Ray & Anna's Railway Projects
The creation team
Ray & Anna have been a couple since 2009 and have been railway modellers since 2015. They now live down in Poole, Dorset but before that they lived in a house that was really too small for model railways, hence their preference for n scale. Anna works in the Laser industry and Ray is retired; they were both members of an acoustic folk band "Two Coats Colder" but now play as the duo Bass & Taylor, playing gigs up and down the country. In between gigs and work they somehow find the time to work on their model railway layouts “Feldspar” "White Meadow Quarry" and “Ambleton Vale.”
The layout blurb
Set in rolling countryside somewhere in central England in the 1960s, Ambleton Vale station is a fictitious terminus at the end of a branch line connecting the village of Ambleton Vale with the county town some 20 miles away. It has survived in the face of the general decline in rail travel because of a flourishing livestock market on the outskirts of the village, and the nearby Ambleton Vale racecourse.
The tech details
Owned built and operated by Ray Taylor & Anna Bass
Layout type : N gauge branch line with integrated small fiddle yard
Layout Size : 16 ft x 18 inch ( 487 cm x 46 cm )
Overall display and operating size required : 22ft x 6ft (670 cm x 183 cm )
Track height : 38 inch / 97 cm ( viewable for standing, sitting and children)
Operated mainly from the rear
Layout require barrier/rail at the front edge
Layout has its own overhead lighting: LED lighting
All curtaining used : Fire retardant
Electrical safety : PAT certificate
Layout operation : DCC + Wire in tube
Insurance value : £11,000
Expenses required : £ fuel + Accommodation if appropriate
Operators : 2 persons (1 male, 1 female)
Transportation : Fits in our own Vehicle
Home base : Poole, Dorset
