| Name | Gneiss Farm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Owner | Barry Tresadern | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Magazine Features | Featured in Carl Arendt's Small Layout Scrapbook @ http://carendt.us/scrapbook/page66/index.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | Available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||