the other part of his master plan…
I had decided very early in the planning stage that I wanted to run as many as possible of the trains that would have been seen in the summer of 1958, using the correct formations, and displaying them in the order in which they were scheduled to run.
This required copies of the official working timetables (WTT) and the carriage workings. I still don't have them all, but fortunately, I have been able to acquire the most important ones. That enabled me to work out a sequence timetable, running from 0700 to 2200 hours, which was put onto my laptop as a Powerpoint presentation.
Before doing this, I had designed the trackplan for the layout, which features an 18 road fiddle yard. Why? Because that is what I had seen at exhibitions. I was fortunate over the years to get to know the ‘Stoke Summit’ and ‘Charwelton’ lads, and spent many happy hours backstage, so that seemed to be the way to do it. So, I have this big fiddle yard, 25ft long, which will store many trains. But of course, I
