Tenwr Mine

Tenwr mine was one of “those ideas”. I was just hit by the need to build a layout. A small layout. Nothing special. I woke up one morning (sounds like a blues song coming on…) with a layout building itch I needed to scratch. I had the day off work and it was raining. So the stars really had aligned for the project.

As I started the project I had no idea how things would unfold. I just found an offcut of pink foam of which I had plenty. and set to just placing track on it. I set up some lengths of track and points and eventually found an arrangement I liked and for some reason decided that a mine location would be an appropriate location considering the small size of the baseboard. It could  be closed in quite effectively with high walls and pipework and all that kind of stuff.

I was off. Voom. Ten hours later – (Tenwr – geddit?) I had a layout of sorts. It worked perfectly I could run my sidelines Gnat and some converted Gnomy skips and tip wagons to my hearts content. All good fun.

BUT. Big But. Later, as I was building Whinny Lane, I added a roof to the Gnat and it wouldn’t run under the bridge to exit this layout. At that moment I had no other locomotives so I had a layout I couldn’t use. So rather than build a loco, which on reflection might well have been the sensible thing to do. I trashed the layout. Simple as that.

“Off  to the bin with you”. I didn’t feel any regret. It was another step in my learning about layout building. Enjoy the pictures.

This was the loading shed

and the tipping facility

G, O, HO and N scale brick sheets are used here to force the perspective

Tipping. The gnomy skip tips on Jeff Saxton beckets stuck to a Sidelines chassis

A nice view. The cables and piping were sections of styrene rod and tube

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