PrinceTor
(Mini-Micro Layout)

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PrinceTor represents a small ficticous end of line station somewhere on Dartmoor in Devon.

The board for this one is just 26"x4.5". A case of I had a spare bit of MDF and a few odd bits of track.... what shall I make?

Effectively it's a small and simple shunting layout. A single 'fiddle' line sits behind a scenic board that blends with the main backscene. Trains can pop in to the passenger platform, or into the goods sidings.

There is a headshunt siding that serves the small factory.

All the buildings are scratch built, the station building is very low relief, something you can't buy commercially so no choice but to make it myself. The signal box is almost full relief. The factory buildings, again low-relief were designed after looking at several photos on the net.

The track is Peco, with the three points being operated via wire-in-tube from the front of the layout, the small grass mound acts as a cover to the tubes. The controls are also at the front to the right side of the board. Just the sockets for the banana plugged controller and two switches, one for the fiddle line and one to power the headshunt etc.

Despite it's incredibly small size, it's possible to use two locos for operations.