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Blaendare Road

Description based on material supplied by the layout owner

Blaendare Road  
Phil Harries OO gauge 4mm scale

Blaendare Road is a fictitious small terminus in Mid Wales, North of Brecon, the layout is set in the 1950's and 1960's.

The branch serves a Creamery built by the Milk Marketing Board in the late 1940's. This facility saved the branch from closure in the early years of British Railways.

Goods services are provided in the yard with additional traffic generated by a Seed and Feed Merchants and a Coal Merchants yard in this mainly farming area. The station enjoys frequent passenger services from Brecon, Neath, Hereford and Newport.

The track is Peco code 100 and points operated by a Seep point motors. The track is ballasted with Woodland Scenics medium ballast. All buildings are kits or modified kits.

Rolling stock is mainly ready to run with a few kit built locomotives and wagons. Uncoupling ramps are mixture of Seep and homemade.

 




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