Newport Model Railway Society

The Templot plan laid out on the baseboards.

Test running during Autumn 2017. Ballasting and ground cover also in progress.

Rob Foot assembling on of the loco cassettes for the fiddle yard. The acrylic bases were obtained cut to size and the central MDF inserts were laser cut to our drawings.

Club Sectretary and one-man-youth-section, Steve Neill, built the control panel. The red buttons are uncoupler magnets; the toggle switches control turnout servos and the white pushbuttons are route-selector switches

At the other end of the control system we have a servo motor. The drive to the crank is via a compensator, which takes out excess movement and prevents too much force being applied to the stretcher bar. Connected to this crank is a rotating shaft to which another (scale) crank is soldered above the baseboard.

Some of the stock being prepared for ABB.

Wiring and testing in progress

The under-gubbins. No one believes that you only need two wires for DCC, but we'd never be without it.

We are modelling Wales in autumn - there will be puddles.

Some of the candidate buildings for ABB

To fine-tune the size of the apperture in the facia we mocked up this view.

The first successful loco movement from end to end deserved a celebration.