History and Track Plan (This Page) – Construction and Control – Scenery
The story of ‘Stowey Town’ – The unexpected ‘N’ Gauge Spin Off from Stowey Green
When the Stowey Green layout had been completed. I discovered that I had enough left over buildings and track to make a small additional layout…
In particular ther was a reasonable amout of curved platform…
So I went about designing the smallest ‘N’ Gauge Layout I could make that I could make that fitted what I had…
Basic Track Plan
.. And ended up as below. A Layout with 3 points run from a single track controller – with 5 switchable sections of track to make things interesting..
All on a board 60cm x 80cm…. (Much smaller than Stowey Greens 137cm x 76cm).
Like Stowey Green it is to be wired for DC using the classic ‘Cab Control’ method.
.. Although I plan to use digital control (DCC) in my future OO gauge layouts I am quite happy to stick to the simplicity of DC for this layout.
For me ‘N’ Guage locomotives, especially the kind I plan to use on Stowey Town (and Green) Green are just too small to fit a DCC decoder.
In order to keep things as small as possible Stowey Town uses basic Set Track Points and mostly first radius curves, so things will unfortunately look a lot more ‘train set’ than Stowey Green with its streamline points…
An even more ‘Recycled’ Layout…
Where possible all of the materials used in constructing Stowey Town has been salvaged from when the original Burton Crumpnold Layout was ‘decommissioned’ (Electric parts such as Point Motors etc) or was over from the construction (Wood etc). Towards the end this also involved reusing wire and switches from the later destruction of the Burton Pheonix’s control panel.. And of course to use the ‘N’ scale buildings I had left over from Stowey Green