Hadleigh's Ltd. Sevastopol Works

[Dave]

I gave up on having an engine shed completely. It would take up a relatively large amount of space but add nothing to the operating of the layout. It's a shunting layout, so needs sidings to shunt and so where the shed was to be will now be a gantry crane and siding for incoming scrap metal and pig iron to feed the electric arc furnace.


Pattern shop/pattern store for the foundry.

 

[Dave]

Progress is slow but sure.

The office block is ready to be planted and testing using an 0-6-0 showed up a couple of small snags with the trackwork that hadn't come to light with 0-4-0s.

Most of the buildings are at least at the card shell stage, which allows me to get a better feel of how it's all coming together.

 

[Dave]

I have some ballast down now but it's not progressed much otherwise.




I've been building wagons and have 15 in the works. Setting the layout in the 1948-60 period has opened up all sorts of possibilities of using types that I've never used before, particularly elderley unfitted vans and other pre-grouping stuff that made it into BR days.

This one is a RTR LNWR van that I weathered but most of what is to come are in kit form.