Ballan Road

Exhibitable Layout.

20ft x 8ft

DC and DCC

End to end branch line with freight sidings and a private siding to works.

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Ballan Road is set in a fictitious village on the Cumbrian coast line during the late 1950s. The nearby station has remained open to allow workers to reach the local chemical works, which also provides some freight traffic. The engine shed is still operational to provide shunters for the works. Some modernisation has appeared in the form of diesel traction but, otherwise, it is a scene unchanged in many years.

It’s the sort of place that would disappear within a few years as traffic dwindled and the ‘Beeching axe’ took effect.

The centre section of the layout was built by LAWLOGG member Barry Allen as a static diorama but has recently been extended and made fully operational by club members Ian Coules and Dave Forshaw.

It is their first excursion into creating an exhibition layout in ‘O’ gauge, with both members also being previously-experienced ‘N’ gauge modellers.