Dauntsey Lock - T Gauge GWR - Goods Trains

With some 130 goods wagons built, it is time for another video. Dauntsey Lock is a 6' x 2' T Gauge (1:480 scale) model of the long-vanished railway station of Dauntsey on the GWR in the 1930s.
The trains are powered by a linear motor drive, my own adaptation of a product from www.teenytrain...
Music: (Great) Western Spaghetti by Chris Haugen

[@gerardgerard5681]

LOVELY

[@pjcastanho]

Great Job. Congratulations

[@JAMESDEMU-RailwayModeller]

I got rid of all of my T-Gauge years ago but seeing this has certainly got me tempted to go back to it again.

[@modelrailmusings5981]

Please note that this isn't standard T Gauge. I went down the linear motor route to avoid the many limitations and problems with conventional T.

[@JAMESDEMU-RailwayModeller]

@@modelrailmusings5981 I did notice you're using 1:480 and rtr T-Gauge is mostly 1:450. Still, its very impressive what you have done and I'm going to have to do something similar in the future.

[@modelrailmusings5981]

@@JAMESDEMU-RailwayModeller With the linear motor drive, certain carriage lengths work better than others (exact multiples of 12mm with this track geometry). I chose 1:480 here so that most UK goods wagons and passenger coaches from the period match those numbers. My first two layouts with other prototypes used 1:350 and 1:450 for the same reason. T Gauge (conventional or otherwise) does have its problems, but also has enormous scope for modelling the railway as part of the landscape, without the clutter and crowding customary in the larger scales.

[@erike7368]

Now I wish I had a similar layout

[@cristiandavila6373]

Make a j50 060 tank please

[@modelrailmusings5981]

The next planned batch of trains is a batch of VR (Australian) models. For UK locos, somehow the pre-LNER types have never appealed to me. although the J50 is certainly strange enough. The next ones are likely to be early GW and Midland, plus some early BR diesels.