Visit - Gare De Brindille, Large Scale Layout with Exquisite Figures, A Cameo Layout Lacking Valance and Wings

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"Gare de Brindille is my first attempt at an SM32 layout and is something of an experiment as the locomotives are track powered rather than radio controlled.

 

It is a simple test track laid out as an “Inglenook” or shunting twig and has been built using Peco track. It is designed to allow the operators to play trains by shunting the various WDLR wagons I have built from kits as a result of an increasing interest in the WDLR 100 years on from the First World War. The publication of the “WDLR Album” compiled by Roy C Link and the chance purchase of the Swift Sixteen “Protected Simplex” or “Tin Turtle” at “Tracks to the Trenches” at Apedale in 2015 were major factors in the development of the layout. It contains a number of scenic elements typical of the World War 1 narrow gauge railways and very loosely represents a small loading point some way behind the trenches.

 

The layout is run with an NCE DCC system and the locomotives are sound chipped with Zimo decoders from Digitrains. They represent the small petrol engine locomotives typical of the era and are built from kits by Swift Sixteen and PDF models. The wagons are kit-built plastic, resin and wooden kits from makers including Swift Sixteen, Andel, Red Star and Slaters."