Lynton & Barnstable Woody Bay Station

[Tim Chambers]

I would like to model Woody Bay and was wondering if any member would have the track layout and dimensions for 009 track work or even better a template for the track work . Would be happy to pay for any costs incurred.
Tim Chambers

[Ross Chapman]

Probably got one in my 1956 issue L&B book, will have a look.

[Graeme Dunbar]

There are a few track plans online:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lynton+barnstaple+railway+woody+bay+station+track+plan&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1137&bih=565&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ppEMVI-_LcLhaNWygXg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&dpr=0.9

I'm sure there are many interpretations of the plan depending on the year, the space you have available and the amount of compression you wish to incorporate.

[invercloy]

Tim, just to be clear, do you mean paper templates for Peco 009 track, or a track plan of the actual station at Woody Bay? Or both?

[Tim Chambers]

As this was my first request for I am truly grateful for the prompt offers of help
What I would really like is a template. I do have room as I have a blank canvas at the moment
Regards
Tim

[Graeme Dunbar]

The Peco templates or turnout plans are available here:
http://www.peco-uk.com/page.asp?id=pointplans

These are just my thoughts on how I would go about the task, so please ignore if it's not helpful!

Translating an actual railway to model form is quite a personal thing and a degree of compromise or adjustment is often necessary and desirable. Necessary because railways are big things and desirable because quite frankly, spread out over prototypical distances the layout is highly likely to be boring.

What suits one person's taste, interests and modelling style may not appeal to another. The actual space available may be of secondary importance. Someone else's track plan may not suit you. Modellers regularly take an existing plan and modify it to their tastes. There are then mundane practicalities such as that unless you design the track in something like Templot and build it yourself it won't be right. The geometry of commercial turnouts is almost certainly wrong, so even if you lay your track on an enlargement of a map the the angles and curves will be all wrong.

Let us say you want to model this short (0.2 mi, 350 m) 5 minute walk along the present day road up to just the other side of the railway tracks, say about 50 m:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/51.2012872,-3.8902867/51.2014741,-3.885337/@51.2012673,-3.8875295,212m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!4m3!1m0!1m0!3e2

If my arithmetic is correct it will take about 4.6 m by 0.7 m of space and that does not include a fiddle yard.

I suspect that if it is a home layout you will tire of it very quickly and if it is an exhibition layout the so will the audience, just because it will look so sparse. We are so used to seeing railways foreshortened at ground level. However, shortening the sidings and using less than prototypical radius turnouts could compress it considerably and make it more cohesive. You might be able to half the length and it still look 'scenically' correct. At a pinch you may be able to have an operationally functional 'shunting' layout in quarter of the distance (e.g. a 4 ft x 2 ft board), but it will be a clear pastiche of the real thing.

However, if you want a true scale template then I'm sure its possible to zoom in on Google maps and print out at 4 mm to the foot. (I tried. Not quite. On my screen it comes out to about N scale. You will need to capture the images and enlarge them further.)

[Tim Chambers]

Message for Ross
Many Thanks for your offer and will keep it in mind as I am still ion the process of deciding on what to do.
Regards
Tim

[B.Meldon]

Bachmann have announced that they are going to make models of the buildings at Woody Bay in 00.

So it may be an idea to wait to see whet they are like before making them yourself.

I can foresee several 009 layouts being built using these buildings, the peco rolling stock and even the Heljan loco.

Brian Meldon

[Ross Chapman]

Your welcome Tim.

I have found its quite difficult to modify prototype track plans to an area you have without a lot of compression or modification.

[rod335]

Scaling track plans exactly is probably NOT a good idea. On the ground we see everything foreshortened. With a model, particularly with the usual 'helicopter view', a scale sized layout will just look sprawling and empty. Trains will be dwarfed by the length of even a small station and much space will be wasted that could perhaps be used for other things. Or save money by not using so much material.

Rod