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Brickworks - Howard Martin Avalon Brick Works (0-16.5), was originally
built by Julian Andrews of Wedmore as an experiment as
how small you could make an 0-16.5 gauge layout. An
article written by Julian describing the building of the
layout was featured in the July 1999 edition of Railway
Modeller.
The scale is 7 mm = 1 ft
using 16.5mm gauge to represent a track gauge of between
2 ft - 2 ft 6 ins.
The overall size is
34" x 16". The line was built to serve the
fictitious brickworks which uses as source of fine clay
under the peat on the Somerset Levels near Glastonbury as
one of its raw materials. The company has always
struggled, hence the overgrown nature of the track.
There is some hope for the future as the area where the
clay and peat was extracted is an area very popular with
wild birds. The' 'Twitchers' will pay lots of cash to be
taken to the wetlands, as there is no road access.
All the locomotives run on
short wheelbase Tenshodo 'Spud' chassis and are either
Wrightlines whitemetal or Black Dog Mine and Avalon Line
cast resin kits. The open coaches are Avalon Line kits.
The wagon are a mixture of Roy Link, Black Dog &
Avalon Line kits most of which run on either Roy Link
'Skip' chassis or Avalon line chassis's
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