Oxendale Junction - British N gauge 1:148 scale

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A scale one and a half mile continuous run with a fiddle yard for 33 scale length trains operated by four controllers. Regular improvements are carried out to the scenery which portray a fictitious Oxfordshire town, and half a mile away the Cotswold line station with its loco shed, goods yard, exchange sidings, parcels bay, loco spur, goods avoiding loops and separate platforms serving branch lines to Chipping Norton, Great Tew and Burford. The layout is operated as BRWR in the early 1960's but when more stock is available it can be run as modern image.

The Old Worse and Worse was cut through the Cotswolds following a route surveyed by Brunel but it was the N Gauge section of our club that tampered with the OS map and designed the fictitious town of Oxendale. Branches from Chipping Norton, Burford and Great Tew meet at the town's station, which lies on the Oxford to Worcester line between Kingham and Shipton.

The era is the early 60s when duties were shared by diesels and steam locos.

As well as main line running we also operate pilot duties, banking, shunting and branch line workings.

A few Farish engines are rebodied, renumbered, weathered and there is an expanding range of kit built locos. The unique fleet of 600 freight vehicles includes numerous kits, scratch-builds and many Peco, Farish and Continental models, which have been butchered beyond recognition. Such work is rarely attempted in N Gauge. If you look closely you will see that most wagons are correctly lettered, weathered and chalked up ready to go, or not to go in the case of condemned wagons sitting in the cripple siding.

Scenic features have been gathered from along the OWW as well as all over Oxfordshire. The three bridges come from Charlbury, Combe and Banbury; parcels bay from Worcester; telegraph poles from Kingham; flourmill from Bledington; farm from Lyneham; mill from Shipton under Wychwood and station gardens from Kidlington. Yet to come is Deddington garage, Bruern saw mill, Finstock bridge and a herd of 100 or so Friesians to create traffic chaos on Station Road as they head for the fields after milking.

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