Name	Gneiss Farm
Owner	Gerry Bullock
Gauge	Gn15
Theme	Traditional Rural Somerset Farm
Layout Guide	This small layout set in Somerset depicts remote rural farm with access available only via narrow Farm lanes that are only passable by Farm Tractors. The Landowner in the tradition of Heywood has a love of railways and has constructed a Narrow Gauge Rail link to the local Branch line that, by fortune, passes over the land of adjoining Farms that benefit from the link to the nearby Market Town. He also has his own Steam Loco, which is a Replica of Heywood's Effie and is used to transport his mother to the local market. Goods in include wood for heating, farm materials, empty cider barrels plus empty boxes for fruit produced on the farm. Shopping from local town also delivered by the railway, in fact the wife of the owner of Gneiss Farm had her own Shopping Trolley Loco modelled on a Cuban Sugar Cane Loco (Don’t ask)! Goods out would include full Farmhouse Honey Cider Barrels, boxes of Fruit and from some farms the occasional sheep wagon. Apart from a flock of sheep other animals are kept on Farm but merely to supply family needs.
External Web Site	http://gtb13.fotopic.net/c1229849.html
Exhibition Dates	2007 Basildon MRC 2007 07/07/2007 Romford M.R.S. 10/11/2007 2008 Castle Point Transport Museum 20/04/2008 2009 Small & Delightful - Narrow Gauge SOUTHWEST 2009 21/02/2009 Enfield Town MRC 27/06/2009 Wilmington Model Railway Exhibition 10/10/2009 EXPO Narrow Gauge 31/10/2009 2010 De Haviland MRS Exhibition 17/04/2010 Swing 2010 01/05/2010 Hoddesden Model Railway Exhibition 10/07/2010 Ilford & West Essex MRC 02/10/2010 Letchworth MRS 27/11/2010 2011 Watford Finescale Exhibitiopn 19/02/2011 Reading NG exhibition 07/05/2011
Magazine Features	Featured in Carl Arendt's Small Layout Scrapbook @ http://carendt.us/scrapbook/page66/index.html
Awards
Size	1.4x0.4m requires a 5 foot table however a 6 foot table is preferred enabling photos of Prototypes used as basis for various Rolling Stock to be displayed. Project in progress to increase layout size and operating potential with additional 1 metre board at RH end of existing board. Availability late 2008
Availability	Now but no more than 3 Shows p.a.