A chart of my Goathland model

[karlrestall]

Just goes to show how quiet Goathland was,

Not!!!

Just because it is in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean it was a quiet place, it was quite the opposite heaving with activity. If you want a simple station try Levisham; if however you like the challenege continue, I for one would certainly be interested in your progress.

Regards

Karl

[amphigory]

Just goes to show how quiet Goathland was,

Not!!!

Just because it is in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean it was a quiet place, it was quite the opposite heaving with activity. If you want a simple station try Levisham; if however you like the challenege continue, I for one would certainly be interested in your progress.

Well, in it's own way Goathland is quite easy to model, especially since so many of the buildings are all but done for me (thanks to Hornby's Lyddle End line.) Right? That's what I'm telling myself.

All kidding aside, I think this is quite fun. It's this sort of "surprise" stuff that makes modeling a prototype fun. I never would have thought of putting a narrow gauge feeder railway at a small country station like Goathland, but adding it will make the model much more interesting. I'm thinking that I may even be able to get it moving... I'm visualizing a long screw under the track-bed with a magnet on it. Turn the screw one way to raise the car, turn it the other way to lower it, add sensors at each end to reverse the motor (like we all used to use before DCC came along) and it's a working railway.

(Yes, I'm an engineer by training. I guess it shows--only an engineer could think this sort of thing was fun )

I had much the same experience with my first layout, when I was a kid. I started out modelling the Norfolk and Western in my hometown, Wakefield, VA. It seemed very simple at first: double mainline, coal trains with occasional passenger and freight service. Then I discovered that there had been a narrow gauge logging railway running through town from the late 19th century through the 1930's called the Sussex Surry and Southampton. Before long, the N&W ended up being a loop of track, and I was doing all my real work on the triple S. (Unfortunately, that layout got destroyed in a fire when I was in college.)

Patrick

[wehf100]

With all that effort saved by using lyddle end buildings, why not take the towing by car idea wee bit further and....

http://www.btinternet.com/~two.mm/photo ... /index.htm

about half-way down the page.

a few manufacturers such as GEM model railway make some nice 'vintage' style car models. The Trojan was in production for only a few years in the 1920s, and I am not ware of either a trojan or Wolseley model, but I bet you could find something similar, especially considering how similar British cars looked at that time.

Will

[jonorjonjon]

The early photograph and subsequent comments mentioning the tramway aroused my curiosity. Another visit to goathland was made, but this time to find the tramway. Some brickwork remains on the hillside but that appears to be all. To satisfy my curiosity typed all sorts of queries into the net and it threw the site linked below.

I received their map this morning and all is revealed. The tramway runs along the top of the hill and dropped into the wagons via a chute.

The map is "Goathland 1910" catalogue number YO45.16, scale is approx 15 inches to the mile and shows the track plan very well.

ps the best £3 i have spent in a long time


http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/

[52D]

I have no connection with Alan Godfrey maps but i can reccomend his products. His gear has helped me immensley.

52D