GlendevonScale: OO Layout Size: 33ft x 2ft 6ins Layout Plan |
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Glendevon represents an imaginary ex North British Railway branch off the Devon Valley line in Fife. The date is the 1950s, early British Railways days, just before the Beeching era. The passenger and pick-up goods trains still travel their way along the line as they have done for years. The occasional diesel may be seen, but there is no sign of the sweeping changes the next decade will bring.
Looking back it seems that practically every town and village of any size and quite a few without even that qualification was at one time served by a branch line railway. Before the rise of the lorry after the First World War they were the only transport for goods, farm produce or passengers to or from the outside world. The closure of these lines, unable to compete with cheap road transport, had been going on slowly for many years, but the end for most was brought about by the infamous Beeching report in the early 1960's. Today those that do survive usually do so only for passenger traffic and are a shadow of their former selves. For the rest their legacy is the empty embankments and cuttings crossing the countryside or that awkward bend in the road where a bridge once stood.
The model is built to '00' standards. In addition to the trains it features working signals and hand built buildings modelled on those typical of the region. The rolling stock is a mixture of kit and ready to run models of types that would have been found in the area.
