Another Club layout, this served as our exhibition layout for a number of years.
Edgedale
Canal basin
Canal basin lock
Goods Shed and Cattle Dock
Lock Keepers Cottage
Canal Basin Halt
Our
previous
prize winning layout “Wirksworth” was sold in 2006
after a majority of Group members decided it should go. With it were
some of our finest buildings, in fact the purchaser was
only
interested in them.
In 2007 it was decided to make a new layout,
Edgedale,
and most
members were involved in making it.
New buildings were made, with
the excepti
on of the Wirksworth lo
co shed (
an accurate model of the
real thing
)
which had not been s
old
.
A board with the loco yard was
withheld from the sale and formed one end of Ed
ged
ale.
The
resulting
layout was basically a loco yard with a factory siding,
a
goods shed
,
a cattle dock and a long single track.
One board at the end of the layout was a canal
basin with a short
length of canal with a lock and a canal bridge
and buildings on a
quayside. At the rear was a single track the whole length of the
layout with a fiddle yard at each end, out of sight. Two coaches and a
small engine could run on the trac
k with access from it to the yards
and there was a small “halt” station near the canal basin.
Later we
attached a moving section at the end of the loco yard which helped
operations.
The layout was operated by three people
two at the fiddle yards and
one
in front for the loco and goods yards. Points were operated by
wire and tube which also activated polarity. From the start
we did
not want it to be exclusively one company, so any one could run in
turn.
We attended several exhibitions over the years
, it
w
as popular with
the public because there was something to be seen on every inch.
and
there was always something moving at all times, which is
important.
