JohnC on January 28th, 2010

This is the track plan of the standard and narrow gauge interchange yard of the Pentewan Light Railway – my long in gestation layout. Only some of this track is built.

The purple block on the plan is a tippler on a raised section of track from which loaded wagons of china clay will be tipped [...]

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steamystef on October 5th, 2009

After having show you the layout, here are the different spots of interest.
The station, described earlier

The forestry halt, called “Sousac”

The long bank from “Grignan” to “Bois Marie”

The top “Z” part

The sawmill and its layout.

For now, I’m working on the forestry halt, 2m40 long and 70cm wide in two block.  In this part of the layout, [...]

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steamystef on September 23rd, 2009

Can I introduce you my new project ?  “Tramway de Grand Comble”, a ficticious line somewhere in a country like France or Belgium.  A 60cm gauge line with commercial purpose and an old branch converted for forestry development.  The starting point for this project is to model a narrow gauge line with some place like: [...]

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During a recent visit to the Le P’tit Train de la Haute Somme I spotted this superb little diorama in a glass case in the museum which I assume is O14.

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JohnC on March 12th, 2009

I hope group member Madkitten (Nikki) doesn’t mind me adding a link to her blog which is chronicling the progress of her new O14 layout Tumbledown Wharf at: http://madkitten.wordpress.com/ It promises to be a very fine layout when completed.

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JohnC on December 5th, 2008

Here are some more photos Gilbert Gribi sent me of his layout Les Mages which featured in Loco Review in January & March 2000 (see O14 in the News). Further details can be found on his website here: Les Mages

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matthieu on November 25th, 2008

Francois Gilbert and Matthieu Jacquemart, two French modellers, have built this layout.
The products from KBscale influenced them to make a layout in this scale, with a little help from Bernard Daillan of the escadrille Saint Michel !
Here is some pictures of this layout, you can see our website here

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Stephen on October 30th, 2008

Some photos of this unique and very attractive O14 layout, exhibited at ExpoNG 2008 by Jack Treves. It depicts an industrial railway supplying a sugar factory with beets to process, and is built inside three large suitcases. Small bridging sections connect each case together and, aside from the backscenes in the case lids, it is [...]

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JohnC on October 18th, 2008

Gilbert Gribi is a narrow gauge modeller who lives near Lausanne in Switzerland and has made several stunning layouts in various gauges and scales including an O14 model of La Vernarède (a real village in the South of France). He has given me permission to feature some photos of it here. See here for details [...]

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