When I started this series on developing trains to run on Bydemill– my 7mm scale Edwardian Era Great Western Railway layout – I noted that a simple passenger train on a branch line terminal layout had minimal work to perform:
“The train arrives, the locomotive runs around the passenger cars, the train leaves.“
That said, such trains are the most common one would expect to see on a branch like Bydemill, so I’ll need to run a few of them on the schedule – perhaps one late morning, one mid-afternoon, and one in the evening.
As with the other trains I’ve explored, I wanted to run this train and document its work. But rather than shoot a series of still photographs, this time I opted instead for a short film:
While the work is straightforward, it can also be enjoyable – a perfect train to run when one has a spare six or eight minutes in the layout room.
With simple passenger trains added to the schedule, that now makes four types of passenger workings. Time for a proper goods train, I think!
(There will eventually be a number of posts about the trains on the Bydemill schedule. You can find all of them in the Bydemill Operations category.)
The Model Railway Show 