Pen-y-bont

As seen in Narrow Gauge World Magazine January 2010 issue

7mm Narrow gauge model by Geoff Lord

Having sold his original Narrow Gauge model "Chwiliog" when he thought that he was about to vacate his current premises, Geoff was unable to be without a model railway of some sort so he has embarked on this new project. At the time of photographing the model is far from complete but is still unmistakably one of his superb creations. It is being designed to either operate as a stand alone model or to be linked to one of the existing club models "Pen-y-Ffordd" to produce a 30 ft long Narrow Gauge layout.

The left hand end of the model sowing the station and the loco shed. Still to be added is the facia board on the front of the layout.

Almost at the right hand end where the layout will either enter into a fiddle yard or connect to the existing club Narrow Gauge layout via a purpose built panel. Note the lifelike waterfall and details in the river.

The Centre section of the layout with a loco and train passing under the road bridge. Again attention has been paid to detail with the people watching from the bridge and the van on the right.

The same road bridge as above but taken from the view point of a a train spotter.

The left hand end again but viewed from a different angle to show the wealth of detail that Geoff puts into his creations

A link panel has now been built to connect Penn-y-Bont toPen-y-Ffordd the original narrow gauge layout built by the club. The view here shows a train entering the Pen-y-Bont section having passed over the link panel.

A closer view of the panel linking the two layouts . Pen-y-Bont is to the left and Pen-y-Ffordd is off to the right.

Pen-y-bont has been featured in the Narrow Gauge World Magazine January 2010 issue and will be on show linked to Pen-y-Ffordd at the March 2010 Heywood Model Railway Group Exhibition in the Civic Centre Heywood.

This page updated 16th December 2009